DonGateley

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by DonGateley 12y ago
Will there be any way to connect local USB peripherals (like phones, audio interfaces, game controllers, etc.) either to the Paperweight (better named the Puck) or to a local computer for service by the remote one?
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by DonGateley 12y ago
The loss of which I've bemoaned for about 30+ years. This, or something very like, it is exactly what I want going forward. My biggest concern would the fate of my virtual computer should the provider go belly up. Without providing
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by DonGateley 12y ago
A Chromebook adjunct. A way to get Windows and its apps on the Chromebook. The lack (or difficulty) thereof is what stands between me and owning one. I'm considering teaching, selling and supporting Chromebooks and the people using t
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by DonGateley 12y ago
I highly recommend taking LSD after digesting this book. Much of it is reinforced by direct experience in that state. Agents and the turf wars among them are made more apparent as the grip of the giant mythical "I" weakens. Then
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by DonGateley 12y ago
'Fraid I don't understand your response. What is Groovy and what has it to do with Spider?
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by DonGateley 12y ago
Is backward transliteration from pure JavaScript to Spider possible so that one can deal exclusively with Spider and not have to learn JS in order to deal with other people's code? If one must know both in order to be an agent in the r
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by DonGateley 12y ago
Yet another brilliant cigar butt find. It would be fun as well as rewarding to be able to see through Buffet's eyes.
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by DonGateley 12y ago
Please try to get this program into the federal prison system. I've got a friend there at Lompoc who would jump all over this. I'd be interested in assisting with that and as a retired computer professional I have the time. Peop
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by DonGateley 12y ago
On your main page I'd mention Bayes theorem on the entry for conditional probability since it might get anyone curious about Bayes theorem and satisfying it with a search engine to your page for the best explanation I've ever seen
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by DonGateley 12y ago
And California judges are competent to decide that question how? Their opinion is nothing more than "if we don't look at it, we can't see it." It is merely a judgement of what will be considered politically correct. Th
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by DonGateley 12y ago
Yes, John and Fran Allen wrote the first optimizing fortran compiler and developed most of the optimization techniques and analysis used by subsequent compilers. I knew John and it was that work that led him to design an instruction set opt
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by DonGateley 12y ago
Given his obvious facility with both languages I think you are right but that both those steps occurred simultaneously in real time. Arthur had learned how to think a problem in APL and was a wizard at transliteration.
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by DonGateley 12y ago
I think John Cocke was working out the architecture of that line then. He's not often credited with it but he invented RISC with that effort. Hardware was built in research (called the 80x where I don't remember x) but the actua
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by DonGateley 12y ago
Yes, I think you're right. Clunky memory. And I didn't know about the 155, 165 retrofit.
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by DonGateley 12y ago
Without the snide I would have appreciated that clarification.
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by DonGateley 12y ago
It was all discrete, hard logic circuits centered around a unit called the scoreboard. That term was borrowed from either Burroughs or CDC, I can't remember which. That machine pioneered many of the scalar optimizations that are comm
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by DonGateley 12y ago
Oh, all those machines used linear ECL (Emitter Coupled Logic) circuits for speed. Terribly hot logic family but complimentary FET based devices just couldn't yet cut the mustard. FWIW, the transition from the Model 155 to the 157 her
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by DonGateley 12y ago
Everything in that generation of machines was micro-coded except for the Model 195 which was then IBM's super scientific computer.
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by DonGateley 12y ago
I got the hardware guys to merge some of the conditions that caused a loop exit into condition groups that were tested by other micro-instructions until a couple went away. Getting out quick was important, sorting out why was less so.
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by DonGateley 12y ago
They require access to your location all the time whether the app is running or not. I guess that's gaining something. Uninstalled immediately. Having tried that they will no longer get my patronage either, not that its quality got m
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by DonGateley 12y ago
In the context of the internet it isn't clear what "linear programming" even means. The concept requires the notion of a channel and what is that for the internet, a URL?
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by DonGateley 12y ago
In the days of OS/360 and OS/370 (IBM's mainframe OS in the 60's and '70s) no instructions at all executed in the wait state. There was no OS level idle process. Instead, the internal CPU microcode itself ran a li
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by DonGateley 12y ago
Oh, please. I'd much rather die from a heart attack than die in the place and condition that alcohol took me to. This creep is shamelessly and disgracefully pushing his stupid book.
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by DonGateley 12y ago
Interesting. That was precisely Stalin's solution to minimizing threats to his order throughout the Soviet empire and like it or not he was nothing if not rational. (Except, of course, for his assessment of Hitler's ambitions.)
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by DonGateley 12y ago
WTF? Access denied? Banned IP? Because of my VPN? What a crock.
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by DonGateley 12y ago
They talk about memristors being the fourth type of circuit element and the final element at that. It's just a resistor with memory. i.e. its R value can be changed by current and remembered. Wouldn't an inductor with memory in
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by DonGateley 12y ago
I know that depression increases the need for sleep and napping. I also remember reading of evidence that long term depression shrinks the hippocampus. Could the increase in need for sleep indicate a poorly functioning hippocampus under c
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by DonGateley 12y ago
Lazy query: do you do overstrikes? The keyboard one has to commit to memory is _so_ much smaller.
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by DonGateley 12y ago
And it simply must support overstrike since that is no longer a display problem. The simplification of the keyboard that results is amazing. I've always been surprised that overstrike did not re-emerge with "bit mapped displays&
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by DonGateley 12y ago
Since you are here, I want to voice agreement with prior comments on the need for an open ended trial for learning and evaluation but with restrictions only on making it commercial. I've tried these kind of limited time trials in the p

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