EvanAnderson

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by EvanAnderson 25d ago
It's a nice article and the animations are functional and aesthetically pleasing. I used to teach this on a whiteboard at my local community college. This is much slicker (and involves a lot less scribbling and erasing). Spanning tree
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by EvanAnderson 26d ago
Anecdote: During the pandemic I added washing my hands every time I get back to my office building (and specifically after interacting with surfaces the public interacts with) to my usual hand washing (after bathrooms and before eating, jus
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by EvanAnderson 26d ago
For me it's not the cost that bugs me when I don't have a part, but rather the disruption to my flow. If I can't get a project done all at once I'm much less likely to ever get it done.
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by EvanAnderson 26d ago
I wish the old cables, gear, etc. I have squirreled-away stopped saving Customers' and friends' asses because I could feel good about getting rid of it. We've been unspooling the stash of wood off-cuts, bits of copper pipe, a
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by EvanAnderson 27d ago
The quickest way to get dragnet surveillance banned would be for citizens to collaborate and create a massive publicly-available surveillance network.
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by EvanAnderson 29d ago
I have a soft spot for the V20. The laptop I carried in high school was V20-based (a NEC Ultralite PC1701). I remember a CGA 3D billiards game I played on both the laptop and an XT clone desktop. The V20 was definitely faster for that game.
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
Thanks for writing about that. I appreciate you taking the time to call out a bad actor like that.
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
It's really neat that many of the comments in the 6502 version[0] match this 8080 version. I've only done a quick review but there's a lot of duplication. It's interesting to see how the 6502 version reflects its direct
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
I've been doing grayscale for about a year now. Sadly, I've discovered most of my wasted time is spent reading, which works fine in grayscale.
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
The company I work for requiring device-bound passkeys is the least of my concern. Once the idea of device-bound passkeys being "more secure" gets into the public consciousness as being "more secure" it'll be like t
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
When I was about 12 or 13 I recovered an old reel-to-reel recorder from the trash that had a magic eye tube on it (acting as a recording level meter). The mechanism was broken so it couldn't play or record tapes, but the magic eye work
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
I haven't thought of Number Nine in years, but the mention reminded me that the BIOS on some of their cards displayed a Beatles lyric quote during boot.
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
I did work for a small community college back in the 90s that had expanded their building multiple times since the 70s. The electrical potential between different parts of the building was significant enough to make wired Ethernet unreliabl
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
Nice to see somebody else has made the comparison too.
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
An install of Windows 11 from MSFT-provided media on an HP desktop PC earlier this year resulted in a ton of HP driver-related crapware on the PC. Windows Update will happily download drivers and user-mode software the driver manufacturer f
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
Discussion from a few days ago that had links to more visualization tools: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423878
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
> I have no interest in a relationship with a robot. I think I could, if it meant I could keep the experience of having a pet. I've had cats going back to my twenties. I dearly love my fifteen y/o cat. She's my last cat, t
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
I always assumed the "enslaved animal-free" future would be something that came on gradually, likely motivated by economics (i.e. lab-grown meat becoming cheaper and higher quality than farmed, robotic pets being cheaper and more
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
It looks like it was the Yorkshire Television (YTV) series "Science Fiction" episode titled "Spycatcher". Search-engining turned up a discussion[0] from 2011 where a poster, "ukscone", purported to have been an
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
The "Blight" in "A Fire Upon the Deep"[0] comes to mind for me. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
I'll check it out. An org I support recently went down the rabbit hole of looking for self-hosted ticketing for an IT service desk. Time accounting was a requirement and a deal-breaker with nearly every product they looked at, both fre
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
I don't think it's an accident that the market is on a trajectory toward personal computer (and particularly storage) rental being the only economically viable game. There are significant players who will profit directly. Indirect
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
Christopher Domas gave a nice presentation[0] at DerbyCon 2012 about software that ended up becoming CantorDust[1]. I was pretty jazzed about after the presentation but didn't keep up with where it went. [0] https://www.iron
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by EvanAnderson 1mo ago
That's pretty much the way the work did now if you're dealing with the "right" companies. The future isn't evenly distributed.
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
Oh, holy crap. I haven't thought about EGATREK in at least 30 years. I'm going to go dig it up right now. Thanks for causing me to recall that memory!
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
I watch a lot of videos at 1.5x. Older Cliff Stoll videos don't work at 1.5x. Cliff at 1.0x is already like other people at 1.5x. I am so stoked to see Cliff at 1.0x in 2026 is still like other people at 1.5x. I am so glad to see Cliff
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Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later – Cliff Stoll [video](youtube.com)
13 points by EvanAnderson 2mo ago|1 comments
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
In restaurant server parlance it means "item no longer available". The stock of baked potatoes has been depleted so the word goes out to the serving staff to "86 the baked potatoes".
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
The "obviousness" about NT's design I was talking about, compared to the DOS-based Windows versions, were things like a trusted computing base, access control, kernel/user separation, memory protection, etc (stuff the DO
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
I didn't mean to imply there was something "less" about the talent creating the DOS-based Windows OS. I think it's a marvel of engineering for economy and constraints. I think NT was a means to an end (government contrac

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