EvanAnderson

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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
The architecture the DOS-based windows line, and particularly the versions that had the virtual machine manager and ran in 32-bit protected mode, is such an interesting crufty archaeological dig. The OS's are bristling with hacks to ma
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
I was hoping this would be a hack that repurposed the unit to work standalone. Getting the unit to work again in the Cricut "ecosystem" just means Cricut can disable it later when they catch on. Companies that "lock" or
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
I've paid to see writers speak many times over the years. There's some kind of business model there, though I haven't tried to analyze the sustainability.
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
These demos really drive home the chemical / biological part of visual perception to me. As I perceive these strange new colors I can almost feel the chemical processes occurring in my cones.
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
This is enlightening. Growing up playing with Unix boxes (and XENIX, specifically, mostly writing shell scripts and playing in the filesystem) and programming MS-DOS in assembly I could often see strange parallels between how stuff worked i
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
As long as you're not opening the fridge / freezer during the outage (and you have sufficient thermal mass of food in it) you don't need to worry about "boosting" it during a power outage of only 4 hours. I don&#x27
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
SQLite would have been a lot better choice, in my opinion.
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
The Intel PRO/100 NICs using the 82557, 82558, and 82559 controllers were a joy to work with on Windows. The NICs performed well and there was some backwards compatibility in the drivers. I have a vague memory of a lockup bug in some L
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
I certainly didn't mean to sound over pejorative about the "non-programmer" spreadsheet authors. They're people trying to get stuff done using IT automation and that's a laudable goal to me. Sometimes their best int
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
I love the 1812 Overture, in part, because it has artillery. "Oh, yes-- I play in the orchestra. I am in the auxiliary percussion and artillery sections."
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
...and I had fun replacing images people directly linked from my server with less-- ahem-- savory images. I enjoyed the emails I got from a couple people who were adamant I "hacked" their site because their "web developer&quo
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
I was more of a Nibbles[0] person. I played it with other people on my XT-class laptop in high school. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbles_(video_game)
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
Quoting a Time article in 1962[0]: > Definitely not yet on the market, but envisioned by Dr. John W. Mauchly, is a miniature computer for household use that will not only make shopping lists obsolete but will also mark the extinction of
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
The capitalization of "SkeduFlo" in the photo of the newspaper article made the intended pronunciation more apparent to me.
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
There are spreadsheet authors who would have been programmers in "another life" and it's usually possible to get thru to them re: the kinds of issues that plague spreadsheets. Those people are a pleasure to work with. I remem
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
> Either it needs a warrant or it’s fully open and people can start creating websites showing the movements of local politicians. I want this data to require a warrant to access. Having said that, I agree that it should be open to everyo
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
It helps soften people up for nastier stuff later. As an example: Decades ago CPUID and a machine readable processor serial number was massively controversial. Today burned-in device IDs being sent to websites is status quo.
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
Some test instruments still come with "theory of operation" documentation. Those are tons of fun to read.
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
For other people who didn't immediately recognize "ITS and the PC2 problem" and want the backstory it starts in the last paragraph of page 312: https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
The adtech companies need human verification so they can keep selling ads. Age verification is a way to get that under the radar because normal people are pissed off about "the children" and "the social media". You'
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
Paul has come up on HN a lot recently. I didn't recognize the domain and didn't immediately realize this was him. It sounds like he's had a heck of an interesting life.
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
> David Jessel, the Alpha's senior product manager, claims that Alpha fans have nothing to worry about. "Compaq has been fully supportive of the Alpha and is continuing to invest in it," Jessel said. That worked out swimmi
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
Another sizeable PC vendor, Midwest Micro (also traded under the name Systemax), was headquartered near the sub-1,000 population town of Fletcher, OH (out amidst farm fields). I can't say I remember their ads specifically, but I could
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
These old Gateway ads made me remember ads a vendor ran in Computer Shopper featuring bikini-clad women. Their ads weren't as good as Gateway's, I guess, because I can't remember their name.
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
I had a Customer who bought tons of Gateway PCs. They had a "pasture" cubicle full of foam cows. It was quite a sight. A friend of mine had a Gateway PC at home (the first Pentium Pro I ever saw-- his stepfather splurged on it). T
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
You aren't alone in being frustrated by decades of muscle memory being disrespected by MSFT.
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
I thought I remembered reading somewhere re: the 8086 microcode disassembly that NOP, which is encoded as XCHG AX,AX actually does run the XCHG microcode and uses an internal scratchpad register to do the exchange.
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
Was hoping for more Serial Experiments Lain. There are references in it to the Apple OS codename Copeland or Rhapsody-- I don't remember which.
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Sorry for the exasperation. At the start of this you said: "For 99.999% of people, it is literally kthxbye on all code they execute on all their devices." I think that's inaccurate. The vast majority of code running on "
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by EvanAnderson 2mo ago
I don't get how saying companies should hold their employees accountable, which doesn't always happen, is somehow obtuse. I give up. I feel like you're a robot designed to waste my time.

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