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by ForOldHack 4mo ago
Thank you so much for your work. Thank you! I wanted to give HN a perspective on working on this stuff: Working on these micrographs is like looking for a penny on 4 football fields: I tried to see how long it would take me to search the ph
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by ForOldHack 4mo ago
Keep in mind, that this was Intel's flagship processor, From October 1985, until April of 1998, and they had tried to eliminate all the second sourcing. It wasn't until 1989, that the Am386 was released, and out came all the lawye
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by ForOldHack 4mo ago
Pfft, this thread got derailed rather quickly; Lets get it back on track! I welcome our new Credit Card sized computer overlords. I would pay dearly for a credit card sized eink display, that could feed HN, from Wifi, and even with a 2Lb le
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
Thanks: All your math checks out.
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
You're gonna die for that.
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
See? Pepperage Farm and cyberax remembers! Exactly.
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
This is exactly why I come to HN, vs Wikishemedia... People here WERE THERE! When I worked at C_ we used to load Some solitaire game (Freecell) to verify that Windows98SE was in 32-bit mode before installing the network stack, and Chief Leg
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
We have an app for that. Would you like me to write a new one? I could feed a lot of posts into ELIZA... Yes, A rock-solid workflow for 54+ years. And ELISA.BAS is still running strong. Its just classic human psychology.
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
Well, if all there QA people have left... Their "pivot" is straight off a cliff. Best of luck.
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
PRIEST! ( oh, exucse me... )
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
HSc made an alternate file manager for Windows 2. They never ported it to Windows 3.
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
https://ia601001.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/18... ' You are basically expanding the zip file, and you can pick and choose.
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
The abstract list, which is pretty complete is here: https://virtualosmuseum.org/readme/#whats-included
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
Although Emacs commonly refers to an editor, It was always so very much more: It is a compiler, an editor, a pain-in-the-arse, one of the most brilliant uses of the blurring of the layers of App/os/hardware. Its a lisp editor, a l
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
Since there is a multitlude of whatabout... Oberon?
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
Its called Eye candy, cheap plastic eye candy, but it sucks.
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
"The most influential." is relative, I read it when it came out, and I had been programming for more than 20 years, there were 2 professors on the facility who were there... and confirmed much of it. 10 years later, while dipping
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
"He revealed Kaplan’s and Newell’s pedigrees, and the Xerox execs sat speechless.” When I first got started in UX/UI, a future XPARC staffer told me to read some of both of their papers. I loosely saw the connection at first, but
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
They are proficient at IBM 370 ASM, but need a lot of help, and a professional level disassembler for x64/x86, and in the converse, if you watch HackerNews, AI is poor/expensive for creating compilers, but it has extensive referen
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
Waiting for AR
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
There are many many ways to die, some honorable, and a lot, so very stupid it boggles the mind. The stupid ways to die, was always a very good (spoilers warning) good read.
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
We always renamed the source archive "Viupdate.lib" and rename the binary 'vi' and the process manger would show that two copies of 'vi' were running.
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
The ! command. If you run as SUID anything, and the UNIX you had, had a SUID bug, then the shell command SUID as root. Scary when you were running on a "secure" version of UNIX, and it had a SUID bug. On DOS, the ! Command, gave y
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
Die. Die?
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
Been on and off playing since I was 19, 63 today. Always good times. I had it in my autoexec.bat, so when I got home, and turned on my machine, I was ready to play. Always abused polymorphic traps. Sorry to see them go.
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
My guess is that both 3D printed fans and production fans get balanced, but the production fans have an extra bit of design, that makes the profile sail at both a wider speed range, and peaks at a higher speed.
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
From what I remember from my NASA friend, a few companies, hired a few fluid flow engineers, during the defense bust, and designed fan blades that remarkably increased air flow. ( think profiles like air plane wing ). Something happened and
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
"Writing detailed specs and then giving them to an AI is not the optimal way to work with AI." Perfect. I loosely define things, and then correct it, and tell it to make the corrections, and it gets trained, but you have to consta
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by ForOldHack 5mo ago
I have token issues three times a day, and I just upgraded to pro... and now this... now I cancel. my work flow was co-pilot to Gemini to Claude Code... and the bottle neck was always CC. Always. I am done. It should be pretty easy to repla
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by ForOldHack 6mo ago
Well, that is a nice premise, I would bet that no humanity has been outsourced.

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