ForOldHack

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by ForOldHack 6mo ago
The counterfactual to virtue signaling is genuine, anonymous, or quiet action—acting on moral convictions without seeking public recognition or social status. While virtue signaling is a public, often insincere display of moral superiority
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by ForOldHack 6mo ago
Note: Never make angry the gods of code. Never. If you do, they will leave angry on Friday night, and come back with some *amazing* thing like this on Monday: Obligatory: Brilliant Work. Brilliant. "We wanted both and couldn't fin
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by ForOldHack 6mo ago
There are shops, I know of that run a java emulator of a GE Mainframe running... Multics. Someone told me that, and I was floored. Multics.
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by ForOldHack 6mo ago
It was mostly written in COBOL. This is how I got into XENIX/UNIX. A machine went down that was a training machine: It required XENIX on a PC, because it ran on RM/COBOL on XENIX, because all the screens, and the encoding, already
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by ForOldHack 6mo ago
3, 5 and 6 are up. My copies of 1~4 were stolen. :( https://archive.org/search?query=Dr.+Dobb%27s+Developer+Libr... And the journals: https://archive.org/details/texts?tab=collection&query=Dr.+D...
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by ForOldHack 6mo ago
Your choice of adjectives "rabidly" particularly underscores the times.
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by ForOldHack 6mo ago
When someone mentioned that these were available for download, I printed them in high res tabloid, and had them enlarged 4x and put the best two on my wall. It literally entered my though my pores... I became a better designer, a better ill
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by ForOldHack 6mo ago
"In 1981, he wired together the backplanes of two DEC VAX-11/780 systems and made the first multi-CPU Unix computer, preceding DEC's dual processor VAX-11/782" "This model is essentially a copy of the "dua
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by ForOldHack 6mo ago
Thank you!
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by ForOldHack 6mo ago
GOOD GOD! you know that 1 oz of LoX + 1 charcoal briquette = 1 stick of dynomite. I am so glad that only grills were hurt, and a few camera lenses as the sky went dark on the video, because the light was SO BRIGHT. I am glad to have been 10
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by ForOldHack 6mo ago
One of the first videos you downloaded... Well, from the other end, when it went 'Viral' it maxxed out the OC line that Perdue had, for a week. completely. I saw it once, a year later... and of course... found it hysterically funn
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by ForOldHack 6mo ago
I think I could do this for less than 15 cents: four small peices of double sided tape, and the tiny mirror, and two hair pins... but the software? Priceless.
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by ForOldHack 6mo ago
XENIX's second target processor was an 11/34 with a programmers workbench. That nightmare took 3~4 years... Microsoft years, while they used the Pdp-11/70 for development. We are talking less ram than an Atari..
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by ForOldHack 7mo ago
Its been opened. Although I have issues with Wikipedia, being a creep is not a valid response.
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by ForOldHack 7mo ago
SpeedBoost was supported by vista through windows 10, and although windows 11 regognises a speed boost USB, I do not know it it uses it. When I put windows 11 on two i5 8gb machines and plugged in two speed boost drives, it did not swap a l
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by ForOldHack 7mo ago
"So you end up with B players promoting C players for slop." Micro-slop(tm).
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by ForOldHack 7mo ago
Clearly you were there.
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by ForOldHack 7mo ago
I cannot and will not advocate the burning of books, but I did get a 13 volume collection of Ann Coulter books... And they did burn well. 415F.
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by ForOldHack 7mo ago
Compression.
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by ForOldHack 7mo ago
Yes, the original film for moon explorer has been stuck in orbit around the moon for decades. The world had a large network of satellite communications, and there was Arciebeo, but if it's not done here ... A few microwave dishes on al
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by ForOldHack 7mo ago
Look for a tiny mistake, like someone who is a native speaker of another language would NOT make. Eustomer. What?
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by ForOldHack 7mo ago
Ahh... Someone well read who has taste. Thanks.
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by ForOldHack 7mo ago
The last person who said that to me we John Klinenburg, Cornell.
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by ForOldHack 7mo ago
Yes, suspected LLM is mimicry passing under the turning test,encheapened by poor editing, further encheapened by even poorer training. It is going to get both worse,and better at the same time. (I grew up with ELIZA.BAS, and used to easily
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by ForOldHack 8mo ago
I come to YCombinator, specifically because for some reason, some of the very brightest minds are here.
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by ForOldHack 8mo ago
Everyone is a maintainer of Microsoft. Everyone is testing their buggy products, as they leak information like a wire only umbrella. It is sad that more people who use co-pilot know that they are training it at a cost of millions of gallons
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by ForOldHack 8mo ago
You have simply made one tiny step, that the guys who used AI and $25,000 to write a C compiler in Rust, could not make: You are using the compiler to compile itself. "TCC is its own test set." Absolutely brilliant.
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by ForOldHack 9mo ago
The Amiga Pointer Archive is missing one: We went to get a Fast Ram upgrade for a A1000, and we looked at his work, and it was cross between a jeweler and sim-city. We had the work done, and he put his boot disk into test it. He had the mos
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by ForOldHack 10mo ago
Is there a mirror for this? my library has FortNight blocking it. ( bad certificate, leads them to believe its a spam site...).
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by ForOldHack 10mo ago
i.e. The movie "The lives of others." :|

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