JoeAltmaier

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2461.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
But we're talking old IBM software. That ran on a refrigerator with discrete logic. It had lights on the front that showed every register value. Under 1MHz if I recall. An emulator could certainly beat the performance of something you
2462.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Hm. I could write it down.
2463.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
My Scouts loved to build cairns of rocks. A dozen young people and an afternoon would build something pretty substantial.
2464.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Some nonsense about having to run old assembler on IBM hardware. There are simulators these days, which would run many times faster on modern hardware.
2465.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
No, he explains it's eggregiously false. His blessing is not required or requested. Just expressing bafflement that nobody along the production path thought there was anything wrong with this piece of shit.
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by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
When we find the magic wand to do that, I'm not sure I'd wave it but ok. 'Fair wages' is tossed around a lot. I'm not some money-grubbing oligarch but imagining you can control wages has a pretty bad track record. I
2467.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Really? We conflate the time spend by retired people with the activities of the young and supposedly productive?
2468.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Easy to say from an easy chair in a rich country. But that paying poor countries to do work, that's their current route out of poor. To take that away over some social-action-theatre objection is just cruel and thoughtless. From one po
2469.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
True but aren't username/password passe? Username should be 'account details' like mother's maiden name or zipcode, not a security feature. And short passwords you change a lot - what a weak system! How about provi
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by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Some of the reason must include culture. Innovation, investment, risktaking are all subject to local acceptable values. Some places they thrive. For instance bribe-taking, strong-man-rule, abuse of power (from dog-catcher to president) are
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by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
The virtue is, software has some idea what a UUID is. There's a mostly-random version which is also understood. If you want to start doing your own thing, a random number is good. It's hard to get a good random number. I suggest s
2472.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
This was covered quite adequately by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month published 1975
2473.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
A UUID is random bits. The statement was oxymoron
2474.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
If it takes a super-taster to tell the difference, then I'm safe paying for $6 Chuck
2475.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Both grew during that period. Cause and effect is anecdotal? I'm reminded of a correlation between the eastern seaboard illegal rum-running trade, and the salaries of methodist ministers. The tongue-in-cheek suggestion was made that e
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by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
I find it fascinating that a nerd wouldn't open with a description of their methods, which is what nerd readers want to know right up front. It's buried on the last page.
2477.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
If we all lived in the flattest country on earth, then it would be worth discussing.
2478.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Like a forklift?
2479.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
And why does American coinage and currency not observe the 2-3-5 rule? We have $1, $2 but it's obsolete, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 but no $200, $500, $1000 but no $2000 and so on. Worse yet, coinage! 1 cent, 5, 10, 25(!), 50, 100 and we&
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by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
I wonder how this was all measured. I didn't dig into the text blob to ferret that out. Did anybody? Because this doesn't pass the sniff test for data I want to trust
2481.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
It's likely anybody past 40 is too out of touch with rapidly-changing technology and culture as to be a bad choice.
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by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Often re-writing suffers from "It's bigger and was more expensive, but it has different bugs!" That is, nothing good. So many ways it can go wrong - second-system syndrome (RIP Fred Brooks!), missing features, paralysis durin
2483.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
There's a New Zealand detective series (starring Lucy Lawless!) where the main character's name is Alexa. Hilarity ensues.
2484.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Used to host a LAN party on Halloween. Gave teenagers something to do except get into trouble! Would rent a hall at the fairgrounds, set up tables, grill outside, big screen. Bring lots of copies of game DVDs! We'd go all night until d
2485.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Practical? With that inconvenient periodic eclipse that reduces the duty cycle to 50% (nighttime)? And solar flux in orbit is many times that on the ground. So efficiency improves again. Let's skip over the objection about transmission
2486.
by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
It's got advantages. I know, it's an expensive place to put anything. But the lift cost is dropping geometrically these days. And the benefits are pretty generous - higher light flux, no night to deal with, aim the power where it&
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by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Automation will make up much of the gap.
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by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Luckily my neighbor raises free-range animals. So my family has that in the freezer. But short of moving to the midwest and making friends with your neighboring farmers, I don't know what to tell you.
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by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Oh it's regulate (domestic). Long paragraph on every bottle of weedkiller etc. You ever read that? Farmers do. But no, residential customers just pull the trigger until the weed starts to curl or whatever, and then the sprinkler runs a
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by JoeAltmaier 4y ago
Endemic in the industry. Especially at larger companies. The gig I have been working at for a year, had a big ol document system. They're mostly written by folks who don't work here any more, and describe the previous generation o

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