NikkiA

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571.
by NikkiA 3y ago
He was so often frustratingly right, too.
572.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Magic Wormhole has been the obvious and usual answer for the last 10 years or so.
573.
by NikkiA 3y ago
MacOS, with a slight help from MS, very, very nearly tipped the balance to Pascal in the 80s. I dare say that without C++ hitting mainstream around 1990, C would have languished.
574.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Having the monitor that low and tilted upwards was surely against all ergonomic guidelines, even then.
575.
by NikkiA 3y ago
It is.
576.
by NikkiA 3y ago
vmware had a free version of their server/cloud offering for a long time (since before it was vSphere/ESX), for a while it was even the best version of vmware until they nerfed the virtual console UI.
577.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Does netbsd even count as 'mainstream'? I'd hum and haw about freebsd even.
578.
by NikkiA 3y ago
> but it can’t run over SSH. I know it's being pedantic, but it absolutely can, libreoffice will happily run over a ssh -X tunnelled X display.
579.
by NikkiA 3y ago
There were actually PCI and PCI-X external chassis boxes (in all 4 forms), they were expensive as hell, but they were a critical tool for developing PCI/PCI-X devices. They usually used 1 or 2 scsi-3 (80-pin) connector to connect from
580.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I'll go one further, Win NT5 beta 2 was better than 2000
581.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I did (on a P3-700 then a P3-1200), I can't remember which adaptec interface I used, probably some variant of a 2940
582.
by NikkiA 3y ago
At the risk of waking Naggum's ghost, plists are performant enough to use everywhere, and an alist can be converted to a plist merely by flattening it. I do covet the way clojure's associations are callable as a lookup method, tho
583.
by NikkiA 3y ago
alists and plists are a much closer lisp analog to python's dicts though
584.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I had a quick future glimpse of spreadsheets evolving to VR 'conspiracy boards' with red string between cells; just for a second, while reading your comment. It's probably the future, and I'll probably hate it.
585.
by NikkiA 3y ago
The tatung was designed in bradford, UK, then manufactured in Korea, 4MHz Z80, 64KB of RAM (upgraded to a 256k option by the EOL), AY-3910 sound, 2x 3" floppy drives built in, a built in 80 column monitor, and a video system comparable
586.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I find it equally ridiculous for the 'stop treating everyone like children crowd to pretend that removing all restraints preventing things like people asking how to make explosives or getting AI to write paedophilic fanfic or making CS
587.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I'd prefer to buy a theoretical open-source R8000-R12000 based board*, but the only 'open source MIPS' stuff I ever see are low end R4000 and R5000 microcontrollers. * Yours sincerely one of the few people that isn't off
588.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I suspect, given their widespread adoption by devs at the time, that the tatung einstein 'port' would 'technically' have been the original, but the spectrum version was the first released version that more than 10 people
589.
by NikkiA 3y ago
'All 1s' has history at MS...
590.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Same here, and if you look at the output of whoami /priv you'll find that using luke's sudo provides exactly the same priviledge escalation as 'run as administrator' does
591.
by NikkiA 3y ago
I've been using the 'sudo' that scoop offers for a while, and it has always done exactly what I wanted and completely removed the hassle of having to open a new cmd/powershell with 'run as administrator'. Plus
592.
by NikkiA 3y ago
'Launch signal' isn't the issue, you'd need to work past the PAL used for the weapon to be any significant threat, and soviet PALs were relatively complex based on multiple path lengths and timing deviations. You could
593.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Used to use Autoroute being driven by an OG garmin gps 12 for navigation and I think there was an option to display live traffic density, that I used via a startac holding a 14.4 connection to AOL (why AOL? because they had an 800 number PO
594.
by NikkiA 3y ago
He still slipped up on the second attempt - he asked the scammer for the out of hours number, rather than using the number on his card - I guarantee the robomenu will have a out of hours option. Maybe he hadn't intended to call that
595.
by NikkiA 3y ago
power through a copper on copper connection will oxidize over time, which will then result in the the 'crackliness' you get in analog audio, crackliness applied to a high speed data signal = fatal flaw. It works as a hobbyist solu
596.
by NikkiA 3y ago
4-pin mini-din and reusing s-video cables is a much better proposition, and how logitech tend to do things.
597.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Also, 3.5mm jacks and plugs WILL suffer oxidation problems from using them for power.
598.
by NikkiA 3y ago
When you put form over function this is to be expected.
599.
by NikkiA 3y ago
This is the 3rd or 4th site I've seen doing this, this week, I suspect it has to be some kind of weird trend going around.
600.
by NikkiA 3y ago
Here's a small 'micro' PDP-8: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DECmate#/media/File:VT78.jpg Also, the VT78's precursor was the PDP8/f which was little bigger than an altair, definitely i

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