OhMeadhbh

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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
It's high single digits of seconds away. But I think your point still stands. Burke turns his head to look at the rocket, so you can't see his lips aren't moving. His voice-ove that includes "planets or peking" i
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
I'm not seeing it. Starting at "if you mix those gasses..." to after "...you get that." seems to be a single shot. Just a reminder, we didn't have AI editing tools at the time. Traditional editing tools of th
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Yeah. Me too. It looked like a spoof when I started reading, but as I went on it didn't seem to be increasing in it's implausibility.
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Maybe not all of them, but certainly a few large, popular ones. You bring up a good point though, it seems surprising that Wero/PEPSI don't have more momentum. Maybe Europeans hate their continental neighbors more than American
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Partially apropos... There's a Heinlien quote that goes "When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere." Which I think in this case may mean that I'm h
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
I think I meant to say both tiny basic and game basic were inspired by the similar non-msft basics, not that game/integer BASIC was inspired by Li-Chen Wang or Dennis Allison's work. Modified the text to be clearer. As for your in
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
No. Verified identity is not the problem I worry about.
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Not sure why this is showing up here, but happy it is. I remember seeing it at a conference in '79 or '80 and it retaining an oversized footprint in my "mental floorspace" for at least a decade. You can definitely see h
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Oh man... Completely ignores Tiny Basic, Dr. Dobbs, Li-Chen Wang, Dennis Allison, Copyleft, All Wrongs Reversed, etc. There are some decent histories of BASIC through the Dartmouth era, so I can understand why they may want to de-emphasize
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Think of it as tabs are set to 0 spaces, and then additional space characters are added to ensure lines indent to the columns you want them to line up to. And then you delete the tabs at the beginning of the line.
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Fair enough. Will be snarky elsewhere.
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
I'm not sure this word "idempotent" means what you think it means.
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
How do you change the syntax to eliminate reverse compatibility? I guess you could change the names of most key functions between releases. But to be compatible with rust you would need to make breaking changes every release.
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
how do you get to the content? I keep getting a 401 and a message to "enable JS and disable any ad blocker" even though JavaScript(tm) is enabled and I don't have an ad blocker. Do you have to use Safari or Edge or somethin
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
In 2003 I interviewed to be security architect for MSFT Office. My final interview was with the guy they told me was "the most senior programmer in the office group" who had "been with the company since Albuquerque." Th
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Well... Yes and no. We've had automated vuln scanning tools for at least 20 years and software developers really don't like using them. A. Individual developers get sorta cheesed when an automated tool implies they wrote code wi
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
When I was at PalmSource, I tried to get budget for CoVerity or Fortify (static code analysis tools.). "Too expensive," my management chain said. I spent another year putting together a deal for a lower cost but limited to scanni
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
Xerox was a weird mix. Insightful enough to fund PARC, but blind enough to not understand the computer market. There's a section in "Fumbling the Future" describing how Xerox higher-ups could not figure out why people thoug
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by OhMeadhbh 5mo ago
I once heard someone say "English has replaced Latin as the Lingua Franca," and started giggling incoherently.
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by OhMeadhbh 6mo ago
Or if you have your tabs set at 3 and I have mine set to 4 and you want to indent something 6 characters so you enter two tabs. When the code gets back to me it's indented 8 spaces and nothing lines up anymore. So I change it to one
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by OhMeadhbh 6mo ago
So when things don't line up... That's a feature? The reason I use indentation is so there's consistency between lines. When you use spaces, the semantics of indentation are maintained. If you don't like the indentati
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by OhMeadhbh 6mo ago
15 U.S.C. § 1127
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by OhMeadhbh 6mo ago
I'm patenting the idea of adding game controller buttons to a mouse and I'm listing you as a co-inventor.
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by OhMeadhbh 6mo ago
You want source code indentation to be random on different machines? I guess. That would make me crazy.
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by OhMeadhbh 6mo ago
There's also the fact that no one seems to have tab stops set the same way.
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by OhMeadhbh 6mo ago
I think we should connect game controllers to all machines so the arrow buttons move you between fields, the 'A' key takes you up a level (in hierarchical menus), the 'B' key takes you into a subordinate menu. So to mov
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by OhMeadhbh 6mo ago
You mean the Control key to the left of the 'A' key? That's already the control key.
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by OhMeadhbh 6mo ago
Shift Ctrl F6
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by OhMeadhbh 6mo ago
The thing I find funny here is that MicroSoft in the 80s and early 90s was a scrappy bunch of hackers trying to get something out the door. But over time they've sort of become IBM. Based on the way things have progressed... Micros
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by OhMeadhbh 6mo ago
But it does not predate COBOL ;)

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