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by PAPPPmAc 4y ago
Pretty sure they're referring to prison labor, eg. https://www.aclu.org/news/human-rights/captive-labor-exploit...
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by PAPPPmAc 4y ago
Carbon itself was a concession, if you look at the earlier Rhapsody and OS X Server releases, it was pretty clear that they were planning on using the "Yellow Box" environment (Basically OpenStep) as the primary system, with the &
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by PAPPPmAc 4y ago
I've seen and used the phrase "NeXT bought Apple with Apple's money" for that acquisition, they didn't just replace Gil Amelio with Steve Jobs, they also had a huge fraction of their management and tech leads swappe
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by PAPPPmAc 4y ago
The university I'm attached to used 68HC11-family dev boards for their intro embedded course until the early/mid 2010s, with a smattering of other platforms like 8051 derivatives in advanced classes, and have switched to ARM (Smal
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by PAPPPmAc 4y ago
Diomidis Spinellis' "Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective" is a thing I've wanted but didn't know existed, browsing it now to hopefully recommend, thanks for the pointer. I work with computer engineering studen
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by PAPPPmAc 4y ago
Michael R. Williams' "A History of Computing Technology" ( ISBN-13: 978-0818677397 ) talks a lot about pre-electronic-computer technologies and techniques for calculation and information management. It's a solid suggesti
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by PAPPPmAc 4y ago
They did, it one of the larger parts of systemd that motivated its adoption and ubiquity. A bunch of commercial UNIXes sprung init replacements/extensions with process lifetime management systems in the 2000s, systemd is visibly influe
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by PAPPPmAc 5y ago
Can anyone identify all the speakers? My attempt: #1 Bill Atkinson #2 Randy Wigginton #3 Steve Jobs [Audience Member asks about sound] #4 Burrell Smith #5 Andy Hertzfeld [Steve prompts for question, Audience Member] # Steve Jobs #6 Owen Den
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by PAPPPmAc 5y ago
Huh, the touchpad on my Precision 7540 is absolutely my favorite touchapd I've used in _years_. Three (!) real, hardware buttons that I can feel _without_ activating. Sensitive area a bit larger than I can cover moving fingers without
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by PAPPPmAc 5y ago
It looks like it's a clever double-bacronym, since BAR is also "Balanced Annihilation Reloaded" which is what this project started as. Balanced Annihilation being the most influential and TA-like of the several games built on
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by PAPPPmAc 5y ago
I'm only adjacent to that part of the industry, but from what I hear process still maters _but_ the situation has changed in a couple interrelated ways: - The number of players with top tier fabs has shrunk to three (TSMC, Samsung and
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by PAPPPmAc 5y ago
I've been really taken with Micro for a couple years. I have the classic GUI-style control key combinations (^Z,X,C,V,F, etc.) so deeply in my fingers that I inevitably try to use them everywhere, appropriate or not, and Micro does the
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
It's committed to the idea so that it actually works on period machines. See /r/retrobattlestations announce thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/meqlql... It's su
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
And in roughly the same role (Host FS parts exposed to the VMs) in ChromeOS's Crostini container runtime. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/docs/+/HEAD/con...
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
There's a quote from Alan Kay (who is full of delightful aphorisms) in an 2002 Dr. Dobbs interview "The lack of interest, the disdain for history is what makes computing not-quite-a-field." that is one of my favorite descript
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
There are always chorders for that. I use a DIY'd chorder similar to an Infogrip BAT sometimes - I'm much slower and have a higher error rate on it than on my split QWERTY setups (which typically have a trackball sitting between
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
I'm not sure if it's what you mean, but the RC2014 ecosystem ( https://rc2014.co.uk/ ) is a modern-retro design fairly heavily inspired by S100 systems. It's a backplane + boards Z80 system (...with a few ot
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
Similar thoughts. I've built myself a couple chorders, mostly using the same 7-key arrangement as the Infogrip BAT and Spiffchorder default. I'm deeply qwerty habituated and finding low enough actuation force switches to be comfor
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
I love the idea of the "pocket workstation," and I've never been as happy with a mobile device as I was with my n810, which was sort of the missing link between the UMPC and Smartphone (ran Linux with some mobile affordances,
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
Good old Right to Read (Stallman, 1997) https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html and The Coming War On General Purpose Computing (Doctorow, 2011) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Com
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
I was chuckling at the insane dedication of the Amiga folk, who have at this point built all-new Amiga-compatible 68k hardware far beyond what existed at the time, new generations of system software, modern repro parts for everything, an in
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
The NeXT community is delightfully dedicated (not quite "Amiga people," but solid) and there are several good online archives of free software, as well as a surprising amount of at-the-time-expensive commercial software where ther
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
I've been using the phrase "Dung-beetle programming" for that dominant mode for some time.
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
Thinking about the state of the software world in the last several years always makes me think of Vernor Vinge's notion of a "Mature Programming Environment" from _A Deepness in the Sky_ (1999), "The word for all this is
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
At the time that was doing the rounds (2015 or so) someone expanded it into a "Pokemon or Big Data" quiz game, which is startlingly difficult: https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
There's that classic double joke about fad technology names being gibberish and hapless tech recruiters: "I typically ask recruiters to point out which of these are pokemon" https://imgur.com/gallery/r0SE
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
There were. They were called X terminals ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_terminal ) and there were quite a few of them on the market around the early 90s, supplanting the traditional terminal protocols. Then there
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
I used to have a Apple Centris 610 that ran NetBSD/mac68k. I got it as a side-effect of some horse-trading in the late '90s/early 2000s and I wanted another UNIX box to play with, so it seemed perfectly reasonable at the time
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
I built a similar little machine a couple years ago, mostly for storing my big archived files, being a borg backup target for my other machines, and subsequently mirroring said backups offsite with rclone. I went for a Chenbro SR301 case (I
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by PAPPPmAc 6y ago
The Spartan 3/3E/6 lines are legacy parts (and hence stuck on ISE for programming, so you don't want them). The Spartan 7 parts were a late addition (not shipping until 2017) to the 7th gen line for the low end; they use the

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