Suzuran

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by Suzuran 4y ago
Abuse of side effects to save code is just a reality of working in limited or embedded systems once you have run into their limits. On one of my current projects, the target has only 8K of program memory. I had to do some things I'm no
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by Suzuran 4y ago
I'd be interested to know exactly why; Is it because he doesn't obey his bosses when told to make the program cheat, or just the way it's framed as some kind of testosterone caveman thing?
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by Suzuran 4y ago
It predates the BOFH a bit as well. I am restoring a PDP-10 to operation and the operating system refers to users as "lusers", non-sanctioned users of the system are "turists" who were just there to gawk at things. It&#x
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by Suzuran 4y ago
When adding 256 kilowords of memory to your PDP-10 cost $230,000 (2022 dollars) you were either clever or unemployed. If your programs couldn't run on the machine you had, they were no good. Nobody was going to spend a quarter million
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by Suzuran 4y ago
I remember a friend's con-group forums who had an issue along these lines - the anti-bot question was "What is the brightest thing in the sky at noon?" the expected answer was "the sun", but some guy got stuck becau
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by Suzuran 4y ago
It was alright until you wanted to leave, suddenly you were banned and "no longer represented the community", and wikia employees had wide latitude in doing whatever they could to frustrate any attempt to migrate off of wikia.
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by Suzuran 4y ago
Remember that Wikia/Fandom are co-owned by Jimbo Wales. Forcing things off Wikipedia and onto Fandom drives his revenue.
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by Suzuran 4y ago
I routinely work on things that are dead in the "real" world and so are not Google-able.
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by Suzuran 4y ago
Is it bad if my initial thought upon reading the headline was that someone was training a neural network to recognize the meme?
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by Suzuran 4y ago
Costco is generally clean, Costco doesn't have the corporate reputation for extreme exploitation of their workers that Walmart does, Costco's store brand is actually decent, there appears to be no overt cost-cutting in store opera
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by Suzuran 4y ago
I have found the opposite of the stereotype to be true; I feel I've learned more in the last 5 years or so than I have the previous 30 because I now have the experience to contextualize and sort it all, the discipline to stay focused a
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by Suzuran 4y ago
My guess is lack of willingness to put up with the resulting drama and abuse.
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by Suzuran 4y ago
It's an old project migrated to GitHub. Bob Supnik (of DEC) is the original developer. SimH goes back more than two decades now.
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by Suzuran 4y ago
It's my understanding this can't be fixed; I intended to warn people that the previously open-source repository is now closed-source and therefore dangerous. Mark has sole control of the GitHub organization and won't listen t
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by Suzuran 4y ago
The TL;DR here is that Mark Pizzolato introduced an unpopular feature that silently turned disk images into containers. A few forks were started to remove this feature, resulting in Mark unilaterally changing the license to close the source
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GitHub contributor goes rogue, closed-sources SimH(groups.io)
11 points by Suzuran 4y ago|8 comments