andrewf

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   by andrewf 5y ago

   If you're near San Francisco and think it's a shame this isn't becoming a museum ship, I'd encourage you to visit and support the Jeremiah O'Brien, one of two still-floating Liberty ships (WWII cargo transports). It
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   by andrewf 5y ago

   You might like WebRTC Media, it's SRTP once all the session establishment stuff is done. (WebRTC Data is SCTP over DTLS)
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   by andrewf 5y ago

   Firing up EMM386/JEMM386 underneath this environment, or writing 32-bit code, may go against the 8088 spirit of the project. A physical EMS card is an expensive pain to obtain, and you'd probably want to speak to its hardware dire
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   by andrewf 5y ago

   Specific example from the good old days: EnableTraceEx2 "supersedes the EnableTrace and EnableTraceEx functions.". https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/evntrace/... Func -&gt
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   by andrewf 5y ago

   My pet theory is: Doom's aesthetic is dark and scary. Being low-res helps with that, as does artifacting on distant surfaces (aliasing), and the way the 8-bit COLORMAP [1] turns things gray and splotchy. The darkness is exaggerated, co
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   by andrewf 5y ago

   Some "mentorship" relationships are distinctly separate from other work concerns. A mentorship program where I work explicitly pairs up people who are distant in the org chart. The mentee can share openly, and be confident the fee
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   by andrewf 5y ago

   Congrats! You mention compounding - what input to your success has been compounding? Eg revenue per user, success with SEO or other marketing channels, increase in underlying demand for travel/crypto, number of products shipped, someth
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   by andrewf 5y ago

   During sign-up I think I saw a link to a cancellation URL - embedded in the warning that I will be autorenewed in 12 months if I don't cancel first :)
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   by andrewf 5y ago

   I agree with everything you've said about it being most practical to run services on Linux. If OP's business grows I think they'd be wise to pivot away from macOS to avoid future pain. But also, if OP sees a business opportun
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    I second this. [1][2][3] describe this sort of architecture. For you, the worker is a Mac. These articles are probably too long/detailed, because you don't yet need the availability/efficiency/elasticity they talk about.
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    Aw man. I just signed up for the $59/yr magazine + online access. I believe the bulk of what you're saying, and that CR's methodology has value. That said the following was also part of my experience on consumerreports.com -
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    The Computer History Museum has some oral histories from folks who worked in this era. They don't have the 8086 design team, but they have different panels featuring people from the 8080, Z80, and 680x0 design teams. (Some from an 8086
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    If you pay Canonical you get 10 years for Ubuntu LTS, about the same as paying Microsoft for Windows Server/Enterprise.
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    I watched HBO streaming on a domestic GOL flight in 2019 - a Brazilian low-cost airline. I couldn't do that on the United flights which took me SFO -> IAH -> GRU. I figure United installed/contracted for their solution 10+ y
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    My favorite WS-* is WS-I, a bunch of guidelines about which versions/subsets of the other standards to use, if you actually want to talk to someone else. (As someone who once had to implement a SOAP server supporting diverse clients, I
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    If you feel safely and permanently employed (or maybe even if not), talk to your employer about this. They may make an accommodation for your temporary disability. If there's no reasonable accommodation, do you have short-term disabili
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    Some books I own that cover the software, and its progression through Windows/386 -> 3.0 -> 3.11 -> 95. They don't go behind the scenes (ie they're not Showstopper!) - Pietrek - Windows Internals (1993) Schul
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    I think there's value in rolling the different failure modes up into a single concept for discussion and recall. And the whole thing comes in at 5 pages! "The thing that caused this problem isn't necessarily what's susta
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    Spoiler for S3 of Star Trek: Discovery - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIIYb04HGbQ
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    Maybe https://cloud.ibm.com/catalog/services/power-systems-virtual... ? The pricing calculator says 0.5 cores and 32GB RAM is ~$310/month, billed in increments of $0.43/hour. (Pricing seems to be, approx
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    Same reasons you'll see some kids (and some grown-ups) cheat at Monopoly or any other game.
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    https://github.com/wch/r-source/search?l=fortran&p=1 ( https://github.com/wch/r-source says that's 23% of the source. It includes vendored libraries, like a 5MB .f of LAPACK code. I b
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    https://www.youtube.com/user/hjalfi/videos has gems like: Hjalfi writes a vi for CP/M (9 hours) Hjalfi writes an assembler (7 hours) Hjalfi ports Fuzix to the ESP8266 (38 hours)
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    And it's a single product - the NT3.51 and NT4 CDs you'd use to install an x86 PC also support PowerPC/MIPS/Alpha. Googling suggests you can run the MIPS version inside QEMU, but PowerPC is as much a bust as it was on Po
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    This BYTE (June 1982) article compares the register/instruction substitutions of a few translators, including the MS-DOS one (acquired from SCP) and XLT86 (mentioned in the README as the source of 8088ify's translation): https:&#
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    If you have an hour, this decade-old video blew my mind: "Indistinguishable from Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4 HN thread from a couple years ago: https:&
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    Thanks for the detail! I did manage to see different values for &printf with DLLs on Windows. I was inspired by a long-ago port of a codebase to a newer Visual C++; the third-party binary DLLs kept importing the old C runtime and using
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    I just tried to make this work and couldn't. I might be missing something? gcc 7.5, Ubuntu 18.04, x86_64. The third-from-bottom line is two libraries showing the same address. $ cat *.h *.c // common.h #include <st
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    Abrash wrote about Quake in Dr. Dobb's Journal while he was working on it. These columns weren't in the earlier printings of the book but were added as Chapter 62 onwards in later printings (by which point it'd be fair to lab
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    by andrewf 5y ago

    The old oral polio vaccine (Sabin) didn't provide lifetime immunity like the newer injection. (Reading about the immunities both confer, I'm not clear on the distinction between "gut immunity" preventing asymptomatic she