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by barryp 8y ago
Not surprising, I often felt you could roll your face across the keyboard and it'd be a valid perl program.
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by barryp 8y ago
Never got to touch the Cray, but did some Fortran work on a Perkin-Elmer minicomputer the Aviation department had. Looking back, in the space of 3 years I got to work on quite a few completely different OSes (VSPC, VM/CMS, MS-DOS, VMS,
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by barryp 8y ago
Oh cool, a UND Computer Science Alumni hangout. I started with Pascal on the IBM mainframe VSPC in the fall of '83. Batch processing was a shock coming from an Apple ][ background in high school. Was nicer when we got access to the i
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by barryp 8y ago
(not the person you're replying to, but as someone with aphantasia I'll bite...) I can imagine sounds extremely well. For songs I feel like I have a CD player in my head, remembering even surprisingly subtle nuances and bits of a
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by barryp 8y ago
I wish the login page, which contains two <form> tags, didn't have identical fieldnames in the two forms, "acct" and "pw" - it confuses 1Password, which always wants to fill in and submit the "Create Acco
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by barryp 8y ago
Can you have more than one YubiKey associated with an AWS account? Or also setup TOTP, or have a set of backup codes in case you lost your hardware device? Seems kind of dangerous if you can only have one MFA method setup
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by barryp 8y ago
Yeah, it's kind of a natural HUD. However even though it could definitely be mimicked with electronics, a biological self-hack would have the advantages of not worrying about battery life, software updates, security, etc. If you were
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by barryp 8y ago
Very cool. However it's not using great circle routes for airline directions, for example ask to go from Calgary to London. It should go well over Greenland, but instead just follows the same path you'd get from drawing a line o
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by barryp 9y ago
I thought this was going to be some kind of April Fool's thing where it went from spreadsheets and tables and eventually ended up with space combat. That screenshot in the middle with the moon had me going for a second.
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by barryp 9y ago
The Youtube video says 17,481.45 kg of glass. Maybe the IEEE article meant to say 17 metric tons.
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by barryp 9y ago
"if you don't speak nerd" ... seriously "fcuk" you you mouth-breathing Biff Tannen wannabe.
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by barryp 10y ago
I hope somebody at Apple can get it through their heads that a Mac Pro desktop doesn't need to be the thinnest, lightest box full of the most exotic parts with corners engineered to within fractions of a millimeter. It just needs to:
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by barryp 10y ago
I really enjoyed Dave Grohl's documentary "Sound City", a large part of which revolves around his purchase of a Neve console, and bringing together many famous artists who recorded iconic albums on that very console, to relat
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by barryp 10y ago
I was curious about the workers from Ohio who went to the USSR to help setup the transferred equipment (did they make it back? end up in a gulag?), found this short article: https://dueber-hampden.blogspot.com/2012/12&#
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by barryp 11y ago
As a cyclist, I find it frustrating when cars behave unpredictably. If you get to a 4-way stop before I do, I'm basically planning on timing my crossing to go after you do - and maybe use the delay for a chance to catch my breath. But