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by batou 11y ago
Thanks - about 25 years too late. Plus I didn't have the Internet then! :)
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by batou 11y ago
Absolutely noting unfortunately. I assume they burned it all and hoped people had forgotten about it!
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by batou 11y ago
It was ok until I lost the function key strip :)
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by batou 11y ago
Yes the BASIC interpreter was the best thing there was on the platform. Mainly for me at least because it was heavily structured, didn't require line numbering like earlier versions and had a stupidly powerful inline assembler. I had a
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by batou 11y ago
I think there's a lot of fondness for Acorn, at least here in the UK but I'd like to offer a slightly more accurate history. I was the owner of many Acorn machines including BBC B, Master, A410, RiscPC 600. The hardware, clearly d
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by batou 11y ago
Indeed. What these philosophers, if you can call them that, miss is that history has a number of horrific things we learned from fucking everything up over and over again and killing each other. I'm not sure we're done yet but if
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by batou 11y ago
I'm finding that good old fashioned processes are a pretty good and long forgotten virtualization system! Not only that you can manage them very easily with stable tools like ansible and deploy them as packages (rpms). Our native IO
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by batou 11y ago
I'm using a 5 year old laptop with intel graphics. It's fine for everything other than CAD and gaming. The former I don't do and the latter I have an XBox. Perhaps the market isn't there so this is no biggy?
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by batou 11y ago
All photos are ~1.2Mb jpegs straight from a Nikon d3100 these days. I don't archive raws or process them other than perhaps rotation. Videos are h264 with a reasonable profile although this will change one day. The key to keeping it co
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by batou 11y ago
Thanks - that looks excellent. I will definitely take a look at your book this evening. Agree with solving problems; this was what was missing from my school education. Literally rote and box ticking with zero applications.
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by batou 11y ago
You would need one with the mass of a fire safe which somewhat nullifies the point.
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by batou 11y ago
Its huge yes but a lot of it is fluff and history. It does serve to keep it interesting however. Quick page shot to show the scope and density: http://i.imgur.com/sV1WYFd.jpg I have a number of other books as well that I us
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by batou 11y ago
Yes. I had one. It died suddenly and left me with a £400 bill for a new one. Fortunately I backed up the NAS to an external disk but from this and other experiences, I've come to a general rule: the reliability of a backup system is i
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by batou 11y ago
Thanks for the pointers. Much appreciated. I'm doing a full review of mathematics at the moment. Not in depth, more of a "here's an application of the GCD function" so I know what tools to use to solve specific problems.
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by batou 11y ago
I tried to sync for several years and it never worked. I tried everything. Eventually we just moved to using one computer and sharing it. Its not healthy to spend all the time on it anyway. Having a pooled machine has a number of social ben
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by batou 11y ago
I discovered this last year after arrogantly jumping into the first volume of Feynmans Lectures on Physics. 50 pages in, I decided to take a step back and read a calculus book first, but wait my algebra and trig are crap so back to the basi
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by batou 11y ago
Write a dead man's switch script. You just have to remind it you're not dead once a month for example. However don't do what a colleague of mine did back in the early 00s. after a motorcycle accident he was in hospital for th
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by batou 11y ago
I've solved this the easy way. The only "online service" I use is an IMAP box and run that using inbox zero. Everything important is archived on disk in eml files. We share all our passwords in a single keepaas database and e
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by batou 11y ago
Very interesting. Thanks for the detailed reply.
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by batou 11y ago
Interesting thought. Never considered that you have planet specific propagation.
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by batou 11y ago
Great stuff. I miss the days when solutions could be that tight. You could have written that .com file with a hex editor back then. Now an ELF header and symbol table is bigger than edit.com
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by batou 11y ago
I've got to agree with this. I've got three children aged 2, 8 and 11 and there's nothing worse than a cult following of stampy longnose to shake off. The big problem I find is that the education system, at least here in the
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by batou 11y ago
I worked in the defense sector in that particular area. They're really not very advanced. Academia is way ahead of them. It's all about the rubber hose, key escrow arrangements and politics.
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by batou 11y ago
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9812649 Regardless of what they say, they have a bad track record and motivation to maximise profit so public assurances are about as valuable as BP's assurance
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by batou 11y ago
So they can factor your keys at their leisure? No chance.
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by batou 11y ago
Believe me I have considered that!
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by batou 11y ago
No, because it won't. 95%+ of people are totally ignorant on the matter and would happily walk off a cliff. The shareholders know that. If you look at most corporate mentality, it's not about doing a good job. It's about maxi
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by batou 11y ago
You are completely misguided then: 1. You consider the government as a singular entity. It's a group of people. In that circumstance, it's as secure as the lowest denominator of person, which in a government is low. 2. You're
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by batou 11y ago
Problem is the companies exist to generate money for shareholders. That is against what the shareholders want because it reduces the money. Ergo, it will never happen. At best we can expect some half baked ambiguous promises about not being
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by batou 11y ago
Labour are bound by the same immortal desire to control lives. Don't pretend they are a contrast.

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