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by bitwize 5mo ago
I love the "MICR line"-like appearance, fonts of which type were heavily used in the 1970s and 1980s to indicate "computer/technology stuff".
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by bitwize 5mo ago
And back in the 90s, before anybody knew anything about risk or "bus factor", that might've made sense. But it's no surprise that they paid a pretty penny for an actual support contract after decommissioning that system.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Ultimately that kind of question doesn't really matter. The only question that matters is "who will fix it when it breaks?" The Amiga system was a single machine running custom code written by one guy. If that guy dies or d
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Yeah, I cobbled together an SSG in Guile back in the day.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Before dunking on this lady for rolling her own writerdeck Linux distro, consider that I see advertisements for rather weaksauce devices, often with tiny LCD or, if they're posh, e-paper screens and very limited functionality compared
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Oh, that's exactly what I do. My rule is: one game, one engine. It's based on whatever the OS provides of course, or an abstraction layer like SDL, but everything above that is my own, tailored specifically to the game at hand.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Spec-driven development is basically PRIDE, the first proven commercial software methodology dating back to 1971. In fact it may be the culmination of PRIDE because PRIDE's creators realized coding wasn't the hard part; the hard p
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by bitwize 5mo ago
A few years ago there was a story where the single Amiga that ran an entire US school district's HVAC was replaced with a system costing like 1.5 million dollars, after 30 years of dutiful service. I can't think of examples offhan
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by bitwize 5mo ago
How many "IDEs for the agentic era" do we need?
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by bitwize 5mo ago
You can make a wifi bridge with a PC, even a Raspberry Pi, running IP masquerading and connecting as a wifi client. I use a Qotom mini PC with 5 NICs for this purpose and connect a whole wired network at my desk.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Interesting life-imitates-art moment reading that he tried this flavor-changing chewing gum and then noticed that his taste was restored when he ate a blueberry. In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory , Willy Wonka formulates a new kind of g
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by bitwize 5mo ago
I don't have direct experience with Hondas, but I'm sure they're fantastic. My mom had a Nissan in the late 90s that she got with 100,000 miles on it and put another 100,000 miles on it before getting rid of it.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
There was a study sometime back that suggested most American millionaires live in homes of modest or at least unostentatious size and drive used cars of American make. These days it'd probably be of Japanese make, as Toyotas and Nissan
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by bitwize 5mo ago
When my maternal grandmother died, her obit listed all the things she did: organist at her church, leader of a local association of farmers' wives, organizer of community events, etc. On top of raising six kids and helping run a farm
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by bitwize 5mo ago
You cannot "just" anything in C without hitting a minefield of UB. It is, probably, more economical to convert your entire project to Rust than it is to do the pufferfish spine removal procedure of auditing the code base for UB an
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Ah yes, Scary Devil Monastery (which also sounds like it'd make a pretty sweet Doom map).
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by bitwize 5mo ago
I tend to associate the Amiga with razor-sharp interlaced displays, so seeing 640x400 noninterlaced in an emulator leaves something missing. The Amiga also had an unusually smooth mouse response due to its interrupt prioritization and use
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by bitwize 5mo ago
My in-laws once misconfigured their television and it came blaring through.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
But you won't be stuck in Bristol, CT covering AI news.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
I've heard textual description tracks on television programs before. They come fast, but not screen-reader fast. To the untrained ear a blind person's screen reader sounds like when you somehow get the TI-99/4A's speech
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Headline is right up there with "Sticks nix hick pix": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticks_Nix_Hick_Pix Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egpWCC2svVo
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by bitwize 5mo ago
(Neo)vim or Emacs. Seriously. Pick one, get conversant in its basic commands. These are longstanding, Lindy-effect editors that are free software and independent of sponsorbuxx. If your IDE is your home, then going with some company's
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Quasi-normie computer users: Linux will never take off on the desktop. I want to use my computer, not spend all day configuring it. Also quasi-normie computer users: Windows/Mac is great as long as you go into Settings/the registr
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by bitwize 5mo ago
As always, Simpsons did it first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnGaf0p9x1U
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by bitwize 5mo ago
It's a good thing the market is adjusting to the reality that no one needs to own powerful computers, just terminals into the feed of compute available through the cloud, then! Nothing could possibly go wrong from that!
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by bitwize 5mo ago
"Let's build a compact, hugely data-dense server that absolutely no one can afford!"
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Otacon: To stop the unit, you have to access the control panel on its back and manually input the override code— Snake: No time! I'm gonna try shooting it. Otacon: That'll work too. I put that in as a failsafe.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
I'm reminded of the fact that the Japanese built literal giant humanoid mechs for the purposes of... teleoperated train powerline repair: https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/04/ja
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by bitwize 5mo ago
I was kinda hoping for Bladewolf from Metal Gear Rising but no. Still pretty scary though, and it makes a variety of intimidating noises like a GEKKO unit!
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Maybe natural complexity is not supposed to be something we deal with, just something we live with. Adapt ourselves to, move in harmony with, rather than trying to adapt nature to our whims. The trees and rocks and rivers really do have thi

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