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by buescher 1y ago
Wingz, in its brief era, was really nice. In-sheet graphics before Excel had them, and more intuitive too.
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by buescher 1y ago
Lotus was great from the keyboard. People who are very good at Excel do use the keyboard heavily and it's a joy to watch.
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by buescher 1y ago
And technically (the best way, right?) there's a whole thing to suss out between AppleTalk, 422, and LocalTalk, hahahahahah, but it's effectively as proprietary as PS/2 ports were, until they weren't. And ADB was 100% p
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by buescher 1y ago
Thirty years ago was 1995. TUI programming environments were closer to obsolete than obsolescent. We had 32-bit versions of Visual C++. We had Delphi and the Borland C++ stuff for Windows. We had Codewarrior. On the lighter end of RAD,
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by buescher 1y ago
One, what you can learn from this is what good production documentation looks like, more than how to hook up Apple's SoCs, which you don't really need to know. If you get used to that sort of detailed parts specifications on your
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by buescher 1y ago
The Action! source is out there and it’s very easy to read. I forget if it mentions Micro-SPL. I’ve long thought it would be an interesting language for embedded: maybe in some alternate timeline something like Action! was viable for 90s-
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by buescher 1y ago
Micro-SPL was cut down from the HP SPL systems programming language to run on the Xerox Alto, in microcode , and was ported pretty directly to the 6502 as Action! The Action! folks were pretty coy about this back in the eighties.
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by buescher 1y ago
The interesting part is not so much that it’s KEDIT (not that surprising, when these things get mentioned it’s kedit, one of the other xedit editors, xywrite, or wordstar) but that he had someone write note management macros for it with wha
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by buescher 1y ago
What a great piece of visual information design. Another favorite of mine from astronomy is the year poster that sky and telescope publishes every year: https://shopatsky.com/products/2025-skygazers-almanac-wall-p... A
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by buescher 1y ago
Replace cars with motorcycles,and luxury with t-shirts, and you have Harley-Davidson.
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by buescher 1y ago
I have a vague recollection of setting up mgr on Linux back in the nineties and giving it a spin. Maybe it was bundled with Slackware? That was the era that Slackware came with the Andrew user interface system and apps as well as xview.
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by buescher 1y ago
We’ve been automating the easy parts since the first compiler, but llms make everything weird.
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by buescher 1y ago
You and me both. The reverse engineering tools are out there even if most of the search results are AI slop that recommends common layout tools. If I really needed the work done though I'd just pay one of the overseas services and cl
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by buescher 1y ago
Current will never directly give you torque in Nm which is a straw man argument - you will always have to know the motor constant, input voltage, coil resistance, and gear ratio to back out torque. That's characterizing the motor. Ye
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by buescher 1y ago
Motor current is an excellent way to measure torque and is what is done in real-world settings all the time. As a hobbyist you might have to settle for relative torque if you aren't in a position to characterize a motor or you don&#x2
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by buescher 1y ago
UL 325 covers them and can be read (but not printed or saved) on UL’s website if you register. More dangerous than you might think though the real horror stories are with stage curtains. PSA for hacker news: Safety is the product of a pro
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by buescher 1y ago
You can lock down almost all the manual formatting in Word (i.e. allow styles only), and you can make a template out of it too.
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by buescher 1y ago
"Human's aren't perfect at X, so it doesn't matter if an unaccountable person who's plausibly wrong about everything does it or an AI". What's the difference, anyway?
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by buescher 1y ago
Commodore BASIC was pretty bad because Tramiel had bought a permanent license to Microsoft BASIC back in 1977, for the PET, and saw no reason to upgrade for the VIC or 64.
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by buescher 1y ago
The Atari ST and similar machines like the Amiga and compact Macintoshes other than the SE/30 were not its competition, any more than the Sega Genesis was. Its immediate competition included Sun and SGI workstations (as well as other
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by buescher 1y ago
The original NeXT computer was a gorgeously sexy machine but slow compared to competitive workstations and considered very expensive for what it was at the time. It also didn't have the software ecosystem of a less expensive loaded PC
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by buescher 1y ago
It's only #2 now, and US manufacturing output only equals the next four countries (Germany, Japan, India, South Korea) combined. And that's with only 8% of the workforce employed in manufacturing.
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by buescher 1y ago
It's worse than that. Imagine he's consistently plausibly wrong about everything, but when you point that out, people think it's just sour grapes at how smart he is.
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by buescher 1y ago
They're aiming to recapitulate the success of HDL design in the IC world. The jitx folks are pretty clear about that. There are a lot of problems with that that could be a medium-sized think piece, but some things folks are doing in t
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by buescher 1y ago
Right - it solves the compactness problem but introduces new ones. That said, from what I've seen of other people's modular setups, keeping them from growing without bound does not seem to be the highest priority in that world. I
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by buescher 1y ago
Right - if you see these things as useless trivia, why waste your time with them when you could be getting trained by your betters on the most profitable current form of ditch-digging?
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by buescher 1y ago
This is so cool and so clever I'm in awe, really. I'm grinning from ear to ear looking at this and jealous I didn't think of it. But the problem it solves is not quite one that anyone has. What does it offer over a built-in k
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by buescher 1y ago
You left out that exampleMethod will of course belong to a Conway's law CustomerConceptManager object. I think this is one of the reasons that software as a field has taken off so well in recent decades while more conventional physica
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by buescher 1y ago
Right. Everything in the near field of the antenna is part of the antenna. Handheld products are an extreme example of this: remember "just avoid holding it in that way"? (after that, Apple built big test chambers and brought jo
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by buescher 1y ago
Experience makes creativity harder, but that's what mature creativity is. Did anyone tell you it wouldn't be work? The people who are most awed by LLMs are those people most used to having to be merely plausible, not correct.

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