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by cancerhacker 3y ago
It’s mentioned in the page, but the emulation at http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/expert.html is worth a visit.
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
I have the same thing in the palm of my hand - was bumping a pencil along a wall, also in fourth grade, ish. I knew it was graphite and wouldn't hurt me, but I was too afraid of it hurting to winkle it out, and it just healed over.
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
The toy emitting "ut oh" on invalid input reminded me of a phonics toy - I think it was either a schoolbus or caterpillar, where phonemes could be pressed and it would sound them out "g-oo-d" "d-aw-g" - but if
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
More of a “back car” - the Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 used piggybacking RAM with passthrough to other peripherals. It was a really fragile setup - the ram pack in particular would glitch out when typing.
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
When Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997, he was given 1.5M shares - he sold all but 1 share almost immediately.
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
It was fun exploring telehack and “visiting” systems where people of worked with decades ago were still logged in... but I still use telnet today to poke at ports, or when I can’t remember curl syntax.
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Speaker Grills of the World(speaker-grill.com)
1 points by cancerhacker 3y ago|1 comments
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
In 4th grade I was writing very simple animations in basic on an Atari 400 and I absolutely would’ve used and understood this. I think this is a perfect example of perfect being the enemy of good. (And I think I’m mangling that phrase)
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
Similar for me, Earth Abides takes place in Berkeley near where I used to live - giving details of a post apocalyptic Indian Rock Park and the all-revered University Library, that I knew decades later.
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
Oh, seek ye "The Starlost", starring former "Dave Bowman" Keir Dullea - with a special guest star of Walter Koenig!
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
TMON is absolutely hands down the most joyful tool I’ve ever used. Debugging classic mac INITs, trap patches, heaps. I’m sure a mail machine would’ve felt similar (if not more alive) but being able to poke at a running system - from within
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
A naive question, maybe? I have about 5 years worth of CT, MRI, and PET data of my diagnosis (stage iv colon cancer) - to NED. I wouldn’t care about contributing it to any research if there was some way of anonymizing it. Or, does that k
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
With some sarcasm and much trepidation, I would submit that lobbyists would be more than happy to write the laws that their congresspeople will sign into law, ending the due diligence and oversight of qualified, established government depar
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
I've got this and a few other[1] of emulation kits[2]; they're fun and fairly easy to assemble, blobby solder and all. [1] https://thehighnibble.com/imsai8080/ [2] https://adwaterandstir.com/
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
Classic Mac used this for some toolbox traps as well. Most apps used a jump table at some offset from the A5 register, which looked like: addr: _LoadSeg dc.w segmentNumber dc.w segmentOffset The _LoadSeg trap would e
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
I added a trivial css filter for my browser, that sets blur to images who's alt text contains the name of a particular public figure, and it's an absolute joy to not have to see some things anymore. I know it's there, but it
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
It was at that point that I realized that the whole thing is just training us for a future in which we are displayed the item of our choice - a tea, piping hot Darjeeling or Lapsang Souchong - as just out of reach until we interact with the
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
Here's a thought: vehicles that are already scheduled (uber or robot-taxies) are already scheduled from point A to point B. Drone scheduling could piggyback on this such that as large vehicle passes restaurant R at A', a drone fr
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
Steve Jobs died because he initially refused rational treatment, then he aggressively pursued conventional treatment (liver transplant). The initial refusal thing is common - in my case, I refused to believe the symptoms (bloody stool) I h
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
Fry's Electronics was the absolute worst about this. They would sometimes mark items on the shelf down if they were obviously returns, but more often than not they'd re-shrink wrap it and sell it as new. And more often than not
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
(It was not fun times. It was "hey everyone, all our problems will be solved by adopting XXX" which inevitably introduced a new set of problems which could be solved by only adopting half of XXX and all of YYY, repeat. Now that
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
Back in the 80's, about the time PowerPoint was gestating, Dave Winer's ThinkTank begat MORE on the Mac. It was a simple text outliner - but press a button and the structure turned into a presentation. Symantec thought it had hu
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
If you ever get cancer... Maybe it's just that I lucked into getting the most aggressive oncologists, but on more than one occasion I was sent to get an MRI or CT on the spur of the moment. There were times when it was scheduled out
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Frogger v1.0 (moof-a-day collection) (1984)(archive.org)
2 points by cancerhacker 3y ago|0 comments
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
alias pbg='pbpaste | fgrep --color -i "`pbpaste -pboard find`"' select all in a terminal window with pages of log data and cmd-c copy; find the one phrase you want to find in that data and cmd-e to put it in the find pas
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
You can learn it yourself, but when I took a similar course, it opened my eyes to knowing which tools were useful for what and how to apply them productively. (I work with people now - software engineers - that basically see any command li
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
I had never heard of this before[1] (as a sheltered obtuse American) - this seems like exactly the sort of thing that the US separation of church and state was established for. It looks like the church can opt you into their fold using dec
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
> And as for the disturbing claim that your cat would eat you if you died at home and your body weren’t discovered: don’t believe it. It does happen, and not out of malice. Source: father in law died over the summer, "Garfield&quo
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
And if the child sees two men kissing on the street?
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
Counter with Flight of the Conchords: https://youtu.be/qTwAoFR4DuM?t=104

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