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by cardiffspaceman 2y ago
It was fun to read about this in the North American Numbering Plan documentation.
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by cardiffspaceman 2y ago
Landin wrote a paper called, "The next seven hundred programming languages."[1] The paper predicts quite a bit of the present. So I named my programming language, DCC. [1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09
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by cardiffspaceman 2y ago
// “You will need an oscilloscope, passive probes, …” That’s my stop. This engineer is determined! Built a test circuit to identify one part.
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by cardiffspaceman 2y ago
Never underestimate people defending their home. Remember the Serbs going out with targets painted on their t-shirts when NATO (read “USA”) was bombing Belgrade? Of course that was the 90’s.
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by cardiffspaceman 2y ago
I have succumbed to the temptation to implement various aspects of this. I have also tweaked existing implementations for my day job. I even had the assignment to pitch an implementation to a client. So I am sure that some would question my
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by cardiffspaceman 2y ago
The legend of “eureka” is that a fellow who had a specific problem in mind noticed something specific to his problem. Discoveries like sticky notes are not the same thing.
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by cardiffspaceman 2y ago
WhatsApp is bundled/zero-rated with cellphones, or cellular network access, if I understand the billboards in South America correctly.
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by cardiffspaceman 2y ago
Somehow the ZMOB is not mentioned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21756938
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by cardiffspaceman 2y ago
Is it inauthentic if I think back to romantic gestures I did 40 yrs ago and redo them?
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by cardiffspaceman 2y ago
Recently, Turks&Caicos: https://cruiseradio.net/cruise-passenger-arrest-in-grand-tur... Just a few bullets, 12 yrs confinement.
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by cardiffspaceman 2y ago
As I look at the thoughtful comments, I think I omitted a detail that would help: the computer in question was a PDP-11 with interactive timesharing.
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by cardiffspaceman 2y ago
In the USA, in the ‘70’s, I had an account on a university computer that was good for 4 hours in a month. I think that was just a fairly normal thing in the old days, when almost nobody had an Apple ][.
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
Maybe he’s recycling some handy words from a movie or novel.
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
What about shows set in USA with heroes who are vulnerable to gunfire? There’s a good half hour in Buffy the Vampire Slayer where a vampire lays in wait for Buffy, with a rifle loaded and ready. The show didn’t end on that episode. At least
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
100% on the impact of other people. The first gym I used had lots of big muscular men running around saying things like “I wanna do something ignorant [1]”. But when they saw a normy like me doing crunches incorrectly, they might stop to in
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
Without reading the comments on the article, there are multiple possible reasons for removing Raskin’s name. The article comments make clear that Raskin didn’t want his name removed. The other possibility was that he did want that, for exam
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
I used to move 20-inch CRTs around in the office and have to degauss them. But stationary ones also needed this and the built-in coil was great.
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
It also depends on how far the parents have to commute. I grew up in the LA area and my parents both worked in downtown LA. Getting up at 5 am was the routine for my parents.
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
I was part of a team that delivered four SKUs, DOS and Windows versions of two games. We made a fairly complete version of a GUI environment so that the DOS games would look like the Windows versions. We didn’t rasterize the TrueType fonts.
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
Back in the day, the KA10 under Tops10 could “go virtual” which meant that some of the processes would overflow to spinning metal, either disk or IIRC drum. Otherwise the various processes would all be in RAM.
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
Ironically, some EEs called that design paradigm “random logic”.
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
I did a gameboy emulator one week, when I had time from things like waiting for planes to arrive. I set the goal of playing the logo animation and sound. I achieved that goal within the time I allowed, and then I stopped. I have a good back
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
I feel the profession has layers. I had a dream in which I had a seat next to Bill Gates on a commercial flight (bear with me!). I asked him how he pursued software development now that he was running the world’s largest software company, a
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
Headline writers relying too much on skimming.
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
When I was preparing for a trip south, I noticed that the southernmost city (according to itself), Ushuaia is south of 54 degrees latitude, while Copenhagen is nothing like the northernmost city yet is about 55 degrees north. This is a way
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
That was the version of DOS that the Columbia MPC ran, and it was almost 100% compatible. I ran some code based on articles about the video card, and it couldn’t do the 160x100 mode that people wrote about. So a lot of “clones” may have bee
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
Does this support HDCP? At what maximum distance will it support an encrypted connection?
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
I have family in Mono County. https://trademarkmammoth.com/woodstove-inserts-and-epa-compl... Given that EPA regulations were cited, I assumed that the same rules apply everywhere. It seems instead that the harshest rules a
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
In California’s mountains (Sierra Nevada range and similar) people who want to burn wood legally have to use pellets. The stoves that burn them are meant to comply with pollution regulations. People kinda don’t like them but they use them.
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by cardiffspaceman 3y ago
I borrowed a car that did not have a stick supporting the gear selector. Instead the gear was selected by a slide switch in the plane of the top of the center console. In my muscle memory, that is not where that function is. What do I win i

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