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by chasil 2y ago
Texas Instruments was selling i386 Xenix systems to a major farm implement company in the early 90s. I actually traveled the country installing these in dealerships. They ran an accounting system written in RM+COBOL. TI replaced this line w
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by chasil 2y ago
The computer history museum has a panel interview where they discuss standard cell automated layout with "Timberwolf," a program they obtained from a graduate student who debugged it when needed from his dorm at his university. h
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by chasil 2y ago
Recent Japanese research has focused on reducing the number of mirrors by reshaping them, improving efficiency. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41336690
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by chasil 2y ago
I am assuming that the major reason that you wanted to do this is that SPARC is big-endian. It works in the native order of TCP/IP, and the hton/ntoh macros are null at the socket level in C. NetBSD can run Raspberry Pis big-endia
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by chasil 2y ago
"Thankfully, despite its age and total lack of security, NFS is still well supported under Linux." NFSv4 can run over TCP, which means that any encrypted wrapper can carry it. While SSH port forwarding can be used, stunnel is a be
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Potential cellular 'master switch' capable of reversing senescence(studyfinds.org)
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by chasil 2y ago
Alas, the search engine has led us astray once more.
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I remember playing the original Ultima on an Apple ][ in high school. Something about Mondain?
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by chasil 2y ago
As far as I would think, each state could set their own requirements for voting, and some ownership of land was also a requirement from what I remember. So Google suggested "who could vote in 1789” and the top result was from the Regan
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by chasil 2y ago
The oxygen in our atmosphere has been prominent for millions of years, highly visible. Anyone who is curious is already here, or has been here.
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by chasil 2y ago
Loading F-Droid onto a modern Kindle Fire is quite simple. You can also install FFUpdater (either via F-Droid or directly) for a huge range of browsers. What do you see as locked down?
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by chasil 2y ago
A county jail is commonly used for defendants accused of state crimes until their sentencing, after their convictions. Post conviction, the prisoner will be moved to a state penitentiary to serve out their sentence. I don't know how th
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by chasil 2y ago
POSIX outlines vi mode, but emacs is not mentioned. " vi - Allow shell command line editing using the built-in vi editor. Enabling vi mode shall disable any other command line editing mode provided as an implementation extension.&quot
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by chasil 2y ago
If you "set -o vi" then (Esc)/ becomes reverse search. Like vi in reverse, n goes further back, but N goes forward. The "set -o vi" option is a POSIX optional feature, and should work in any compliant shell.
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by chasil 2y ago
Right, but does that mean that /bin/ls changes at every boot, because some of what it took from libc is dynamic?
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by chasil 2y ago
There are two well-known documentaries about the Goshn captivity and escape from Japan. The first is from Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81227167 The second is from Apple: https://tv.apple.com/u
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by chasil 2y ago
When I boot OpenBSD, I see: reordering: ld.so libc libcrypto sshd. How does that play into this?
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by chasil 2y ago
Similarly, you could select NULL as your leading column, and prepend commas by that means. That method does impact the result set, and using it for CTAS or bulk insert would require more care in column selection.
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by chasil 2y ago
POSIX doesn't have any of that. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/ "I got used to fish and vi mode which are not available when I ssh into servers, containers." POSIX d
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by chasil 2y ago
Does Price Tower count? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_Tower
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by chasil 2y ago
It's a legacy processor, but the UltraSPARC T1 is the first thing I thought of when I saw the title... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T1 This legacy CPU is actually open source, along with its successo
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by chasil 2y ago
The wiki says that the KIM-1 was an internal design, and the Apple 1 was the first customer design. "Another group inside [MOS] designed the KIM-1... One of the first "public" uses for the design was the Apple I microcomputer
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by chasil 2y ago
In many decades past, there were no high level languages, and assembly was the only language. It was a very different time. Those people would be equally astonished at our casual computing devices and ignorance at how they work. Oddly enoug
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by chasil 2y ago
"Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship." Let us hope this era to be the exception to the rule. https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/978019...
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by chasil 2y ago
Internal audit said the same thing. Quelle surprise!
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by chasil 2y ago
This is useful to me because a) it still allows http basic auth, which is disabled by policy in my workplace for Edge/Blink, and b) because it otherwise allows dual logins and credentials to the same site, in the same browser.
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by chasil 2y ago
The SQL/PSM standard comes from Oracle, and is variously implemented in PostgreSQL, MariaDB, IBM Db2, and more. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL/PSM "SQL/PSM is derived, seemingly directly, from
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by chasil 2y ago
Realistically, it's time for Microsoft to make some good karma, and give Javascript to the world. They should wrest this from Oracle. "Microsoft Edge: the browser that gave you <script> as no one else could."
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by chasil 2y ago
The deal killer for me, the inescapable aspect of my users, is that they insist upon checking passwords into revision control. Because the C and PL/SQL people are on CVS, I can fix this with vi on the ,v archive. First on TFS repositor
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by chasil 2y ago
This photograph was of a bone cancer cell. I had heard that cancer (in general) suppressed mitochondria in preference for anaerobic respiration, and that apoptosis commonly involves these organelles. Not this cancer cell, it would seem.

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