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by cr0sh 8y ago
That ain't old. My TRS-80 Model 100 - that's old. My Altair - older still. I have a chunk of core memory with 3mm torroids and bakelite framing; that's almost positively ancient in computer terms...
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I have an eeePC 900a (?) - It came with, IIRC, a 32 GB SSD and 1 GB of ram - I ended up putting 2 GB in it, and a 128 GB SSD; made it much more comfortable (for all that's worth). Still a dog CPU - but for what it is, it ain't too
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Xubuntu has a 32-bit version still, and should run well...
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by cr0sh 8y ago
My first distro was Monkey Linux running on Caldera OpenDOS - circa 1994-5-ish. On a 386 laptop with 6 MB. My first real distro was TurboLinux 2.0 - IIRC, that was on a Zenith 486 laptop with 8 MB. Then I moved to RedHat 5.2 (don't rec
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Best laptop keyboard I ever used was on a Compaq SLT/386 I owned. Keyboard could be detached from the laptop (ok, today it would be considered a "luggable", but back then, it was a nice machine), and it had a coiled cord that
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I think you're mis-remembering your time period. 20" monitors weren't widely available until the mid-late 1990s; nor were P133 machines (P133 release was in June 1995; so for it to be considered mid-low end, late 90s would be
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Why do you assume all employed SWEs have 4 year CS degrees? Or any degree at all?
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I keep telling my employer this, and similar arguments, but no matter what, they still won't buy me one of these: https://www.mwelab.com/en/
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Here I was hoping for actual "old hardware"...sigh. I'm in the process of refurbishing, possibly with some custom upgrades (ESP8266 wifi-serial dongle would be interesting), of a TRS-80 Model 100. Days of runtime from a handf
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by cr0sh 8y ago
The flying Jeep and the flying Pinto (the latter had disastrous results). I currently own a Jeep. My dad once owned a Pinto. Who in their right mind would think "You know, this is the perfect car to strap some wings to!" for eithe
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> Now imagine if that road (perhaps several) is above you! What previously might have been stopped by friction from the road now flies much farther.... I work near a small regional airport, which used to be "in the middle of nowhere
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> Good luck with your full autopilot. While it doesn't completely negate your argument... https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/zero-hab-glider/ http://izzybrand.com/
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> It's roughly comparable to spending all R&D perfecting vacuum tubes in the 1940's Vacuum tubes continued to be improved all the way up into the early 1960s, long after transistors had taken hold: https://en.wik
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by cr0sh 8y ago
One great problem - and I am but a hobbyist at best - is that of back-propagation, which is the foundation of deep learning neural networks. As far as I know of (and I could be wrong) - there has yet to be any kind of proven method that the
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I know my comment won't move this discussion forward in any fashion, but I have to ask anyway. What was this data, and why did they feel they needed to keep it? I mean - 300PB is nothing to sneeze at. I can understand wanting to keep i
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> Another example would be Monocypher¹, my crypto library. I don't know who you are, nor what Monocypher is, beyond what you have written here, but this example should come with some caveats listed. It is generally considered "
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I'd love to try AMD video cards again, but what's recently held me back is that I sometimes play around with stuff like Tensorflow and other ML libraries. They all seem to be geared toward CUDA, which of course is an NVidia only t
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by cr0sh 8y ago
For a long time I was on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with the NVidia driver, and every time to update it would be a pain; inevitably, when I rebooted, I'd be at a console, having to fix the damn thing so the updated driver would work. After a cou
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Unfortunately, others have already done this - extracting great riches as they did so - and left their "mark" on the planet. Of course, without looking it up, I couldn't tell you who they were, even though some of these &quot
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by cr0sh 8y ago
If you want to see "hilarity" in regards to California's Prop 65, take a look at this surplus electronics vendor: https://www.allelectronics.com/ ...while not apparent on the main page (I'm sure they&#x2
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> Laptops sued to be so thick, you'd carry them in a "laptop bag." Now, you can carry them in a sleeve or briefcase. I own a TRS-80 Model 100 "laptop" - it came with a "sleeve" you could put it in. It f
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I'm actually in the process of refurbishing and (potentially) upgrading a TRS-80 Model 100 for everyday usage. Sure, it won't have any of the modern stuff available, but it will run for hours off of 4 AA batteries that I can purch
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by cr0sh 8y ago
So you're reading a number and then -blurp- your mind goes "Danish" or "Norwegian" letter? Context doesn't come into play? I mean - I can understand such confusion if you are dealing with some kind of multi-cha
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Well that's funny. Back around 1992 or so I picked up a copy of this book, in hardcover, from a local bookstore (Bookstar - remember them?) - still in plastic wrap. I was like 19 and naive. I paid something like $80.00 for it. Opened i
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> I had the Kodak DC-3200 back in 2001: http://old-digitalcameras.com/MorePicts/MP42.htm . I recall it being great, and the CF card made it incredibly convenient. My fifth (arguable) digital camera was a DC-3200; I s
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by cr0sh 8y ago
That's pretty good quality and decent for the time period!
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by cr0sh 8y ago
> I long for the Linux prairies of old, but I've grown fat and lazy on OSX. Linux is a youngster's game. 45 years old here and still rocking Linux (does that qualify as "old" - probably - sigh). Started playing with i
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I recently updated my Linux desktop at home; I tried a variety of live distros - I don't recall if Elementary was one of them - it might have been in there. The one I ended up using had the Budgie desktop, which I found to be the most
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by cr0sh 8y ago
I fell "in love" with the Budgie desktop experience, which is a project of Solus Linux. However, I didn't like the Solus Linux package system; I wanted the Debian plethora of packages. So I "found" Budgie Ubuntu. Be
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by cr0sh 8y ago
Are you sure? http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/ I can't say I've played around with it, but the above seems to indicate that such support is available - but that you might have issues with

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