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841.
by dcminter 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogi_Berra#%22Yogi-isms%22
842.
by dcminter 3y ago
Amusingly that book had very poor usability. I forget exactly what it was about it; possibly printing the text too close to the binding? In practice I recall it being mostly a digest of his free content on useit.com
843.
by dcminter 3y ago
Sadly there's some very intrusive corporate DLP borderline-malware that we're obliged to run, so this wouldn't fly. It makes me sigh a lot, but the rest of the job is a lot of fun so I put up with it.
844.
by dcminter 3y ago
I had a play with this stuff a while ago and I killed an Atmega in the process - I suspect by burning a binary for a different chip into it. I think that was with avrdude - a combination of winging it cluelessly and the Atmega board I was u
845.
by dcminter 3y ago
As far as I can see the QMK and TMK firmware for the ADB/USB are identical - seems the two projects have an amicable relationship. If I understood it right the QMK fork is mostly around including alternate mappings as part of the repo.
846.
by dcminter 3y ago
Ha! I should have researched that instead of relying on my fading memory of the era. I'll footnote your point when I get a chance to update the post.
847.
by dcminter 3y ago
> humble brag Heh. Not intentionally. All the hard work is the QMK project and nothing to do with me. TinkerCAD is literally designed for kids and completely the wrong tool for the job. I'm pleased (and faintly surprised) with how w
848.
by dcminter 3y ago
> [Fintech] holds the promise to expand financial inclusion, improve financial stability, and lower the high profits and rents characterizing the financial industry. I think the meaning of Fintech for most people in the industry is the o
849.
Building a USB to Mac ADB keyboard adapter(paperstack.com)
117 points by dcminter 3y ago|61 comments
850.
by dcminter 3y ago
"Agile coaches who never wrote a single line of code." Hard disagree here. Of the agile coaches I've bumped into over the last decade or so the most excellent one I worked with was entirely non-techy and made a dramatic diffe
851.
by dcminter 3y ago
It was definitely not an up & coming area in the early 70s, but inflation was part of it too - my parents bought their house with a half acre of garden in the green belt for £5000 at about the same time.
852.
by dcminter 3y ago
Brits of a certain age will get the cheat code reference. It quotes the "History Today" comedy sketch from "The Mary Whitehouse Experience" show in which two stuffy old academic buffers (Newman & Baddiel) rapidly res
853.
by dcminter 3y ago
Finnish is not remotely similar to Swedish, and it's Swedish that I'm skeptical about.
854.
by dcminter 3y ago
> Nordic languages (Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish) Do you have a citation for that? I know some Swedish and often need to read documents in it and I don't get the impression that it's any more compact than English.
855.
Engineers test autophage rocket engine(aerospacetestinginternational.com)
26 points by dcminter 3y ago|6 comments
856.
by dcminter 3y ago
As I understand it it is part of the deal - but VMS Software need to make a full release for an architecture before they can license it - and Vax is clearly not worth the effort. Sucks for me as I have an old VaxStation lined up for some
857.
by dcminter 3y ago
Ha! I stand corrected. That's definitely built in!
858.
by dcminter 3y ago
I didn't see a reference to a joystick anywhere and there's none shown in the photo...? Furthermore :) this spring I visited a PDP 11/73 running Spacewar with a joystick attached. Presumably that would have been attached as a
859.
by dcminter 3y ago
The additional two posts he promises are: https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2021/07/03/msg003900.... https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2021/07/03/msg003903..
860.
First new VAX in 30 years? (2021)(mail-index.netbsd.org)
237 points by dcminter 3y ago|101 comments
861.
by dcminter 3y ago
If you wanted to read at your couch or in the café it was the only viable option. Reading at the desk was ok, but your CRT monitor was often low res and somewhat flickery (depending how sensitive to that you are). Laptops (once they existed
862.
by dcminter 3y ago
Honestly it's brilliant.
863.
by dcminter 3y ago
I'm comfortably in a fun role at the moment, and have no plans to go anywhere any time soon, but I have noticed that the pings on LinkedIn from recruiters (competent or otherwise) have been very infrequent compared to the start of the
864.
by dcminter 3y ago
> poison under veneer Is this your own coinage? It's very good and I'm totally stealing it either way.
865.
by dcminter 3y ago
At University over three years with perhaps 50 vt220 terminals hooked up to the cluster, I don't remember anyone using it other than when looking through the menu options. I think for the exact reasons you give. Reverse video mode wa
866.
by dcminter 3y ago
I took up swing dancing (originally Lindy Hop and now Balboa). I'm a very different and much happier person as a consequence. YMMV.
867.
by dcminter 3y ago
I used to live out at Reading (about 30 miles away) and we still had to pause conversations and phone calls when it went past. It was VERY LOUD. I also worked at BA for a while. Everyone who worked for BA would glance at their watch when th
868.
by dcminter 3y ago
My godson once solemnly asked his dad "Were dinosaurs before or after steam engines?" which is obviously adorable.
869.
Login to the Vax Bar(toyvax.glendale.ca.us)
1 points by dcminter 3y ago|0 comments
870.
by dcminter 3y ago
Would you prefer a 10% chance of a death penalty or a 100% chance of a 1 year prison sentence? Exaggerated, but it makes the point clear.

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