digitalsankhara

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by digitalsankhara 3mo ago
Same! Also built external peripherals for my ZX81.
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by digitalsankhara 1y ago
Like it! After drinking the ale, the FORTH person says "bye".
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by digitalsankhara 1y ago
Then a FORTH person walks into the same bar... "cold temperature ale drink" to which the bartender replies "go you here". The janitor smiles as no sweeping required on a clean stack.
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
It's interesting that today Radio China International is everywhere on shortwave.
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
Totally agree. Thought about this myself, as a way of having true community radio. A simple hobby broadcast license of low cost might be pooled to cover copyright music only to prevent the types raids of seen on pirate stations (leaving asi
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
You covered all the points I was going to make. As part of the pre-internet generation that grew up with radio and a ham radio operator since my school years this is second nature and common sense to me. It is interesting that governments h
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
Is not the height that gets me, it is the edges!
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
I do some personal work in MacOS 9 on a MacBook Pismo and use the standard Platinum sounds at a low sound level. I personally find the little click and chirp soundtrack quite useful as audio feedback. Though if I were to do this in the offi
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
I find Bertrand Meyer's Effiel System very compelling. The design by contract methodology is baked into the language. I did try a DBC library [1] for Python but eventually gave up trying to build it into my work. Not because there is a
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
I am old. And fashioned. "a b * c +" rules! :-)
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
Have you heard of PickOS [0]? Maybe similar to what you are describing. I admit I just read the first couple of paragraphs of the article and thought, yeah - PickOS vibes. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operatin
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
For you maybe, otherwise a very broad sweeping statement.
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
I spent a fair bit of my career in that sort of environment writing embedded software on MSDOS. Have fond memories of that but I wonder if I re-created that today would I be able to mentally cope? Might be the technology equivalent of becom
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
To be fair I think MacOS classic (i.e. MacOS 9 et.al) was well thought out and usable IMHO.
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
There can only be one OS/2 :-)
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
Would really like to have a dedicated DuckDB version of this please. Also, add in a few simple tools for analytics - basic chart, pivot table tool, ETL etc. Nothing fancy, just enough to scope out the data before building pipelines/rep
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
In the US more than likely. In the UK I'm not so sure (can't speak to Switzerland) as there is a healthy community radio scene who may have some democratic influence. There are mutterings of trying to close UK FM broadcasting as w
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
Maybe, when most regions follow suit. Hate the idea of FM broadcasting turning off. Still, would love some ham radio wideband spectrum. Then people driving to work can listen to the likes of me droning on about <insert favourite ham radi
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
I am a fan of Joe Editor and the jstar "mode". Works well for me in SSH/Terminal sessions and where I need a bit more than nano. Also puts me left field of the vim vs emacs debate. :-)
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
Thank you for this. It lives! I will try these forks out. Don't you just love open source!
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
They did yes, after quite a few funding campaigns targeted at their users. I felt quite bitter about that and I fell for the hype myself.
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
I used, and liked, the predecessor called Revolution which was closer to the original HyperCard ethos. They are now stuffing so much into LiveCode it feels lost in itself. As a company I find them all over the place with this product.
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
Ah, yes. I see that now. Thank you.
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
I have not heard that before. My somewhat litteral spectrum disorder brain implies the bridge is burnt before it is crossed. Common ones I hear are "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it" - to delay an action or decision a
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
I have been waiting for someone to re-invent PickOS [1] but with a PG heart and a multiuser shell with PL/pgSQL as first class CLI language or some modern form of Pick/BASIC :-) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by digitalsankhara 2y ago
Give it time my friend. Give it time. Now, if the headline is that Voyager 1 has been mysteriously upgraded and is transmitting a 5TW signal and appears to be heading back, then do please do the 'aliens' thing.
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by digitalsankhara 3y ago
I do like this reasoning. Magic within the machine for me was programming forth as part of my post grad (controlling and processing proton precession magnetometers) and the device was a Triangle Digital Services (now defunct as a viable com
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by digitalsankhara 3y ago
I'd have called it COBWEB :-) I think there was also COBOLSCRIPT (sp) a few years ago, which, IIRC was a COBOL -> JS converter.
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by digitalsankhara 3y ago
I don't remember the name of the MSDOS shareware vendor, but they had a monthly catalogue which was sent out by post. Each item had a pretty good description and I'd spent hours reading through the catalogue trying to visualise wh
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by digitalsankhara 4y ago
I had a distant memory about this Mac based spreadsheet/database thing but could not remember its name (Panorama). Couldn't surface it in searches either. Thought about it the other week and here we are! Odd pricing though = pay i

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