digitalsankhara

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   by digitalsankhara 4y ago

   Yes, I love the art too, capturing the era of that design style very well. I'm feeling nostalgic for my old Classic MacOS (I have a MacOS 9.2 hard disk sat here waiting for me to buy a replacement machine).
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   by digitalsankhara 4y ago

   I like your idea and I'd not heard of CoprocessorJS. If I had only a serial port for networking (e.g. the Mac Classic I wish I'd never parted with), I'd be tempted to emulate tail -f on the Mac side sending to the filesystem
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   by digitalsankhara 4y ago

   I agree. But I'm old and pedantic for whom the word Radio means on-air broadcasting. I love podcasts and often think, wow, these would make awesome broadcasts. Unfortunately, in the UK at least, VHF FM is, in my opinion, commercial dri
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   by digitalsankhara 4y ago

   I had a recurring dream for a few years after I'd graduated that I still had to sit my final year! The dream was so real one time that I woke in a panic and check my certificates to make sure! I studied in my thirtees as it was somethi
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   by digitalsankhara 4y ago

   Very good. I've never had to use COBOL in anger in my career. I do have fond memories of a little DBASE work and building TUI screens that bind to data/procedures was really easy and productive. Geez, I wish it was as easy to buil
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   by digitalsankhara 4y ago

   Well its you in that you have a preference for colour and that's fine. Colour has an emotional response of its own - which is why set design, lighting temperatures and colourists are a thing. Colour theory is of course the basis of thi
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   by digitalsankhara 4y ago

   Thanks for this link. I love smalltalk and had an opportunity to use a commercial implementation (Cincom Smalltalk) whilst working in biodiversity information. I found the development environment to be really productive - esp. during my sel
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   by digitalsankhara 4y ago

   I fully understand your point. I didn't find the comment rude or annoying personally. But there is a reality in that comment - my own brother pretty much echoed those words, calling me out for asking him to look at the data. Got pretty
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   by digitalsankhara 4y ago

   I hope your downvotes are because people don't realise it's sarcasm. It is sarcasm, right?
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    I'm 64 and still coding strong (UK NHS) and I'm planning to delay retirement (officially next year) for another couple of years. I've been a full time professional in computing since 1996. I've only experienced a bit of
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    Likewise. Lovelock shaped my approach to science as he was an independent worker in his field and that resonated with me when I read for my own science degree. I find Gaia compelling and beautiful. Sad day. BBC documentary; https:/&#
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    Similar for me but on BBC-B Micro. Rose tinted memories perhaps. And replication of that experience now would be a very interesting exercise in patience and acceptance for me. Indeed simpler times. Could I personally go back? As much as tec
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    XOJO? It's quite a feature rich OO BASIC with VB like GUI tools IMHO. Can compile for various platforms or generates HTML. I used it a bit in work to create an internal web app (it uses Bootstrap under the hood for that target). I foun
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    Absolutely. The resolution of the spectral plots in yesterday's images was amazing.
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    You are not alone [1]. My emotional response to this image made my spine tingle and was almost tearful. Just trying to appreciate what I'm looking at will take me some time, appreciating all of the hard work and raw science that went i
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    Gave me time to take my annual shower and comb my greybeard.
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    Sure, it's possible but there are plenty of gaps where its random noise - but even a very very weak signal would be swamped with noise if the radio is in FM mode. Pure radio static is the sound of the universe! Very frequency dependent
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    I feel your pain :-) Truly a fascinating species.
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    Great work, love the design! I now want to write a steam punk style sci-fi movie just to see these machines in it! :-)
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    Apologies if I'm missing your point, but yikes - any user on your system can run /sbin/shutdown?
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    Yes, but you are effectively turning your box into a single user system. And that's fine if you are happy to work that way, but the origins of the directory structure is of course in multiuser UNIX. As a sysadmin, I would not want my &
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    Please have an upvote for this clarity. I prefer the FreeBSD approach personally.
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    Thanks for the link to this. Fascinating documentary. Lost art & craft of printmaking. When writing LaTeX I often thought about how it translates to traditional typesetting using linotypes. The terminology in digital typesetting has its
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    Apologies if this is not allowed on HN, but there is Topspeed Modula-2 at this link. I think it's fully abandoned, but I'm still a bit uncomfortable with the ethics of sites like this. https://vetusware.com/downloa
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    I found it a very comprehensive dev tool. I still have the manual, having safely survived many moves!
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    I think I read that aspects of Modula 2 found their way into Python's modules.
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    by digitalsankhara 4y ago

    I'm a fan of Wirth languages in general and had the pleasure of writing DOS applications in Topspeed Module-2 in the late 90s. I generally find the Pascal/Modula/Oberon languages fit my cognitive abilities well. Perhaps it&#x
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    by digitalsankhara 5y ago

    Totally reductionist on my part, but when you've written assembly by hand you realise that loops and jumps cannot ever go away regardless of the higher level abstractions. At least I'm not aware of any CPUs that are not imperative
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    by digitalsankhara 5y ago

    On first glance there are features in Postico 2 that I'd find useful - having SQL queries organised in the UI rather than on the filesystem for one. I'm a daily TablePlus user and very happy with it so I'd need to find real a
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    by digitalsankhara 5y ago

    Simple is beautiful, less is more.