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by drfuchs 8y ago
Extra points for deviousness, but this won't produce the correct visual result when logged in on a hardcopy terminal (e.g. DECwriter); or even on a glass tty (e.g. DEC VT100) if you set the upper limit to 10001. It will also always fai
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by drfuchs 8y ago
Well, I stand corrected. Coverage in the January 9, 1969 New York Times (page 94), and the July 21, 1969 issue (page 52), does indicate that nobody paid to get on the waiting list at Pan Am and TWA, but the estimated one-way(!) fare would
423.
by drfuchs 8y ago
Nothing new. Pan Am sold tickets for their first flight to the moon for $10,000 decades ago. Everyone who bought one lost out completely when they went bankrupt.
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by drfuchs 8y ago
No way; I worked for him from 1978-1986, and never heard him say a naughty word. Also, I tagged along when he went to Apple to meet Jobs, who wanted to show him a late prototype of the Mac, and don’t recall hearing any such thing at the tim
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by drfuchs 8y ago
The original Macintosh also came with a cassette tape in the box, with audio lessons on how to use the "mouse" to move the "cursor" around on the screen, and how to "click" and "double-click" it to ma
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by drfuchs 8y ago
His book, with extra goodies, will ship in a few days. https://typesetinthefuture.com/book/
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by drfuchs 8y ago
Can’t find the image online, but the web remembers: Mad Magazine #116, January 1968: "A San Francisco Trip". This Don Martin cartoon shows a hippie preparing some banana peel shavings in a frying pan, and trying to smoke the resul
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by drfuchs 8y ago
The PDP-6 and -10 hardware absolutely did have true bitfield pointers as a major feature of the instruction set. A single instruction ("ILDB") would do the equivalent of Rn=* cp++ (where Rn is a register, and cp is a char* ). Even
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by drfuchs 8y ago
No, Lamport does not now, and never has, worked at Google.
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by drfuchs 8y ago
How to spell “cryptocurrency” properly, for one.
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by drfuchs 8y ago
It might be nice if the subsidies were granted “per job”, but it seems as though they weren’t. Also, it’s not yet public what these cities promised, but how do you “half build” new transit infrastructure and such?
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by drfuchs 8y ago
Uh, that there will only be 25,000 jobs, and not the 50,000 promised.
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by drfuchs 8y ago
Since each city is only receiving half the benefit they thought they were bidding on, presumably they’ll each get to cut their bids in half — the subsidies, tax abatements, infrastructure spending promises, etc.? But I haven’t seen any noti
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by drfuchs 8y ago
Since each city is only receiving half the benefit they thought they were bidding on, presumably they’ll each get to cut their bids in half — the subsidies, tax abatements, infrastructure spending promises, etc.? But I haven’t seen any noti
435.
by drfuchs 8y ago
Since each city is only receiving half the benefit they thought they were bidding on, presumably they’ll each get to cut their bids in half — the subsidies, tax abatements, infrastructure spending promises, etc.? But I haven’t seen any noti
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by drfuchs 8y ago
Merriam-Webster has the verb "to buffalo" as going back to 1891, with no notion of it being specific to any particular locale. The OED says it's "North American slang," while Google's dictionary calls it "
437.
by drfuchs 8y ago
I respectfully disagree. In the 70’s, IBM 360s / 370s and such were “mainframes”, while PDP11s and the like were “mini computers”. As 8080 / Z80 machines started to appear, they were always “microcomputers”, eventually evolving i
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by drfuchs 8y ago
All recent 15 inch and higher-end 13 inch MacBook Pro models come with a "Touch Bar" where the Escape and Function key row ought to go. Sometimes a soft button will appear near the left edge of the Touch Bar that says "Escape
439.
by drfuchs 8y ago
Never mind all that; it has an Escape key! (When they dropped it on the latest MacBook Pro, I feared that this portended its general demise on the whole laptop line...)
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by drfuchs 8y ago
You'd have to get longjmp to understand how to unwind these heap-allocated arrays, not only from the current function's stack frame, but for all the ones in the longjmp'd-over frames. In C-land, longjmp simply overwrites the
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by drfuchs 8y ago
Your client got defrauded, arguably through no fault of your own. They never paid you, so they still owe you. Good luck with this approach, though. IANAL Edit: I see CPLX has said it much better than I in the meantime. Note that it’s not at
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by drfuchs 8y ago
I take your point, but Unix does predate the Vax.
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by drfuchs 8y ago
Why, the phone book, of course. Usually the yellow pages, if you were in a reasonably sized metropolis. Nobody used a dictionary; I can’t imagine where this misinformation came from. The advantage of using a phone book was that a new one wa
444.
by drfuchs 8y ago
And it’s been even longer since RAM latency got much faster.
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by drfuchs 8y ago
Sears started as a mail-order company in 1892, with a catalog that quickly grew to more than 500 pages. It came in the mail yearly, and rural America quickly came to depend on it. It’s hard to convey what a huge success Sears was; its 1906
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Apple Said to Have 'Dramatically Reduced' iPhone Repair Fraud in China(macrumors.com)
126 points by drfuchs 8y ago|119 comments
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by drfuchs 8y ago
Better to freeze. Credit monitoring just gives you quicker notification that you've already entered a huge world of hurt. The fraudster has successfully struck, and now you have to go to work to undo the damage, which can be a years-lo
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by drfuchs 8y ago
Sure, back when I was a kid, both were in common usage, and I used them freely and unknowingly into adulthood. So, I was quite taken aback to belatedly learn of their etymology three decades ago. I'm happy to hear your data point that
449.
by drfuchs 8y ago
You might want to reconsider using “welching” in this context. And don’t change it to “gyping”, either.
450.
by drfuchs 8y ago
Approximate translation of the "print storage" paragraph: "Fetching characters to print via DMA consumed the entire memory bandwidth of the mainframe, so printing caused all computation to stop; unless you leased the 132-word

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