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by drfuchs 3y ago
But, just as with IBM and NCR, “SRI” is now just a 3-letter non-acronym, that officially doesn’t stand for anything.
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by drfuchs 3y ago
RG’s thread seems to say he never even got a single file after 3 days, while the arbiter’s report says Zeidman got 7 files the first day, and 4 on the second day. What’s up with that?
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by drfuchs 3y ago
The CarTalk brothers agree: don’t wait, just drive.
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Even more so, 6-bit characters were often used (supporting upper case only), in order to squeeze six characters into a word. Great for filenames and user id's. And for text files, 7-bit was enough to get upper and lower case and all th
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Almost the whole IBM 360 mainframe line used 24 bits for addresses, and you had the top byte for your own use. The 370 line had a mode for 31-bit (not a typo) addresses in user space.
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Yeah! I/O Channel Processors are back, baby! Now, if only I could find my IBM 370/168 POP manual around somewhere…
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Well, page 42 doesn't show it, but the Stanford Seal font had a second, distorted, copy of the seal under a different character code, to be used when you wanted it printed nearer the edge of the paper rather than the center. This was b
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Les Earnest's original 1986 "bboard" posting of this story, and other related ones, are to be found in the dump of the Sail backup tapes archived at https://www.saildart.org/BB.MSG[MSG,LES] Search for "F
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by drfuchs 4y ago
The article fails to credit the inimitable Ted Selker with the invention and development of the TrackPoint. Shame!
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Four-One-One is going out of service for millions of Americans(cnn.com)
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by drfuchs 4y ago
And how old were each of you when you caught on to the slightly risqué punchline?
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Contrary wise, I ordered 8 of an item on eBay, and received only 2. The fact that the full FedEx shipping weight wasn’t enough for even 4, and that the box wasn’t physically big enough to fit the items (pictures provided in my complaint), d
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by drfuchs 4y ago
“Funny enough, Tesla CEO Elon Musk blocked Electrek’s and my personal Twitter accounts after we posted that article.“ Well, who wants to buy a Tesla knowing that if you complain about their service you could be banned from Twitter? And wha
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Who gets the pop-up? If both Alice and Bob, and they simultaneously give conflicting replies, you're right back to where you started.
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by drfuchs 4y ago
No, I was simply responding to your statement that "Modula-2 was already available in 1978". This phrasing might give the wrong impression; Modula-2's practical availability was extremely limited. No doubt it was a fine langu
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by drfuchs 4y ago
In the late 70’s, there were production-quality Pascal compilers for DEC 20 / ITS / SAIL, Vax/VMS, IBM 360/370, together covering much of academic computing and most of the ARPAnet. Even consulting Wirth, Knuth couldn’t
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Nit: Many Pascal compilers / runtimes extended the language in non-standard ways, including various schemes for storing string length in front of the string. But nothing like this was ever part of the ISO Pascal standard, and it was c
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Elon says so.
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by drfuchs 4y ago
No doubt you’re aware of San Francisco and Los Angeles, both in the state of California?
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Is he on drugs? Or having some sort of breakdown? Honestly asking; it’s hard to imagine messing up so badly.
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by drfuchs 4y ago
If it was really a duplicate report, then where’s the HN article “I just got $100k for a security bug I reported a year ago!?”
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by drfuchs 4y ago
And swapping BTC for USDT still a taxable event. Just as if I bartered my Apple stock for some Google stock of yours: for both of us, there's a capital gain or loss, and it's a taxable event. You don't have to go through ac
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by drfuchs 4y ago
This particular car sleeps 8, and it cost us less than 4 couples taking a cruise from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles via the Panama Canal, and less than booking a private jet that seats 8, but more than first class airfare for 8 cross-count
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by drfuchs 4y ago
We rode the New York Central 3, a private car built for a Vanderbilt a century ago, cross country, attached to the rear of the Lake Shore Limited, changing in Chicago to the California Zephyr. A great experience, watching the scenery go by
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by drfuchs 4y ago
What happens if you call the number?
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by drfuchs 4y ago
And typewriters, before that. They all had only a single key for Apostrophe as well as Single Left Quote and Single Right Quote. In fact, since most(?) manual typewriters also lacked a "One / Exclamation" key, there was a fo
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Yeah, no. ASCII assuredly has had what it officially called "opening single quotation mark" at 0x40, and "closing single quotation mark" at 0x27, for a very long time. For starters, most easily at hand, see Communication
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Interestingly, the logic of mapping of two single quotes into a double quote was not built into TeX; rather, the metadata in each of the standard fonts simply used the ligature mechanism to handle it, just as they would specify that "f
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by drfuchs 4y ago
This has been driving me nuts for decades: "Smart Quotes" first appeared as the name of a feature of interactive document editing tools, wherein the user would always keyboard the "vertical" single or double quote ASCII
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Very likely your IBM/360 was connected to one of their 1403 Model N1 line printers with 132 columns. The lid would automatically rise up when it was hungry for a new box of fan-folded paper (probably with horizontal green and white str

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