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by greenbit 3y ago
Keeping everything on your own drives should in theory protect you against the unpredictable access of the cloud .. but otoh I've had no fewer than five 2T drives crap out in the last couple of years, all bought in 2017 or 18. Point be
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by greenbit 3y ago
You're saying it's a dominance thing?
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by greenbit 3y ago
So many BASIC listings you can type in yourself! Be sure to have a couple of blank cassette tapes ready to save your efforts =)
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by greenbit 3y ago
The demo runs in an emulator in your browser - you can hit RESET and play with the PET =)
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by greenbit 3y ago
As may be, just going on observation that when I got to college, several of the profs still had punch decks lying around the offices. Granted that said offices were not more than 3 minutes walk from the computing center where the mainframe
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by greenbit 3y ago
Nearly the same story here. In HS the only computers in sight were TRS80 IIIs, PET4032s, and C64s. By graduation I'd moved to assembler for the sense of the metal and the speed. First year at college, took intro to programming in Pasca
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by greenbit 3y ago
With janky disassemblers, for an incompletely understood massively parallel processing environment, featuring non-deterministic execution into the bargain. Yeah. Going to need more coffee..
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by greenbit 3y ago
Punched cards were a thing of the past when I first encountered computers (in the form of ROM BASIC machines like the TRS80 and PET4032), but there's just something fascinating about being able to physically hold the individual lines o
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by greenbit 3y ago
Indeed. Flick that power switch and in less than a second, that machine was READY!
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by greenbit 3y ago
Hoped to find a simple link to a simple tarball. Ha, silly me. Encountered the usual phantasmagoric quagmire of but-first pages.
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by greenbit 3y ago
Especially enjoyed the part where they fabricate a custom 500 watt, 54-pole (if I counted right) out-runner alternator essentially from scratch. Sheet metal was cut!
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by greenbit 3y ago
Did I miss it, what happens to the carbon? Didn't see what the captured methane is turned into. CO2 would be better than CH4, but since chlorine is involved, are we talking about chloroform or DCM, or the like?
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by greenbit 3y ago
Have seen C++ go berserk and throw miles of errors when template implementation gets fumbled. Have also seen Java go stark raving mad over relatively minor infractions. Wish I had some examples handy.
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by greenbit 3y ago
Bubble-sort: what NOT to do.
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by greenbit 3y ago
I wish interface designers would understand this, the value of physical buttons. There seems to be this universal push to make everything as much like a phone as possible - flat, smooth touch controls, and while that's dandy for a devi
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by greenbit 3y ago
Quite an uncanny vibe to that idea. Just my opinion.
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by greenbit 3y ago
.. Can they provide some feature that you come to depend on, and brick it when it suits them?
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by greenbit 3y ago
Could make New Year's Day into one day that belongs to no month, to get to 365, and every four years have an extra New Year's Day to get to 365.25
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by greenbit 3y ago
My TL;DR take on this: that htons() both takes and returns a 16 bit integer is hazardous I'd agree that if you exposed integers that had been given the htons() treatment far and wide in your code, that could lead to trouble. Would lead
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by greenbit 3y ago
A buffer is just a logical place in the address space, whereas a cache is a physical device that uses a relatively small amount of fast but costly technology to allow a much larger amount of cheaper, slower memory to just seem faster. I say
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by greenbit 3y ago
Anyone have a link to some equations that could be used to build a simulation from this?
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by greenbit 3y ago
Don't forget norovirus, the gift that keeps on giving
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by greenbit 3y ago
These things are just statistical language models, aren't they? To the extent that when people reason or plan and then verbalize those plans, they tend to leave certain trajectories through language space, a statistical model could pre
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by greenbit 3y ago
Also you could fling them clear across the room, frisbee style. The 5.25" ones not so much.
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by greenbit 3y ago
Indeed, in my experience, there's some kind of biofilm that forms on the disk surface. Doesn't look like anything more than a thin stain or discoloration, but disks so afflicted never read correctly. Suspect that whatever it is, i
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by greenbit 3y ago
That's what the shoulders of giants are for. No need to grow your own beanstalk.
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by greenbit 3y ago
Ha! "waterfall with sprints" indeed. Just spent about 14 months operating that way. Manager wanted a demo every 2 weeks, fair enough in itself, but expected monotonic improvement. Two months into that, we really needed to rip it a
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by greenbit 3y ago
Ah, entanglement; just-in-time reality. You can't make this stuff up
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by greenbit 3y ago
Neutrons whizzing through the Erbium matrix don't ever strike those nuclei? Would think that would tend to get a little 'hot' over time.
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by greenbit 3y ago
At the low frequencies that tend to dominate and at that volume, it's relatively difficult to figure out where the source of the sound actually is, especially with buildings around that reflect sound every which way

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