icedchai

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by icedchai 1y ago
Yep. Coincidentally I got my first 386 clone in 1992, and eventually started playing around with early Linux distros. I still had my Amiga, but it was obvious the writing was on the wall when you could get a decent 386SX for the price of an
932.
by icedchai 1y ago
Yes, the A500's main "innovation" was cost reduction.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Yeah, as you mentioned before, the chipset just didn't keep up. I had an A3000 for a while (68030 25mhz) You could do faster blits with the CPU. I remember running a utility called "cpublit" that accelerated window scrolling.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I do like your alternate reality better than mine!
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by icedchai 1y ago
The problem with AGA is it arrived when 386 clones with SVGA were becoming incredibly affordable. If it had arrived in early 1990 instead of late 1992, the Amiga might've had more of a chance. Basically, Commodore should've skippe
936.
by icedchai 1y ago
Sad. I was an Amiga user from roughly 1989 through 1994. Commodore barely updated the Amiga platform for most of its life. The major updates, like AGA, were too little, too late.
937.
by icedchai 1y ago
That's pretty good. I bought an unlocked phone and switched to T-Mobile prepaid. I'm paying like $15/month + tax.
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by icedchai 1y ago
There are some good deals out there where you basically get a free phone. However, I've also seen ones adding another $20 - $40 to your monthly bill for the duration of the contract.
939.
by icedchai 1y ago
iPhones also used to be carrier subsidized. I remember getting a new one for $200 - $300 thanks to AT&T.
940.
by icedchai 1y ago
Yep. I set up an ISP from scratch in the mid 90's. Tech support was the worst part. I remember the incredible difficulty of talking people through downloading Trumpet Winsock for Windows 3.x and setting it up. Then when they finally go
941.
by icedchai 1y ago
I've never run into that.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I think servlets are great, too. Coincidentally I also swapped out JSP for Freemarker and then Velocity templates pretty early. The session beans and entity beans I could both live without. The "heavy weight" nature of the commerc
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by icedchai 1y ago
A lot of boilerplate and XML hell! What did you like about JEE? I worked in that world for years and don't miss it in the least.
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by icedchai 1y ago
Sounds like a CTE?
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by icedchai 1y ago
I've heard great things about uv. I plan to try it for my next project.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I remember. During the same time period, I wrote some Java apps that used plain old JDBC, plus some of my own helper functions for data mapping. They were lighter weight and higher performance compared to the "enterprise" Java sol
947.
by icedchai 1y ago
Yes! Hibernate was awful, but still light years ahead of EJBs. I worked on a couple of Hibernate projects and always left asking why...
948.
by icedchai 1y ago
Entity Beans were terrible, representing the height of JEE over complexity. I remember editing at least 3 classes, a couple interfaces, and some horrific XML deployment descriptors to represent an "entity." A lot of the tooling wa
949.
by icedchai 1y ago
I rarely run into issues when using Poetry. If you use pip, add packages to requirements.txt willy-nilly and don't pin versions then you are asking for trouble.
950.
by icedchai 1y ago
As late as 2022, I was at a company still in the middle of "migrating" from 2 to 3. I wouldn't be surprised if the migration project was still going on. The system had gone beyond tech debt and was bordering on bankruptcy.
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by icedchai 1y ago
I've been experimenting with LLMs for coding / "agentic" editing using Zed over the past month or so. It's another tool in the toolbox, good for prototyping, also good for rote tasks (like upgrading a legacy code ba
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by icedchai 1y ago
You don't even need to be that "modern." Back in 2010 I was working on a MySQL 5.x system with about 300 million rows on a dual Xeon box with 16 gigs RAM and a few hundred gigs of RAID 10. This was before SSDs were common. Th
953.
by icedchai 1y ago
Sounds about right. I worked at couple of regional ISPs (maybe 20K users max), then in network engineering at an IT dept of a large local company. The local corp had offices all over the world. There, I managed the central firewalls, proxy
954.
by icedchai 1y ago
C++ is a huge and complex language. I worked in it, on and off, from 2002 through 2014 or so and never really felt comfortable, either. Everyone seems to use their own dialect. (I'm working on learning Rust on my free time.)
955.
by icedchai 1y ago
I remember installing screen on a SunOS box back in the early 90's. It's been around a longggg time.
956.
by icedchai 1y ago
I run "gray listing" software on my email servers. Some spam is blocked by that. There are logs, but I never look at them, other than when I do an upgrade. Mail that makes it through will hit a secondary spam filter which will fla
957.
by icedchai 1y ago
That would've been cool! The NeXT hardware was interesting. I have a Turbo slab in my retro collection. Yeah, it seems Motorola lost their lead with the 68040. Intel was getting huge clock speed gains with the later 486/DX2, DX4
958.
by icedchai 1y ago
There were some high end Ataris and Amigas (Atart TT 030, Amiga 3000, etc.) but they came out a bit later. There was even the A3000UX that ran a Unix port! Still, I agree. The 68K workstation was essentially obsolete by the time NeXT shippe
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by icedchai 1y ago
Also remember the original NeXT workstation was incredibly expensive compared to the "consumer" 68K machines like the ST, Amiga, and even Mac. The cube was roughly $6500 at the time (late 80's money, close to $18K today!) The
960.
by icedchai 1y ago
I had an early Atom "server" board. Boy was that thing slow.

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