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by jsrcout 5y ago
I call it "property as a service". Wherein you have to pay recurrent rent on things you "own" to keep using them.
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by jsrcout 5y ago
The article comments have quite a bit of additional information on the sim. Interesting reading.
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by jsrcout 5y ago
Ok, that was a lot more entertaining than I expected.
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by jsrcout 5y ago
> Whereas MacPaint seemed almost supernatural compared to what was sat on people’s desks before it. That's exactly what the experience of using a Mac was like. And it was just beyond comprehension that you could actually get one
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by jsrcout 5y ago
The thing is, you didn't need to learn anything "computery" to operate the Mac. No special languages or commands, nothing. You could literally walk into a computer store, sit down at the demo machine and use the thing. And it
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by jsrcout 5y ago
When the early Macs came out, Apple had a program for students to buy them at low(er) cost through their college. I worked summers for my dad, a home builder. It was hot, boring, hard work. After my first year of college, I told Dad to hang
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by jsrcout 5y ago
PICT, there's a blast from the past. Way back at my first job I ported our visual graph editor to the Macintosh. Scrolling was very slow at first due to continuously redrawing the graph, until I started saving it to a PICT as a sort of
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by jsrcout 5y ago
I was a very happy user of DownThemAll at work for a few years. I had to retrieve boatloads of documents from $BIGCO's godawful Sharepoint site on the regular. After a couple sessions wearing out my carpal tunnel mousing around, right
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by jsrcout 5y ago
I hate software that begs.
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by jsrcout 5y ago
> So yeah. The original one required you to crank it up to spin the disc, because spinning the disc was vital to the operation of the original music box. > The modern "classic" one requires you to crank it up, because it won
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by jsrcout 5y ago
Some coworkers had to deal with MIL-STD-1750A [0] floating point recently. None of us had ever heard of it. They were talking to some pretty old HW. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-1750A
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by jsrcout 5y ago
The book On Stalin's Team by Sheila Fitzpatrick [0] is an excellent account of how Stalin and his inner circle operated, particularly the decision making process and the balance of power within the group over time. [0] https:/&#x
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by jsrcout 5y ago
I just love those fake O'Reilly book covers. Wish I could order the actual books :-)
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by jsrcout 5y ago
This article maybe explains why my grandfather would get so angry when us cousins would ask him to speak in Italian, his childhood language, when we were small. We thought it was so neat that he had this whole other world, but at most he wo
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by jsrcout 5y ago
He wrote a full-featured Emacs for the Apple II back in the day... Gonna have to look that up. Wouldn't have thought that was even possible.
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by jsrcout 5y ago
Stages to Saturn: A Technological History of the Apollo/Saturn Launch Vehicles https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4206/sp4206.htm
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by jsrcout 5y ago
One includes the Dear Leader's name, one does not.
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by jsrcout 5y ago
I was, too. Still remember that slowly dawning realization that the greatest communication medium ever created could also function as the most intrusive personal surveillance system ever created.
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by jsrcout 5y ago
That was fascinating, and informative!
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by jsrcout 5y ago
Google for: friction ux
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by jsrcout 5y ago
My first job out of college was developing software on the Macintosh in the late 80s/early 90s and I absolutely took for granted being able to count on the user interface to work in a sane and consistent way for 99% of all software. I
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by jsrcout 5y ago
This is tremendous news! Orbiter is such a fantastic sim, and even better with the high quality addons. I've learned so much from "playing" Orbiter over the years. Much respect to Martin for doing this.
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by jsrcout 5y ago
Works for me as well. I call it "putting on my play clothes", just like after school when I was a kid some decades ago.
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by jsrcout 5y ago
I asked it nonsensical questions about historical figures and got output that was nearly sane sounding, fairly coherent, and sometimes close to brilliant. I can't speak to the technical aspects. Although it didn't seem to "ge
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by jsrcout 5y ago
A better headline for the article: NASA hasn't yet figured out what's causing computer issues on the Hubble telescope
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by jsrcout 5y ago
George Byron Merrick's book Old Times on the Upper Mississippi: The Recollections of a Steamboat Pilot from 1854 to 1863 [0] has a fascinating chapter on how people got rich on wildcat banking swindles. [0] https://www.guten
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by jsrcout 5y ago
Article from the Mars Helicopter chief pilot: https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/status/305/survi...
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by jsrcout 5y ago
I always think of building a system of this complexity as building a pyramid where each block is its own entire pyramid.
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by jsrcout 5y ago
Haven't really seen it in the wild, but I see it every day in a very large proprietary codebase I work in.
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by jsrcout 5y ago
Of course, the canonical work on this subject is Danny Cohen's On Holy Wars And A Plea For Peace [0]. It's an informative and highly readable article. My favorite quote, from the conclusion, is: The "Be reasonable, do

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