justin66

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by justin66 5mo ago
On the contrary, populism and its effects are well understood by historians. This is just another wave.
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by justin66 5mo ago
> Yes, 8GB of RAM is a real limitation. But give it a year and the next version will almost certainly ship with 12GB and a modest CPU bump. We'll be able to have six browser tabs open instead of four?
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by justin66 6mo ago
I'd say party leadership endorsing a 78 year old candidate for US Senate is not how voting and elections ought to work - I'd say it's a pretty big problem. You're welcome to agree or disagree with that, but more releva
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by justin66 6mo ago
> Term limits would fix it This is really obviously not true. The Democrats' preferred candidate for Maine's US Senate seat, Janet Mills, was 78 years old. She had never served in congress. (she dropped out of the primary whe
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https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/
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by justin66 6mo ago
> the database got corrupted What caused that?
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by justin66 6mo ago
That was baffling a quarter of a century ago and it's even more baffling now.
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by justin66 6mo ago
> USB-C is very far from a perfect connector. The female side still has a fragile plastic tongue that can break. They also reliably wear out with use, both the cables and the socket. We've all seen them fail. Strange comment. My USB
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by justin66 6mo ago
> They say themselves they were from US State department or CIA histories of those countries. Given Wikipedia’s rules and origin, it’d make perfect sense if the early articles referenced the CIA World Factbook when describing countries,
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by justin66 6mo ago
> I'm guessing the idea on this was that if you needed that much RAM, the sacrifice of L2 cache was a worth while trade off. The idea was that nobody in their right mind would at the time populate that particular consumer motherboar
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Barbara Liskov – Data Abstraction, Dijkstra, Distributed Systems [video](youtube.com)
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by justin66 6mo ago
I use a UCA202 for the same purpose. Does yours output static sometimes when it sits for too long? Based on my testing this seems to be a Linux thing instead of a Behringer thing.
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by justin66 6mo ago
The comment you were replying to was talking about funding. If you could develop a scientifically plausible model to defend the "burning fossil fuels is not so bad, actually" thesis, your funders would include the oil companies an
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by justin66 6mo ago
Who cares what exogany says about it when actual juries have ruled on the matter?
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by justin66 6mo ago
If there's not a table somewhere maintained by the US government that associates social security number with citizenship status, that's because a choice was made by the government not to do that. It would be a simple enough thing
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by justin66 6mo ago
I hope people focus on the nature of the ads as much as the impressive quantity of them. The extent to which quality software and hardware was expensive is probably the main thing people should appreciate. The thing that always strikes me i
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by justin66 6mo ago
Has anyone archived the foreign language editions?
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by justin66 6mo ago
I'm not sure why copy protection came up on this thread but when it came to the Apple II, one of the more effective methods was to intentionally include a damaged or unreadable sector at a predictable place on the software's flopp
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by justin66 6mo ago
I assume they used clean-room techniques after those were judged by the courts to be viable. I wonder if that happened because of Franklin's efforts or because of what happened in the IBM PC clone industry.
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by justin66 6mo ago
Yeah, that's extremely cool. The wiki page had me at: The Datamaster was IBM's only 8-bit microcomputer and one of the few to use the EBCDIC encoding.
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by justin66 6mo ago
"Maybe they're only incompetent in the ways that have been enumerated in this blog post" does not seem like much of a sales pitch. Baffling.
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by justin66 6mo ago
> IBM System 23 Not to discount the awesomeness of the others, but that's a real prize. Talk about a strange artifact of its time and place! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/23_Datamaster
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by justin66 6mo ago
> Unfortunately for Franklin, that also meant that full compatibility comes hand and hand with trademark & copyright violations. Franklin eventually released a couple of clones which were compatible and had a clean BIOS (the 500 and
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by justin66 6mo ago
Borland Turbo Pascal for CP/M and MS-DOS was developed by Anders Hejlsberg, who went on to develop All The Languages for Microsoft. Perhaps more surprisingly, Turbo Modula 2 for CP/M (which was certainly surpassed by Topspeed Modu
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by justin66 6mo ago
The latter is lifted from “The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity,” which is a worthwhile volume for anyone with an interest in this stuff.
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by justin66 6mo ago
This is a really cool thing. Thanks Rochus. The Oberon language and the Oberon System were featured in Byte Magazine several times, most notably in Dick Pountain's articles: https://vintageapple.org/byte/pdf/1
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by justin66 6mo ago
Remember that people who familiarize themselves with computing history are neither "crushing it" nor doing anything else evocative of advertising for energy drinks. Study of computing history is therefore something to be avoided.
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by justin66 6mo ago
Indeed. It took me a bit to remember why. There was a clemency program for nonviolent drug offenders with otherwise clean records who had served at least 10 years in federal prison under out of date sentencing guidelines.
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by justin66 6mo ago
> Therefore, here's a feature request: allow per-user killfiles. That would be lovely. It's also an obvious feature which has existed in other contexts for a very long time, and it would be easy to implement. That means its omi
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by justin66 6mo ago
The next step would be to dig into how much money is spent lobbying for pardons. https://campaignlegal.org/update/inside-pardon-playbook-anal... I'm pretty new to this particular issue so I don't have a ton t

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