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by kbob 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Model_33
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by kbob 9y ago
The Fed's actions are public and lots of people carefully scrutinize them.
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by kbob 9y ago
It will be a replay of the 1970s when a combination of new emissions and safety standards locked a lot of niche manufacturers out of the US market. Pre-1975 exotics held value and even appreciated. The gray market, which imported high end
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by kbob 9y ago
I can anecdotally confirm. My wife used to ride the Coast Starlight occasionally. About the fifth time she did, the train was delayed 18 hours. She missed a day of work, and has never ridden it since.
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by kbob 9y ago
Model 3 is the fourth model. Roadster, S, X, 3. Unless you're counting S and X as one, since they share the same platform.
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by kbob 9y ago
Do you also choose doctors, grocers, utilities, planes, and cities that are not Internet enabled?
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by kbob 9y ago
I'm not seeing an issue. How is it worse than ad blockers?
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by kbob 9y ago
That article is from July, 2016, which is why the dates "in the past month" don't compute.
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by kbob 9y ago
Thanks.
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by kbob 9y ago
Darn it, what is PA in this article?
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by kbob 9y ago
I wonder how old the author is. I "knew" the XXX convention was from CSRG, and Bill Joy would have been my first guess. I expect most people who worked with Unix in the '70s or early '80s would have guessed the same.
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by kbob 10y ago
> [Preact is] still just 600–800 lines of code if you remove the comments. I'd never heard of Preact. I still don't know what it is or does. Maybe it's truly groundbreaking. But how can 800 SLOC be a product? That&#x27
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by kbob 10y ago
We consider it acceptable for a car to be mostly depreciated after five years of ownership. We do not want our houses to have lost value in five years, especially as many of us will still owe 75% of its value. A house is still a longer ter
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by kbob 10y ago
Yabbut if you're taking out a 30 year mortgage, you're not just going to look at current oil prices. The media are full of stories about the end of oil and looming price increases.
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by kbob 10y ago
It's useful to apply the Steve Yegge political axis metaphor[1] here. C forces a fairly conservative approach because it stocks a full arsenal of footguns. Pike and most of the early Unix guys, though, are about as liberal as they ca
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by kbob 10y ago
>Simple rule: include files should never include include files. For small programs, that's a good rule* . For larger code bodies, it's counterproductive. If my module uses foo, there's no reason for my module to know tha
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by kbob 10y ago
I programmed in APL circa 1980-83. It's not a normal programming language in that you don't use it to solve the same kinds of problems as you'd solve in Pascal or Fortran (then) or Python or C (now). Lisp and Smalltalk are
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by kbob 10y ago
Maybe you can advise me. I read Consider Phlebas, and I didn't like it at all. I rarely like war fiction. Is Phlebas typical of the whole Culture series, or are the other books a different kind of story? Thank you.
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by kbob 10y ago
That's what the VT100 did with SI and SO. It's been 30? 35? years since I touched a VT100, but I think I recall there being a configuration bit to enable alternate character set on SI/SO.
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by kbob 10y ago
Get yourself a Black Magic Probe. It's JTAG/SWD on the device end, USB GDB server on the host end. https://hackaday.com/2016/12/02/black-magic-probe-the-best-a... disclaimer: I'm friends with
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by kbob 10y ago
Minimum Viable Synth. https://github.com/kbob/MinimumViableSynth Today's progress was (a) receiving my SMD rework station from Amazon, (b) continuing to wait for OSH Park to send PCBs, (c) writing graphics primit
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by kbob 10y ago
I have seen Strowger switches in the wild. In 1965-66, my first grade class visited the local AT&T Central Office. We saw a wall of what I later identified as Strowgers. I thought they looked like mailboxes on end at the time. The MIT
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by kbob 10y ago
64 MB static RAM, no less. You've built a huge-ass static RAM chip and thrown in some local processing. (-:
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by kbob 10y ago
If you wanted to interview some early retirees, what easier way to find them than to Google up some 'blogs?
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by kbob 10y ago
San Francisco is a little different from Austin in that it's surrounded by water on three sides. There are bridges to Marin (north) and Oakland (east), but they're congested. Apparently BART is also full, though it wasn't w
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by kbob 10y ago
Yeah? I know how to invoke IEFBR14 and could probably reimplement it from scratch.
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by kbob 10y ago
I am not looking forward to it. I just looked around my office, and there are 55 USB ports within arm's reach. (both host and target ports.) I will never ever get around to replacing all those devices with USB-C, so I'll be car
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by kbob 10y ago
> There are few asset classes that have outperformed super-prime real estate in the last 60 years. Consider that the median home in Palo Alto sold for less than $20,000 in 1956 That is where I stopped reading. Palo Alto 60 years ago is
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by kbob 10y ago
I put money into LC's automated investing system 25 days ago. The money has been gradually lent out, and I expect the last loan to close today or Monday. There were plenty of borrowers at the low-risk, low-interest end of the scale,
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by kbob 10y ago
Arduino is not the next big thing; it's arguably a few years past its peak. But the thing is, it's really really fast to prototype stuff. Last week I needed to convert an analog voltage to a pulse width -- I had a potentiometer a

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