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by kjs3 8mo ago
Ha! We (gatech) were a CDC shop as well, with PLATO. We'd moved up to the Cyber 180s (I think we had a 810, 2 x 855 and a 990 vector machine). FORTRAN on the 990 was pretty fun, and I might be the last person to ever run the ALGOL-6
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by kjs3 8mo ago
That's kinda funny...we musta lived in parallel worlds. The 3B20 might have been slow, but it had a solid I/O subsystem so you could load it up with users, and was generally reliable (it was originally built as a telco switch cont
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by kjs3 8mo ago
Until that happens Exactly. "Let me explain how some else needs to do this thing, and how easy it is, and how that someone else needs to get right on that for my convenience". Because you're here to condescend, not to ac
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by kjs3 8mo ago
You can step up and be the maintainer of GTK2 (or anything else that would keep the 'deletionists' at bay) any time you want. Go on...I'm sure you have unlimited time and resources like all the other Debian maintainers.
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by kjs3 8mo ago
You apparently never had to share a 3B20 (around 1 MIP) with 200 other CS1401 students desperately trying to get their Pascal project to compile before the midnight deadline. 15m for 'hello world'? If you're lucky.
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by kjs3 8mo ago
So you've replaced a <10 line shell script (which is what I've been using to workflow host blacklist updates and similar for...oh...25 years) with an entire application. Fair enough...but I thought it was only mobile shoveling
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by kjs3 8mo ago
Yes, I will put this right over here next to my group file editor, printcap editor and separate dot file editor. And motd surely has it's own. Obviously, I now need a standalone fstab editor, which clearly can't be the same ed
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by kjs3 8mo ago
We have nearly a 1000 people in my building. I don't track every rando that walks by, nor reasonably could I.
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by kjs3 8mo ago
Get real, Sam. As if anything he said was something other than performative prattle.
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by kjs3 8mo ago
Many of my good memories of youth have a green coleman stove with the red fuel tank somewhere in sight. I was often the one tasked with pumping it up. [edit] youth...not you. That read weird.
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by kjs3 8mo ago
One way how to improve cybersecurity is let cyber criminals loose like predators hunting prey. Who, exactly, is holding them back now?
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by kjs3 8mo ago
This is a good point. I think we get a couple of emails a week for exactly this kind of bottom feeder 'consulting firm' 'offering' to tell us all about some massive security issue they found, as long as we sign up for a
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by kjs3 8mo ago
Fair. Personally, I think the idea of simplicity is still relevant for pedagogy (as it always is), but one you rope in 'suitable for out of order execution or speculative execution or backtracking and so on' as criteria, 'si
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by kjs3 8mo ago
Back in the day, Alpha and HPPA were commonly used as examples of 'with all this extra stuff is it still RISC?'. These days, I think the CISC/RISC divide is largely an historical artifact.
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by kjs3 8mo ago
Provided you have good eyesight and steady hands I see the flaw in your clever plan...
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by kjs3 8mo ago
Ya...IBM and CDC both had/have architectures that heavily distributed tasks to subprocessors of various sorts. Pretty much dates to the invention of large-scale computers. You also have things like the IBM Cell processor from PS3 days
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by kjs3 8mo ago
The OP is using 'modern art' as a derogatory term; I doubt very much they care about accuracy. I doubt a trip to MoMA would be enlightening. It's just a hand wave across 'all those things about art I don't understa
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by kjs3 8mo ago
Calling something "entitlement" is an easy way to shut down discussion without engaging with the argument. I have evaluated your discussion. I have read as many of your 'explanations' of your argument until I got a he
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by kjs3 8mo ago
The sole person running this site doesn't find the same things interesting than you do. How dare they. The sense of entitlement displayed is really breathtaking.
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by kjs3 8mo ago
Thank you very much for being the condescending pedant who can't take a joke.
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by kjs3 8mo ago
These guys made one of the most amazing tables for someone I know: https://rustictradesfurniture.com/ . If you said "you're not a carpenter because you aren't slapping 2x4s together", you'd get a wr
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by kjs3 8mo ago
There's a sci-fi story in there about an android manual injecting routes to get around a failed limb. It's been fun explaining to our cloud engineers that BGP is pretty useful in AWS. Most had never touched it after they got thei
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by kjs3 8mo ago
The compiler situation I think people forget this. I know a lot of folks that looked at D back when it needed to win mindshare to compete with the currently en vogue alternatives, and every one of them nope'd out on the licensing.
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by kjs3 8mo ago
At least they didn't complain it wouldn't run their AI music gen models.
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by kjs3 8mo ago
Yup; it's a neat daytrip if you're in the area. But then Capt. Gillmore showed up with rifled cannons and showed why we don't use cannonballs any more. :-)
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by kjs3 8mo ago
Since the shifter is also used for bit tests, the 'most things are a 1-bit shift' might not be the case. Perhaps they did the analysis and it made sense.
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by kjs3 8mo ago
Most 'big businesses' I've delt with have a time server someplace internal. It may be a stand alone NTP server, a network device like a Cisco router or a Windows AD server. You might ask the network team/Windows admin
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by kjs3 8mo ago
Do you try and suck the joy out of everything, or just things on HN?
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by kjs3 8mo ago
If you ever move out of your moms basement, and maybe have a real relationship with another human, try reading these things again and see how you feel. [edit] spelling
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by kjs3 8mo ago
And...that's bad?

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