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by kjs3 1y ago
Is this something we'll have to get used to? On one hand, I have potential candidates that I mentor who gleefully tell me how smart they are that they have LLM-backed bots replying to every remotely related job post on every platfo
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by kjs3 1y ago
Amen. Extra special are the ones that when you complain about outbound, you get "well how else are we supposed to sell things!". As though "smiling and dialing" or carpet bomb spamming are the only possible ways. Ap
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by kjs3 1y ago
Back in the day, you had Cray style vector registers, and you had CDC style[1] 'vector pipes' (I think I remember that's what they called them) that you fed from main memory. So you would ( vastly oversimplifying) build you
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by kjs3 1y ago
I paid attention and I don't see where Daniel claimed that this a complete UTF-8 decoder. He's illustrating a programming technique using a simplified use case, not solving the worlds problems. And I don't think Daniel Lemi
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by kjs3 2y ago
It's Qualcomm. You didn't pay for the command+click license.
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by kjs3 2y ago
Energy from tidal heating is a thing for Jovian/Saturnian moons (see Io for a particularly extreme example), so there is a possibility of a 'steady input of energy' that's neither solar nor dependent on residual core hea
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by kjs3 2y ago
Where the 360 crushed home computers was in mass storage Well...sure, you could put bigger storage on a mainframe. It's just money, after all. But you could put a tape drive on a home computer. And bigger disks. And a card reader
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by kjs3 2y ago
>BUT. I worked at a place that used IBM 360s...Then one day an engineer brought in an Apple II from home and ran the programs on that. The 360 was introduced in 1964. The 370 was introduced in 1970. The 3033 was introduced in 1977. Th
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by kjs3 2y ago
Considering I've booted FreeBSD 11 on a Pentium Pro, I very much doubt "old hardware not supported" is really the GPs issue.
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by kjs3 2y ago
You hit on why I got my first used ThinkPad many years ago (a T42): it was so cheap as to be disposable. I was going on a trip that promised to be somewhat...ah...rough on my kit, and I picked up the T42 for dirt so I didn't take my n
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by kjs3 2y ago
Nick checks out. Have you seen: https://wdc65xx.com/Single-Board-Computers
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by kjs3 2y ago
They still manufacture 6502s (and some periph chips) and you can license the core IP for your FPGA/ASIC [1]. There are dev boards (I have a W65C02SXB and it's kinda nifty) [2]. You can buy them from Mouser. There's apparen
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by kjs3 2y ago
It's a fantastic way to bring up new hardware at the bare metal layer and do nontrivial things. But unless you're Jeff Raskin or something, building out, say, a word processor or something of similar complexity is a bit more daun
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by kjs3 2y ago
Many of us are reluctant users. I understand what you're saying, but my own observation is "many of us" == "a tiny minority". "There because our friends our communities are" is exactly it...our friends
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by kjs3 2y ago
I was opining about reading or converting PDFs on an 8-bit processor. And you're...I dunno what this is but it's certainly not a response to anything I said.
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by kjs3 2y ago
Talk about missing the point, although you accidentally stumbled over it while ranting away...it doesn't matter if it's a clone or an original if you can still hack it.
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by kjs3 2y ago
I assume with the 'popularity' bias (probably not the right phrase) in the modern internet this is pretty much the future of search. Someone comes up with something cool, posts a pix, and someone else puts it on Twit/Face&#x
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by kjs3 2y ago
Man I hate to say you're completely right, but you're completely right. I remember years back being in some social thing where someone was railing on social media and pontificated "absolutely noone wants what Facebook is&quot
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by kjs3 2y ago
except that the chips in TI's calculators were low-power Z80 clones So? That's like saying "there are no 8051s because Intel doesn't make them", even tho there are millions if not billions of clones made every ye
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by kjs3 2y ago
- pdftotext from poppler-tools under Linux/BSD Based on xpdf. Probably not 8-bit capable. - pdftotext from poppler-tools under Linux/BSD From OpenOffice. Probably not 8-bit capable. Point to a PDF to something useful convert
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by kjs3 2y ago
In a societal collapse, the only thing that you list that I think would be worth the effort would be "solar powered cb ham radios for communications." Considering how much potentially invaluable info is only/mostly/onl
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by kjs3 2y ago
In addition to a controller, being able to do non-trivial calculations will always be useful.
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by kjs3 2y ago
They only stopped making them last year. Someone was buying them, enough to keep the production lines going, and not to run CP/M. TI uses them in one of their calculator lines. I've seen gobs of them as embedded controllers in i
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by kjs3 2y ago
WiFi is convenient and (usually) cheaper (esp if it's a retrofit), but not deterministic. And less 'cluttered' I guess, if that's your pet peeve. All sorts of things can muck around with Wifi speed, reliability and lat
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by kjs3 2y ago
New Orleans seems to like giving directions relative to it's CBD (just south of the French Quarter). It's otherwise not common here in the US.
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by kjs3 2y ago
And we only had ASM for microcontrollers in 1990! Who is this 'we' you are talking about? Jovial and CORAL-66 had been compiling for various microcontrollers and embedded systems since the 1970s. In the '80s, Ada took over
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by kjs3 2y ago
I don't think you had to work so hard to prove "I don't like your facts so I'll attack your intent".
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by kjs3 2y ago
I think you've got it. But I'm on the fence about the rest. I mean, you're spot on that it would require a monumentally bad collection of misconfigurations to mount the attack and 9.8 seems to be somewhat histrionic. But c
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by kjs3 2y ago
No one said it wasn't. The articles cited both point it out specifically, and goes into some detail about how unjust it is.
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by kjs3 2y ago
Being so inflexible with the definition is not the same as being honest. If I said "AB negative blood is common" or "Australians are common", most people wouldn't say I was being 'inflexible' if I said

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