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871.
by kjs3 2y ago
With options (in the US; YMMV) like Popeyes and Churches, I haven't taken a risk on KFC in more than a decade.
872.
by kjs3 2y ago
Didn't take long for that 'libertarian ideal' of freedom from government he was so big on during the election to get flushed.
873.
by kjs3 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that's a hand painted customization by the owner.
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by kjs3 2y ago
Good times. We also got a Convex after the FPS AP-120 attached vector processor ran out of steam. The Convex guys were great to work with, tho they always traveled to us. Later, in a different life, I deployed a number of HP V-series boxe
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by kjs3 2y ago
freelancer I get that they're depressing if you let them get to you, but I've always looked at it as I bill the same whether the client wants me in a useless meeting or a useful one. Helps me through.
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by kjs3 2y ago
Cloud: IBM mainframes and Service Bureaus.
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by kjs3 2y ago
Did you hear that, bruh, you should be totes cool with not being able to afford what your parents could because if they were where you are they wouldn't be able to afford shit either. You just need to understand economics is all. Tha
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by kjs3 2y ago
They did it for cassette tapes, so it should be possible.
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by kjs3 2y ago
There was the Ross SPARCPlug[1] that was a whole Sun SPARCStation 20 clone the size of a 5.25" hard drive. Now you can have your Unix workstation and Windows machine in one box![2] [1] http://www.bitsavers.org/componen
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by kjs3 2y ago
No we haven't. Maybe on the planet you live on all of your vendors have GA'ed enterprise grade Diameter support, but our folks still support dozens of products that haven't.
881.
by kjs3 2y ago
It's not an 8051. Read the datasheet.
882.
by kjs3 2y ago
Ya...8051s are literally everywhere, and there's a vast ecosystem of code and programmer talent to draw on.
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by kjs3 2y ago
Not really. The American system of graft is more transparent. If there's a subsidy, there's a record of it. Tax breaks are public, tho there can be creative ways of couching them so they aren't obvious. Military expenditu
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by kjs3 2y ago
The Apple II was a wildly popular business machine by any measure. Visicalc was an Apple app. Everyone knows the 6502 is a lousy compiler target particularly if all you understand about compilers is 'what C expects', or at least
885.
by kjs3 2y ago
two large breadboards stuffed with 54xx chips There's no need for mil-spec chips for this. Waste of money.
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by kjs3 2y ago
It's so much worse. Several of our local news programs have segments where it's advertisements for local businesses extremely thinly veiled as 'news takes', including a local PI attorney giving a public service "
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by kjs3 2y ago
Pls read the article, in particular note the part about power consumption.
888.
by kjs3 2y ago
Chinese company, so sure industrial espionage would be the first guess. But to be fair lots of folks reverse engineered the 486 (as shown in TFA). If the performance analysis it to be believed, something was improved, so it's not a
889.
by kjs3 2y ago
I didn't say a real book isn't an option (tho my phone is smaller, lighter and carries more than one book...YMMV). But don't let me stop you from grinding your little axe to a fine edge.
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by kjs3 2y ago
I read books on my phone, because it's always in my pocket. Just open the e-reader app instead of twitter.
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by kjs3 2y ago
I have an oooold Kindle keyboard model. As you said, cellular doesn't work, but it syncs fine over wifi. Seems to be holding a charge for less time, tho, so maybe it does have an 'end date'.
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by kjs3 2y ago
I see it as the Corvette looking like (copying) the Ferrari. I've got a friend who drives one of those 'high-end' wishes-it-was-a-Ferrari Corvettes. Every time she drives up I say "shoulda bought a real car", and
893.
by kjs3 2y ago
9 track was the default; at least that's how we got it from MIT for our VAX, Sun and Sequent machines. QIC for the workstation class machines, tho I don't recall if we got QICs from MIT or someone copied it from the 9-tracks loca
894.
by kjs3 2y ago
Not sure where you live, but in my own US city they went from non-existent (as far as I recall) 20 years ago to literally everywhere I go. There's probably 4 going up within 3 miles of my house right now. Maybe that has to do with mo
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by kjs3 2y ago
Humans infected with it obviously don't sacrifice themselves to cats Not a cat owner, I see. But yes, genetic collateral damage is always a possibility, but that's (also) very different than the idea that people eating cordyceps
896.
by kjs3 2y ago
Lots of people made them back in the day (70s). Not much call for it this century, but there's plenty of retrocomputing types that would likely give it a go if prodded.
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by kjs3 2y ago
NCR had a couple of SMP 486 boxen (NCR 3450, 3550 & 3600) that were supported by SCO Unix, SVR4 and (early) NT. I think they had support for OS/2. ALR, Unisys and Compaq made somewhat similar 486s with roughly similar OS support
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by kjs3 2y ago
That's literally the backstory of 'Last of Us'...the zombifying fungus evolved to crack the heat problem.
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by kjs3 2y ago
There's a pretty huge genetic jump from 'infecting caterpillars' to 'infecting humans'. It's not like a chemical poison where 'it kills that species, so it'll probably kill me'; those genes have
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by kjs3 2y ago
A friend had a commercial paper tape reader (don't recall who made it) from the S-100/8080/CP-M homebrew era built exactly like that. It was the 'inexpensive' version (they had motorized versions), and was finicky

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