manyturtles

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by manyturtles 5mo ago
I wish I could have seen Guy Kewney's face when he saw this. Sadly now passed, he had a charmingly irreverent sense of humor around Ziff-Davis UK back in the day.
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by manyturtles 5mo ago
Apparently yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43718493
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by manyturtles 7mo ago
These were used on three car ferries in Scotland, mostly between Gourock and Dunoon but the same vessels were sometimes used on other routes. The Saturn, Juno and Jupiter which were quite fast and incredibly maneuverable: "...service s
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by manyturtles 10mo ago
Not great, not terrible.
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by manyturtles 11mo ago
Alas the data doesn't agree: "Bystander-initiated CPR may increase [survival] odds to 10%" From: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/29/1177914... Referenced underlying
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by manyturtles 1y ago
In the mid-90s our CS department got a lab full of Indys, which undergrads weren't allowed to use until their 3rd year because those were the serious kit. We could only imagine how cool it would be to have Indigo2s to play with. In abo
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by manyturtles 1y ago
IDE was just coming in (in the UK) in 1990. The acronym got updated to "AT Attachment" because "Integrated Drive Electronics" was generic, and it wasn't as if the older drives had no electronics on them. Much later
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by manyturtles 1y ago
Matte PETG is available. No affiliation, but: https://californiafilament.com/collections/new . Great when you want the properties of PETG but not the shiny plastic look, e.g. printing things for car interiors. Like GP
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by manyturtles 1y ago
Yep. Sold in the UK as the Tomy ROBO-1. Had great fun playing with it, never knew people had hooked them up to computers. Echoing others' comments, the drive was noisy even when stationary. And it didn't seem to have any sensors t
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by manyturtles 1y ago
Doing it in parallel, which of course is only an option if you know about it. And templating that into a general approach and having legal folks sign off on that .
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by manyturtles 1y ago
About a decade and a half ago I worked on a large data migration project at a FAANG. Multi-exabyte scale, many clusters across many countries. Once everyone was moved the old storage platform wasn't completely empty, because the number
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by manyturtles 2y ago
Well she was smarter than those families who paid for the cartridge edition of "Hunt the Wumpus", like mine.
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by manyturtles 2y ago
I didn't know the TI-99/4A was 16-bit until many years later when the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga were taking over from the Spectrum, C-64 and Amstrad (in the UK). Aside from the refueling tunnels getting a bit tricky later on in
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by manyturtles 2y ago
The Annie Jacobsen book didn't have quite the same visceral impact of despair for me as watching Threads. But it was still disturbing for two reasons: the cascade which leads to war is remarkably believable with its grab bag of technic
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by manyturtles 3y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865810
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by manyturtles 3y ago
Doing a CS degree in UK in the mid nineties the parallel computing course was taught in Occam, on Transputer simulators (and a handful of Transputers). Seemed anachronistic at the time as the Transputer had been heavily hyped a decade or so