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by marttt 4y ago
Oh, I remember reading this (Estonian translation) as a teenager. First time it dawned to me that the world of computers can actually be kind of scary or even dangerous , and yet so compelling... Nice reminder, thanks! I guess I will do so
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Not books, but Jason Scott's documentaries on the history of BBSes, text adventures and Infocom were really interesting: Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary (2010): https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zEJXZ2wnO3w Infocom: Th
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Not sure about your actual goals, but maybe start with something like Pico-8 or TIC-80 fantasy computer? Our 8yo son got an instant grasp of the command line this way; I think at least TIC-80 had a handful of standard Unix commands availabl
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Time for a nostalgic link to 43folders.com as well, I guess. The whole todo-file geekery of 2005-2010-or-so was incredible actually. https://www.43folders.com/2005/09/12/building-a-smarter-to-d...
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This seems like a sarcastic reference to "startup-speak": phrases that are somewhat overused by people from the startup industry. Corporate slang and a sign of belonging of sorts that might feel a little overblown for those outsid
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Try to replace OPs quotes with an appositive like so-called or so to say . "Big tech" = so-called Big Tech , "industry" = so-called industry etc. This way, the irony does make sense, especially when you read OPs ea
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I would also add Non DAW. Great example of modular design, extremely lightweight, non-destructive editing. The session files of Non Timeline are also comfortable and fun to parse or even modify with sed/awk etc scripts. http:/&#x
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My late dad, often: "If you're afraid, don't do it. If you do it, don't be afraid." This has guided (and possibly also saved) me numerous times, in terms of both everyday decisions and long-term plans. Great heurist
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Fellow European here. I'm currently transitioning my accounting from Ledger (used it for 5+ years) to PTA, a tiny Perl program by OpenBSD dev Ingo Schwarze: https://mandoc.bsd.lv/pta/ As compared to Ledger, the jo
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I've had a similar experience using the sam [1] text editor in command line mode, basically like a REPL. Filtering and modifying data using sam's "structural regular expressions". Rob Pike, the author of sam, specificall
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Interesting to hear from someone with psychotherapy experience from 40+ years ago. I wonder how much the core of professional mental help has changed over that many decades. There must have been a lot of stigma surrounding it back in those
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Unplugged woodworking: https://yewtu.be/channel/UCcO75TzblV9-_WqgXX1mNxg A carpenter who is using hand tools exclusively. He's an enthusiastic user of the "roman workbench" -- essentially, a regular, low
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Re: usage limits. I've been meaning to do this -- with a friendly notification daemon that says something like "Computer is going to turn off in 5/10/15 minutes. Try to finish what you're doing; you can continue tom
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+1 for Mint, our 8yo son finds his way around nicely with it. I definitely had a "Maybe I'm actually a pretty cool dad" moment when I noticed him checking wifi availability on his own via 1) clicking the terminal icon and 2)
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Stems as mock data structures in REXX (2021)(datagubbe.se)
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Thank you for your comment. Unfortunately I cannot edit the reply, but I sincerely apologize for my choice of words. I am not a native English speaker, so I was actually using it as a more rough expression for "outcast". People lo
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I remember a Cormac scholar suggesting "Outer Dark" as a good starting point to his works. Haven't read it myself, though. I finished "Child of God" last year -- definitely worth a read, especially if you're in
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Tangentially related: a high-regarded literary editor from my country told me that he seems to notice more text-level details when he is reading somebody's draft on an e-reader, as compared to working with a paper printout. I think I h
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Intermediate Report of the Preliminary Assessment of MV Estonia [pdf](estonia1994.ee)
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"There’s one solution that each and every book on writer’s block offers: write five words. Any five words. Follow this advice, Mr. Ashbery, and you’ll never have writer’s block again." (From "Uncreative writing: Managing Lang
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This is incredible news, thanks for sharing. I would never have guessed that, really. I wonder what's their motivation (why now ?). The AWK book was one of the fundamental books I used to teach myself some coding. The precision of the
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It's a Nokia 2600 Classic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_2600_classic Really slow UI; too much of everything. Not even close to the simplicity of the 3310.
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Brush cutter here -- not at all insulted by the question! I'm actually a trained journalist, but at one point I needed better work-life balance. Agreed to help out my (late) dad's classmate who is a forester. Brush cutting and tre
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I've intentionally never owned a smartphone. Dumb phones abandoned by my family have been serving me very well for years (strategy: use them until they stop working; get next one; repeat). My daily work is in forestry, as a brush cutte
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BYTE magazine dedicated an entire issue to Forth in 1980 (vol 5, no 8). Interestingly, they used the exact same cover image as the Loeliger book, lol: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1980-08
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In my country, a frequent call-in request to the radio DJ was something like "please play the entire song, because I would like to record it".
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Not quite sure what you're after, but a used Zoom H1 may work for you: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Zoom_H1_Handy_Re... Stereo recording and playback, SD card, only one giant "rec" button
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Sure, there are emulators, but I was thinking of a native system. Emulators seem to work great, but I try to avoid several layers of abstractions. Also, feeling nostalgic about how a native FreeDOS system boots in literally 2 seconds (on a
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Are there any moderately priced 486 SBCs available these days? The ones I've encountered (forgotten the links) were in the $200-or-so range. Surprisingly expensive, or not? I would love to have a dirt cheap fanless 486 minicomputer for
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I wonder why microperl or miniperl didn't really take off. Would be a nice thing to have -- just a single-executable-perl with the basics and file i/o, alongside awk, Lua or any other tiny language. An interesting effort and artic

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