mech422

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by mech422 3y ago
Yep - Offshoring to india replace me in 2002 and I've been out of work since /s oh - and AI replaced me in late 1980s just like Doctor Dobbs predicted /s basically, every 10 years _someone_ is claiming programmers will be obs
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by mech422 3y ago
I've had the opposite experience as a contractor and FTE... I've been remote for 20 years, and every year it seems to get easier / more normal...
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by mech422 3y ago
yeah - I think people just didn't realize tech has cycles like all industries, because this is literally the first 'down' in like 14 years...
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by mech422 3y ago
I thought in the EU, reversing is (was?) expressly allowed for 'interoperability' - so if someone in EU reversed something and published it...others could then use it as it was 'public knowlege' ?
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by mech422 3y ago
I didn't realize the ASR series came that early... I didn't even know the ASR-32 existed!
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by mech422 3y ago
I believe, this 2 stage/project system was how DeCSS for DVDs worked? Someone cracked it and posted the code (for interop, in EU), which could then be picked up/used by other projects as it was 'public knowledge' or some
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by mech422 3y ago
It appears from the comments here that just disassembling the nvidia code would NOT be a violation? it seems that only disassembling to use in a compatibility layer would be ? I believe, this 2 stage/project system was how DeCSS for DV
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by mech422 3y ago
I actually started my career as a system operator for an old IBM 4341 and some Prime systems (couple with front panel toggles for IPL address :-) ). We were all mag-tape though, aside from the paper tape forms control on the IBM printer.
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by mech422 3y ago
oh thanks!
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by mech422 3y ago
yeah - I worked on ASR-35 teletypes, with a punch tape reader/writer and an acoustic couple modem ... I thought they came much later though like mid 70s/80s?
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by mech422 3y ago
that's what I was guessing, but I wasn't sure ... I came in a bit after punch cards :-P
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Bit late but NASA/SpaceX crew-8 launch in 10 minutes(youtube.com)
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by mech422 3y ago
This was really cool... I'm dying to know how you did WFH in the 1960s though? That's well before the pc/modem generation ?? I'm tempted to say it was probably still the punch card era ... Did they punch the code onto ca
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by mech422 3y ago
Good Luck!
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by mech422 3y ago
There was a really neat looking FORTH for the C64 focused on game programming: White Lightning[0]. oh - it runs on Zx80 too... I always wanted to play with it as a kid, but never got around to it :-/ 0: https://www.forth.org
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by mech422 3y ago
>>used by the wearable computing people, circa turn of the century One of the things they discovered, is voice command really wasn't suited to a wearable as it was distracting in meetings, susceptible to background noise, made yo
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by mech422 3y ago
IIRC, there was a really neat looking FORTH for the C64 focused on game programming: White Lightning[0]. oh - it runs on Zx80 too... I always wanted to play with it as a kid, but never got around to it :-/ 0: https://www.for
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by mech422 3y ago
heh - my girlfriend's son is an 'elder millenial' (~40)... He was called a boomer about a month ago. :-P Meanwhile, us gen-X's just squeak on by - everyone forgets about us :-D
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by mech422 3y ago
The last "buy American" campaign I remember (1990s?) was sponsored by Unions, IIRC. Be interesting to see if this works any better.
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by mech422 3y ago
sorry - I should have clarified that gen-x kids were a 70s/80s thing, so by the 90s it was even more common. Its late and I'm going to bed, but a quick search did turn up a bit more concrete data [0], it appears by 1988, 40+% of f
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by mech422 3y ago
>>Back then one stay-at-home-parent was a lot more normal. "a lot more" is doing a bunch of heavy lifting there... I was about 30 back then, and 2 working parents was considered 'normal'. One working parent was co
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by mech422 3y ago
yeah - the gas crisis sucked... and inflation for every year from like 1968(1969) to 1980s(?) was horrid. Cycles within cycles...
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by mech422 3y ago
LOL... "Anyone can make a mistake, but to really screw stuff up requires a computer" :-)
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by mech422 3y ago
about 45 years 1.) Everything old is new again ... eventually 2.) Every 10 years someone predicts some new gizmo will 'replace programmers' 3.) Tech has ups and downs just like any industry ... and every time it's b
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by mech422 3y ago
Thats pretty cool ... a ex-professor in a position to turn around and fund students at her school :-)
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by mech422 3y ago
Yep - and it has been done already [0]. Stadiums, malls, and water supplies are other extremely soft targets. I tend to consider TSA to be 'make work' at this point... 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domoded
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by mech422 3y ago
>>I think the point of the question is to filter out people who aren't curious. I think you're actually filtering on people that are curious about the same things you are. Learning things because you're curious is pret
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by mech422 3y ago
Me as well... I actually like that IRC is less 'noisey' then most social media (I generally only hang on a few low volume channels) with no 'feed' being shoved at me, no algorithm deciding what I 'should' see.
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by mech422 3y ago
Ozempic has entered the chat...
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by mech422 3y ago
As far as I'm aware - yes they are (my brother-in-law is a tech recruiter and mentions them fairly often). I just asked for one with a startup company and it was approved. I'd just ask and see what they say?

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