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by mschaef 1y ago
I have a couple DSLR's and a large frame compact, and I wholly get your point. The image quality on even an older DSLR is better, mainly due to the physics of the optics - there's nothing like a high quality lens dumping a bunch
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by mschaef 1y ago
Apple made the II series for a long time. It was contemporaneous with the PET, but stuck around long enough to be relevant through the C64 and 128 (to the extent the 128 was relevant at all.)
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by mschaef 1y ago
> It feels like the industry quickly moved beyond the reach of the "hobbyist". There were no more "clever tricks" to be employed It happened in a matter of a few years. The Apple II was built as a machine capable of
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by mschaef 1y ago
Thank you for the feedback. A month ago, it didn't need any text in the password field at all. I may have overshot the mark a bit when I added validation. Longer term, I mainly want it to just use external auth (Google, etc.) and not u
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by mschaef 1y ago
Thanks for trying. (It expects mixed-case, which I need to actually say in the messaging.) The codebase started out as something I used entirely myself, so the aspects of the workflow that relate to new user onboarding (most important for a
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by mschaef 1y ago
After trying text files and other apps, I wrote my own about ten years ago and have been using it ever since. ( https://famplan.io - I'm starting to turn it into something other people might use.) I tend to agree with the i
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by mschaef 1y ago
I haven't worked in COBOL, but I've worked with it. This was around 1999, and I was building a system for configuring and ordering custom PC's at a large distribution company. One of the feature requirements was that we displ
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by mschaef 1y ago
> The core problem it addresses is client-server coupling. There are probably countless projects where a small change in a server’s URI structure required a coordinated (and often painful) deployment of multiple client applications. A HA
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by mschaef 2y ago
> Yeah the era of "memory can outrun the CPU" was brief and glorious. I don't think I fully recognized at first what was happening when wait states, page mode DRAM, and caches started appearing in mainstream computers. :-
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by mschaef 2y ago
Truly from another era. If you're not familiar, basementcat is right... DTACK grounded refers to the DaTa ACKnowledgment pin on a Motorola 68000. It's the signal that (when grounded) lets the CPU know that data it has requested fr
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by mschaef 2y ago
> Especially FP, where it's very clear that mastery of it is extremely powerful. On the other hand, there are some like our regular synchronization primitives where not even mastery will save you. This alludes to my biggest frustrat
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by mschaef 2y ago
> I feel like these explanations based on cognitive development...they're always (unconvincingly) used to rationalize why language A is better than language B. I'm not arguing that one language is _better_ than another... just
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by mschaef 2y ago
> Getting all this on a smart, distributed runtime seems very promising. Hopefully it is. This CPS article is the first of the Rama blog posts where it seemed like there might be something there. The earlier posts - "I built Twitter
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by mschaef 2y ago
> I feel like CPS is one of those tar pits smart developers fall into. ... eventually the language designers just sighed and added promises. Bear with me, but raising kids taught me a lot about this kind of things. Even at two or three y
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by mschaef 2y ago
Some of it depends on perspective. I was introduced to Logo in 1983 on a Commodore 64, and got a lot of mileage out of turtle graphics. (To the point of experimenting with recursion and circles, etc.) The other thing to realize about Logo i
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by mschaef 2y ago
Maybe not - neither of these came with TCP/IP out of the box. Windows 3.1 didn't come with networking at all out of the box. (That was an upgrade product.)
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by mschaef 2y ago
It says something about the state of our industry that it has the credibility that it did.
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by mschaef 2y ago
Sun also briefly made a 386 based workstation. It didn't do well, but it could run DOS via V86 in a window on an otherwise Sun desktop. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun386i
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by mschaef 2y ago
Same here.
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by mschaef 2y ago
A mix is the only solution at the moment.
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by mschaef 2y ago
The problem is what you'd expect - wind and solar are what are known as energy resources. They are not capacity resources. This is another way of saying what you already know - wind doesn't work in still air and solar doesn't
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by mschaef 2y ago
It means what it says - imported from a tie to another adjacent network. It can be renewable, but does not have to be.
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by mschaef 2y ago
I had a series of HP devices around this time including an 11C, a pair of 48's, and a 200LX. The 200LX was the one that got the least use. It was would've been great if I had a need for custom DOS apps on the go, but as a general
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by mschaef 2y ago
There for the purpose of making it easy to write card games. There were also a number of characters inspired by Wang word processors, which there'd been an early plan to reproduce on the PC.
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by mschaef 3y ago
> 2) They do. But then you read actual programs available on the web and they still default to using alists. I was wondering how true this was, so I checked Planet Lisp. The first article is an admonition to use structures and classes _i
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by mschaef 3y ago
> It demonstrates that your criticism of the syntax of array languages boils down to “it’s different than the things I already know” There's a lot of value in leveraging existing knowledge and experience. If something is different,
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by mschaef 3y ago
> When I first learned C, I didn’t know English well enough to understand what “if” or “else” meant. I learned these words in the context of programming first, and natural language second. This experience is probably the same for most of
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by mschaef 3y ago
> APL notation makes more sense once you get...... APL is way more regular... With it's small set of special symbols, regular syntax and human-friendly infix notation APL is designed be very easy to learn....It looks utterly alien t
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by mschaef 3y ago
Whatever trouble Lisp had from its parenthesis heavy prefix syntax will be dwarfed by the comprehensibility issues presented by this: { ⊃ ⍵ ⊇⍨ ↑⍒≢¨ ⍵ /⍨ 2≥ (⊂"aeiou") (+/∊⍨)¨ ⍵ } io:read "dict.txt" I g
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by mschaef 3y ago
> I read somewhere that MFC originally was similar in concept, This is what AFX was. They reused some of the core pieces, so the AFX name persisted into MFC. > but faced too much resistance internally, thus the outcome and was rewrite

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