mschaef

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by mschaef 4y ago
I went 8088->386SX->486DX/33->P5/100->... The 386SX transition was nice, because it also brought Windows (with its standard printer drivers) and enough memory and video capability to start to do interesting work with g
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by mschaef 4y ago
> reinventing the wheel is just fun. Agreed: https://github.com/mschaef/vcsh At least for hobby development, I find the fun/utility trade off to be a point of ongoing thought.
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by mschaef 4y ago
You're right of course, but picking the specific point on the slippery slope you mentioned earlier is why this is an interesting engineering problem (and not a math/logic problem).
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by mschaef 4y ago
> If you imagine the only or main use for a powerful type system is error-checking, it only demonstrates how much you have still to learn. It is not language design that is on a cycle, but people circling back to what excited them in the
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by mschaef 4y ago
> Because I want to follow my vision. There is space for more than one thing in the world. That's nice... but I think you're underestimating the amount of work to produce something you actually want to use: > Yeah, that&#x27
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by mschaef 4y ago
How well did that hold up as the CPU clock rates went up and the bus speed really didn't? I'd always assumed it was an issue, but never did have metrics to bear that out.
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by mschaef 4y ago
Apple really did have to push the (Motorola) G4 way more than they'd have liked. A 1999 G4 was a 400MHz G4 on a 100MHz FSB. By the 2003, when they were done with Motorola and and onto the IBM G5, they were running a pair of 1.25GHz G4
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by mschaef 4y ago
Completely agreed. The tile based graphics that pushed the limits of a mid-80's computer (and in some cases required special hardware) can now be done off the cuff with totally naive code in a matter of a couple hours: https:/&#x
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by mschaef 4y ago
> I used OS/2 and to say that I was annoyed at Microsoft's antics at the time would be a gross understatement. I'm a lot more sympathetic to Microsoft than most. They used some highly anti-competitive tactics, but their pr
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by mschaef 4y ago
It was around then, and the time that OS/2 came out with its ~3MB memory requirement that a memory plant went offline and caused prices to spike.
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by mschaef 4y ago
> some part of the code are owned by both IBM and Microsoft who collaborated on OS/2 at the beginning before Microsoft decided to build its own Windows. Rumors are that while IBM was positive about open sourcing OS/2, Microsof
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by mschaef 4y ago
I can think of at least two reasons: * Information technology is important enough that it's worthwhile having at least a passing understanding of how it works internally. * It's important to learn how to be rigorous when organizin
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by mschaef 4y ago
> That looks promising, but I have a feeling that vscode doesn't offer as much options to hook into the editor as emacs does. Agreed on both counts. But I don't think it's possible to get to Emacs' level of extensibil
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by mschaef 4y ago
> What happened in Texas was a direct and utterly predictable result of market policy that did not value resiliency vs spot price. There's a lot to this notion that the state deliberately traded off reliability for lower wholesale p
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by mschaef 4y ago
It's always been on one Microsoft domain or another, for almost as long as there've been blogs at all. It's almost 20 years ago now, but when Blogs started their initial ascendency as a useful format, Microsoft had a a number
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by mschaef 4y ago
Agreed
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by mschaef 4y ago
> What is the minimum capacity that renewables are guaranteed to provide? Zero... same as any other technology. ie: Texas lost around 25GW of needed NatGas capacity in Feb 2021, not to mention the failed coal, wind, and nuclear that also
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by mschaef 4y ago
> A quick search says in 2018 CA's electrical generation capacity was 80GW (which I assume has only gone up). So this 97% is a bit misleading, no? It doesn't represent 97% of total CA electricity usage... it's less than 30
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by mschaef 5y ago
> Oppressive vendor practices aside, I just don't get the laptop fixation some people have, in general. Different people have different perspectives born from different priorities, life experiences, and constraints. > I find it e
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by mschaef 5y ago
> Incremental search was a great idea, but it's like Jef bet the farm on that one idea. Incremental search was a headline feature, but it was far from the only novel idea. Among others, Raskin also removed the notion of files with s
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by mschaef 5y ago
I've used a shared family calendar and a custom shared todo list web app for close to ten years. I also keep professional notes in a slightly customized variant of Emacs org-mode. None of it is perfect, but I'm not sure what would
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by mschaef 5y ago
I had kids.
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by mschaef 5y ago
> Secondly, it was not Only Texas. I live in Kansas and travel to Missouri weekly and we certainly had outages. ERCOT was down easily 30-35GW (40-50%) of generation and cut power for days across large swaths of the state. SPP had outages
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by mschaef 5y ago
> The power outages there were due to a poorly regulated electrical market where the power stations froze in predictable ways. There were plenty of issues with the electrical system, but the Texas Nat Gas infrastructure was also culpabl
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by mschaef 5y ago
Do you have any sense what share of the LCD panel industry goes to phones?
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by mschaef 5y ago
I've been using org mode to maintain a personal work log for around ten years. General structure is a file per month, a toplevel outline heading per day, and a global hotkey that takes me to 'today' with a single button. I us
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by mschaef 5y ago
It's easier to run LCD production lines if all the panels are produced on the line at the same aspect ratio. Given the prevalence of 16:9 video panels, this made it easier to produce 16:9 panels for laptops. (So, you're essentiall
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by mschaef 5y ago
This is exactly why LINQ uses a similar ordering.
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by mschaef 5y ago
> Wind turbines shutting off caused Texas to use peaker power prematurely to replace renewable power instead of in its proper role as a buffer for surges in demand. Blaming wind for the problems seems a bit disingenuous, when wind outage
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by mschaef 5y ago
> manually set prices at the maximum of $9,000 per megawatt hour. $9,000 was a cap. If it wasn't for the cap, I'm sure prices would have gone up much higher under market rules. (ie: It's not like the market operators pushe

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