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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
Why is everyone here acting like the governor is merely stupid? He is not arguing from ignorance, he is arguing in bad faith. Mike Parson wants to feed the narrative that the American free press is the "enemy of the people" becaus
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
Possibly I'm misunderstanding your post. In what sense did Windows 95 have protected memory? Even DOS programs could overwrite important Windows addresses, to say nothing of the convenient win32 APIs MS provided to scribble all over ot
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
Binary doesn't imply executable. A NumPy array is a binary blob.
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
Wait, can you expand on that? Was NT4 less stable? I know you already had the 32bit app compatibility, but I don't think I've ever met anyone who preferred the Win3 UI to Win95.
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
EDID emulation is great when you have multiple screens, and wish to prevent MS from randomly scattering your Windows all across your other screens every time you click to another input. I don't miss the BONG!s, either.
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
I use a SlimBlade at work, and have not had that problem. If you find it difficult to depress that large, flat button, try something with a different click mechanism. I use an Elecom Huge at home, another mouse with an oversized trackball.
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
ksh93 depends exclusively on the kernel implementation of /dev/fd devices. I just checked `cat <(ls)` a moment ago on both Linux and AIX 7.2--the latter fails in ksh93t+. Bash uses /dev/fd when available, but also app
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
Not without warning, no. You wouldn't have to learn much Chinese to announce "we're scuttling this ship in 2 minutes. If you wish to live, you may board this freely provided inflatable." Their other boats will take them
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
> I see a bunch of comments talking about how Apple is being self serving and not at all altruistic when they defend our privacy. Right, I don't want Apple to help safeguard my privacy out of a sense of altruism. That company would
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Autonomous Exploration of Subterranean Lakes; Moon/Mars Lava Tubes (2020, Video)(youtube.com)
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
Just like Bender! https://i.redd.it/e5ocvyizvk521.png
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
Probably not hard for you to guess that my experience is limited entirely to enterprise batch processing and data warehousing. I've heard of CICS, but only as a nasty rumor.
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
In my (very limited) z/OS experience, COBOL by itself is necessary but not nearly sufficient. COBOL code is used inside a framework of highly proprietary software and system services: - DB2 (database is builtin to the mainframe) - GDG
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
Not being on the web until the late 90s, the part I've never figured out is, what could you actually _do_ with JavaScript in the initial versions? The way I understand it, early JavaScript could only address HTML forms, links, and imag
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
Oh wow, I totally forgot about the XP speech bubbles! Did any useful application ever use them? I only remember obnoxious AV warnings and Windows messages ("you can click here to re-open me!") IM notifications may not have been ba
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
Yes, those PC Card addons for Mac/Amiga/etc are endlessly fascinating to me. But with the benefit of hindsight, the crucial factor wasn't just being able to run DOS applications on your fancy propriety computer, it was riding
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
Purely for entertainment, what is the alternate history that might have allowed Amiga to survive and thrive? Here's my stab: - in the late 80s, Commodore ports AmigaOS to 386 - re-engineers Original Chipset as an ISA card - OCS combine
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
This feels like the golden path to me, too. Lilium is claiming 300km range at 300km/hour, and appears to transition nicely to horizontal flight. Maybe not a great glide ratio on those stubby little wings, but it looks safer than quadco
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
Interesting, was that a fork (or out-of-tree port)? From this interview with maddog, I had the impression that Alpha was the first non-x86 port: https://youtu.be/EZMA3Ge144U?t=1610 (background) https://youtu.be&#
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
Yes, chapter 2 in Martin Kleppmann's Designing Data-Intensive Applications.
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
My personal favorite counterfactual/alternate history is the idea of MS keeping their Xenix product and shipping Windows for it. Windows 386 Enhanced Mode was effectively a hyper visor, as you say, and mostly avoids BIOS calls. Unix so
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
> We don’t know which defense contractor designed and prototyped the new jet, though it's almost certainly one of the big aerospace giants (Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Boeing). Wouldn't it be interesting if this isn
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
They sunk it half a mile offshore and 117 feet deep. Hardly the abyssal zone. Other than hydrothermal vents, what natural heat sources are you thinking of? (and yes, it's a damn shame the oceans are so noisy due to ships and sonar...an
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
You can easily use AMT on your own PCs, with fully open source software. Just go set a remote access password in your boot settings, and download control client from https://www.meshcommander.com/
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
The Windows 1.0 logo [0] from 1985 looks shockingly modern to me: flat, negative space, recognizable in small and low fidelity reproductions. It was seemingly used until v3.1, when MS ruined the metaphor with the weird waving flag. The Sun
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
Regarding your point 2), yes: whataboutism is a real problem and an impediment to productive discourse. But in questions of moral authority, the "But America" whiners have a certain point. America's internal conflict and stat
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
I'm decently happy with my Matias Ergo Pro [1]. They make their own ALPS-derived switches. Only other ALPS I've ever used are verrrrrry oldddddd Apple boards. Are there any other mass-produced ALPS keebs I should be aware of, or i
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
By and large, translucent electronics made today wouldn't be as visually interesting as, say, a clear Game Boy. Ultrabooks and smartphones are about 90% battery, there's not much to see besides a flat boring slab. But those AirPod
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
> Upon release I compared notes with Doug and we determined that time frame was the same time he accused the Vietnamese in Paris of murdering me [I had not written home once writing became voluntary] for embarrassing them in a Life maga
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by nonesuchluck 6y ago
Outside of Israel, there are enough people of non-Jewish faith to be able to arrange labor schedules around individual needs. I work in a diverse company with a number of co-workers who observe Sabbath, and it has never been any hardship to

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