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by primitur 13y ago
In my days in the 80's, I had one of these: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/hardware/Oric_Atmos_MCP4... .. and used it as a general work-buffer for expressing routines and dumping assembly .. my parents c
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by primitur 13y ago
Australian, checking in. I first saw a Commodore Pet, then an Apple II shop, in Perth WA, around 1977 - 1982, competing with each other. Tandy had their TRS-80 shops too, but generally .. Apple II was the first "real PC" I remem
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by primitur 13y ago
One thing that I think that is important to understand is that these machines, and this code, is still out there, working. People are still playing these games (MAME) and the emulation scene that has arisen due to the fanboix fervour has r
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by primitur 13y ago
You are not excused from taking responsibility for your government, which is formed on the basis of the support of its people. You are responsible for your British government, citizen.
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by primitur 13y ago
Did Haider violate the human rights of everyone on the planet, like the US has done? No. Next straw man ..
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by primitur 13y ago
It is about the people, and nothing else. No government ever derived its powers without the consent - through apathy or direct support - of its peoples. Every other government was overthrown. So, I concur with the OP: it is time for the
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by primitur 13y ago
The student was trying to reveal the Truth , which is that the NSA leadership are in fact, lying criminals, and she wanted to know if that was a requirement for participation in the NSA as a new recruit. It is a fact that the NSA leaders a
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by primitur 13y ago
The true fact of the matter is that any secret kept by the US military, which must not be revealed to the public in order to maintain public order, and which nevertheless does induce Terror in the receiver of the secret .. well folks: t
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by primitur 13y ago
Another TV-free household reporting in, here. When my family and I want to watch a movie, we do indeed cramp around my 17" laptop and watch it. Its quite comfortable, four of us on the couch, and the screen propped up properly in fro
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by primitur 13y ago
There is no such thing as national security. The state of the existence of some such condition is a fallacy. There is, also, no such thing as a necessary state secret: every single secret the state could ever want to keep is a failure of
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by primitur 13y ago
My mind looks at this statement: ""Alexander also noted that the NSA, under this part of the law, cannot intentionally target Americans in or outside the United States."" .. and makes the conclusion that the NSA thinks i
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by primitur 13y ago
Ah, very nice hint, thanks for that! I see here: https://code.google.com/p/libjingle/source/browse/trunk/talk... That in fact your idea has a fair bit of merit. I will add "investigate adding
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by primitur 13y ago
I wish there were an easy, drop-in lib that would give me swarm/peerless networking like this, for Mobile platforms. Even a Lua implementation would be enough for me.
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by primitur 13y ago
1. You also chooose your participation in government. 2. Right, so because Mr. Z. et al., don't have a 'license to kill', there is a difference. This is the only difference. 3. Which do you trust more, McDonalds or Congres
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by primitur 13y ago
>to have an actual conversation both about privacy Let us have a conversation about that: Why should Mark Zuckerberg, et al., know things about you that the government shouldn't? Or, to put it another way, shouldn't the very th
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by primitur 13y ago
Just in case someone is looking for a neat way to experiment with game Grids, the MOAI framework has some pretty good support for grids, in general, and works very well at giving you everything you need to set up a game and get a grid worki
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by primitur 13y ago
Hey, thanks for the info about port80, perfect way for me to get some intel done .. so next time I'm in Perth I'll be sure to include a Wednesday meeting in the schedule.. alas, it'll be a year or two yet (young un's) but the time will come
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by primitur 13y ago
0.0000001 BTC to store a bit of data, indefinitely, for as long as the BTC network exists? Methinks there is a Dropbox plugin on its way ..
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by primitur 13y ago
How to get Stripe in Australia, set up Pin, $$$-big (locally), BRANDBRANDBRAND (its an Aussie thing), and then .. when big enough, the sharks come calling, throw out the chum ..
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by primitur 13y ago
Hi! I'm from Perth (Subiaco) but have been an ex-pat for over 20 years. The reason is, I've always considered Perth a mining town, and have managed to live in many other big cities around the world during an active professional life, work
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by primitur 13y ago
For every vim, there is a Kai's Power Tools. What people need to know about the user interface is that the interface itself doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is what does the user think, and does she: USE IT?
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by primitur 13y ago
The Elon Musk model, perhaps? Bootstrap by delivering to the people, repeat until Mars.
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by primitur 13y ago
A super-capacitor, which may simply still be called a 'battery' (accumulator?) in the grand scheme of things, sure.. oh and I do not deny the chemistry in the chips, just that the entire consumption of it, as it stands right now, is the i
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by primitur 13y ago
I think nuclear power has a long way to go before it will ever become non-useful to the species, which is to say I'm pro nuclear-power, generally. I think its better for the Earth that we localize massive power generation around a relative
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by primitur 13y ago
You're right about that! What I'm enjoying, perhaps a little meta-, is how easily that swell soup of jewels is ground up into a fine sonic-screwdriver of a tool. Seems to me right now, I've got yet another reason to enjoy the golang exper
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by primitur 13y ago
Well I for one was quite surprised that a) docker compiled so rapidly on my system, and b) its a very sublime binary. I guess I'm learning another reason why golang ought to get more of my free-time attention, so thats enough HN for me, I'
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by primitur 13y ago
> Homeless people don't need showers. Homeless people DO need showers! Been there? Done that? One sure-fire way to not get a job (and thus get yourself and your family off the street): show up stinking of whatever slept on you last
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by primitur 13y ago
Drop the sh, and inspect the script before you run it. It just checks a few dependencies and system items, and then retrieves the docker binary, and puts it in /usr/local/bin. All of this can be done by hand by any Linux sysadmin .. And o
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by primitur 13y ago
Thanks for the great tip! I'll be dusting a toughbook off and having a little distro party .. looks like antiX is perfect for my needs! :) EDIT: In case its of interest, if I can get what I need onboard to build and run LOAD81 (see http
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by primitur 13y ago
Whats Audio support like? I've been running Ubuntu-Studio with JACK for years, and have a very much 'entrenched' setup consisting of multiple (20+) channels of Firewire Audio in my studio environment - it works great, and is a real power D

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