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by ralphc 3y ago
If you look at his screenshots you might think you were limited to 80x25 but with EGA and VGA you could pick a different screen size and get more vertical lines.
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by ralphc 3y ago
Back in the day I bought a TRS-80 instead of an Apple ][ based on how much easier the Z-80 looked to write assembly for.
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by ralphc 3y ago
It doesn't take long to find comments on HN about how there are plenty of people out there that can do a good interview but can't code their way out of a paper bag. The standard solution to this, and I've been on the receivin
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by ralphc 3y ago
A political classic - "PA Senate Candidate Reminds Everyone That 'Fetterman' Is The Name Of The Doctor Who Created Him, Not His Actual Name". A religious classic - "Brutal: Other Disciples Gift Peter A Rooster-Crowi
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by ralphc 3y ago
I also recommend the Babylon Bee, leans conservative but funny as hell. It started as religious satire and they still kill at that.
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by ralphc 3y ago
I don't know if they're "unpopular", but I think the BEAM family of languages, Erlang, Elixir, LFE etc. could be used more. I read more and more problems people have on here and just think that they go away on the BEAM.
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by ralphc 3y ago
My first programming job, 1984, I had a two-floppy PC clone. The source code was in drive B. I put the editor floppy in drive A, wrote code, then put the compiler floppy in drive A, compiled code, if no errors then I put the linker floppy
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by ralphc 3y ago
There's a cable channel, Heroes and Icons, that Sunday - Friday shows back to back TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise, starting at 8:00 Eastern.
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by ralphc 3y ago
Do you work in other languages in your spare time? Do you feel left behind working in a mainly OOP language when the industry seems to be heading towards functional programming?
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by ralphc 3y ago
thank you thank you thank you! I had CloudFlare's DNS set up as my first ones in my list, and I got stuck in the Capthca loop. I replaced them with 4.2.2.2 and 8.8.8.8 and no more!
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by ralphc 3y ago
I put it on silent for shows. I turn it off off for weddings and funerals, I'm taking zero chance there.
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by ralphc 3y ago
There's nothing quite as fast as keyboard navigating a text input screen, tab key going from field to field. Learning the order that the tab key takes you through the screen. Pure muscle memory, flow from entering information. Web page
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by ralphc 3y ago
Is it all design-patterny OOP?
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by ralphc 3y ago
Senior dev but Elixir newbie. I'll never have projects the scale of Discord, but listening to talks and podcasts I have some scalability questions that I think you could answer. Some podcasters have mentioned their experiences with slo
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by ralphc 3y ago
pinboard carries on this tradition
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by ralphc 3y ago
Ok I'll bite. If the mass migration is over, where did they migrate to? Was it one place or did they scatter to bluesky, mastodon, others?
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by ralphc 3y ago
Yeah, as soon as I heard about the 5 needing cooling for most tasks I went ahead and got a 8GB Pi 4. That will be powerful enough for what I'm going to use it for, I have plenty of "real" computers for beefier projects.
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by ralphc 3y ago
Windows 95, 98 and ME can read DoubleSpace drives. If you get USB drives set up, which you can do with 95 and 98, and format the drive FAT, not FAT32, put the drive file on it, those versions of Windows will mount it.
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by ralphc 3y ago
It isn't all or nothing. Computer Science degree, and I regularly use the principles I learned in my CS classes, but the required English classes? Not so much. So some "cheating" wouldn't be cheating myself.
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by ralphc 3y ago
If you're in the American Southeast, the Computer Museum of America in Roswell, GA has one on display. I've visited and seen it, along with other supercomputers.
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by ralphc 3y ago
I tried to do that with Salesforce flows, back when I did work in Salesforce. I started off with Scheme macros, got as far as variables and constants but it quickly got too complicated. Right before losing interest I was exploring using Bab
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by ralphc 3y ago
What language are you using? I think about doing the same thing every now and then, no reading about it just daydreaming. I would think a BEAM language like Elixir might do the trick, a BEAM process for each processor, passing messages arou
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by ralphc 3y ago
Did it use Star Lisp as well?
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by ralphc 3y ago
I'd like to know if the Pi 4 will still be manufactured. It's good enough for my projects and I'm not liking the extra cooling that sounds like will be needed.
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by ralphc 3y ago
Am I the only person left on the planet that doesn't trust or use iCloud, regularly backing up photos onto my computer then plugging in a hard drive for Time Machine?
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by ralphc 3y ago
I'm still new to Elixir, and see Erlang from over here in Elixir land. Recently on Twitter there were debates on static vs. dynamic typing, and the static typists said that it made software more reliable. Which made me think about all
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by ralphc 3y ago
TIL that Vannevar Bush, known around these circles for his "As We May Think" essay, was also a "key figure in establishing the Manhattan Project".
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by ralphc 3y ago
There's the PiSCSI which is a board that hooks in to a Pi's GPIO pins and acts like a SCSI interface to Macs. I have one and in addition to SCSI drives it can emulate a DynaTalk SCSI/Ethernet interface and use the Pi's w
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by ralphc 3y ago
A way to cheat on this is to have the intro technically be a separate song. Playing the album you get an extended intro, but you can just play the "main" song. The start of Judas Priest's "Screaming for Vengeance" a
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by ralphc 3y ago
Tau Prolog embeds prolog into JavaScript. miniKanren embeds logic programming into Scheme. disclaimer, I haven't used either of these.

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