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by ralphc 3y ago
I just put a shortcut to the date/time control panel on the desktop and set the time when I boot it up. I don't use it enough to make it onerous.
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by ralphc 3y ago
After a 25 year hiatus I've taken Descent back up, the DOS & Windows version. After you're tired of the standard levels you can find plenty of third-party and fan levels and games.
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by ralphc 3y ago
Pismos are handy with the built-in USB and Firewire but the Wallstreets make better "bridge" machines. They have SCSI that can be booted from with a BlueSCSI or PiSCSI, and the old serial ports which work with Localtalk. I was gif
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by ralphc 3y ago
Please encourage them to make a backup and get it into a VM. You should be able to find Windows 2000 if it will run on that.
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by ralphc 3y ago
From the article, "That aside. LiveView lets you do a lot with a little. It has been copied by most major web framework ecosystems at this point. What they can’t copy is the BEAM runtime and as such they can’t quite get the same deal.&
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by ralphc 3y ago
If you have a classic Mac or emulator you can get a MagicCap emulator and SDK. I even toyed with making a High Telescript server but that would be a lot of work with almost no documentation. If you want to mess around with the emulator and
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by ralphc 3y ago
How big are these models that are downloaded? Is 7B 7 gigabytes of data?
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by ralphc 3y ago
In modern times the argument is the economic incentive is to optimize for the developer, not the hardware. Python, Node etc. over C.
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by ralphc 3y ago
If Elon Musk or someone else with boatloads of money wants to help society, they should take this on. Go to a city that is notorious for this, hire an army of lawyers and take every case to court. If it takes $10000 in legal fees to get bac
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by ralphc 3y ago
The smell of a ASR-33 teletype printing. Unmistakeable.
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by ralphc 3y ago
Have you tried Elixir? So many blogs etc. talk about coming to Elixir from Ruby, which I don't understand, little similarity beyond def...do...end. Elixir uses the same VM with a different, some including myself would say better syntax
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by ralphc 3y ago
I applaud all that with the possible exception of the routine blood draws. Not for childbirth but both my wife and I have been in the hospital and appreciated the monitoring. Things can go south quickly on many medical issues, wouldn't
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by ralphc 3y ago
Where can one download the improved Compuserve 7, compatible with XP? I'd like to try it.
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by ralphc 3y ago
This reminds me of when Paul Graham asked a question about Python and someone said they weren't going to do their homework for them.
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by ralphc 3y ago
Even Mike Rowe would turn down that one.
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by ralphc 3y ago
Is this the descendant of PowerPC chips used in Macs? The last they used was a "G5", is this a "G9"?
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by ralphc 3y ago
Forever is a loooonnnggg time. I liked my dentist and kept going to him, he practiced into his 80s. Turns out he left some packing material in a crown and it rotted out the tooth. The dentist that took over his practice tried to save the to
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by ralphc 3y ago
I thought it was so a store could say they'll match any competitor's price on the same model, only to find that store is the only one to carry that model number.
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by ralphc 3y ago
Same here, this was when I was a high schooler. I was a habitual card thrower for a while. I remember walking down the hall, flicked my hall pass. My enthusiasm was better than my aim and I nailed a girl in the back of the head. Whole lotta
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by ralphc 3y ago
After a layoff I went through a recruiting/contracting firm that converted to full-time at my job. After that I kept an eye out on recruiters, and male or female it was the best looking set of people I'd ever seen in person.
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by ralphc 3y ago
I signed up on Threads shortly after launch to reserve my username, haven't been on much since. If it takes off I have the username I want, if not, meh.
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by ralphc 3y ago
In general my rule is "stuff I've listened to hundreds of times over the decades". If music is new to me I find myself paying too much attention to it. The best example of this is Yes's Tales From Topographic Oceans, I&#
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by ralphc 3y ago
How do you, or "you" as the industry, decide that new code and new techniques are worth moving away from existing code?
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by ralphc 3y ago
Can you have more than one account? I have two Twitter accounts, one for personal stuff and hobbies and one for professional programming. I don't want those mixed on any platform.
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by ralphc 3y ago
Compared to the bit packing I had to do in C in the 80s Elixir is a joy. The bit operations in a pattern-matched functional language is what got me hooked on Elixir.
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by ralphc 3y ago
I had a class at Georgia Tech in the early '80s that used these. I even found my Compucolor formatted 5.25" floppy drive that had my project on it, a graphics library written in basic. I'd love to get the files off of that fl
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by ralphc 3y ago
If someone put a gun to your head and told you to talk to CORBA or DCOM today, would it be better to re-implement the protocols in a modern language or dig up ancient C++ code, compile it and just talk to the C++ with language interfaces?
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by ralphc 3y ago
Here's an article that explains ECS with examples in Elixir, https://dzone.com/articles/entity-component-systems-in-elixi...
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by ralphc 3y ago
How does this work & which GPT are you using? So you upload a bunch of code somehow and ask questions about it?
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by ralphc 3y ago
When I read about the dangers of AI I'm reminded of the feeling I had after reading Jeff Hawkin's "On Intelligence". He talked about simulating the neocortex to do many of the things that deep learning and LLM's are

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