rigonkulous

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by rigonkulous 5mo ago
I'd love to have a IIgs in my collection these days, its truly the pinnacle computer of its type and era.
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by rigonkulous 5mo ago
(Lived the HACF era/story personally, so it was a poignant watch.) What HACF got right, imho, was the collection of the various personalities that were attracted to the rising computer technology, of the era. I've known plenty of
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by rigonkulous 5mo ago
I lived that era and personally had many of the experiences of the characters over the decades, so as I watched, I compared the show to my own experiences. So for me the love/romance aspect was just the network television layer I had t
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by rigonkulous 5mo ago
Oh, I have so many of my own experiences to tell in this regard, but .. I'm a little curious .. if you still have the schematics, why not build it again and pick up where you left off? (Disclaimer: I speak as one who has kept almost ev
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by rigonkulous 5mo ago
A very subjective view - but as originators and not just users of technology, we must be objective, too. There are, genuinely, people out there who will believe anything their phone will tell them to believe. Its not just about 'good
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by rigonkulous 5mo ago
Time is running out to do something effective about that enslavement - well, there are other very effective things that can be done to 'cure' people of electronic enslavement (EMP and/or other disaster) - but the point is, if
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by rigonkulous 5mo ago
I'd like to see a gource interface to Wikipedia, personally ..
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
>biggest problem with smartphones Disattention is happening because the user isn't actually in control of the smartphone, the smartphone is in control of the user, because that control is a commodity upon which a grand economy has b
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
For this thought experiment I would welcome you to contribute another measure besides cyclomatic complexity as a means of ascertaining the truth of the matter, because after all complexity is multi-dimensional, but on the basis of number of
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
Iranians despise their government in about the same way that Americans despise their government - which is to say, both peoples got the government they deserve...
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
hmm .. imho .. the supply chain between Iran, Russia, and China is .. radically .. under-estimated in the equation by those states who have lost control over the worlds energy supplies. It is more like the Western nations which cannot withs
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
There's a thing in writing where you can make bold claims in order to give the reader an idea about what the rest of the article is going to be about - that's whats happening here, a bit of editorializing .. but do you know of a m
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
"no reward" is weak, because of course you wouldn't make a wheel, say, unless you intended to roll somewhere . You're basically saying "ASML's entire production line is worthless unless it is rare and coveted&
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
ASML's supply chain is deep and complex - and secret . But if it were F/OSS (just imagine it) from sand to chip, that complexity would have a wider scope of human attention applied to it. What is happening with ASML now, once ha
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
I don't think that makes any sense whatsoever. If everyone could make these machines, there'd be more of these machines. There are so many examples of this out there, already, that I find this specious "no next generation&q
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
The US is bombing cities.
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
Yes, its fascinating that it went where the market was driven - by the markets hooks in its own advertising pages - and in that capacity, BYTE became a driving force for the early computing revolution not just (but also because of) the read
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
>Also why is everything about LLMs now? Can't we discuss technologies for their face value anymore. It's getting kind of old to me personally. Fully agree with you, LLM's everywhere is getting churlsome, and trite. Sure,
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
Get out there now while it is all still alive and record it, in whatever means you can, for the future. There will be a shark in someones mind in a 100 years time - if its not a real one, let it be the one you shared with your mind, here an
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
Yeah, there was a lot of variety too .. I particularly enjoyed the differences between the UK/Euro and UK magazines - it was quite some context, all things considered, to see the markets of both realms go in slightly different directio
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
Hail, fellow BYTE'ian! I took what I learned from BYTE and wrote a CP/M terminate/stay-resident 'driver' that got some interesting hardware working well enough to get me the contract, as a teenager, to write the DOS
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
There came a point for me in the 90's, I think, where BYTE kind of jumped the shark - it became THICK, but not informative - where there was just so much advertising. In those days, even the ads could be informative, but it seemed t
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
Oh yeah, it was really joyous to go on such bike rides and so on. The newsagents were really important to my young developing, hacker mind. It was transformative to go, each week, and see new stuff or review things this way.
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
Oh, it was really gold, totally agree with you. I remember Steve's amazing stuff .. also, Circuit Cellar cannot go unmentioned in this thread too of course, that is for sure essential reading for the budding hacker needing a break from
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
I'm going to chalk it up to general techno-political ideology, but RISC-V was just as inaccessible in those days too. Nowadays I'm happy to report that my soldering iron is running RISC-V, and that is as it should be. However in c
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
As a young hacker in the 70's and 80's, magazines were my primary source of docs. I lived in a remote community where such technology was really, really foreign at first. My relatives lived in other parts of the state, some very
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
Its one of those extremely valuable life-changing hacks that kids who grew up in the 70's with electronics magazines as their primary source of tomfoolery knew all about .. and got into trouble for .. once or twice lets say .. during p
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
The realistic read would then be, we'd be better off just blowing a giant bubble of water in any number of lagrange point and having ourselves a brand new water park to play with, bring dolphins to, etc ... Oh wait no that's a dif
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
I worked with a kernel dev at an industrial embedded company who absolutely loved longsoon and insisted we add it to our platform stack - he did get some traction on the idea, I have to admit (the lab was keen on multi-architecture build bu
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by rigonkulous 6mo ago
>He hasn’t done anything new since Pretty Hate Machine. As an electronic musician myself, I actually find myself agreeing with you - and I've been a fan of Trent since the beginning; lets say, envious of him from the very beginning,

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