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by rootbear 1y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but I'm not sure what this is showing me. I'm running it on my home linux system, which is connected to the Internet via Verizon FIOS. The map shows three red dots, none of which are near me.
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by rootbear 1y ago
I’ve wondered if there should be two string types in C, analogous to different length numeric types. Short strings (“tokens”? “words”?) could be Pascal style strings and longer strings (“buffers”) could be standard C-style null terminated s
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by rootbear 1y ago
I share your trepidation. I once had to use clri and such to clean up a mess and it was terrifying.
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by rootbear 1y ago
I believe the issue is that the ship leaves the star in a spin, perhaps too fast to be survivable.
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by rootbear 1y ago
When Gosling was at Sun, he was one of two principal architects of the NeWS Window system. The X Window system was designed for "dumb" display devices and so the display elements were all static, not requiring much work from the s
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by rootbear 1y ago
I was given one of these by my eighth grade science teacher, ca. 1970. I still have it. It helped spark my interest in computers.
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by rootbear 1y ago
I definitely remember that one, one of the first ATCs I attended. I took an NFS course and the speaker told us that after the class was over for the day, all of the Californians were planning to go out and play in the snow! I had planned to
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by rootbear 1y ago
It is frequently stated that Hawking used a DECTalk system, but in fact he did not. He used a Speech Plus CallText 5010. They sound similar because DECTalk and CallText were both based on the MITalk work of Dennis Klatt. The full story can
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by rootbear 1y ago
I love “Uncleftish Beholding”, which someone said is written in “Anders-Saxon”. I think it would be fun to do it live as a Power-Point presentation.
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by rootbear 1y ago
It’s a reality of cinema that when they do a biopic or a film about a real event, they often have to make changes that enhance the drama. Some of these are reasonable, some not so. In Apollo 13, they upped the drama by significantly shorten
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by rootbear 1y ago
Agreed. As for the Russian spoken by American actors, my friend, a Russian linguist, said Alec Baldwin’s Russian was fine, but Sean Connery’s was terrible.
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by rootbear 2y ago
Before clicking on the link, I thought it would be and article about Tangier. A friend flew my sister and me down there many years ago. The accent was definitely unique, but calling it Elizabethan seems a bit of a stretch. We did have some
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by rootbear 2y ago
In 2006 my friend and I decided to stop talking about visiting the NRAO and actually go. We picked a weekend and then discovered that that Sunday was the 50th Anniversary open house! There were special exhibits and more of the facilities we
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by rootbear 2y ago
Years ago, someone on Usenet explained that Apple upgrade prices are so high because they use components made from the powdered bones of Unicorns and I truly believe that is the truth.
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by rootbear 2y ago
I used to have a bunch of over-complicated aliases, but due to their limitations, I now use a mix of aliases and functions, with a few scripts in ~/bin. It’s all a matter of using the right tool. I use aliases for simple things, like d
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by rootbear 2y ago
I’ve been to the System Source Museum many times and it’s well worth the visit if you are in the area. The G15 is a fascinating system, small and compact compared to the huge mainframe-sized contemporaries of the era.
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by rootbear 2y ago
When I was at the University of Maryland in the late 70s, Schwartz visited the Computer Vision Lab and gave a talk. Sadly, I don't remember much about the talk but I did enjoy meeting her and discussing computer art.
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by rootbear 2y ago
At Pixar, Steve Jobs was always just Steve, never Mr. Jobs. That was also true of his other companies I believe. After I left Pixar, I was accused of named dropping when I kept referring to him as Steve and I had to change to calling him Mr
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by rootbear 2y ago
I don’t speak Russian or any other language written in Cyrillic, but I learned the alphabet years ago for reasons. It has come in handy when looking at pictures of computers and other tech, where many of the words are cognates with English.
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by rootbear 2y ago
At one point, I considered going into theoretical physics (this would have been in the late 70s to early 80s), but got seduced by computers instead. If I had stuck with physics, I might have jumped on the string theory bandwagon and now, in
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by rootbear 2y ago
I grew up in Huntsville, AL, in the 60s and the space program was the main business of the city. My father worked for Chrysler Corp. on the Saturn 1B, and most of our neighbors worked for either NASA or one of the many contractors.
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by rootbear 2y ago
Hello! This was a great read, thanks. I'm slightly amazed that we've never met as far as I know. I was at the U of MD at the same time as you (late 70s) and remember the 1108 and 1106 well. Friends in the Computer Vision Lab on th
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by rootbear 2y ago
My Verizon FIOS router came with the ridiculous default domain "mynetworksettings.com". I haven't changed it yet, because I wasn't sure about .local vs .home and whether changing it would break something. As an OG ARPANE
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by rootbear 3y ago
The group Clam Chowder, who played at conventions in the Washington, DC area and beyond, did a cover of Benson Arizona that was extremely popular at their concerts.
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by rootbear 3y ago
The title refers to the idea of a submarine going silent so it can't be tracked by sonar. In early drafts of the screenplay, the hero wanted to do something similar with the Valley Forge, so he painted the ship black and tried to hide,
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by rootbear 3y ago
When I first heard the original HHGttG radio plays, I was sure Adams must have read Lem.
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by rootbear 3y ago
My sister had the ALK variant of non-small cell lung cancer. The special treatment she got worked until it didn’t, about 16 months. One oncologist said the cancer had likely mutated and the ALK specific therapy was no long effective.
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by rootbear 3y ago
I haven't spent much time on Reddit, but for me, Hacker News is close to USENET in terms of signal/noise. It doesn't have the subgroups covering every topic, but for what it does cover, it's a great source of interesting
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by rootbear 3y ago
If I had to guess, I would assume they chose not to use tmpfs because the earlier Pis had very limited RAM. With a 4GB or 8GB pi 4 or 5 this should not be a problem.
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by rootbear 3y ago
I live in Maryland and the first townhouse I owned, in the late 80s to early 90s, had a heat pump. It included an auxiliary electric heater for days that it got really cold. I don't remember it coming on all that often. (There was a li

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