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by rudolfwinestock 4y ago
I know of two modern attempts to recreate the Space Cadet keyboard. https://keymacs.com/ https://kono.store/products/input-club-symbolic-keyboard
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by rudolfwinestock 5y ago
Another example of using a Scheme for scripting is scsh, the Scheme Shell. The last update was in 2006, but it's (in)famous for the acknowledgements section written by Olin Shivers. Who should I thank? My so-called ``colleagues,&#x
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by rudolfwinestock 5y ago
See also The Official Rules and Explanations, compiled by Paul Dickson. https://www.bookfinder.com/book/The_Official_Rules_and_Expla...
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by rudolfwinestock 5y ago
Merry Christmas, Hacker News. To put everyone in the proper mood, here are the Commodore 64 Christmas demos: https://rittwage.com/c64pp/?pg=xmas
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by rudolfwinestock 5y ago
I've lost the original reference, but Joe Marshall once wrote in comp.lang.lisp: Here's an anecdote I heard once about Minsky. He was showing a student how to use ITS to write a program. ITS was an unusual operating system in th
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by rudolfwinestock 5y ago
Sabine Hossenfelder and her weblog have been featured on Hacker News before. https://backreaction.blogspot.com/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15464576 https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by rudolfwinestock 5y ago
Here are more examples. https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/new-york/sunken-town-ny/ The state of New York has several towns submerged under artificial lakes created to give water to New York City.
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by rudolfwinestock 5y ago
On the one hand, I'm glad that there's more public effort in developing user interfaces beyond what's 'standard,' today. It indicates that "the market" senses the need. I applaud this venture. On the oth
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by rudolfwinestock 5y ago
For those too lazy to click: “In response to current events concerning the Freenode Internet Relay Chat (IRC) network, we would like to invite you to a community meeting on the future of both the FSF and GNU's official IRC channels. “T
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by rudolfwinestock 5y ago
It's saving face. Robert McNamara was several different kinds of fool. JFK & LBJ were even bigger fools for keeping him as SecDef. Later, when Nixon became president, the situation changed for the better, but it was a slog. Nixo
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by rudolfwinestock 5y ago
Those responsible for what happened there received due process of law and were punished. Communists, on the other hand, either suppress or celebrate their own atrocities.
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by rudolfwinestock 5y ago
To add to the above, as much as some people want to mock America's involvement in Vietnam, one must note that The Domino Theory (used to justify that involvement) came true. Granted, the worst case scenario did not happen (Australia wa
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by rudolfwinestock 5y ago
As the parent post noted, that development comes from having American jobs exported there (e.g., those Nike factories). Being a socialist society, the wealth disparities are far more stark than what we have in the West.
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by rudolfwinestock 5y ago
The real purpose of most taxes on "the rich" is to prevent the middle class from accumulating capital. The truly rich, by virtue of being actually wealthy, can structure their finances to avoid most of the worst taxes. Up-and-com
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by rudolfwinestock 5y ago
TinyDevCRM is an open source alternative. https://tinydevcrm.com/
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
The Internet interprets the absence of censorship as wickedness and attacks it.
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
I've noticed that people only speak highly of COBOL, as a technology, when Grace Murray Hopper's name occurs nearby. That's all that I need to know about COBOL.
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
“An nescis, fili mi, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur?” “Do you not know, my son, with how little prudence the world is ruled?” Scandinavian nobility still used Latin commonly in those days.
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
Private forums. By that, I mean forums that only show their content to members who have created an account. Some of them may have a vetting process that can include paying money for the upkeep of the site. Finding such forums is a problem
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
A “government information bureau?” Wow! Another bureaucracy that'll have its own factions with their own agendas that will never work against either their superiors or the electorate.
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
Holding a press conference means that the message gets filtered through media companies with their own agendas (OAN or CNN; pick your poison). The Internet is meant to dis-intermediate communication. That is its purpose. It's one of
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
That bakery likely has a staff of two people and a dozen competitors offering equivalent services within a few miles. On the other hand, the public square, itself, has been privatized into the hands of multi-billion-dollar corporations from
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
Nitpick: The article on Hunter Biden which Twitter blocked came from the New York Post rather than the New York Times. Furthermore, the Right being more permissive with respect to public speech is true, but rather recent. Historically, the
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
Session management is one. In Unix, programs like GNU screen or tmux are needed for that. In most DEC operating systems, it was built into the system. Another feature of the Tenex line of operating systems (and others of that era) was tha
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
A few years ago, I met a former DEC guy. I told him the story of how Cisco Systems got its start by running bootleg versions of the TOPS-10 operating system on its very first routers. Even with the overhead of emulation, Unix of that time
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
Tangentially related to this is SDF's Anonradio. https://anonradio.net/ “All DJs on aNONradio.net are members of the SDF Public Access UNIX System Community. Please join our growing online community of free software au
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
The Internet interprets the absence of censorship as weakness or wickedness, and attacks it.
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
The following is a relevant quote from Clay Shirky. http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2013/11/healthcare-gov-and-the-... Back in the mid-1990s, I did a lot of web work for traditional media. That often meant figur
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
Related: List of UNIX alternatives with desirable capabilities https://pastebin.com/BQh3e1ug
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” —John Gilmore “The Internet interprets the absence of censorship as wickedness or weakness and attacks it.” —me Please note that the above two statements do not contradict each

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