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by salgernon 2y ago
There was a TV miniseries/movie a few years ago called "DEVS" that was shot in part at UCSC - science hill and the engineering library emerging from the mist was unmistakable. (Not defending or promoting the show.) That coas
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by salgernon 2y ago
It was also a great example of the 'feelies' that came with games back then - the peril sensitive sunglasses and little baggie of belly button lint. It helped bridge the virtual text world with a connection to the physical.
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by salgernon 2y ago
When I need to refactor a large C codebase the first thing I do is recompile it with C++ - and then fix the missing prototypes and other grit that gets in the way. The cost to do this is minimal but I then have more options (via macros, au
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by salgernon 2y ago
Classic MacOS in the 80s had "MPW" macintosh programmers workshop - that treated open text windows as files and selections within the windows as files , so it wasn't uncommon to have a portion of an otherwise documentation f
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by salgernon 2y ago
There wasn't a lot of code review going around our group in 1991 - but you're absolutely right that it would be harder to get away with today. There are a lot of hidden knobs in various places across various systems, and they a
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by salgernon 2y ago
In a list of "Countries by alphabetical order", I see: - Cabo Verde - Cambodia - Cameroon - Canada So if you were typing 'can' instead, you would always be correct (today) even if one of the earlier ones were remove
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by salgernon 2y ago
Back in 1991 I was at Sun and tasked with implementing type-to-complete for file dialogs in OpenWindows. Coming from a Mac background, I naturally implemented... type to complete. But the OpenWindows Spec declared it should be "first
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by salgernon 3y ago
I would imagine the checks and balances that a mature engineering organization maintains to prevent the unintended consequences of capricious management decisions.
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by salgernon 3y ago
I saw this mentioned in the submission about memory allocators and unix, although it’s only tangentially related to that. It’s more about choosing which parts of c++ are either mature enough or useful enough for any particular task. But lik
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Orthodox C++(gist.github.com)
3 points by salgernon 3y ago|3 comments
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by salgernon 3y ago
“(/usr/ucb/mail -s ‘Pizza Order’ ‘pizza-server@poit.eng.sun.com’)” I had just paged that most useless piece of trivia in, but “poit” was from a Don Martin cartoon in Mad, not Al Jaffee. Nevertheless, Excelsior!
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by salgernon 4y ago
I love Terry Pratchett’s description of XXXX - the Australian analogue in his book “The Last Continent”. While a book on deadly native animals would encompass several volumes, the “book” of safe animals was a single page that listed “some o
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by salgernon 4y ago
So how about a quick M-x psychoanalyze-chatgpt ? (Since psychoanalyze-pinhead became defunct pithed.)
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by salgernon 4y ago
Rez and DeRez still ship with xcode (or did the last time I checked)
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by salgernon 4y ago
The Apple Pascal poster has a very 70s vibe: https://www.whatisepic.it/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/apple_p...
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by salgernon 4y ago
Terry Pratchett’s Discworld has a christmas santa analogue called the “Hogfather” - essentially the anthropomorphic personification of the winter solstice. I’d never heard of Hogmanay before - but I can’t help but feel it must have fed into
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by salgernon 4y ago
It’s Uber for timeshare pitches. You get a ride to the airport instead of a fruit basket for sitting through the pitch. I imagine they would have the driver multitask as the presenter.
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by salgernon 4y ago
I've been in a similar state - I had a shell running but lost /bin/ls among other things; but I could use "echo *" and redirection to recreate an /etc/mtab.
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HECnet: The Hobbyist DECnet Network(mim.stupi.net)
48 points by salgernon 4y ago|9 comments
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Calm Technology(calmtech.com)
2 points by salgernon 4y ago|0 comments
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by salgernon 4y ago
It was functional for me; there was someone reading some rather bad (in the best way) jokes, "What kind of car do dogs hate? A cor-VET". It really felt connecting, since the people replying and cooperating on the channel are al
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Onward and Upward: A History of Circuit Cellar (2012)(circuitcellar.com)
2 points by salgernon 4y ago|0 comments
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by salgernon 4y ago
I’ve been unable to convince Dall-e to render anything “in the style of artist Robert Tinney”. I love his work - and have several prints of his byte covers.
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Binary Golf Grand Prix 3 (6/17 - 8/19/22)(tmpout.sh)
3 points by salgernon 4y ago|1 comments
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Umberto Eco: A Practical List for Identifying Fascists(faena.com)
14 points by salgernon 4y ago|0 comments
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Percy Crosby's Last Masterpiece: Kings Park Psychiatric Center(abandonedamerica.us)
37 points by salgernon 4y ago|13 comments
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by salgernon 4y ago
One of the joys is when you re-read one of his books and discover its tie-ins with the other books in his universe. Small Gods has a tiny but important role for Lu Tze the history monk, who subtly interferes with the story to see it to its
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by salgernon 4y ago
I would like to disagree to the extent that I find Nigel Planer’s Rincewind to nail the character in my mind. His reading of “The Last Continent” with Rincewind vs the various Australian tropes is a family favorite. If you see the Hogfather
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by salgernon 4y ago
It’s weird how Apple is part of the title when they’re barely mentioned.
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by salgernon 4y ago
By coincidence, after reading this submitted article and not knowing the named artist, I completed the game “Universal Paperclips” by “Everybody House Games” today, and the brief credit scroll listed ‘10 MIDI’ by Four Tet, (c) 2017 BMG

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