satiated_grue

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by satiated_grue 11mo ago
A fascinating learning machine without a computer.
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by satiated_grue 11mo ago
Take a look at floppy disk controllers like the AppleSauce, Greaseweazle, and Kryoflux for preserving floppies by recording at the flux-transition level.
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by satiated_grue 11mo ago
lilo
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by satiated_grue 11mo ago
Why did the programmer set up his Christmas tree on Halloween? Because OCT 31 == DEC 25
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
The Apple II had a non-linear layout of video memory, so programmer Jordan Mechner used a layer of indirection where he had an array of pointers to rows of screen memory. They realized that inverting the screen was as simple as inverting th
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
There were a series of graphics adapters that started with the IBM PC: MDA = Monochrome Display Adapter (text only) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Monochrome_Display_Adapter CGA = Color Graphics Adapter https:&#x2F
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
On the tic tac toe topic, MENACE is just startlingly cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchbox_Educable_Noughts_and_...
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
What might a programming language designed specifically as a UI for coding agents look like? Serious (germ of a) question.
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
Neil Armstrong (technically his spacesuit, presumably with him inside) was on the 2002 Ohio quarter.
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
I want to get invited to your parties.
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
I was always amazed that the idea of towing a plane with three other planes (the "Troika-Schlepp") was not only conceived, but performed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_323_Gigant#Me... https
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
About 25-30 years ago we had an FDDI network, and the hosts had optical bypass switches on them. The FDDI network comprised two fiber rings, one going clockwise and the other anticlockwise. If a host dropped off the network, the optical byp
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
Is anybody developing programming languages designed specifically as LLM "source" code targets?
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
MCP is still available from Unisys, which was formed by the "merger" of Burroughs and Sperry Univac. It was first released in 1961 - is there any other software, particularly an OS, still in production after that long? https:&#x2
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
I'm flashing back to when we used to hold the punch card to the light looking for the unprintable character that had to be hiding in there somewhere... ah, there it is!
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
I still use NEdit the same way I use notepad on Windows. Quick work on small ASCII-only files.
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
Is the increased electric bill offset by reductions in taxes? The answer looks like "probably". https://www.loudoun.gov/6188/Data-Centers-in-Loudoun-County "Loudoun County is home to one of the largest c
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
I think you'll really enjoy watching "12 O'Clock High" with Gregory Peck. I'm still trying to find a reasonably priced copy of the book.
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
The OS/2 gathering "Warpstock" is coming up in November in Little Rock AR. http://www.warpstock.org/ https://www.os2world.com/cms/
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
Well, hmmm, the word "blob" way predates the 1958 SF horror film of that name: https://www.etymonline.com/word/blob https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blob
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
I recall hearing many years ago about undesirable flight characteristics of the Rutan Vari-Eze when the laminar flow canard got too contaminated with bugs and became very nose-heavy. A solution adopted by many owners was to put micro vortex
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
Why have so many non-engineering things become "engineering"? Prompting -> "prompt engineering". "sudo make me a sandwich" -> privilege-escalation engineering while process engineering a food engineer.
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
To be fair... not on an LGP-30, you didn't.
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
There are a number of other metrics compiled and reported that answer some of your questions, e.g.: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART Labor Force Participation Rate These are reported by the Bureau of Labor St
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
"Perceiveved brightness"? And perceiveved brightness is equal to the peak of the PWM wave? That image from courtesy Daylight Computer Company is consuming too much of my attention.
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
Tragedy of the commons. Much of the cost is not born by the purchaser; the true cost of pollution (including greenhouse gases and global warming) is placed on others who had no input.
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
Heard the term IP Masquerading for so long in Linux, I assumed that NAT came later. How wrong I was! https://tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/index.html
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
Look (literally with eyes) at Ashburn on a humid morning. Above the datacenters providing the "cloud" are literal clouds of condensation from the evaporative coolers, and bigger ones at the local power plants providing the electri
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
"The economy" (GDP) being boosted is very unevenly distributed. Are the jobs created good jobs - that pay decently, and that people want to do?
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by satiated_grue 1y ago
Not quite but nearly totally unrelated, but I love that Debian ships a package of a PDP-8 PAL-like cross-assembler written at BART: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/palbart http://www.pdp8online.com/ftp&#

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