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by satiated_grue 1y ago
Yes, but it still works fine with Firefox.
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
The 6502's lack of registers is one point of view. Another point of view is that the zero page provides 256 registers: https://spectrum.ieee.org/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-pr... "[Bill Mensch]:Rod Orgill and
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
I think these folks, who reproduced the aircraft of the Wright Brothers using similar materials, methods, and tools, are a peak example of the value of reinventing as a path to deeper understanding. https://www.wrightexperience.c
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
Is there much demand for that in the enterprise spaces where RHEL is used? Some applications, like ESRI, are already packaged by the vendor using Wine on RHEL.
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
As someone who's been writing assembly language for decades going back to Univacs, most people used "assembler" as shorthand for "assembly language" or even "assembler language". It's usually quite un
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
Apologies - feeling quite dim now.
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
All the crew members of the Endurance survived the expedition - not sure about the "didn't make it" comment, or to which part of the article you are referring.
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
I had a non-standard "hi res" 640x400 interlaced display on my Sperry PC that used a long-persistence phosphor to help make up for the interlacing. For many uses, it was wonderful. For white on blue text like this (which I tried b
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
When there is a return to nonvolatile memory? Consider a system like a PDP-8 with magnetic core memory. When you powered it on, memory had the same contents it had when powered off. You give the CPU an address of your favorite program in me
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
What if Alaska were split in half, and Texas would become the third-largest state by area?
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
https://www.curiousmarc.com/space/apollo-guidance-computer#h... "Mike Stewart has developed gate accurate FPGA replicas of the AGC and its test hardware. It represents a massive amount of work. If you are Mike, yo
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
I recall implementing hash tables in COBOL on a Univac. Not even kidding a little.
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
The classic example of this was Bob Hoover, who poured iced tea in his Rockwell Shrike Commander twin-engine propeller airplane while completing a barrel roll with both engines shut down (gliding). https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
Right after that book came out, the author (Don Eyles) gave this excellent talk at the Vintage Computer Festival East in Wall, NJ. The various VCF events have had a great deal of excellent AGC content over the years. https://www.
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
I see you have studied your Agrippa^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Archimedes.
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
If you are able are so inclined, donating blood includes a check on your iron levels.
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
And Cessna put the Land-O-Matic gear and Para-Lift flaps on their small planes around then; and of course you could get your Motor-Ola car radio. There's GOT to be a Wikipedia page in here somewhere.
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
I don't understand why more of SecureCRT's features don't get implemented into FOSS terminal emulators. If nothing else, just being able to have clickable buttons that I can configure to paste text is IMMENSELY useful. Combin
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
So - like other private vehicles? Right now, if you take the two-seat Aeronca Chief you bought for $15K and go for a trip, anyone can go to a few free websites to track where you are every moment of the flight, and click a link on the websi
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
As Grace Hopper so elegantly pointed out. She gave me one of her many nanoseconds, which were lengths of scrap telephone wire cut to a little under a foot long. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_692464
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
"The cure for high prices is... high prices."
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
I was recently playing a commercial Atari game from 1981 called "Ricochet" that was written in BASIC, which came on a cassette. Atari BASIC stored its programs in memory using a tokenized format - it did syntax checking when the l
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by satiated_grue 2y ago
Is the question about infecting the 8-bit computers connected via the ESP32-based FujiNet device, or about infecting the FujiNet device itself? As Cherryhomes himself points out, that device is VASTLY more capable than the vintage hardware
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by satiated_grue 3y ago
Dave Plummer did an interesting exploration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCv5VRf8op0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm0vygzVXeE
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by satiated_grue 3y ago
Magenta (#ff00ff) used to be called fuchsia. And nobody, unless they are named Fuchs, knows how to spell "fuchsia".
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by satiated_grue 3y ago
The 1582 document establishing the Gregorian Calendar, "Inter Gravissimas", specifically says that Y2K is leap. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Inter_gravissimas "Next, so that the equinox wil
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by satiated_grue 3y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/langew/turn.ht... "The Turn At the very heart of winged flight lies the banked turn, a procedure that by now seems so routine and familiar that airline
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by satiated_grue 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TGQ4pnVWSQ Curious Marc tweeting from a Teletype ASR-33
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by satiated_grue 3y ago
But this is true for lots of planes, not just private jets. Like, the local baker in Chicago who flies up to Racine in the morning to pick up kringles for an event he's catering that afternoon. "Regular" folks in their "
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by satiated_grue 3y ago
Airplanes have the equivalent of a license plate painted on the side. What's different is the broadcast in-the-clear of your information of where you are at all times; not many cars have that feature. For airplanes, this is the equival

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