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by spc476 8y ago
VT100 escape codes are a subset of ECMA-48, which does define (somewhat) SCI (SINGLE CHARACTER INTRODUCER) which can be encoded as 0x96 or <ESC>Z.
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by spc476 8y ago
Yeah, but I'd like to use software that isn't written in PHP or Ruby (for a variety of reasons, some valid, and some not). If the protocol was better documented, there might be more choice.
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by spc476 8y ago
It actually sounds like a really bad USENET implementation to me.
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by spc476 8y ago
I don't buy that. I'm old enough to remember when people (US citizens) got upset when companies moved their operations from the north (Northern US) to the South (Southeastern US) because it was cheaper (cheap labor). Yes, there w
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by spc476 8y ago
And the hyperlocal moderation as "kill files"?
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by spc476 8y ago
alt.hackers. It's a moderated group, but with no moderator and that's intentional. You have to be somewhat clueful to post to that group.
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by spc476 8y ago
Parsing RSS is a hassle. The specification never made it clear if you could include HTML or not---did you entity encode the HTML? Strip it out so it's only plain text in the feed? The original designer of RSS, Dave Winer, never clar
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by spc476 8y ago
I know that the magazine (The Rainbow Magazine) that was dedicated to the computer I had (the Tandy Color Computer) was easily over 250 pages during its heyday (mid-80s). And it's not like the Color Computer was one of the more popula
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by spc476 8y ago
Well, when I hear "mansions" I tend to think along the lines of Biltmore [1], but that's a house with 178,926 square feet (16,622.8 m2) of floor space. [1] https://www.biltmore.com/visit/photo-gallery
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by spc476 8y ago
Decisions above my pay grade have us replacing queries via DNS [1] where we have to finish our work in max 1 second, with a nice, HTTPS REST API that returns JSON that is guaranteed to return within 1.7 seconds . No one above my pay gr
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by spc476 8y ago
Author here. Back in the mid 90s, search engines were a thing, and you had many companies trying to provide search results in the emerging web. In 1996-97, it was the in thing to run a search engine. And then Google happened ...
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by spc476 8y ago
The DMA issue was only a factor for the disk drive. While the PCjr graphics memory was shared with the main CPU memory, the Tandy graphics memory was separate in the same way that the EGA graphics memory was separate---it was never used fo
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by spc476 8y ago
Florida has a few native species of the vanilla orchid: https://www.fairchildgarden.org/Events-Community-Outreach/Ev... If it weren't for the pollination issue, I would suspect that Florida might have been a natur
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by spc476 8y ago
I use Lua for configuration files for both personal and work related projects [1]. You get comments and the ability to construct strings piecemeal (DRY and all that). It's easy to sandbox the environment, and while you can't pro
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by spc476 8y ago
No, not every version of BASIC made the most of the underlying machine's capabilities. The BASIC on the C64 (the most popular 8-bit machine of all time) did not support graphics or sound. Seriously, there was no support for what m
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by spc476 8y ago
Page was unreadable on a desktop computer. To read the actual content, I had to disable Javascript, and disable CSS rendering (Firefox: View->Page Style->No Style). Otherwise, any interaction with that page resulted in the Beac
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by spc476 8y ago
... of memory passed in by the user! So it's up to the caller to make sure memory contains unclassified information.
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by spc476 8y ago
When I fell down into the rabbit hole of DNS, I wrote code to just encode and decode DNS packets [1]. All the existing libraries [2] had a complex API that provided a separate function for querying a few record types (A, AAAA, MX, TXT, SRV
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by spc476 8y ago
Netscape navigator?
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by spc476 8y ago
Nice idea, but some hipster developer at a company we query decided it would be A Good Idea (TM) to switch from using DNS to query their data to a REST API over HTTPS that returns JSON. Normally, this would be a "whatever" type t
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by spc476 8y ago
It's hard to know what is considered offensive anymore. "Nitpick" is one word. "Merry Christmas" is another. So is "Happy Holidays." Is "transracial" a thing or not? How many victim classes
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by spc476 8y ago
The 8086 wasn't binary compatible, but it was (more or less) software compatible---you could mechanically translate 8080 assembly to 8086 assembly and get about 95% converted without issue. Motorola broke compatibility completely when
803.
by spc476 8y ago
A 4MZ Z80 (or 8080) is about as fast as a 1MHz 6502, because of that.
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by spc476 8y ago
GNUMake handles UTF-8 just fine. I was able to replace spaces (character 0x20) with non-breaking spaces (character 0xA0) and it just worked ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16527084 ).
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by spc476 8y ago
I used both Soundex and Metaphone to handle URLs for a Bible website: http://literature.conman.org/bible/ You could type the a URL as: http://bible.conman.org/kj/genasys.1:1 and it would r
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by spc476 8y ago
Years and years ago I ran a tar pit [1], and it could handle a tremendous amount of connections with very little overhead. This could be easily done with a 301 redirect to such a system. [1] http://labrea.sourceforge.net/l
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by spc476 8y ago
I use single quotes when the string in question is used like an enumeration: set_color('black','white') And double quotes for strings meant to be read by a human: print("Hello there. How are you?&quo
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by spc476 8y ago
My girlfriend is a former US government employee and she's afraid of term limits because then the power will shift to the non-elected bureaucrats who know the system ("Oh, don't worry! I've worked for the previous five
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by spc476 8y ago
Once I learned about Unix, I felt that IO devices would make a better example of class inheritance. You have a base abstract class. From that, you get a block device (seekable devices with fixed-sized blocks), a character device (say, a s
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by spc476 8y ago
It defeats the purpose of "high speed" if you can't actually get to "high speed" due to stops. Also, this I think is more geared for tourist traffic than daily commute traffic. Orlando for the parks, West Palm Beac

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