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by timonoko 1y ago
CONTINUE - card was eternal mystery. Why cant you have just empty card with line number on it?
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by timonoko 1y ago
Keyboard and Display considered superfluous. When I was released from army 1977, I had learned howto morse and howto maintain AK-47, not much else. Morse came to good use, it was quite possible to communicate with the computer with single k
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by timonoko 1y ago
Unlike Ringworld the Dyson Sphere cannot withstand any meteor punctures. Entering is not so bad, because it only creates a mountain. But then you either have to let it exit or destroy it. Exit would create a bowl with drain hole and the atm
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by timonoko 1y ago
The shell is obviously very-very thick, to stand meteor hits. So it is already gravity generator. To achieve earth normal, maybe only some hundred kilometers will suffice, because it is made of diamond-hard super-dense material.
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by timonoko 1y ago
"Best Pope EVER, folks, nobody prays better than me!"
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by timonoko 1y ago
TIL: Grok cannot do Prolog, it insists that average([X],X) :- !. is better than average([X],X).
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by timonoko 1y ago
Reddit used IP-blocks at one time. I could generate new IPs just changing the MAC-code and the IP-block was eventually citywide. But as it happens Reddit is mostly for inbred overweight rubes with special pronomines in Finland.
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by timonoko 1y ago
Now that I think about it, it might be possible that it could work in both configurations. The external memory was kinda bulky and not suitable for portable computer. It would have been wasteful to keep the main memory empty. Or maybe it wa
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by timonoko 1y ago
The version with external 5 x 64k memory is definitively in Osborne-1 disk drawer. But Osborne does not work. It was so heavily modified that it will never work. The external memory was partially visible in memory space. And the display dri
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by timonoko 1y ago
All had same type, they were pointers. VAR-section was anyways useful for testing that there was no errors in spelling of symbols. And array was a list. And strings were just list of numbers, with special symbol in front. It looked very pro
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by timonoko 1y ago
noko.exe works at dosbox without any "etc etc". nokolisp.exe is just a kernel without editors and macroes.
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I wrote supreme Pascal-compiler in 1970s. No memories at all(news.ycombinator.com)
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by timonoko 1y ago
I found 50 pages manual for the Noko-Pascal. Finnish Army paid for it, because nothing comparable was available. Writing the manual was 10 times bigger task. The army used Nokopaskal for testing radio modems. Looks like the language was hea
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by timonoko 1y ago
Erh. What? Here is my infamous 1976 Nokolisp-compiler at work: c:\ nokolisp (comp-debug t) (ncompile (macroexpand '(+ 1 2 a))) $36E8:$5CC8: MOV BX,$02 $36E8:$5CCB: MOV AX,$01 $36E8:$5CCE: ADD AX,BX $36E8:$5CD0
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by timonoko 1y ago
I made Pascal for 8080 in about a week in 1979. How is it possible you may ask? Well son, I had Lisp and I just added Pascal translator. Only caveat was that it ignored type declarations and such useless academic shit. Because I had sort-of
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by timonoko 1y ago
I once found new use for Github. You can store Cinelerra edit scripts, and when the edit turns to shit, as it happens, you can retort to some earlier stage, when the flick was still somewhat watchable.
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by timonoko 1y ago
There are certain points, when you just have to have newer computer. 1982 -- Cant Play MS Flight Simulator 1992 -- Cant play MP3 2002 -- Cant play DivX 2012 -- Cant play Counter Strike 2022 -- Cant Play CS2 Very Strange Patte
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by timonoko 1y ago
Has recursion. OK. There was a time, when I learned Fortran does not allow recursion. "You stupid or what?" said the professor.
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by timonoko 1y ago
Hey Grok, Can you write the simplest recursive fibonacci-generator in COBOL? IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. FIBONACCI. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 NUM PIC 9(10). 01
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by timonoko 1y ago
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by timonoko 1y ago
Your are obviously reading impaired, but maybe formal logic might help: (Finland != America) & (Reindeer != Deer) & (Reindeer == Domesticated_Pig_with_Horns)
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by timonoko 1y ago
No. Swedish Sami are almost all whitehaired Scandinavians. Famously depicted longnoses like Peter Stormare in the movies. In 1800 Sweden and Norway made it impossible to follow herds around in Nomadic Style so they all escaped to Finland an
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by timonoko 1y ago
A 200g can of reindeer meat costs 15 €. In Rovaniemi. Add transport and tariffs.
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by timonoko 1y ago
There is some misunderstanding about Reindeer's legal status and civil rights, especially in Finland. Learn from Grok: Yes, anybody can own a reindeer in Finland, but there are important regulations to follow. Reindeer herding is a tra
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by timonoko 1y ago
Erh What? You are obliged to kill an injured animal. So you just break a leg and remove all owner's markings, if nobody saw the accident. Fur is €300 and canned meat is €10 / 100 grams. So 50 kilo reindeer is eventually worth over
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by timonoko 1y ago
Gemini: Based on these figures, Finland has more main battle tanks than Sweden. Finland’s inventory of ~239 tanks exceeds Sweden’s estimated ~121–130 tanks by roughly 100–118 units. While Sweden’s Strv 122 is highly capable and considered a
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by timonoko 1y ago
aka "Legal way to kill & steal a reindeer". That is why there are so many accidents.
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by timonoko 1y ago
Have anybody ever seen a bicycle helmet, which is not meant for racing in some hot environment. Totally useless in cold and rain and sun. North Vietnam Army cork helmet seems to be quite the optimal: https://historicaviation.com&
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by timonoko 1y ago
I found the assembler. It was "gpasm" at "apt install gputils".
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by timonoko 1y ago
That was particularly "clean" processor compared to RCA Cosmac or PIC18c64. Dirtiness means overcoming some handicaps of shitty processor. Yes. I made this crap 30 years ago, and now it needs some tuning. What were the assembler a

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