vaxman

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by vaxman 7y ago
<sniffle>
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by vaxman 7y ago
PG&E will be seized for this.
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by vaxman 7y ago
Pretty soon they'll have us checking-in at kiosks and then waiting at carousels for our items to (very, very slowly) come out.
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by vaxman 7y ago
wouldn't you pair it with an inertia detector so it only transmits a pulse (at 31mA) when it moves by a significant amount?
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by vaxman 7y ago
Bono won't care as long as they don't pitch him to invest in it (like webOS)...also it has to play "All That You Can't Leave Behind" whenever you activate tracking mode.
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by vaxman 7y ago
I don't get the dog collar application, unless the dog is always indoors or somehow needs to trigger proximity based automations (feed me, go outside where I can't be tracked without equipping the fenced-in yard with anchor nodes,
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by vaxman 7y ago
Try being less specific, like "I need garden tool for cutting plant.", sort of like how Target.com works.
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by vaxman 7y ago
What's humorous to an old hacker like me is that these guys live so far inside the sandbox that the only thing they can write about is something like Square (that's some D2A credit card reader that plugs into a jack on old smartph
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by vaxman 7y ago
or Conan's AirPods commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_wImaGRkNY remember that "Quora" predicted Apple would be putting U1s in AirPods too
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by vaxman 7y ago
I have never heard the podcast but have heard the iMore guy who runs it. I'd look at the audience before condemning a consultant for promoting himself. For media outlets that focus on business people trying to get a high-level (Apple &
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by vaxman 7y ago
What of the OEM specs of 10cm accuracy, only 31mA during transmission, 64mA in receive --which is usually not battery powered-- and its claims of months-to-years battery life using a coin cell? Did you overlook this or are you testifying a
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by vaxman 7y ago
I wouldn't go so far as to condemn him simply for trying to get his message out with Twitter trickery. Twitter itself is a giant freak show with "soft bans" etc. and would have already gone the way of My_ if it hadn't be
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by vaxman 7y ago
Krypton Authenticator app anyone? https://krypt.co/docs/security/privacy-policy.html
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by vaxman 7y ago
> example of someone condemning the systems which were cheap (or license-free), widely available Right! > , worked well enough for most people Well, with a mouse click, the Chinese can cause most of the self-balancing mobility devices
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by vaxman 7y ago
In your shoes, I would ask Larry Ellison to acquire you and then boot it on a MacPro 7,1 to be released with every layered application that DEC ever sold, plus ORACLE for VMS and the whole documentation suite on readthedocs --oh and a VSL (
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by vaxman 7y ago
It did, sigh. It was in the LINK'ER documentation. RSX/VMS was all about object modules being shared between concurrently running applications in separate user spaces (because RAM was crazy expensive and DISK was crazy slow and ex
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by vaxman 7y ago
I have a friend who converted a coat closet in his house into a datacenter large enough for a MicroVAX II with air-conditioning. He had run terminal lines to every room in the house to plug-in VTs. That said, he had a legit reason for doing
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by vaxman 7y ago
I forgot about the Field Service techs hah. Straight (outta DeVry) programmer analyst types like https://www.denofgeek.com/movies/superman-iii/27817/what-sup... were pretty much considered users in the DEC wo
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by vaxman 7y ago
He is the turncoat that brought down the empire. He was full on correct about Unix though, except that we're not fighting over sub-MIPS resources anymore so the "waste" created by that architecture doesn't affect the bot
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by vaxman 7y ago
Not totally ;) https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/a-raspberry-pi-vax-clu... You know, I should apply for that Lockheed job just to get shutdown for being in my 50s and not having touched a VAX since my 30s (because,
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by vaxman 7y ago
That's outrageous... 1. RE: FORTRAN. VAX FORTRAN was the most awesome implementation of FORTRAN ever. FORTRAN because these systems didn't have much RAM and CPU power was limited. FORTRAN went into the background for a while when