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by watersb 3y ago
I may be mid-remembering details, but The first Mac development environment from Apple that you could run on a Mac was the text-based Macintosh Programmer's Workbench. Superficially, it was a command-driven shell. But it was not hosted
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by watersb 3y ago
Have you actually been in a position where you needed to rely on COBRA? To continue my family's health insurance cost $4000/month. Fifteen years ago. When I was employed, my employer was paying more than half of that. It was part
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by watersb 3y ago
> I’ve seen some decide that the person trying to warn is somehow responsible for the inevitable outcome. All. the. time... Pervasive cognitive glitch: inability to distinguish between _problems_ and _people_. Identifying the problem ==&
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by watersb 3y ago
"Encanto" was fantastic, but was a Disney Animation Studio production. Not Pixar. So less involvement from the people in Emeryville?
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by watersb 3y ago
The "bag of bytes" POSIX(?) standard(?) can be overridden at the filesystem level: ZFS zpool create -O utf8only=on -O normalization=formD -O casesensitivity=insensitive mypool <pool geometry> <devices> My prima
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by watersb 3y ago
See also the HN comments on "Defensive Bash Programming (2015)" Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20170728030103/http://www.kfirla... HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by watersb 3y ago
I was studying computer science and AI in 1987-1990; I didn't know it was the deepest, darkest pit of AI research despair. I found the two Rumelhart & McClelland books, just a single copy on the shelf at Cody's Books, soon aft
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by watersb 3y ago
Sorry, this might be a dumb question, but I'm not sure what you mean by "as an Apple dev". I assume you mean "as a developer [anybody] developing software on an Apple platform". I would be surprised if Apple employe
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by watersb 3y ago
I have fond memories of Anchor Steam from late 80s - 1990s Bay Area life. Was the standard beer of startup picnics.
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by watersb 3y ago
10 FOR X = 1 TO 255 20 SOUND X,1 30 NEXT X When I fire up a TRS-80 Color Computer emulator, this is always the first thing I type.
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by watersb 3y ago
They (Apple) have done something new in Ventura, macOS 13; the Dropbox folder is under a new sub-folder at $HOME/Library/CloudStorage. Seems to be a new VFS API, in effect a standardization of proprietary cloud and storage impleme
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by watersb 3y ago
Different purpose, but useful character search tool I use: https://www.amp-what.com/
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by watersb 3y ago
My hot take is that this is a new service, so none of the accounts have much of a history. Algorithms in place could reasonably impose extra checks on large withdrawals from new accounts. What's more, I could speculate that Goldman Sac
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by watersb 3y ago
A collection of boot sounds: https://archive.org/details/Boot_Sounds_Compilation
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by watersb 3y ago
I had add port 53 NAT redirect to my home network. Kindle Fire tablet has hard-coded Google's 8.8.8.8 DNS server, bypassing the Pi-Hole ad blocker.
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by watersb 3y ago
Perhaps it's bad PR? The TRON MCP was definitely hostile. Not sure if its victims could have been considered "users", though. https://www.google.com/search?q=tron+mcp Master Control Program
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by watersb 3y ago
> Thus in the 80s Dos, digital eqipment Wax mainframes, 90s you had PCs with spinning disks running Windows. Given the dead-simple effectiveness of Hacker News UI, my major obstacle to usability is autocorrect in the face of technical ar
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by watersb 3y ago
He won't rest until he's home
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by watersb 3y ago
Desert pavement is incredibly fragile. I lived in a high desert environment in central New Mexico for 10 years. You can see where the tracks of off road vehicles can stay in place for ten years. It takes a long time to regenerate the kind o
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by watersb 4y ago
To me, the interesting bit here is that Outlook is still using the Microsoft Word layout engine. That's what's going away: Outlook on Windows moves to the Chromium-lineage MS Edge web layout. I idly wonder about legacy DIME (binar
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by watersb 4y ago
I am not a graphics programmer, but this procedural geometry reminds me of "tessellation" from ten years ago.
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by watersb 4y ago
I got into four-word proverbs (Yojijukugos), like the one described here, when I was brainstorming some names for a new collection of quad-CPU workstations. Fifteen years ago, such beasts were new to us. A friend and co-worker gave me a boo
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by watersb 4y ago
Oh god. We are doomed.
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by watersb 4y ago
I got in the habit of using %T for Time (of day), as a shorthand for %H:%M:%S, but I can't recall how portable that is. date "+%F %T.%N"
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by watersb 4y ago
I upvoted your comment because it challenges the assumption that Linux is The Only Possible Platform. Reflecting on this assumption, I realize that Linux is the most widely supported platform to which the Raspberry Pi Foundation can retain
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by watersb 4y ago
It is awe inspiring! The previous method was a high-power radar transmitter at Arecibo, using the Green Bank Telescope as the receiver. Alas, the Arecibo Observatory is gone... :-( The VLBA is not only in Hawaii, of course: it's a Very
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by watersb 4y ago
A great article on the Minuteman ICBM testing program can be found in the Spring 2020 issue of "National Security Science", a glossy popular-science publication (not academic journal) of Los Alamos National Labs. Page 50, "A
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by watersb 4y ago
Impressive! My 1966 Cessna 172G could fly for a bit at $20/hour, but old engine and parts and stuff $65 / hour was more realistic.
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by watersb 4y ago
It's a repurposed U-2 high-altitude observation aircraft. At Flight Level 600, that's 60,000 feet above sea level. Which is really up there for any aircraft. I believe there are two of these still in operation by NASA. 30 (!) year
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by watersb 4y ago
Bombich.com is a great source of filesystem feature deep dives. He started with running a backup lab, helped people with corner cases and common failure modes. He created a GUI Mac app to guide people through the gnarly bits, and later cont

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