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by watersb 5y ago
Fast file system queries that could be stored as shortcuts were nice, still haven't seen that implemented nearly as well elsewhere. NTFS metadata architecture really inspired by BeFS, or at the least, a fellow traveler. You can tweak
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by watersb 5y ago
arguably the only really compelling feature of BeOS (Spotlight) Be filesystem (BeFS) was terribly compelling, but only after you had lost your first draft of your first book to filesystem corruption. Or so I'm told.
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by watersb 5y ago
Ed Roberts decided to stop playing with toys full-time, so he moved back home and became a dentist. Small-town doctor and mayor. After giving Bill and Paul their first personal computer gig. It would seem that the esteemed Dr. Roberts pathw
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by watersb 5y ago
I first saw Necko on the Mac. Originally on the NEC-PC (Necko is Japanese for "cat"), it has been ported or re-implemented all over the place (Wikipedia is my only brain). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko
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by watersb 5y ago
Free42 also on Android. Actually launches faster for me that some of the "native" calculators, which I find very strange. I just checked: although I have Free42 on my Kindle Fire tablet, it's via Google Play Store. I don&#x27
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by watersb 5y ago
Um, everyone uses glxgears daily. Right? It's the desktop background. The X root Window. If you finish all your work, all your windows closed, you get to see them gears!
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by watersb 5y ago
"Hyper-Structured Graphics" -- This was new to me, thanks! Essentially, hyperlinks for shapes; any graphic element can be linked to another, including other drawings (documents) or sections of a document. I suppose that's obv
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by watersb 5y ago
That was the summer that MarcA publicly announced that Netscape would be a pure Java app by the end of the year. So one of the mainline JavaScript interpreters was written in Java, and the JavaScript could call out to that engine, so you c
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by watersb 5y ago
I am really glad he was able to talk about this, and that you chose to post it. I read the abstract and conclusion from the preprint listing before reading the comments here. I was hoping for something beyond "dumb ppl no vax" and
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by watersb 5y ago
You're absolutely right about the focus, the narrowing of product lines and a return to consumer products, giving Apple a path to the iPod and financial success. Apple needed a story, a reason to exist, and then needed to bring that st
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by watersb 5y ago
And about that portability... While NeXT had just released their NextStep for the Intel PC, it was more precise to say that it worked on a very specific Dell PC or Canon workstation configuration. I was able to get it up and running on a ho
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by watersb 5y ago
> Insofar as NeXT's tech has helped Apple it's just that they've had a portable operating system that they could move between ISAs and form factors. That isn't unique to NeXT/OpenStep NeXTStep was not just a po
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by watersb 5y ago
More awesome from the remarkable tech monster that ported a modern Mozilla Firefox port on the PowerPC Macintosh MacOS "Classic" (pre OS X) platform, for at least a decade the lone developer. Windmill tilting boss level. Classic w
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Is log4js-node affected by the log4s vulnerability? (no)(github.com)
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by watersb 5y ago
log4js GitHub Issue #1105 - a great answer from gmillerd: """ This is a JS implementation of a log4 like pattern in js, it is not a port of log4j nor log4j2. It doesn't use jini or ldap. log4js doesn't have a native
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by watersb 5y ago
I once experimented with a design that ended up with 30,000 files in a single directory. (It was a dumb experiment.) I discovered that the ls I as using used a polynomial-time algorithm for sorting the output. Like, it would lock up the mac
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by watersb 5y ago
My point did get muddled there in telling a story. It's that the teams were putting all this effort using quite literally millions of dollars of tech infrastructure, to create tech products to be delivered to very limited computers and
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Some lovely ones in North Berkeley.
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by watersb 5y ago
I can't use an Ulephone on Verizon, which is the only carrier in town that can deal with gnarly mountain terrain. Very difficult cell carrier coverage situation. Friend of mine was really happy with his Ulephone, great value if it work
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by watersb 5y ago
There are lots of good options for sub-$200 laptops at Wal Mart right now. ChromeBooks or little Windows machines. Every web dev should use one. I am fascinated by the low end options, you learn a lot about a system when it's pushed to
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by watersb 5y ago
Oh God yes. Back in the 20th Century, I was on a team for a major web browser. They were attempting to extend web browser technologies to crawl and cache web sites. The idea was to enable complex web experiences in a time when Internet serv
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by watersb 5y ago
Oh boy. I'm reading "Ghost Fleet" at the moment, sort of a novel, but more of an annotated wargame using modern and near-future military technology. It's pedantic, intentionally so, but might be worth reading through, to
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by watersb 5y ago
I'm writing this from memory, with checking any sources. IIRC: Designs like JNDI were widespread in the IT software industry at the time. The academic prototype for all this was CORBA, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture. An
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by watersb 5y ago
I am in the process of reading all of these comments, so I know I have a ways to go. If we are in fact talking about strange beluefs becoming a matter of identity, then any attempt to talk someone out of that identity will not help anyone.
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by watersb 5y ago
This is really interesting! I didn't consider mapping a keypress duration! Apple has a bit of documentation on scriptable key mapping: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2450...
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by watersb 5y ago
Coat a surface with a copper-magnesium alloy (amalgam?). Then remove the magnesium. The microscopic voids in the solid material, where the magnesium used to be, dramatically increase the effective area of the copper. This caught my attentio
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by watersb 5y ago
What a nightmare for this crew's families, as well. Certainly not as awful as loss of life, but I wonder how much uncertainty the family of a submariner must come to accept.
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by watersb 5y ago
If you wear a mask to prevent unvaccinated people from contracting a potentially lethal contagious disease, that's a clear win for morality. I can understand a moral argument to be made for pushing back against authoritarian abuse of p
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by watersb 5y ago
Thank you very much for posting this. Holy cow. I had a slight brain injury in college, a concussion. Everyone was taking care of the urgent cases, so it took a while to realize that I was no longer tracking anything beyond five minutes at
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by watersb 5y ago
"Some of you may die, but that is a risk I am willing to take."

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