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by watersb 5y ago
A lot of comments here consider what manufacturing in the United States might look like at this scale. I have heard that we would need to build an entire Pear River Delta supercluster of manufacturing and supplier capacity, to "level t
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by watersb 5y ago
IIRC, Visio Pro had some network crawling routines for just this sort of system map. I had an app for this on my Macintosh(AppleTalk!)network, by a great bunch of folks at a company named Neon. (I believe that was the name of the company,
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by watersb 5y ago
MSM = "Mainstream Media"? If so, I wonder why it wasn't obvious to me.
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by watersb 5y ago
Older books on computing can really help. When computers were unfamiliar to almost everyone, the author took care to walk through the fundamentals of computer science. Jon Bentley. "Programming Pearls" https://www.goog
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by watersb 5y ago
I'm not quite sure if I'm addressing your question; I am not as familiar with PowerShell as I am with various unix-like command shells. But an example that springs to mind for me is "Get-ChildItem". Two default aliases
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by watersb 5y ago
If I could upvote you ten points, I would. I love Notepad. I love the .LOG feature. I hit F5 for fun. For some reason, the dead-simple text editors have always fascinated me. It's damn near good enough.
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by watersb 5y ago
For the "userland", everything outside the kernel. The DOS shell and all the GUI APIs. And the device driver APIs. The kernel core, the scheduler, memory management, and local machine security model is from Windows NT, which was d
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by watersb 5y ago
Yes, the TB4 cables are more expensive than the ones intended for just charging. And the charging cables are designed to provide power to a range of USB devices, most of which were designed before USB-C Power Delivery was a thing. The charg
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by watersb 5y ago
Just yesterday, I was telling myself I had been a fool to spend more money on yet more cable-ware, when I am surrounded by cables I don't need. But now I feel a lot better, thanks. Charging cables are set up in a couple of places in th
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by watersb 5y ago
I lived in Berkeley at the time, as yes the number of people on the streets that had been suddenly kicked out of long-term care facilities overwhelmed other public services, who were ill-equipped to provide anything more than crisis contain
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by watersb 5y ago
Desqview/X and friends. Good times. I attended one of those week long training classes on Distributed COM.. My take on it was it was fiendishly complicated to get type safety out of DCOM. They were going to make it work, but one group
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by watersb 5y ago
“The city is way too easy for people with nothing to get by,” she said. “That’s why I’m still here nine years later. You get by with doing drugs and suffer no consequences. I like it here.” No doubt, chronic homelessness is a problem in S
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by watersb 5y ago
RDP = "Remote Desktop Protocol " This lets you view and control a full desktop session (rather than a text command shell) over a network connection to a remote client. Like VNC, but a Microsoft proprietary protocol. (I think VNC c
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by watersb 5y ago
I'm glad you have this setup.. I have resisted the urge to get an ultra wide monitor. I really want to know how it would feel to have one narrow edge on the physical desk, with the long curve of the display arching up overhead.
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by watersb 5y ago
And my brain initially read it as "orgasms". TAKE MY MONEY... oh. Ok.
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by watersb 5y ago
For use as a monitor, smaller panels may be more desirable, more pixels per unit area. I don't want a 72-inch wall monster. I'm going to be viewing it from about a meter from my face. But that's just my face. Other faces migh
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by watersb 5y ago
Oh boy! Another Windy Tan sonic analysis! If you haven't yet, be sure to check out the one on dialup modem links. Seriously. It's a wonderful walk-through of all those screeches from the 1990s: http://www.windytan.com&#
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by watersb 5y ago
Apple: "16GB is enough for reasonable people" Every professor at uni: "Ten days is plenty of time to complete this project."
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by watersb 5y ago
You've never used the "Help" menu on macOS, I believe. I simply don't understand why they still bother with it.
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by watersb 5y ago
I did two semesters of heavy Prolog in a college AI course, decades ago. I followed the early-2000s "Semantic Web" ideas. The actual data was all written as RDF, an application of XML, and it was very verbose and felt clumsy to me
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by watersb 5y ago
I tend to look at the HN comments before reading an article, and I often enjoy other people's "See Also" suggestions. It helps me contextualize the material, which in turn is key to my learning from what I read. Ah.. also,
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by watersb 5y ago
Love the muppetlabs posts. See also this series on ELF binaries, and a really small (the smallest?) ELF executable. http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/
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by watersb 5y ago
Jokes about nuclear power in the hands of authoritarian despotism are quite disturbing. I don't know how to compare the insanity of the past (over there) with the insanity of the present (over here). And as I write this in Los Alamos,
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by watersb 5y ago
Arithmetic-coded JPEG rendered as black box on iPad 4th gen, iOS 10.3.3 (latest version possible)
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by watersb 5y ago
Here's a really old ISBN, which I picked at random because I wrote the book (often also a random process at times) -- almost 25 years ago: 978-0782120813 I had no trouble finding the book via this magic number. I don't know how th
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by watersb 5y ago
ISBN = International Standard Book Number DOI does resemble ISBN, but I can find book info via ISBN without relying on the publisher to maintain a database. (via Google or ISBN.nu or maybe even the Library of Congress) ISBN is indeed assign
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by watersb 5y ago
Wait list for private psychiatric care here can be six months long now. As for public assistance clinics, good luck... Clinical-level psychiatric cases have increased since onset of the covid-19 pandemic. A number of doctors I have spoken t
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by watersb 5y ago
Yeah it's been a ride. I moved to One Financial, but I've kept a local credit union account as well. This probably makes no sense, but then again it's ok to feel conservative about banking. It's worked out for me so far.
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by watersb 5y ago
We had the co-ed dorms, which seemed to work out. If you were too offensive, you were Spoken To. I had friends who were members of fraternities or sororities, and they were far more strict on a daily basis. That structure also seemed to wor
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by watersb 5y ago
I was a student at UC Berkeley in 1980s. We woke-rolled one another mercilessly on a daily basis. Also there was Naked Man: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Martinez

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