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by watersb 5y ago
Learning to write 6809 Assembly language programs set me up quite nicely for the wave 32-bit 68000 machines. But yes, I think microcomputers had to get more complicated to move forward. The original Macintosh team worked like mad to keep th
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by watersb 5y ago
Oh yes US Robotics modems were some of the first consumer modems to get data throughput above 9600 bits per second. They also created a weird but very interesting computer designed by some guy named Jeff Hawkins. https://en.m.wik
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by watersb 5y ago
Okay, sorry, I guess this comment didn't help much. Also the formula is confusing 'F' denoting "force", rather than talking about kinetic energy. In the transport of hazardous materials of any kind, if a mishap occu
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by watersb 5y ago
We must have "The Talk". https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
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by watersb 5y ago
Ah yes... the Taco Bell across the street from SGI. Before it tanked and became that laser-tag place.
906.
by watersb 5y ago
Yep. F = 1/2 * mass * velocity^2
907.
by watersb 5y ago
Left 1 Jan 1998. Not sure I'm better for it. But there are certainly green pastures elsewhere...
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by watersb 5y ago
Cable television.
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by watersb 5y ago
I am not at my main computer at the moment so I can't confirm yet, but IIRC Racket is available as a much smaller language core set of tools sufficient to run CLI scripts. I consider Racket to be a "batteries included", curat
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by watersb 5y ago
Today, I am re-reading "Tom Swift and His Triphibian Atomicar". http://www.tomswift.info/homepage/atomicar.html It's my favorite of the Fabulous Swifties. Keeping the dream alive.
911.
by watersb 5y ago
Your architecture diagram is a thing of beauty. If only we did this with Rational ROSE, so we could be assured of ISO9001 compliance... sigh... A relic from a more noble age.
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by watersb 5y ago
In my town, the high school kids are more likely to die from suicide than from automobile crashes. It's a high pressure environment. Everyone trying to fix this, but the perception of everything riding on getting into the good universi
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by watersb 5y ago
Buy me a house in a great place for my kids within 30 minutes commute time, and I will consider the other things in your job offer. If you add a huge arcology within walking distance to your mother ship, so that we can all live in the beaut
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by watersb 5y ago
?? Little Snitch works fine for me on macOS BS on my M1 MacBook Pro. Does it fail to work properly on Intel Macs? All of my x86 Macs are far too old to try Big Sur. EDIT: Oh, I see -- first-party Apple apps can stream unlimited data, tracki
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by watersb 5y ago
How will we all access the torrents of corporate spam?! A good while ago, I may or may not have heard from someone who had registered a domain name like "foo.bar"... a placeholder sort of name, a valid domain. Got the impression
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by watersb 5y ago
I picked up a paper 2nd edition of "Understanding the Linux Kernel" from the free shelf at my local library. It spends about half of the book discussing the 32-bit x86 architecture... The other half is data structures. Very nice i
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by watersb 5y ago
Wow, I had never seen this article before -- John Carmack is rocking an Intergraph workstation! I had one of these, a dual Pentium II box, in 1998. It was a beast. I didn't have a godlike monitor like that widescreen monster. Although
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by watersb 5y ago
Yes, actually, this is good feedback: I can see how it might have been understood as some amazing engineering. Certainly Holden did a fantastic job getting back in one piece... I've reached the stage in my programmer's career wher
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by watersb 5y ago
(To clarify: two things make me feel the vastness that lies between my ability and expertise: - Computer programming - Landing an airplane (was student pilot for about 250 landings, until.. - Parenthood - Expressing myself effectively in wr
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by watersb 5y ago
Thanks. This article on Scientific American is useful context. Should maybe note that article is from (2017).
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by watersb 5y ago
Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded. https://imgur.com/gallery/2eBXYnT
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by watersb 5y ago
Perfect metaphor of me, in any programming job ever.
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by watersb 5y ago
Surprised I don't see SVGOMG mentioned yet: https://jakearchibald.github.io/svgomg/ I play with the settings when I care about SVG size. I don't know what real developers do, but I got a skewed version of cow
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by watersb 5y ago
This might not be a constructive observation for me to post this comment, but I can just see the IBM mainframe designers sitting back with a refreshing beverage, while we talk about identifying and handling hardware faults during runtime.
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by watersb 5y ago
Thanks! This YouTube channel has recently done a number of great teardowns of electrical outlets (receptacles). Go with Commercial grade. https://youtu.be/cRJLqCnLsDU I would add, if you can afford it, install AFCI outlets
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by watersb 5y ago
In the US, there's Staber laundry machines. https://www.staber.com/residential-clothes-washers
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by watersb 5y ago
Excellent. There is a shift from university for its own sake, back to skilled work in making things. A more rational motivation. I was far too often, far too much like the arrogant snots the author encountered at university; I had been cond
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by watersb 5y ago
Jerry Pournelle had quite a bit of experience with the guts of computer gear; his first home compter is in the Smithsonian Institution collection. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle
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by watersb 5y ago
Doesn't work on my old ipad. Or I don't know the magic gesture controls to make it happen. I'm not a robot, I think. But keyboard-only input systems are not obvious to me from an ipad.
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by watersb 5y ago
We had to wait until just this last week to receive second doses. Shots have been rationed and rolled out by appointment only in our state. That said, now everyone in our family is fully vaccinated.

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