watersb

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   by watersb 6y ago

   You can muck around alternate data streams like a classic resource fork of a file on macOS by appending /..namedfork/rsrc to the file name. ls ./groovyFontFile/..namedfork/rsrc https://sta
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   by watersb 6y ago

   PowerShell runs on top of dotNET, and the pipe operators pass structured data, xml or json. It's not as fluid for me as a POSIX environment, 35 years of shell muscle memory. PowerShell is a bumpy road: some commands are super powerful,
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   by watersb 6y ago

   I find that I am deeply saddened by this news, and wish for the Queen some measure of condolence that his passing is truly felt even here.
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   by watersb 6y ago

   Safe C++ is indistinguishable from magic.
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   by watersb 6y ago

   "The worst that can happen"... In a world where your bank thinks that SMS is good enough for 2FA... phone number plus other info is good enough for credit reporting agencies to send out your complete file... Variations of this the
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   by watersb 6y ago

   Thanks! I was quite wrong in my previous comment; a quick scan of The Macintosh Garden reminds me I was programming in Wingz, a really nice macro host. https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/wingz
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   by watersb 6y ago

   GNU libtextstyle, part of gettext, includes CSS styling for ANSI terminal emulator text output. For some values of "CSS" and "ANSI". I will dig into a bit when I return to office computer...
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   by watersb 6y ago

   Odessa Helix was really good, a combination spreadsheet and database, and the extensive the scripting language was pretty much straight HyperTalk (AppleScript).
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   by watersb 6y ago

   Another awesome post from windytan.com -- I still love the deep dive on dialup modem signals (listed as a "Popular Post" on the sidebar there). http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured
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    by watersb 6y ago

    I can't tell from TFA -- is this announcement about sharing the GPU with the host machine? I don't know how to do passthrough with a GPU that's being used be the host. Haven't tried since 2010, though..
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    by watersb 6y ago

    I was born in Georgia-the-US-State, and yet I stumbled a bit on the headline, parsing it as Tblisi-not-Atlanta. Your careful analysis might explain my brain. (In this particular case. If that is even possible, because my brain...)
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    by watersb 6y ago

    Your second example is easy to understand. Reading the first example, from this proposal, made my eyes twitch. I haven't done a lot of Scheme since the 20th Century, though I re-visit SICP every couple of years.
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    by watersb 6y ago

    MISRA: "Motor Industry Software Reliability Association" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISRA_C
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    by watersb 6y ago

    And when you fix it, everything breaks.
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    by watersb 6y ago

    The first nuclear bombs cost billions of dollars each. I wish I could say that’s a good thing. But no, after the first of them, nuclear weapons seem to have justified their own existence, no matter the cost. I would rather see remaining wea
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    by watersb 6y ago

    Two summers ago, I made a huge desk for myself. As my hands were busy, I listened to the SICP lectures that have survived as a podcast. 6.001's UC Berkeley equivalent was my first and still all-time favorite computer science course.
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    by watersb 6y ago

    DEC had a significant business making desktop personal computers. The first models had to be hooked up to a real computer in order to do much, but later versions could be expanded into stand-alone machines. Of course, the disruptive innovat
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    by watersb 6y ago

    I haven't tried the escape codes for terminal window movement recently, but I used to use them for window tiling. Terminal.app used them just fine.
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    by watersb 6y ago

    If I write code when I feel physically unwell or tired, I have to undo it later. If I wander HN in the same mental fugue state, I often find things that save me effort later.
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    by watersb 6y ago

    I really enjoyed using FoxBase on Macintosh back in 1991.
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    by watersb 6y ago

    NTFS? Impressive.
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    by watersb 6y ago

    We had Stooges servers in the 1990s...
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    by watersb 6y ago

    Then a bit of software for the SSC was used to analyze radio astronomy data for a decade or so.
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    by watersb 6y ago

    I was playing with vttest today. Odd terminal emulator features. Vttest: https://invisible-island.net/vttest/
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    by watersb 6y ago

    They cost about a million dollars... Although you could amortize that by hooking up four terminals to the controller. Very close to modern day text browsers. Just Really Expensive.
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    by watersb 6y ago

    The article discusses post end-of-support for Windows machines. > [Microsoft Surface devices get] firmware and driver updates for about four years after they are first released. This is a little better than Chromebooks and a little worse
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    by watersb 6y ago

    I always find great stuff when I read @leahneukirchen's blog posts.
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    by watersb 6y ago

    Atlanta, car addiction, dead malls. It was a nice weird space-age childhood, but now that built environment needs to go.
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    by watersb 6y ago

    X96 even has an LED clock display, so you can make it blink 12:00 all the time, just like the real machines.
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    by watersb 6y ago

    Is your Ubiquiti box doing Deep Packet Inspection over your home network? It might be frantically trying to look at every packet flying by.