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by whartung 2y ago
Then, of course, there’s the rocket launched from beneath the swimming pool.
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by whartung 2y ago
Famous for enabling one of the very early Internet Worms. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm
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by whartung 2y ago
From the "If I could" files, I would have liked to spent 5 years on an AS/400, trying to make it work for whatever company I was working for. The best way to learn this stuff is simply apply it, trying to solve problems. Goin
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by whartung 2y ago
Pretty sure they used the same orange hilighter when they did mine!
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by whartung 2y ago
Sort of related, friends and I were talking today and the subject of AAA (American Automobile Association) came up. I recalled I had joined back in 1990, in preparation for my spontaneous trip to Canada. I had just left my job and had two w
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by whartung 2y ago
Every time I take a stab at a web gui app, I’m daunted. The toolkits, the apparently billions of dependencies, the vastly complicated build processes. I tried again recently. HTML file and a separate JS file. Some SVG elements with a click
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by whartung 2y ago
You do t need to stop a 100 km/hr car in 50 meters because, barring that sudden brick wall appearing ahead of the car in front of you, they’re not stopping in 50m either. The 50m is the reaction buffer, not the stopping buffer. It’s al
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by whartung 2y ago
Let me introduce you to the Nixie Tube[0]! 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixie_tube
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by whartung 2y ago
Just reminds me of stumbling across a Hex -> Segment LED decoder chip. The chip was $17. A RPi 0 is (was) $5. Just one of those "Not in Kansas anymore" moments.
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by whartung 2y ago
There's a fascinating video of a fellow trying to make a ring out of Purple Gold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6Pcp944sRI&pp=ygUQcHVycGxlI... No, I hadn't heard of purple gold either.
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by whartung 2y ago
I like the clever use of the "java prog.java" style. I don't know how many folks know, although its been there for a bit, that you no longer have to specifically compile single file java programs. You can just run them with w
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by whartung 2y ago
My “NAS” is my late model Intel iMac. I have, like, 5 USB drives hanging off it. I SyncThing my wife’s laptop to it. I serve a bunch of videos off of it to our AppleTV. All our photos are there. I have a Time Machine backup of the main syst
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by whartung 2y ago
The other big thing in the resource fork was the executable code segments that made up the application. In fact applications typically had nothing but the data fork at all. It was all in the resource fork.
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by whartung 2y ago
They’re a good place for folks to develop more academic discipline in that they tend to have a more rigid structure than university, more like a freer high school than the free for all of university.
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by whartung 2y ago
I remember first getting my cable modem at the house, and I was able to install BSD over the network using a boot floppy. That was an "amazing" thing to me back in the day. I had the bandwidth to do it, a simple floppy to start th
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by whartung 2y ago
I refer to RDF as the "absurd normal form". When my friends and I do DB design, it's almost inevitable we fall into what might inevitably become the "ThingThing" table thats a many-to-many joiner of everything to ev
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by whartung 2y ago
Galactic Modeling Language: https://wiki.c2.com/?GalacticModelingLanguage
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by whartung 2y ago
I'm not going to have 100's of millions of objects, so I can't speak to that. But for my one hobby project, I'm using RDF and a triple store. Even with a "small" dataset, you can get an explosion of properties.
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by whartung 2y ago
This is just a testament to the maturity of the platform, and the work that has gone into the portable engine segment. Targeting Chrome targets all of the platforms, and the machines and platform is "fast enough" to do the job wit
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by whartung 2y ago
I could swear there was a document producing product way back in the day (i.e. late 80s, early 90s) that was called Overleaf. It may have been a “workstation” (i.e. Sun or similar) product vs a Mac/PC product.
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by whartung 2y ago
It also reminds me of that phrase: “Anyone can build a bridge, it takes an engineer to build one that barely stands up.” As novices, it’s not uncommon that we overbuild things. Hard enough work to put it together, for sure don’t want it to
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by whartung 2y ago
I always thought one of the nice concepts that WS did was the presentation of the command menu. WordStar worked with prefixes, much like Emacs. I think it used ^K and ^Q. But, no matter. The important thing was that if you hit one of the pr
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by whartung 2y ago
What's the modern day barrier to creating a "hobby" TRS-80 Model 100? 40x8 LCD display, one of the best keyboards ever made. I see the custom keyboard community seem to be able to make any keyboard they like. The keyboard on
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by whartung 2y ago
It’s funny, the graphic nature of Hypercard is what put me off of it. It was essentially MacPaint with a few controls and a scripting language. While fundamentally it was persistent cards with fields, buttons, and actions, as presented with
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by whartung 2y ago
I loathe modern grocery store "reusable" bags. They can't be recycled, in that I can't toss them into my blue bin, I have to take them back to the store (I don't) and story is nothing happens to them anyway. I hate
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by whartung 2y ago
In the old days that would be classic VAR opportunity. Independents solving local problems. And, while license fees always affect the value proposition of a solution, there’s typically a lot of consulting and implementation labor dominates
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by whartung 2y ago
How do things like this handle sockets? Is there some kind of first class event that the app can detect, or does it just "close" them all and assume the app can cleanly reconnect to reestablish them (once they detect that the sock
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by whartung 2y ago
I love Java, I love the ecosystem. It's been a 25 year journey. I will be the first to admit that I have not adopted "modern Java", mostly with all of the functional stuff (notably all of the collection streams and what not).
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by whartung 2y ago
This was, sheesh, 20 years ago, but my nit with Windows is how it always locks files. And using your example of Desktop Search, more than once I’ve had a build fail because it could not delete the files in the artifact directory because the
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by whartung 2y ago
All of the water delivery is gravity fed. We live on the slope of an alluvial fan. Water is pumped as/if necessary to the various reservoirs, but from there they rely on water drop for delivery. The tank may well have two sets of pipes

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