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by whartung 5mo ago
Mind, I never used Netware. But, originally wasn't it mostly a network system to support network printers and file systems? BTRIEVE would run on top of that. But, as I understand it, Netware wasn't required. They just went togethe
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by whartung 5mo ago
The solution here is for publishers to give away the client, and simply charge a subscription. Keypoint: > would require a digital game operator to communicate specified information to purchasers and prospective purchasers of a digit
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by whartung 5mo ago
From the movie "Bowfinger" [0] Dave: But movies cost millions of dollars to make. Robert K. Bowfinger: That's after gross net deduction profit percentage deferment ten percent of the nut. Cash, every movie cost $2,184.
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by whartung 5mo ago
You have to appreciate that the nostalgia is not necessarily how these looked, but also how they worked. Also, there's simply the reminiscing back to the era when these were out. When they were NEW, and revolutionary. All things that c
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by whartung 5mo ago
> It’s hard to understand just how different NeXTStep (Did I capitalize that correctly?) felt from Windows — part of it was refresh rates, but part of it was going from 800x600 to 1132x800-ish on the monitor. You can't really get it
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by whartung 5mo ago
Switching from a "raw" b-tree system to an SQL system with transactions was an eye opening experience. The typical troubleshooting path with the b-tree system almost inevitably, and very quickly, led to a "rebuild the indexes
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by whartung 6mo ago
Technically it wasn’t the linker that’s simplified, it’s the loader. Modern systems don’t worry about PIC code, they have virtual memory so everyone sees memory the same. The virtual memory system manages the relocation automatically. OS&#
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by whartung 6mo ago
This is because of the failure of the modern GUI environment. They want a GUI, but, instead, they have to resort to something like this. A GUI in a TUI. They want something portable. They want something that can run remotely. They want some
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by whartung 6mo ago
What's cool about this is that we're at the point where a committed hobbyist can pull something like this off. I don't know what's in the FPGA, and I honestly don't know that much about FPGAs, but I imagine it'
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by whartung 6mo ago
If I’m reaching for calculator, I’m reaching for my phone. At that point I’m either using the stock iOS calculator or iHP48, HP48 clone. It mostly depends on which page of apps I’m on and which is closest. I like the unit conversion on the
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by whartung 6mo ago
I can't speak to OpenEMR, but OpenMRS is popular overseas, and has done a lot of work in Africa. OpenEMR may be in similar spaces.
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by whartung 6mo ago
It's also moot. If the API replied "Are you sure (Y/N)?" the AI, in the mode it was in, guardrails completely pushed off the side of the road, it would have just said "Yes" anyway. If you needed to make two API
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by whartung 6mo ago
I think the biggest problem to simulate is the fog of war and ambiguity of what's going on. When you're staring at a paper map with a bunch units scattered about, with tangible values assigned to thing, its "easy" to get
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by whartung 6mo ago
I've met both, Niven, twice, briefly. He was a grand story teller, but not really approachable. Pournelle was always pleasant. I had the opportunity to share a dinner with JP. I was on BIX, Byte Information Exchange, their "BBS&qu
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by whartung 6mo ago
Ditto. It's the only issue I saved. I binned my large collection of Byte, Dr. Dobbs, etc. during a move. I recall taking them down from an attic cubby and then having to take them back up. Something like "Oh, forget it" came
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by whartung 6mo ago
> a useful skill many younger programmers lack. Because it’s unnecessary. It’s not a difficult skill. When folks are in that situation, they tend to adapt quickly to their reality. But that’s not the reality for the vast majority of deve
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by whartung 6mo ago
What's interesting is that as I understand, folks are using things like Google Docs for papers, and that it's (apparently) straight forward to do analysis on a Google Doc to see, well, the life of the document. How it was typed in
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by whartung 6mo ago
I have a pair of Mountainsmith Lumbar packs, both either over or pushing 30 years old (I have two because I misplaced and replaced my first, but later found it). It's an excellent pack, cinches up tight, mount it front or back, strap i
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by whartung 6mo ago
As I understand it, Tesla auto driving (and, maybe, Waymo), have consistency issues with passing stopped school buses. Sometimes they stop, sometimes they don't. But, what little I read about it, nothing from the photos or video show t
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by whartung 6mo ago
I keep hearing about the downside of B(+)-Trees for DBs, that they have issues for certain scenarios, but I've never seen a simple, detailed list about them, what they are, and the scenarios they perform badly in.
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by whartung 6mo ago
I'm guessing they reimplemented the toolbox at the TRAP level (most MacOS calls at the time were accessed through the 68K TRAP instruction). So, rather than emulating hardware to run native ROMs, they "simply" reimplemented t
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by whartung 6mo ago
Yea, boy, you’d like to think. But sharing a folder on my Mac with my wife’s MacBook has been a Google diving, arcane command line headache. I would have thought sharing the folder, and marking ‘everyone’ for all the read/write modes w
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by whartung 6mo ago
They could force you to re-sell your tickets through the team MLB site, and to sell them for face value. If the tickets come in at less than face value because of the season sale (not unreasonable), that can work OK (particularly for good s
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by whartung 7mo ago
I had that issue with the AI doing some CL dabbling. Things, on the whole, were fine, save for the occasional, rogue (or not) parentheses. The AI would just go off the rails trying to solve the problem. I told it that if it ever encountered
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by whartung 7mo ago
This is good to hear. Back when JEE was still proto-matter, we had the early versions of JBoss, but it was very raw, and hard to use. Sun released the Sun Java Application Server 8 (no idea where 1-7 were). It was closed source, but free li
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by whartung 7mo ago
They can probably get a Shepherd Book voice actor much easier than a Ron Glass doppelgänger for a live show.
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by whartung 7mo ago
Loved the show, I have no expectations for this. It's just too easy to not be "right" for all sorts of incompatible different definitions of "right". But, the animated series a good idea and smart. First, it lets Na
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by whartung 7mo ago
> The original Top Gun (1986) was describe at the time as the US Navy's most successful recruiting campaign ever, noted in this 2004 account citing 1990 correspondence with then Secretary of Defence Dick Cheney: < https:/&#x
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by whartung 7mo ago
I know some systems leverage the modern file meta data (extended attributes), but it's clearly not successful enough that folks can use them for an application like this. Ostensibly, things like MacOS Spotlight can bring real utility a
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by whartung 8mo ago
Whenever I tried dabbling in Smalltalk, I would feel constrained by the system in terms of raw real estate. I never cared to view the system through the narrow slit of the method code editor. I would suffer the explosion of windows. All of

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