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by whartung 8mo ago
My favorite anecdote relating to Firebird/Interbase (its original name) is that it is supposed to be renowned for its durability (i.e. resistance to corruption) and fast start times. Because of this, they used it within the internal sy
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by whartung 8mo ago
There's a legend (perhaps me misremembering, or simply making it up, thus making it a legend rather than an anecdote) that Chuck Moore did something like this that eventually ended up as ColorForth. The story is simply that he started
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by whartung 8mo ago
I can’t speak to getting an LLM to talk to a CL listener, simply because I don’t know the mechanics of hooking it up. But being as they can talk to most anything else, I see no reason why it can’t. What they can certainly do is iterate with
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by whartung 8mo ago
I live in rock and rolling California, and we love our stick framed houses. They’re very resilient to the tremblors that plague us. Yea, if we’re hit hard enough, the stucco may or drywall may crack, but, big picture, those are cheap cosmet
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by whartung 8mo ago
My (large) bank is yanking their safety deposit boxes out. They let subscribers know that they have, like, 1 or 2 years to go. They're doing it across the branches. They basically feel it's not worth the liability any more, and th
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by whartung 8mo ago
“Simply Scheme” was a foundational work on my path to a parenthesta. Simply, for me it was a Rosetta Stone that put Lisp/Scheme concepts into ones that I already understood. Simple things like using “function” instead of “lambda” were
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by whartung 9mo ago
I use to muse if I put the money I spent on computer gear back in the day instead into woodworking tools, I'd not only have a bigger, better shop than Norm Abrahm, all of the tools would probably still work.
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by whartung 9mo ago
I lose my Time Machine drive, like, every year or two. Sometimes, Time Machine just goes stupid and I have to wipe the drive and start over. All of my efforts in the past to copy or repair or do anything to a Time Machine drive has ended in
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by whartung 9mo ago
My understanding is that routing through residential IPs is a part of the business of some VPN providers. I don't know how above board they are on this (as in notifying customers that this may happen, however buried in the usage agreem
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by whartung 9mo ago
Starting with Assembly is simply a bad idea because the tooling is terrible, and the learning curve of the tooling is steep. Filled with arcane codes and abbreviations and workflow right out the gate. Programming concepts are pretty much un
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by whartung 9mo ago
I remember during one drought, the day the LA Department of Water and Power was going to declare water rationing, we got, some crazy number, 7-8" of rain in the basin. We got so much, we got "Lake San Fernando Valley" as the
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by whartung 9mo ago
I feel like Bugs Bunny trying to play "Those Endearing Charms". (Mind I can't play, well, anything. I play the radio off key.) Just waiting for Yosemite Sam to run in and blow himself up.
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by whartung 10mo ago
So, does that make AIX that last one standing of the original, commercial Unixen? And by that I mean those commercial OSes that started with AT&T and drifted from there. Not to slight, say, the OpenSolaris children, per se, or the open
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by whartung 10mo ago
I bought that. (We just don't discuss how much money was spent in the 80's and 90's on hardware, books, software, etc.) I had to drive from the So Cal South Bay up to Sherman Oaks to find a store on Ventura Blvd that had it.
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by whartung 10mo ago
I don't read much any more. Mostly magazine articles. I did re-read "The Long Run" from Daniel Keys Moran (one of the very short list of books I've re-read, and this was #4 or #5). "Were you taught to hate Peaceforc
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by whartung 10mo ago
Don't you love how English can just turn your head around? When I first read this, I read it like "Here's 50 problems that have standard web APIs"...that solve the problems! As in, "here's problem 27, and here&
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by whartung 10mo ago
They do that in other places. As I heard the tale, on the Standard Missile, they don't recirculate the hydraulic fluid, they just spit out as the missile flies. It's a wonderful engineering solution.
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by whartung 10mo ago
Read the original Inside Macintosh, since that's about as fundamental and basic as it gets. See how they did the API for the Event, Window, and Control Mangers.
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by whartung 10mo ago
The way I first heard this was regarding Voyager. Something akin to: "Right now, you're carrying more computing power than what's on Voyager. And I'm not talking about your phone, I'm talking about your keyfob.&quot
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by whartung 10mo ago
Also, just so I'm clear, there's no requirement to share passkeys. Or even have passkeys enabled on all devices, right? If I log in to a site from my machine, and set up a passkey, but then log into that site from another machine,
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by whartung 11mo ago
As someone who has found themselves in a situation out in the wild with a fire and a fire extinguisher (neither of which were mine), with no direct extinguisher experience, you can take some solace in that they work very easily. They'r
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by whartung 11mo ago
To be fair, I have a 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee. It was the first year of their then new model rollout for the GC. It was (as I understand it) the last of the Mercedes JGCs. I love this thing, it's a "cold dead hands" kind of c
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by whartung 11mo ago
It's not like stickers are particularly difficult to make, or Watterson had an army of auditors combing every gas station or car meet looking for sticker makers. They have (as I understand it) challenged and stopped some folks from doi
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by whartung 11mo ago
But that said, it would be interesting to see the different systems after a tuning pass. Both as an example of capability, but also as an mechanic to discuss tuning options available to the users. Mind, the whole "its slow get new hard
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by whartung 11mo ago
We used to travel with folks in the back bed in beach chairs. It was quite comfortable, and you could fit four in a small Toyota truck bed. We would face each other, and talk, and it's was a fun and social way to travel. Six adults in
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by whartung 11mo ago
Ok, thanks. I was thinking more things being done to the actual machine the site was hosted on.
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by whartung 11mo ago
Not may area, so forgive me. How does taking the site down stop the DDOS attack? Isn't the host network still being bombarded by garbage packets, even if there isn't anything there listening? Or is routing the destination IP to &#
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by whartung 11mo ago
There's the San Bernardino Museum located at the train station in SB. Its next to the ATSF yards, so its sort of a combined SB and ATSF museum. On the wall there was a map of the US with all sorts of lines on it. Under closer scrutiny,
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by whartung 11mo ago
We thought about selling a recipe program for the Mac. The tag line was going to be "The only time you want a mouse in your kitchen."
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by whartung 1y ago
I, um, "abuse" TextEdit. TE, like all (most?) of Apples apps manage documents for you. They auto save, auto version, etc. I love the paradigm. I love how painless it works for me. I love not having to decide anything when the app

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