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by whartung 5y ago
Unrelated to your packaging achievement, I do think that there should be some sort of shoutout to the fact that you wrote your wiki, including the HTTP server, not just in Java, but in Java with what appears to be, effectively, zero depende
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by whartung 5y ago
I trend towards "progressive" rock music, which is "more music than vocals", but not purely either. As a rule, I don't "listen" to the lyrics, I've never been much for what the songs "mean".
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by whartung 5y ago
Actually, yes. I take a medication that's routinely advertised. When they advertised an updated formula for it, I did ask my doctor if we should consider it. Turns out, it's not covered by the insurance, so, not today. But if it w
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by whartung 5y ago
I've been playing Angband off and on since the mid 80's when it's ancestor, Moria, hit the DECUS tapes and we'd run it on our VAX. I can't speak historically as to what it may or may not have pioneered in roguelikes
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by whartung 5y ago
I dunno, women may not like wargaming because women don't like wargaming. I haven't gamed with any "seriousness" since the late 80's early 90's. But back then I was heavy in to "cardboard and hexmap"
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by whartung 6y ago
I was devout HP-48 fan back in the day, even did some custom programming for one for a client (got paid!), deployed about 20 of them in to the field. This thing was a real delight to write programs for. Just RPL, nothing fancy. For $99 at t
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by whartung 6y ago
The cold hard truth, however, is that CP/M is kind of awful. Back then you didn't have directories and subdirectories, what you had were floppies and disk drives. These were your file management components. Hard drives were rare,
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by whartung 6y ago
That's because you're running on a I/O device at 2 Billion Baud, instead of a 9600 baud device which is more era appropriate. At 9600, ^S/^Q is quite manageable.
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by whartung 6y ago
I had this happen few times on a Mac and every time I was shocked that if disk gets full you cannot even delete a file and the only option is to do a full system reboot. I was also unable to save any open file, even to external disk and su