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by whartung 1y ago
What "everyone"? They don't have to agree on anything. The poster child for this is Smalltalk. An untraditional environment despite being around 60 years. The source code is stored locally in an internal file tied directly to
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by whartung 1y ago
I believe that static assignment is the default for Turbo as well. If you want re-entrant/recursive calls, they were selectively enabled through a directive. But at least it was directly supported by Turbo. 6502 and stack frames don’t
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by whartung 1y ago
I think it's the bandwidth, or lack there of. A lot of it happens in out of band posts like these. It seems to happen less in interactive (i.e. chat, etc.). Make no mistake, it absolutely happens there. But not as much as in async post
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by whartung 1y ago
Just be prepared for the waiver you have to sign. After all of the advertising about how amazing and safe and wonderful it is, the rubber meets the road with the release you sign. Essentially “we’re about to shoot LASERS into your eye and i
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by whartung 1y ago
It may be widely considered, but that doesn't mean it's an accurate assertion. The internal structure of DEC BASIC PLUS is a far, far cry from what MS-BASIC (MSB) is. Outside of some shared syntax, the implementations are night an
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by whartung 1y ago
CP/Ms true claim to fame is being an evolutionary stepping stone in the fast moving microcomputer market. In the early 90's we were in the midst of the Unix wars, where every Tom, Dick, and Harry was pumping out a random mini-comp
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by whartung 1y ago
This is actually an interesting idea. I have my e.g. GitHub recovery codes printed out. I have to assume that the recovery codes are more flexible, but rescanning the original QR code would be better UX in case of loss simply because GitHub
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by whartung 1y ago
Being as I love minor disaster anecdotes where doing all the "right things" seem to not make any difference :). We had a rack in data center, and we wanted to put local UPS on critical machines in the rack. But the data center wen
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by whartung 1y ago
"Computers are deterministic!" If I wanted to plumb together badly documented black boxes, I'd have become an EE.
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by whartung 1y ago
I love Unix. It's my favorite OS. And I like it for its fundamental process model. That combined with stdin/out and pipes. All stitched together with a process aware shell. Lots (most) OSes had a process concept. But in Unix, they
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by whartung 1y ago
Are satellite phones under the same microscope as cell phones? Are they broadcasting on all the different cell/wifi/bt frequencies or do they just connect to a satellite? Are they GPS tagged? Also if you want one-way “location les
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by whartung 1y ago
No, thank you. This was perfect. It completely explains where the train comes from and where the lines come from. Lightbulb on. Aha achieved. (Don’t you love Aha? I love Aha.)
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by whartung 1y ago
These are amazing images. I don't understand what's going on here, but I do like the images.
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by whartung 1y ago
The systems are also notoriously opaque. On the level of “I pressed the button and nothing happened.” Fraught with bottomless wells of silent failure. There’s inevitably a section of dumping payloads and sometimes that’s one sided.
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by whartung 1y ago
Because most game tutorials are about moving things around, maybe sounds, maybe collision detection. And the actual mechanics of, notably, a 2D engine, are reasonably straightforward. But going from moving stuff around to “game” is a lot of
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by whartung 1y ago
I have one of these, but it’s not a Ford. It’s a BMW motorcycle. At the time, the F-series came in the F-750 and F-850 models. The motors are identical, the computers restrict the top end horsepower. But, those aren’t the only differences.
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by whartung 1y ago
Kind of like Oracle did.
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by whartung 1y ago
JDK, I believe, has first class support for accessing the Java AST.
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by whartung 1y ago
I'm kind of in this cohort. While in the groove, yea, things fly but, inevitably, my interest wanes. Either something too tedious, something too hard (or just a lot of work). Or, just something shinier shows up. Bunch of 80% projects w
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by whartung 1y ago
I don’t know how this works, just to start off. How does the AI bypass the MCP layer to make the request? The assumption is (as I understand it) the AI says “I want to make MCP request XYZ with data ABC” and it sends that off to the MCP int
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by whartung 1y ago
Have you, or anyone, ever lived with such a system? For human beings, they sound like a nightmare. We're already getting a taste of it right now with modern systems. Becoming numb to "enter admin password to continue" prompts
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by whartung 1y ago
I have been "a little airborne" in a Toyota Tercel, we and the vehicle survived OK. I dragged one of those over large chunks of the Nevada desert. FWD FTW. I sometimes shiver looking back at the places we took that thing. We didn&
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by whartung 1y ago
Well, this runs straight into one of the massive, concrete pillars of computing: naming things. Because that’s what a lot of this falls into. Overwhelming amount of stuff with no names. No categories, no nothing. With extended file attribut
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by whartung 1y ago
I don't know, I struggle with a light switch, but that doesn't look like board someone took home with a box of parts and a soldering iron to make at home. Are there services that you can send the BOM and board files too, and not o
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by whartung 1y ago
> maybe a spotlight-like search As I recall, XP had a background indexing process, to facilitate system wide search. I distinctly recall having to turn it off as I had builds fail more than once because the indexer had a derivati
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by whartung 1y ago
Yea I’ve been curious about this. As mentioned, back in the day, you’d connect to a terminal server which would connect you to a random host. You’d login to that host (using a shared credential managed by yellow pages, maybe — this was pre-
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by whartung 1y ago
Simple. Don't have contribution agreements. Contributors maintain their copyright so as they can prevent relicensing. Mind, FSF requires copyright for their submissions (I believe), but they're, arguably, a "good actor"
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by whartung 1y ago
Try to see if there’s a local astronomy club. They tend to routinely have field nights where folks bring their equipment out, point it at something interesting and let the public engage in the activity.
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by whartung 1y ago
> Taxes do not feature into salary negotiation The point is valid based on the context here, but taxes certainly feature in compensation. Notably if you’re considering moving from a no/low tax locale to a higher one. Two spectacular
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by whartung 1y ago
I’ll tell you what fast is. I’ve mentioned this before. Quest Diagnostics, their internal app used by their phlebotomists. I honestly don’t know how this app is done, I can only say it appears to run in the tab of a browser. For all I know

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