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by whartung 1y ago
Oh boy, yea. I tried to put together a helicopter (probably an Apache) a few years ago, and got a couple of those classic Testor paint bottles to help finish it. I had to put it all away. The fumes from the paint, my reaction to it was noth
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by whartung 1y ago
Late at night, at a friends house, and his car died, but I need a ride to my car. So, we took his motorcycle. We come up to a street light, and it's not sensing us. So, I hop off, run over, press the WALK button, and run back and hop b
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by whartung 1y ago
Actually the model I like to use is a Pacinko machine. Where you can visualize all of the options that are available, while internal cursor just randomly bounces from pin to pin.
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by whartung 1y ago
> What costs? I run a self-hosted soultion for ~5 people off a $150 N100 machine + storage costs and currently my bottleneck is Jellyfin transcoding speed. I want to scale out with a couple more $150 N100/N150 machines to ~20 users:
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by whartung 1y ago
I don't know, I'm not there, not my world. But I would think the goal is to reduce the number of poachers. Poaching being a mind set, a criminal behavior, regardless of that actual animal they're harvesting. If someone is wil
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by whartung 1y ago
It is interesting that there's no references to Inside Macintosh. Apple did not "give away" that documentation, you had to buy it. It was published by Addison-Wesley. I was piled into a pickup truck with five other folks, as
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by whartung 1y ago
> then one day you realise you're looking at unintelligible nonsense and you say "Oh no, what have we done?" I think that’s a bit of what the Java String Template folks went through. It was a pretty cool system (on
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by whartung 1y ago
Hmm...makes me wonder if a PA-RISC HP 9000 712 is a better NeXTStation than a NeXTStation is today, in terms of longevity, supportability, performance, etc. I guess its missing the DSP and fancy printer interface of the NS, maybe the overa
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by whartung 1y ago
Well that was disappointing. I was hoping to see a discussion about writing a zip encoder in Ada. How the language was used, values of the language for this kind of work. How it’s easier or harder to do. Maybe a bunch of Ada source code. Si
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by whartung 1y ago
Give it a picture of the Sun at the same time every day, and lets see if it comes up with a calendar from that.
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by whartung 1y ago
Wasn’t the Commodore logo and name sold recently for “seven figures”? Is this the same folks?
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by whartung 1y ago
Several months ago, in Southern California, we had a cell phone earthquake alert. Essentially it was “An earthquake is coming now, seek cover”. I picked up my phone, read it, gave it a kind of WTH look, and, indeed, an earthquake hit. And i
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by whartung 1y ago
My only nit with that is that with external storage there’s definitely a race when it comes to mounting. More than once I’ve had, say, Photos complain that it couldn’t find its library because I have apps relaunch on startup, my library ha
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by whartung 1y ago
Every time I tried OpenZFS on my iMac, it absolutely crushed the performance of the entire machine. We’re talking “watch the mouse crawl across the machine” crushed. Completely useless. Life returned to normal when I uninstalled it. Also, I
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by whartung 1y ago
Back in the day, I had a Mattel Power Shop. https://corporate.mattel.com/brand-portfolio/power-shop It had was a combined jig saw, lathe, drill press, and disc sander. Now, I don’t know much about modern scroll saws, b
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by whartung 1y ago
Also available on that machine was a…um…pointing pen peripheral. Essentially it work like a light pen, but it used a mesh that was, somehow, affixed to the screen. We had a Victor 9000 connected to a plotter along with very early AutoCAD. I
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by whartung 1y ago
Did Pages ever actually ship? I recall Bruce Webster who made a name as an author in the nascent NeXT community of the day stopped writing to pursue Pages. But I never heard if it ever made it to market or with what feature set.
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by whartung 1y ago
We used that for our Macintosh user group newsletter in college. It was one of the earliest of the new DTP industry tools.
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by whartung 1y ago
Take an SE/30, add some mass storage (something above 20MB), plug in a postscript printer, add ClarisWorks, maybe Filemaker, and you have something that, even today, would do 80%+ of what human beings use computers for. Outside of the
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by whartung 1y ago
The other issue with Tomcat is that a single bad actor can more easily compromise the server. Not saying that can't happen with CGI, but since Tomcat is a shared environment, it's much more susceptible to it. This is why shared, p
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by whartung 1y ago
I think this UI update is designed to distinguish native applications on iOS from non-native. Folks aren't going to be able to simply pound out a bunch of new icons to make their non-apple toolkit apps look "native". There&#x
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by whartung 1y ago
Having lived in the desert, and not talking Vegas, but Nevada desert where folks bought cheap lots, dragged a single or double wide trailer into it, and started a life. Trees were the first thing planted. Fast growing trees, placed to cast
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by whartung 1y ago
I guess the big question is how well is the Mega65 doing. Those folks put a lot of time and energy to come up with a modern C64-esque computer experience. From the BASIC in ROM, an actual floppy disk, memory mapped video, and an “all in one
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by whartung 1y ago
It gets better. When the tree has had enough of getting eaten alive by ants, it starts producing a compound that will now damage the fungus instead of help it grow, in order to convince the ants to leave it alone.
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by whartung 1y ago
It's a balance I find. On the one hand, the machines can spin up these bridges over unfamiliar code chasms. But on the other hand, you (at least I) have no investment in the code. No familiarity with it. No "skin in the game"
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by whartung 1y ago
What’s funny is when I started on SCO Unix ages ago, the default break key was DEL. It quickly morphed into ^C, but the first few months were interesting. Coming from the VAX, it was ^T.
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by whartung 1y ago
Used to listen to him on KMET. Just another notch on when radio was interesting. As I understand it, Dr. D has the largest record collection in the world.
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by whartung 1y ago
I understand, but that’s a shame. Way back, talking 1980 or so, my father got a newsletter cum magazine of sort from HP. Marketing material to be sure, but not just raw marketing. Some corporate organ that could easily been called something
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by whartung 1y ago
A “famous” instance was the use of a Cray to render the collapse of Jupiter in the movie “2010”. A very early example of CGI in cinema.
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by whartung 1y ago
Actually, for me, on the current icon, I see the "guy on the right", the "smiley face" is secondary. On the new icon, I see a "smiley face", and if I concentrate a little, there's a "guy in the backgr

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