wlindley

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by wlindley 4y ago
Agreed. "Arts and Sciences" covers it. What part of technology and mathematics are not already part of science? (Signed, Department of Redundancy Dept.)
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by wlindley 4y ago
Can anyone explain why any technically aware person, especially free software advocates, would willingly use, much less pay for, a computer (even one disguised as a "telephone" which it is not) that someone else controls? It begga
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by wlindley 4y ago
The VIPER newsletter for RCA VIP owners has quite a bit of the early CHIP-8 lore: https://github.com/mattmikolay/viper/ -- I wrote the "CHIP-8 Editor" in v4#1 and the "CHIP-8 Assember in BASIC"
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by wlindley 4y ago
>> Those were the days when we actually had control over our computing equipment. It's tragic they're now gone. << Not at all. Switch to Linux (I did, 20+ years ago) and decline to use anything with "smart"
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by wlindley 4y ago
Have said all along: The only "smart" way to use anything euphemistically called "smart" -- is to ban them from your household. Seriously, why would anyone who is technically savvy want an Internet-connected computer ru
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by wlindley 4y ago
So we should foist all the pollution to where the poor people live? That sounds class-ist if not downright racist. Or maybe it's just pure envy of "the rich."
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by wlindley 4y ago
An 8088, or anything manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation, might classify as a "very old machine" but something that's barely a decade old certainly doesn't.
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by wlindley 4y ago
In all Earth's history, has there ever been Climate Stasis?
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by wlindley 4y ago
In 1981 I (mostly) happily paid full price for Microsoft BASIC for Heathkit HDOS. In 1995 I was one of those fools lining up at midnight for Windows95. In 1996 I had just about finished porting my primary consulting project from VB3 to VB4.
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by wlindley 4y ago
Tabstops are still 9, 17, and every 8 thereafter... the standard on the VT-52 and VT-100 is still used when you 'cat' a file, and if you write files with tabs otherwise, you will have trouble with the console and the printer. Whi
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by wlindley 4y ago
Never had cable but I still figure MSNBC is part of this long-abandoned system and wonder why it's still on the air, some kind of zombie?
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by wlindley 4y ago
As someone who grew up when they printed your address when your photo and name appeared in the paper, and when everyone had their name, telephone, and address in the telephone book -- this seems bizarre. Are you never planning to appear at
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by wlindley 4y ago
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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by wlindley 4y ago
Ditch 'em all — Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Amazon (the "evil MAGA"). It's like when folks complain about CNN or Fox News but keep feeding the beast by paying for subscription television: Stop hurting yourself, folks!
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by wlindley 4y ago
There's https://metacpan.org/pod/Org::Parser which works quite well in Perl. I am using it in a data-driven program to extract multiple tables from a single file. CSV is too limited with only one table layout per
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by wlindley 4y ago
If you pay for and carry around a spy machine, you should expect it to spy on you. If you run non-free software on a computer (even if someone tricks you into calling it a "telephone") that is constantly online talking to its spym