zanethomas

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by zanethomas 5y ago
protonmail
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I use protonmail for email I care about.
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i can't understand how anyone would trust the sole copy of their data to any of the big-tech platforms
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100% correct the patented solution immediately came to mind
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Couldn't add my score because twitter doesn't like what I have to say.
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Eat all the bacon you want, get heart disease, get new heart, eat more bacon.
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by zanethomas 5y ago
I don't see the need to pay attention to every bit of so-called information streaming by. When there are topics I care about I will do what's necessary to form my own opinion, as I did with covid and the mRna injections.
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If there is a topic I feel it is really crucial for me to evaluate then I will learn what's necessary to do so.
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by zanethomas 5y ago
good thing i don't rely on facebook for news
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I prefer to do my own fact checking.
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haha, like for sure i wrote a valgol language interpreter in the early 80s
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This looks very useful; I've not seen it before. Gotta love Hacker News, I check Hacker News several times daily and have learned so much.
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I got my start with o Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines --- Minsky o The Art Of Computer Programming --- Knuth o Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs --- Abelson and Sussman In that order. Everything else is syntactic s
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"might not have come out of a medical research lab" uh huh might have come out of a bio-weapons research lab
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Basic Four was about 300 employees when I landed there and having spent most of my time in manufacturing I didn't rub elbows with upper management. Although they did rub elbows with me once when they thought I was stealing their operat
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If I did I don't remember him. :) How are you familiar with Basic Four?
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I think the minicomputers of the 70s well-represent the halfway point between there and what we have today. At Basic Four Corporation I worked on systems built from 8"x11" circuit boards. A CPU might consist of two such cards join
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iirc (so many years) AMOS was based on DEC's RSTS hence a lawsuit which AM eventually won the western digital chipset that powered the first am systems was a five-chip 40-pin set connected by a private cmos bus ... probing with a scop
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Technically that's correct, but a bit misleading. You need to bear in mind how limited disk storage was in the 70s and early 80s. When I got to AM systems were booting from 8" floppy disks. That gave you about 500kb, iirc. The fil
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ha, thanks! i love programming so much i've never quit taught fullstack at ucla BC (before covid) did a large frontend project with vue the past year i'll die with a keyboard under my fingers!
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Here's a bit of history ... I think the lead up helps to understand what I did first at AM. I'll send you an email with more info later. 1976-1985 My first job was at Basic Four Corporation. I got in as a test technician, assembli
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Funny thing about that. At Alpha Microsystems, about 1982, I was in charge of the diagnostic programming group. At that time failing memory boards were expensive and customers would not be happy with such components. I wrote a memory testin
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I had a positive PSA test 11 years ago. Followed by a confirming biopsy. Followed a couple days later by a robotic surgery. Problem solved, obviously, I'm still here. <g>
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It might be the case, given first the gradual lockdown of the operating system and now proprietary processors, that Apple's real growth will come from forcing users of their computers to obtain all software from the app store.
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hah! that's the problem i'm having <gd&r>
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That's a pity inasmuch as it punishes those who have done well on a job. I would really appreciate it if when checking references a past employer would feel comfortable saying good things about my work.
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that's even crazier, how could they be in the industry that long?
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All good advice. But... After teaching fullstack at a well-known university for a year and tutoring many students I feel that about 90% of them will never be competent entry-level programmers. There will be much disappointment ahead for the
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When privacy is outlawed only outlaws will have privacy.
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By the way ... that was the first VR program one could run at home. I drove liquid crystal classes with the modem control lines. Switching left/right was synchronized to the monitor's vertical retrace. Even better times. :)

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