PAPPPmAc

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by PAPPPmAc 11mo ago
I find hosted/hybrid machines particularly fascinating, so I have a 6100/66 DOS with a Houdini II Nubus card and a Education-market LC with the Gemini-based Apple IIe PDS card that I've collected over the years. They are ...w
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by PAPPPmAc 1y ago
I see news about those, mostly from friends doing recreational things with FPGAs. I guess also relevant since they've managed to crowdfund three (substantially upgraded from generation to generation) runs of them.
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by PAPPPmAc 1y ago
I have a copy from the kickstarter, it's the best and most expensive ($175) thing I've ever gone in on crowdfunding for. Absolutely beautiful books. Great photography, they even worked up their own typefaces and do fun typographic
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by PAPPPmAc 1y ago
I have a long fascination with weird input devices, owing partly to a predisposition to fine joint problems, and Chorders are always both super interesting in theory and kind of weird in practice, going all the way back to the Engelbart&#x2
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by PAPPPmAc 2y ago
I've been using Warewulf (&co.) for provisioning bare-metal clusters for decades (back into the Perceus days between Warewulf 1 and 2), it's a solid easy-to-comprehend tool that does things in ways that are transparent and bui
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by PAPPPmAc 2y ago
I'm local, I know a ton of former Lexmark people, because they've already been all-but dead in Lexington for some time. They mostly only did R&D here for decades, and that group has been dwindling. Large groups of Ex-Lexmark
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by PAPPPmAc 2y ago
It certainly is a bit of a novelty, but there are a few Theremin-featuring pieces that I find pleasing, a classic example is the Theremin and piano arrangement of Saint-Saens' The Swan. Here is Clara Rockmore performing it (I think thi
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by PAPPPmAc 2y ago
I love the Computer-Hosted-In-A-Computer products (for absolutely no good reason), I have both one of the education market Mac LCs with a IIe-on-a-chip in the PDS slot ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIe_Card ) a
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by PAPPPmAc 2y ago
That Unix Surrealism ( https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/unix_surrealism?dataType=Post&sort=T... ) art project(?) is absolutely delightful in general.
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
It is very likely the comment I'm replying to is not being obnoxious, but making a very deep cut reference to Orbital's song "Planet of the Shapes" from orbital2 that contains sample of the phrase in their comment, sampl
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
Short answer: The legal situation in the early 90s made BSD unattractive right at the time where cheap microcomputers sufficient to host Unix-likes were proliferating, which allowed Linux to reach critical mass instead. Too much detail answ
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
A cheap AUE Chromebook flashed with UEFI makes a good (albeit rather storage-starved) Linux beater - but you'll have trouble with Haiku or any of the BSDs because the hardware is a little "quirky." The input devices in most
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
I haven't gone as far as a straight razor, but I've just in the last few weeks switched to a DE razor coming from years of using cartridge razors with too many too closely spaced blades that clog then degrade and cause irritation.
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
I generally hate dealing with bluetooth headphones (extra non-replaceable batteries to die then die! Extra drain on your phone battery! Run a unique ID tracking beacon all the time! Have a fight every time you want to switch sources! Pay m
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
This will be my 12th SC, every year except the virtual one (or was it two? I've genuinely lost track) since 2009. It's a singular experience. Enormous. Part trade show, part conference, weird mix of deeply technical people, and IT
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
Yup. The research group I work with builds a lot of custom camera parts (mostly 3D printed) for different projects, and we keep a bottle of Black 3.0 around to coat internal surfaces. We'll pick up some 4.0 shortly. It's a quick
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
Last I looked Microchip's Libero FPGA/FPGASoC development tools were paid, either on an expensive one-time fee for a specific version, or an expensive-compared-to-this-board annual subscription. It won't even show me current
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
I suspect a lot of that now is because of niche capture as a winning academic career strategy. If you're working in a specialist area, any kind of blind review is bogus because the primary handful of people publishing in that niche kno
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
University of Kentucky too, first day of classes, no one can get into anything they aren't already logged in to with a valid cookie. I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out what new cookie I needed to grey-list for the half dozen redir
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
Many (most?) state schools don't do significantly competitive admissions, and many have state mandates in the vein of "Anyone who graduated in the top half of their in-state high school gets admitted with the following terms.&quot
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
I don't see in the article or thread, anyone else remember when in ~2012 PGI (Portland Group, who at the time were a subsidiary of STMicroelectronics), a long time builder of high-performance compiler tooling was showing a new round of
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
Right? Planet's other offerings are handhelds in unobtainable form factors where I'd expect to pay a massive premium because designing and manufacturing that kind of portable device is obscenely expensive, and there are essentiall
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
It took me several minutes of clicking to determine that it's an init/process lifetime management/IPC thing for Linux, that uses the "Syndicated Actor Model" for dependencies and IPC. They've chosen some intere
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
I've been toutchtyping from late elementary school, and do it "too much" especially with a genetic predisposition for fine joint problems, so I'm always trying different input devices. I do OK on splits, except for tendi
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
I've been saying RHEL is only relevant because it's an agreed-upon standard with an adequately slow rate of change. Entities want to be able to easily use code and documentation from elsewhere, and easily hire experts to support
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
I don't think there is an intranasal feline rabies vaccine available, but the booster schedule is now out to 3 years.
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
The vet my cats get their routine care at has switched to suggesting intranasal for most routine vaccines in cats. The evidence seems to be that intranasal conveys a slightly better immunity (possibly by specifically sensitizing the mucous
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
I was mixing up where the big multiprocessor changes that went into the 2.5 series in that 2000-2005 era came from. I was thinking of the the basic kernel preemption stuff and sched_setaffinity syscall + userspace plumbing like taskset that
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
"Large" wasn't a very big standard at the time. Linux's multiprocessor support was ...lackluster at best... prior to IBM contributing all the Sequent (Dynix) derived multiprocessing stuff. Hyperthreading/Multicore
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by PAPPPmAc 3y ago
There are a number of commercial substantially sub-$1k prosumer overhead book scanner options now that have nicer work-flows and more automated post processing than the DIY book scanners folks used to hack up (or hand feeding a flatbed) - I

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