SteveMoody73

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by SteveMoody73 5mo ago
I've been watching those videos after seeing this, it's interesting to see such an obscure system these days, most of the hardware from that era is usually well documented but I've never heard of this system before now
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by SteveMoody73 11mo ago
My initial thought is why query 1TB of data in a browser, maybe I'm the wrong target audience for this but it seems that it's pushing that everything has to be in a browser rather than using appropriate tools
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by SteveMoody73 1y ago
Not a museum or archive as such but in the UK there is this https://www.rmcretro.com/ Has a large collection of old systems and games, magazines and anything else they can get hold of. It's also open to visitors.
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by SteveMoody73 2y ago
It's probably more nostalga than anythng but I do sometimes miss the sound of floppy drives and hard drives. With modern computers there is usually no disk activity indicators and silent drives. I was working on restoring an old Amiga
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by SteveMoody73 3y ago
I don't play many modern games. Not really interested in the latest consoles and my graphics card in the PC is around 8 years old. It seems a lot of games now require a large time investment and not for causal gamers. If I want to play
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by SteveMoody73 3y ago
Another one for the UK as well https://www.rmcretro.com/visit-the-cave
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by SteveMoody73 3y ago
I use Teams on my phone regularly and have never seen this happen. Clicking on a link takes me to the web page without any problems, even in my default browser which is Firefox.
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by SteveMoody73 3y ago
Can't say that outside of HN i've come across a link to anything about Mastodon so not sure it's won much.
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by SteveMoody73 4y ago
Only used discourse in a limited way but it lacks the searchability of the old forums. I can't imagine how much useful information has been lost when some of these sites have shut down. Discussions on a well run forum would be on topic
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by SteveMoody73 4y ago
I've released software which has been pirated, i'm sure that's a common thing that many on this site have experienced. Photography is a hobby of mine. I don't watermark any photos I post online but this is essentially pi
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by SteveMoody73 4y ago
SUBQ also seems to be missing. Interesting project and it may be a useful tool for learning M68K assembler for a beginner, but as an editor or simulator it seems very limited at the moment. Always nice to see some new M68K tools though
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by SteveMoody73 4y ago
Anecdotal for me, before the pandemic I was working in an open office and there was times that it was not a good environment when you need to focus, working from home work a bit improvement for me and still enjoying it now. My case may be l
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by SteveMoody73 4y ago
I design the majority of the electronics for my company and pretty much all the firmware as well. Wages are not bad for the area i'm in, which is fairly rural, but could be a lot better for the work involved. Move to a big city would p
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by SteveMoody73 4y ago
I started working around 29 years ago, pay was not great as it was a very small company and my first job out of University. I was writing assembly code for a fire alarm interface system. Code was assembled using a DOS based system, flashed
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by SteveMoody73 4y ago
I don't know if it's a common feature or just part of the Samsung Keyboard app, but when the phone is rotated it does seperate they keyboard quite nicely so you can access each half with your thumbs. Space in the middle is a littl
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by SteveMoody73 4y ago
My partner bought an old Brother knitting machine and ribber attachment during the lockdown. I think it was the KH820 if my memory serves me correct, one with a punch card reader. When she bought it, the machine had been sitting in an attic
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by SteveMoody73 4y ago
I've run a forum and worked on a couple of others. First one was for lactose intolerance when there was very little information available. Others were technical sites. In that case more information became easily available and in others
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by SteveMoody73 4y ago
There are still many micro controllers, especially memory constrained or less common devices, that there isn't an option beyond C for them. C++ is sometimes an option but even then it can sometimes be a cut-down version of C++.
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by SteveMoody73 4y ago
I have a MSDN subscription and one of my colleges wanted a Japanese Windows 10 ISO to track down a particular bug. While I had to login to get the link to the ISO, once I had that link there doesn't seem to be any requirements to log i
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by SteveMoody73 4y ago
There's also this one: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFhc0MFC8MiCDOh3cGFji...
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by SteveMoody73 4y ago
I think I designed my first website using HoTMetaL. The WYSIWYG interface was basic but worked but once you hit the limitations of it then at least you could edit the HTML directly.
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by SteveMoody73 4y ago
The Last Starfighter game from the movie, always remember watching that movie and wishing it was possible to play the game. Basic by any 3d space game standard now but had a nice style and looked fun.
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by SteveMoody73 4y ago
On an old TV I have it can take at least 5 seconds before it starts counting down. I've just assumed it was a badly maintained app. Have 3 smart Tvs and YouTube seems to behave different on all of them. May have to look into it.
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by SteveMoody73 4y ago
Most business software can be installed by the network admins, software that can't doesn't matter for a lot of these companies and just won't be used. Even in my smaller but rapidly growing company they are doing more to rest
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by SteveMoody73 4y ago
wordI think it can be hard to recommend a particular codebase, well written code can be good to read but if you want to become better at a language or problem domain then sometimes reading badly written code may be a better way to learn. Wo
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by SteveMoody73 5y ago
In the embedded world where there are a lot of C compilers, it's not so much the language you keep in your head but the compiler implementation of the language. I'm in the process of moving an old codebase from a compiler with a v
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by SteveMoody73 5y ago
I've always worked in small companies and been responsible for getting the work done, as a solo developer in a lot of cases here was nobody to blame if things went wrong. In a larger company now but it's still a smaller place, hav
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by SteveMoody73 5y ago
You could do that but if you want to support a lot of different microcontrollers which may all have different implementations, separating the code into a different file makes more sense. Even if you add ifdef statements for every supported
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by SteveMoody73 5y ago
I've never had an issue getting in touch with a human on Amazon. On the contact us page there's even an option for them to call you. Enter your phone number and they usually call in under a minute. This option is available in the
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by SteveMoody73 5y ago
In the late 90s I was involved in replacing a software for a financial system for a company that was written in a basic of all languages. It was complex and had almost no documentation. All knowledge of the system was in the head of the pro

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