acmdas

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by acmdas 1mo ago
Back in '85-6 I developed training for USDA (using Dan Bricklin's Demo) for a curses version of Word 5 that ran on 3B2s with SysV v2. I'd be very happy to see that ported to Linux or one of the BSDs. In fact, I'd love to
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by acmdas 3y ago
Perhaps the title would be more accurate if it were "The way my friends and I prefer to think of it, the age of the universe is nearly twice as old as we used to like to think of it."
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by acmdas 3y ago
Perhaps one could say, "It was clear who was right and who was wrong--whichever side you were on, that side was right and the other side was wrong" whichever struggle is being considered. Whichever faction you identified with was
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by acmdas 3y ago
Illinois manages to be as much as 55% blue because Cook County/Chicago overwhelmingly votes Democrat, and always has.
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by acmdas 3y ago
Chicago (Cook County) went 83% for Clinton in 2016, 74% for Obama in 2012, 76% for Obama in 2008, 79% for Kerry in 2004 and 68% for Gore in 2000. Biden's 2020 numbers were on the low side of average for a Democrat candidate there, prob
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by acmdas 4y ago
History rather suggests that both antecedents will occur, assured or not. MS isn't known for keeping tools around for decades.
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by acmdas 4y ago
Agree wholeheartedly with your (a) and (b), and would add: (c) Emacs won't disappear after a few years (where "few" can mean decades if your career lasts that long - mine ran from 1967 to 2011 and I still use emacs daily) the
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by acmdas 5y ago
While I've been a "geek" since I joined IBM in 1967, I've been primarily a writer for at least 35 years. In that time, I've used Wordstar, WordPerfect, literally every flavour of MS Word up to 2011, vi, iTerm and em
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by acmdas 5y ago
Wrong type of Bugatti - I was hoping that it would be a Type 35 or something of that ilk. Too bad.
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by acmdas 5y ago
There seem to be a lot of Apple users who wouldn't agree. My MacBook Pro is early 2011 so I haven't been able to use the newest, but I can't say that each upgrade from Lion to High Sierra was clearly an improvement for my use
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by acmdas 5y ago
Can't help thinking of the Yogi Berra quote (whether he said it or not), "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded." Seems like there are a lot of folks interested in blogging support, considering that nobody reads bl
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by acmdas 5y ago
ACM has Stoyan's "Early LISP history (1956 - 1959)" at: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/800055.802047
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by acmdas 5y ago
I love my 2011 MacBook Pro's hardware - the case, the keyboard, the hinges. I liked OS-X Lion just fine, and every update since then has seemed to be a downgrade...I still need to use the 2011 Office I bought then now and then, or I&#x
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by acmdas 5y ago
I've remained informed about these issues without frequenting any "news" sources. Government, hospital, pharmacy sites all provide that without the "clickbait" factor (or at least with much less).
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by acmdas 5y ago
"engine fires..." not gas tanks.
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by acmdas 5y ago
Not if, when.
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by acmdas 5y ago
"hide shortcomings" like what? Doesn't language like "by default" infer/suggest/imply that there would be circumstances in which they would save logs? And wouldn't an obvious circumstance like that be
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by acmdas 5y ago
Not sure that history would prove that out. Highly structured, militaristic colonial powers (Inca and Aztec, Mandarin Chinese, Vedic Indian, Persian, Egyptian, Roman, Western European) all had pretty good runs. Have there been societies tha
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by acmdas 5y ago
Debian's been my workstation OS for many years. I mainly use Emacs, the shell and a browser so familiar and stable is all I ask of the OS. I'm on 10 now, will probably update to 11 shortly. I have a Win10 installation on a drive o
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by acmdas 5y ago
It's a poor person's problem, doesn't apply here...right?
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by acmdas 5y ago
It almost sounds ironic...and not everyone likes irony.
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by acmdas 5y ago
"In some cases, no amount of context will allow this content to remain on our platforms..." sounds exactly like they will "go into your drive and remove doubleplusungood content."
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by acmdas 5y ago
Yet another reason to avoid using cloud (i.e., someone else's computer that you don't control) products.
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by acmdas 5y ago
Somehow negotiating a delivery date feels different from feeling free to use company resources to discuss outside politics...but I'm old fashioned, I know.
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by acmdas 5y ago
translation: I don't like what Project Veritas presents, so it must be wildly deceitful, and I need not consider the issue any further.
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by acmdas 5y ago
"you guys"?
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by acmdas 5y ago
My father served on the U.S.S. Kadashan Bay, CVE-76, part of Taffy 2 during the Leyte landings. The bravery of the men of the Johnston, the other destroyers and the aircraft crews who so harassed Vice-Adm. Kurita's ships that they turn
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by acmdas 6y ago
Consider "Britain BC" and "Britain AD" by Francis Pryor for a start. One thing that the recent (since I was in university in the '60s) archaeology has taught us (yet again) is that no one writes history without havi
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by acmdas 6y ago
I've been using stand developing with my Tri-X film, and delight in the results, so the thought of being able to get similar results with my digital work sounds great. Thanks!
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by acmdas 6y ago
Interestingly, using Cloudflare's dns this morning around 0900 US Eastern time, I got through just fine. And a few hours ago, using DNSWatch, I was able to get through. Trying to muddle through what was happening, I found this: https:

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