billygoat

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by billygoat 24d ago
I was living in Seattle that summer, and Apple had plastered the city buses with big ads that week, and they simply stated, C:\ONGRTLNS.W95 The article left out the triumphant arrival of long filenames. That summer also marked the end of al
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by billygoat 1mo ago
This St. Lucie is in Florida USA, on the Atlantic coast north of Palm Beach and south of Orlando.
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by billygoat 6mo ago
At that time I don't think I was using either spreadsheet program at a level where I would have needed advanced features. I remember using both, and looking now at old screenshots of the splash screens, I think we did eventually upgrad
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by billygoat 6mo ago
woohoo, great post, brings back memories. My first internship when I was 19 and still in college (well, failing out at that point but that's another story...) was at a small consulting company where every desk had a 286 clone running M
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by billygoat 7mo ago
I'm curious: the "Script" screenshot looks like it's using standard GEM Desktop, while the "Signum" is some other desktop. Are these both for ST? Was Signum written using some other full-screen graphic environm
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by billygoat 7mo ago
Wait, there is an 800x480 display connected, but the thing only has 46k of RAM. There's no explanation of the display approach being used. The extended graphics commands seem to allow X/Y positioning with an 8-bit color. I think t
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by billygoat 8mo ago
Machine Language for Beginners, Charles Mansfield https://archive.org/details/ataribooks-machine-language-for-... This book specifically targets beginners that are new to 6502 assembly. The examples cover all of the 19
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by billygoat 1y ago
Atari Basic source with comments was published [1] in 1983. Literally published, as a spiral bound book! Teenage me learned a ton of 6502 from that book, back when learning 6502 was hugely useful! The book has intro chapters describing the
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by billygoat 1y ago
And even the newest ink ribbons were not that black. And the dots were never so crispy and individually formed on real paper. And as discussed above, everything is far too wide. The dots blended together and created diagonals at least a lit
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by billygoat 2y ago
I have experimented with "Simple Keyboard Simply" and "SayBoard", both available on F-Droid. I don't love either of them. On the Signal App, you can request the incognito keyboard mode, and my tests show that GBoard
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by billygoat 2y ago
Happy user of Proton Mail/Calendar/Drive. Article doesn't mention the worst offender in my view: the default GBoard keyboard on my Android phone sends everything I type to Google -- and voice typing goes through their servers
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by billygoat 4y ago
Just yesterday I witnessed a pretty gruesome scooter accident right in front of me on the sidewalk in Berlin. The young woman was just riding down the sidewalk bike lane, nothing at all out of the ordinary, and the scooter just slipped righ
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by billygoat 4y ago
ASDF is also a -different- ASDF scientific data format. There are two! Adaptable Seismic Data Format: https://asdf-definition.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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by billygoat 4y ago
I think these are the author's Atari Years, as he was laid off in 1984 :-)
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by billygoat 4y ago
This blog reminds me of -me- back in the day. I cut my teeth on programming bad Atari BASIC games, but eventually I learned 6502 assembly and wrote my own disassembler, modem routines, etc... heady days! And funny timing, this weekend I (fi
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by billygoat 5y ago
Still no Turkish on DeepL, even though it is one of the most widely spoken languages across much of Europe and uses the Latin alphabet. Yet tiny European languages like Latvian are supported, as are very difficult translation targets such a
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by billygoat 5y ago
Pretty much same story here -- few things affected the path of my life as much as that one device did. I cannot overstate its impact on my ability to get creative with limited resources, seek out and solve tough problems, and have pride in
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by billygoat 5y ago
Ah, my Atari days *swoon*. Learning 6502 assembly on an Atari when I was 14 made me the person I am today. ahahahahah Atari 8-bit and Commodore machines (and Apple II as well) did share a common 6502 CPU, but the coprocessing chips for grap
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by billygoat 5y ago
Ah yes, I was an OS/2 evangelist for years, trying to get all my coworkers and friends to switch to it after 2.1 came out, I guess around 1992-1993ish. We used OS/2 almost exclusively at the civil engineering firm I worked for at
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by billygoat 5y ago
I can verify this: I upgraded my Deck.gl project from MapBox to MapLibre recently, and it was a simple matter of renaming some imports. This works absolutely seamlessly. I'm using Vue instead of the React integration and that's al
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by billygoat 7y ago
I really would like to know if smoking is implicated. Are there any smoker/nonsmoker stats anywhere?
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by billygoat 9y ago
> The field is weakening over South America, and the red area over North America is losing strength. This nonsensical caption, saying the exact same thing twice while using different words, wins the award for the worst writing I've
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by billygoat 9y ago
Wow, I'll take a look. Looks awesome! This particular dataset was very small because the agency which did the data collection aggregated everything into neighborhoods before they gave it to me. So, performance hasn't been a prob
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by billygoat 9y ago
Nice things: simple tool that does one thing well. As mentioned above, it lets the database itself decide on permissions. If you want SSL support, just put it behind an NGINX reverse proxy. It lets you get creative with queries in the query
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by billygoat 9y ago
Thanks for the clearer explanation -- you're correct, the database decides that. That's the beauty of it!
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by billygoat 9y ago
Sure - PostgREST provides a RESTful API endpoint for any PostgreSQL database. It's kinda magic. It's an interesting beast: it has almost no configuration at all, you just point it to one database schema, and it then uses the postg
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Visualizing Uber and Lyft trips in San Francisco: more than 200K trips a day(medium.com)
38 points by billygoat 9y ago|11 comments