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by cancerhacker 1y ago
Woz gets some coverage in Steven Levy’s “Hackers: heroes of the computer revolution’from 1984, and he updated it in 2014. I try to reread it every year or so.
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by cancerhacker 1y ago
It’s fun to consider how C devolves into assembler. In my mind, C and its derivatives dissolve into 68K assembler as I’m writing or debugging. Thinking about code this way lets me get a feel for how all the bits all fit together. It seems l
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by cancerhacker 1y ago
(Edited to add: Sorry, too long of a post here. I didn’t bother to renew my domain this year) A timely piece I can relate to. currently starting my second week in a (US) hospital oncology ward after my 11th cycle of chemo. I was first diagn
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
“It takes a long time for a man like Vorbis to die” - is my favorite, but the book is chock full of brilliantly executed philosophy.
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
The only reason I disagree is that L&L jumps in with some very well established characters that had been built up earlier. But I do love his (historically accurate by lore?) description of elves. He put a lot of research into re-establi
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
I love discworld and prosetyilize its virtues when and where I can, but two thoughts about this: 1 - why not both? 2 - via MST3K “If you're wondering how he eats & breathes, And other science facts...(la! la! la!) Then repeat to yo
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
I’m no longer NED from Stage IV colon cancer (first DX 2014), and now it’s returned and inoperable. I was given an option to add Cetuximab which I’d had previously- but the side effects from that were so bad for me that it absolutely isn’t
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
This is absolutely the way. My interviews are conversations with someone that I want to work closely with, and while leet code might be an interesting lunch conversation it’s not going to be part of any of our day to day work (c/c++&#x
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
Thank you for the thoughtful response- and best of luck to you and your child.
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
“Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C." - Governor Bobby Jindal, Feb 24 2009 in his party response to Obama first address to congress. “Monitor my
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
When you’re refactoring a system (which is really what he’s claiming to want to do) you don’t just delete the repository and start with main(). You figure out where the edges are, how they fit together, where are the Chesterton Fences and h
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
I keep thinking about musks group having all this financial data (that his business competitors do not!) and feeding it into a model to find signal he can use to further his empire / investments. I also see his stated intention to make
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
Presumably these users have audio in other contexts? Are they running the web app version of teams? Do other web apps play audio? From 10000 feet up, I wouldn’t start by blaming Linux here (even as a non-Linux-desktop user,)
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
The few times I (50s male) tried horizons universe I felt a visceral creepiness - that any adult I “met” was likely there because it wasn’t technically within 100meters of a school. VR Chat was less locked down and felt more self patrolled
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
imagine an ai tv that was given the prompt to continuously encourage viewers to sign up for LG/HP instant pixel delivery service and that it should be noted that many viewers feel great satisfaction with the service, and are frequently
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
That’s lovely. It’d probably have been too rare for the DAK catalogs of the early 80s, but a lot of similar (cheaper) gear came through them. (The Olivetti branded TRS-80 Model 100 was a prize!)
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
I made that a slowly panning and enlarging Mac OS screensaver from that site - 10 lines of source I’ve long since lost to load a web view. [edit to make sense]
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
Early 90s, Todd Rundgren realized a Mac App called Flowfazer - it didn’t simulate your experience but was helpful as a distraction to move you along. Some people used it to provide guidance for their own creations.[2] [1] https:/&#x2F
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
Not sure if it’s still being sold, but “evil mad scientist” had a kit [1] to build a giant 555 from discrete components. [1] https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2014/555v2/ >
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
I was there, 1986-2006 and by and far what he said internally at company meetings was completely apolitical. He didn’t moralize, he pushed groups to create better products for customers and that’s what we as engineers were exposed to. The
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
Interesting if possibly somewhat off topic (to this submission) - a discussion [1] about DES key length and some of the thoughts given to it in a taped meeting from 1976 - [1] http://www.toad.com/des-stanford-meeting.html
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
I really started listening to music as a teen because of the wall, but _obscured_ really hit me at an emotional level, years later, and has become one of my favorite albums. In particular “Childhood’s End” always gives me goosebumps /
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
I used to “own” a port in /etc/services and got a few Emails and somehow a very irate phone call from someone that was being port scanned. (Back when we had desk phones and they could call the company main number and asked to be t
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
A friend of mine mid 90s was doing a clean room rewrite of doom (for fun, just to learn) and didn’t have any bounds checking on his maze - so it was possible to wander off into program memory and shoot variables. (Classic Mac OS, no memory
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
Your contempt fails to bolster your argument. I would propose that both crimes should be investigated - the fact that J6 litigation consumed so many resources is unfortunate. But it was also well underway when this particular scheme colla
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
If you say “cost overrun” 3 times in a row, Elon Musk will appear to install the soap dispenser from Home Depo himself, insult some people and then only charge half what Boeing did. The first time it is used in flight it will explode becaus
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
Hah, reminds me of 1990 Sun where I was handed several boxes of parts and told to make a sun4 VME workstation and bootstrap it from tape. I think it was part hazing, part can this person ask for help when they get stuck and partly where is
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
My current chemo regime is FOLFIRI, one of the components of Which is Fluorouracil, and frequently written as “5-FU” and it’s a bugger.
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
Coast Electronics in San Louis Obispo still flys the Radio Shack marque. I didn’t have a chance to stop in, but the yelp pages show drawers of components that might date back to when it was a RadioShack proper.
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
Santa cruz Electronics (Bay Area adjacent) sells them as well as passive components and NTE chip replacements. I even went there a year ago to buy a passive SCSI terminator- the guy went in back and came back with a dust covered box marked

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