ecpottinger

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by ecpottinger 3y ago
My guess, the people most worried were never really good at their job and easy to replace. The better S.E. know that silly business people may replace them with AI at first, then quickly realize they have NO IDEA on how to describe what the
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by ecpottinger 3y ago
And don't forget the washing machines too. Imagine, an entire nation forced to wear dirty clothes.
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by ecpottinger 3y ago
Then you have to include the C64 where the ROM could be copied into RAM and then modified to allow extra functions.
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by ecpottinger 3y ago
My mom's fridge broke exactly one day after the warranty expired. She was crying on the phone, then they said they would honour the repair anyway. That made her happy again.
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by ecpottinger 3y ago
Agree, why not show the plane? In this world of fake news I do not trust reports that do not show even the most basic of things.
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by ecpottinger 3y ago
Most impressive to me was the model rocket that lands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SH3lR2GLgT0
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by ecpottinger 3y ago
It is my understanding the the GEOS system was developed on a more powerful machine than the C64/Atari computers it was used on. This let then have the entire code in memory and then processed for common functions. They could not do th
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by ecpottinger 3y ago
This does far more than I did back in my PET and then Amiga days, but one thing I did was write a multi-pass compiler. Each pass at first found ways to make the come better (usually smaller so it ran faster). Even simple code I wrote could
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by ecpottinger 3y ago
All I know. When I ask the business people what they want the program to do, the answer is so vague that any working program you write has a 99% chance of not being what they want. Of-course the answer is to ask more questions, but I also k
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by ecpottinger 3y ago
If you remove the PEEK() and POKE() functions, older BASIC is also memory safe.
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
I worked at a job with a 5 hour work per day timetable. The problem was the handover to the next staff members after noontime. If any were late, then your own plans were messed up. I don't think many jobs can be changed to work with th
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
And how long can they keep this up?
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
It may be limited, but I think there is still work done on CP/M.
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
Yes, if you look at the programs I submitted to BeBits you would see I included the source files, but I was the exception. Too many times I would see an interesting program but no source file so I could modify it to my needs.
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
Except Haiku is open source. See: https://www.haiku-os.org/ and https://cgit.haiku-os.org/haiku/tree/
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
That is them, not me.
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
I had an HP laptop that did that in Windows or Haiku. I rewired the fan to run 100% all of the time and aside from losing some battery time the laptop ran fine. And when plugged into the external power supply I would run it all weekend (4-d
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
Answer: Keep a copy of the open source code. The original developer may not even be the weak point. The server may go down, the comm link may be flakey, a local copy means you have something to reference at all times.
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
And Starlink satellites are designed to de-orbit when they run out of fuel.
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
Heck, my brother was hit by a drunk driver, put into a coma and then died later. There were a number of local newspapers about it, but NO national news. Bet no-one outside Oshawa Ontario heard about the event. Why is a drunk in a Tesla more
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
And in contrast, here in Ontario in the late 1980s I worked in a computer store, and repeatly was told by parents that they got computers for their kids so they could print out homework because their handwritting was so hard to read. A numb
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
I never understood why I need MY hardware to use their servers. If I buy something it should be mine alone.
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
My dad had great ideas for businesses. Yet each one he started failed for him. Why, because he has such unrealistic view on how long the payback period will be. He even founded with a partner what is now a national company, but at the time
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
You! If you have a medical issue from just holding your breath, it means you had medical problems for a long time that had gotten worse and you never went to a doctor for. You would have all sorts of problems just doing regular things alrea
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
Since you can't put a Starlink receiver on a drone (check it's size) will not fit, I think someone is telling porkers. Also Starlink is not made to work well if it is moving at the same time.
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
If I can't buy it, then it is worthless garbage. Tell me where I can buy the battery or a car that uses it, otherwise it is just a lot of talk to try and raise the price of a stock.
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
Nope, EU does not want Russia to expand. They will ship enough to Ukraine just by themselves.
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
Sorry, I do not have an iPhone. How easy is the 'RAW' feature to find? I understand what you mean about most users do not need such a feature. But while supporting computers I am surprise how many features of programs users do not
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
That is what I was thinking. The poster said the photo looked okay at the moment they took a picture and the phone's processing takes over and he then gets junk. I wonder how hard to is to take 'RAW' photos without adding an
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by ecpottinger 4y ago
Is this the only way to take measurements? Sounds like they need to put up satellites that measure things a little different.

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