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by forinti 1mo ago
I've been using computers for more than 40 years now and the one component I have never seen fail is RAM. All the other bits in a computer I've seen fail.
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by forinti 1mo ago
I just looked up the price for Acornsoft ISO Pascal in 1989 and found a listing with 69 pounds, which would be 188 2026 pounds or 220 euros. It consists of 2 16KB ROMs (and a floppy version).
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by forinti 1mo ago
I'm pretty sure this is not the first time we've created a god in our own image.
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by forinti 1mo ago
I used punched cards in a university entrance exam in 1991. We would poke holes to mark the answers. They were identical to the IBM cards in shape and size but there were perforation lines to help you punch out the answers with a pencil. It
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by forinti 1mo ago
> During a short stint compiling manufacturing statistics for the US Census Office, Herman Hollerith grew frustrated with the organization’s manual process of counting questionnaires. Go out to the world and do something, however boring
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by forinti 1mo ago
Perl is still in every Linux. I just checked one of my Oracle installs and there are 725 .pl files. So it seems that is it still relevant.
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by forinti 1mo ago
When I had cats, I couldn't leave the bedroom door wide open, because that would give them space to come running into the room and jump onto the bed (sometimes on my face) at early hours.
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by forinti 1mo ago
A characteristic of most of Latin America is that the Police and the Army were created to protect power, not the people, and there hasn't really been an effort to change the mentality.
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by forinti 1mo ago
It might be a bit tough getting the permits from the EPA.
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by forinti 1mo ago
I'll take 32KB, a 6502 core, and 2400 baud of bandwidth.
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by forinti 1mo ago
Will they get targeted ads? GPUs, RAM, spacious data centers near you!
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by forinti 1mo ago
Kelly is nice if you know the odds.
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by forinti 1mo ago
You could buy a board called Integra-B to expand a model B. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT07uPRRPfU A few games required some extra RAM. Update: Actually, there were other boards. I remember one particular advert for a
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by forinti 2mo ago
It's impressive how fast it boots up on a Pi. I've tried all the OSs for the Pi and RISCOS is way faster than all the alternatives.
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by forinti 2mo ago
I was looking for info about connecting a Beeb to a Linux machine as a terminal, and found this guy using a modem for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QLcx2bvMbA I'm going with a RS423 to USB cable.
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by forinti 2mo ago
I think programmers in general do not give much thought to the level of engineering required for a task. Mostly, there's too little, but there are many cases when there's too much. I see people writing tons of tests for corporate
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by forinti 2mo ago
Some words also came into Portuguese from African slaves who were Muslim. And also from the Lebanese who immigrated to Brazil in the XX century.
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by forinti 2mo ago
Sometimes, rarely, you find a bit asphalt in Brazil where you have to drive on the left and often it is signalled as "mão inglesa", which is something like "English flow". Recently I discussed with some friends the relat
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by forinti 2mo ago
Voting should always be universal. The moment you exclude someone, you add the possibility of excluding more people.
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by forinti 2mo ago
I agree. There's one Da Vinci with the Vitruvian man on the back. The back should complement the front, right?
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by forinti 2mo ago
I've been tasked with justifying the renewal of software I would never choose to begin with. It has occurred to me that I could easily use AI to make up the required text. I guess AI is a new form of alienation and also a new light on
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by forinti 2mo ago
The ones I know are completely brown. They put their four front legs together, two by two, and sort of point at you. I was told that they are aggressive because they are well fed because they feed on the sap from the bananas whereas most sp
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by forinti 2mo ago
In South America there's a very aggressive spider that lives on the bananas (genus Phoneutria). Spiders usually shy away from humans but these attack and have a very nasty venom. I wonder if the heat will take nasty critters to Europe
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by forinti 2mo ago
Universe #23: keep solar systems far enough that they can't make war on each other.
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by forinti 2mo ago
If you found that movie interesting, check out The Second Mother (Que Horas ela Volta?) which is a Brazilian movie about a maid and her relationship with the middle class family that employs her.
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by forinti 2mo ago
Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.
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by forinti 2mo ago
If you pay minimum wage (about US$300) it would be about that per working day. Increasingly, cleaners are working per diem because they earn a lot more (about US$40 a day, but this varies a lot by region). The downside is that they get no b
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by forinti 2mo ago
Minimum wage is about US$300, which would make about US$220k total (you get about 13.3 salaries per year), plus fines and overtime. They'll have to pay social security too. It seems to me that the case doesn't include the labour p
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by forinti 2mo ago
Its a common occurrence for families to take in poor girls to do house work in exchange for food and lodging. And with the insidious nature of Brazilian racism, they will pretend that she is part of the family. They might even take her on v
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by forinti 2mo ago
There's a Portuguese saying "há mouro na costa" which is literally "there are moor at the coast" and means that there is something fishy going on.

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