herio

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by herio 2y ago
I love the inconsistency between "I don't have time to learn DCS" and "so I'll spend two years reverse engineering an old DOS game instead" :) Good articles, I agree that there isn't enough technical artic
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by herio 3y ago
For Sweden in addition to what's stated above, if the reason for being fired is downsizing of lack of work, the law for employment protection (LAS) also states that the people laid off have to be in the reverse order of their hiring. T
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by herio 3y ago
It looks like a 1990s webpage with modern visual design made for children. I kept waiting for the <blink> marquee and the "under construction" gif to show up as I was scrolling through. Utterly useless.
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by herio 3y ago
Recapping is mostly nonsense, there are however some devices out there with electrolytic caps that are known to leak. Some old Amiga and Macs have these issues for example. From there it seems to have spread out into a "recap everythin
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by herio 3y ago
https://unece.org/trade/cefact/unlocode-code-list-country-an... UN/LOCODE tends to have an abbreviation for most places.
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by herio 3y ago
Absolutely fantastic place that I also recommend to anybody interested. So nice that the machines are out, powered on and ready to be tinkered with. Sit down and relive the old days by hammering out some 6502 assembly or something :)
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by herio 4y ago
Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension. I couldn't live without it.
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by herio 4y ago
> Practically, though, it's a shit show. I usually put it as "Deep inside windows is a really beautiful OS just screaming to be let out from under all that junk on top." The NT kernel isn't that bad, different from un
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by herio 4y ago
It can be done for sure I've seen some designs for it. The 128DCR generates +5, +12 and 9V AC so pretty straight forward. Small meanwell unit and a transformer should do the trick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCQE-r
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by herio 4y ago
Commodore 128. To the point that I've made a replacement PCB for it and have started reverse engineering the system specific ICs. It was my first computer and I really like how much of a frankensteins monster it is (6502 and Z80 on the
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by herio 5y ago
I can't say for the other Nordic countries, but this statement is utterly wrong as far as Sweden is concerned. The Swedish monarch has no power at all in the Swedish Grundlag (constitution). He is the titular head of state, holds a few
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by herio 5y ago
Not always the case. At the European company I work there are many rules and regs on who can legally access employees email, depending on the country of the employee. Luxembourg and the Netherlands can be really tricky for example and they
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by herio 5y ago
There's articles all over the Internet on how to remove/disable the speaker on airtags. Doesn't look to hard to do either, no hardware sensing if this is the case so it just keeps on working.
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by herio 5y ago
The AmigaOS ABI was really designed for the m68k, it leverages registers as much as possible. Pass variables in data registers, pointers in address registers. A4 for local data, A6 for the library pointer, results in D0. That said, most lib
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by herio 5y ago
From this day on, letters are banned. All posted material must be on post cards so that any and all can inspect them in case you are being naughty. Funny how we've gone from court order to intercept somebodies mail to this...
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by herio 5y ago
I consider both licenses to be about freedom however they differ in the freedom involved. MIT style licenses are about freedom for the programmer to do as they want, not code freedom. GPL is all about the freedom of the code, at the cost of
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by herio 5y ago
It would be interesting to know how they would classify modern "rented" software like the Adobe CS Suite or Office 365. They are installed on your machine but works like SaaS. It's kind of a gray area for me at least, does it
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by herio 5y ago
Even as a Commodore person who's never really owned a Sinclair computer, it can't be underestimated what an impact Sir Clive had on early home computing. He truly showed that affordable computing is possible and in my mind also in
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by herio 5y ago
On the topic of Spartan societey in general, a really good read is https://acoup.blog/category/collections/this-isnt-sparta/ by Dr. Bret Deveraux. Long read but well worth it for interested people.
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by herio 5y ago
From a non US outsiders perspective I do have to say that it looks like the US civil war never really ended. The country is still largely divided along the same lines (with maybe California as a third entity) and I don't really see it
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by herio 5y ago
You'd be surprised how flexible some of the GUI toolkits on the Amiga actually were. MUI is based on the concept that layout is dynamic and flexible. It would dynamically calculate a minimum window size based on the components inside a
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by herio 5y ago
Yup. They also were not developed by the same company. 3.5 and 3.9 were developed by Haage & Partner, 3.1.4 and 3.2 were developed by Hyperion Entertainment. There's even an AmigaOS 4.0 from Hyperion which is PowerPC only. For extr
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by herio 5y ago
What is commonly called IPsec is actually two separate protocols, IPSec itself and ISAKMP/IKE for key management. IPSec is somewhat similar to how wireguard work actually, it relies on IPs and static encryption keys. Not too hard to co
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by herio 5y ago
I do agree with PHK on his feelings about autotools. It is a cargo cult dumpsterfire, unfortunately it mostly works and nobody wants to go in and fix it. Also suffers from changes breaking stuff for somebody somewhere who insists that moder
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by herio 5y ago
Really cool, but just to nitpick a bit not entirely correct in some ways. Logical systems still sell their NuVAX machines, see https://logical-co.com/product/nuvax-4400-system/ They also do PDP/11 systems and
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by herio 5y ago
The 1571 also has a 6526 with a working hardware shift register in it, which is connected to the serial bus. Should allow for higher bitrates out than the CPU alone could support.
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by herio 5y ago
Or even more interesting, the original sources from CBM: https://github.com/mist64/cbmsrc
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by herio 5y ago
Olympus BH-2 microscope for taking pictures of silicon dies. Really fascinating hobby I've just gotten into. Proper setup for audio/video: Sony a6000, Yamaha MG10X, Rode NT-1A, etc. etc. Mini revamp of the kitchen to add more stor
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by herio 5y ago
If it's the same 21" Sun that I had back in the days the native resolution is indeed 1600x1200. Sony Triniton tube, those screen were fantastic. Mine could even do 800x600 at 160Hz, my first experience with high refresh rates. Fel
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by herio 5y ago
I don't think you will see new custom chips made to match those chips, however they are small enough to be easy to implement in a modern CPLD/FPGA. I know of three such projects at the moment: J-CIA: https://1nt3r.net&#

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