jdswain

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by jdswain 27d ago
Not a lawyer, but I'd expect that decompilation creates a derived work which is still subject to the copyright of the original.
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by jdswain 29d ago
A cautionary note. Your Claude account is tied to your email address, and it cannot be changed. If you lose access to your email address (I sold the domain), you cannot access your Claude account any more, you cannot change the email addres
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by jdswain 1mo ago
I too have an M1 Pro and it does everything I need to do. I bought it in 2023, so it's 'only' 3.5 years old now. Maybe this is the tipping point where hardware companies can't rely on the upgrade cycle for sales any more
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by jdswain 2mo ago
Looks like many (all?) branches are missing. Central line doesn't have the Ealing Broadway branch.
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by jdswain 2mo ago
It should be possible to build a custom cartridge to use some of that 8MB address space for RAM.
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by jdswain 3mo ago
While I'm sure this was built for fun, you have to wonder if maybe some of these tools could be useful again. With the increased power of modern computers, and some additions of modern technology like a web UI, HTTP support for data ac
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by jdswain 3mo ago
I've been through similar, don't give up trying to find a solution. I've recently found what mine is, and am doing much better now. Everyone is different, be careful with advice on the internet, but at the least it gives you
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by jdswain 3mo ago
I tried clover. Eventually it just got replaced more and more with grass, now there's not much there. It was meant to be more drought tolerant than grass, but it didn't work out that way. I probably need to do more research.
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by jdswain 3mo ago
One thing that I don’t think the article mentions is how many times a screen could be used?
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by jdswain 3mo ago
Make sure you look after your own health too, if you lose that it’ll be a lot harder to help those around you.
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by jdswain 4mo ago
I'd like to see the same thing applied to desktop computers, a Mac Neo maybe. The Mac mini has moved up the cost/performance ladder, there's room at the bottom for a simple, low cost desktop, maybe with Neo colours too.
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by jdswain 4mo ago
In a way it's not a joke. I was just considering that myself. I pay for a M365 family license, but when I think about it, I could do everything I actually use it for in Numbers and Pages. The only thing is file format compatibility, it
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by jdswain 5mo ago
Preview.app in NeXTstep used to have a postscript window where you could type in postscript (or paste it in) and interactively work with it. It was an essential development tool to help write postscript before including it in a source code
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by jdswain 5mo ago
Yes, very similar to what you did with the script, but I’d guess you could enter a small routine into memory with the monitor then jump to it to execute. This would be faster than serial port speed, but really not that different. In the end
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by jdswain 5mo ago
Really good presentation, although I was nerd-snipped just by the title (which is incorrect, it's Coherent, not QNX). It's great we live in a time where enough information is available to restore these obscure machines, although g
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by jdswain 6mo ago
I did. The only Playboy magazine I ever bought contained an interview with Steve Jobs. Unfortunately I lent it to a friend and never got it back.
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by jdswain 6mo ago
Which is somewhat akin to downloading one today. If, however, that same kid started small, with a data model, then added calculation, and UI and stepped through everything designing, reviewing, and testing as they went, they would learn a l
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by jdswain 6mo ago
Our Graphics Lab at University used to be in an old house opposite a fish and chip shop. The people at the fish and chip shop were suspicious of our lab as all they saw was young men (mostly) entering and leaving at all hours of the night.
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by jdswain 7mo ago
The windows 95 user interface was 'inspired by' the NeXT user interface, and to some degree the Mac UI. Microsoft had a NeXT computer to copy off, even though they wouldn't develop for it.
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by jdswain 7mo ago
There has been some discussion around this, and Lee Davison is no longer with us so that makes it more difficult. It appears from the source code that Lee's independent basic is highly based on Microsoft Basic. I'm sure it is no l
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by jdswain 7mo ago
I treat code quality, and readability, as one of the goals. The LLM can help with this and refactor code much quicker than a human. If I think the code is getting too complex I change over to architecture review and refactoring until I am h
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by jdswain 8mo ago
There's a selfish case for the wealthy to care about this: rising tides lift all boats, including theirs. When the bottom 80% are struggling with housing insecurity and desperation, the consequences don't stay contained to poor ne
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by jdswain 9mo ago
Also where Jim Gray was sailing too when he went missing. His yacht has never been found. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Gray_(computer_scientist)
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by jdswain 9mo ago
Software Development is much more than writing code. Writing code may have become 90% easier, but a lot of the other development tasks haven't appreciably changed due to AI, although that might come. So, for now at least the answer to
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by jdswain 11mo ago
Commissions were different back then. I worked part time selling computers around 1990 and a little earlier, margin on computers was moving down, but was as high as 50%, I recall it moving down to 30% and stabilising there for a while. I do
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by jdswain 11mo ago
What sort of systems do you work on to require this kind of traffic volume? I've worked on one project that I'd consider relatively high volume (UK Post Office Horizon Online) and we were only targeting 500 TPS.
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by jdswain 11mo ago
(Hi Andrew) It's the misuse of OO constructs that gives it a bad name, almost always that is inheritance being overused/misused. Encapsulation and modularity are important for larger code bases, and polymorphism is useful for maki
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by jdswain 1y ago
It's likely that is is mostly just the standard Microsoft Basic with some modified I/O routines. Since Microsoft Basic is now under the MIT license you are free to modify the code, it may be relatively easy to re-implement the I&#
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by jdswain 1y ago
My company provided Dell has the same issue (Intel CPU). Comes and goes a bit with firmware updates.
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by jdswain 1y ago
Well Woz was pretty good at software too. He wrote a lot of the early Apple software, including Integer Basic (to write games) and the low level disk software, called RWTS for Read/Write Track/Sector.

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