jhallenworld

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by jhallenworld 7d ago
I had to use Notes after our company was acquired by IBM in 2005. As a startup, we used Thunderbird. What I remember was that finding things in Thunderbird was just so much faster because it had a filter feature (you enter a string, then
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by jhallenworld 14d ago
I always thought that the floating point routines were the big feature that made Microsoft BASIC a thing (compared with both Radio Shack and Apple integer BASIC). It's interesting reading about Monte Davidoff and also that Gates knew
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by jhallenworld 15d ago
>an original 7104 I've got one, they are very cool. I also have a 7834 (storage tube), cool in a different way. On the other hand, they are taking up a lot of space... I also have two 485s, one with a broken trigger.
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by jhallenworld 15d ago
We've rented them in the past- always we're not quite sure we're done so keep them much longer than necessary. They're kind of a pain to pack and ship.
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by jhallenworld 15d ago
Yeah 1 GHz is nice, but that tiny 200 MHz Siglent is going to be much more useful in practice for most things. Speaking of boat anchors, I'm trying to get my company to buy a DSA91304a (13 GHz scope with SERDES debugging). ~$44K with
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by jhallenworld 16d ago
My goto has been Shotcut, it's main advantage is high resolution support without having to pay extra compared to something like Lightworks (which has a better UI for sure, but I'm not paying...).
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by jhallenworld 1mo ago
1/f noise means that if you wait long enough an asteroid will hit the earth or the sun will go nova, etc. Surely there is some connection to entropy.
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by jhallenworld 1mo ago
Never mind washing machine, how about a missile or a drone? Or a bomb.. "let there be light" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h73PsFKtIck
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by jhallenworld 1mo ago
I worked at a place that evaluated bubble memory, but didn't use it (they had the bubble memory dev. boards). But they did use CCD memory. I remember it was prone to bit errors, which would have been OK if there had been any error co
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by jhallenworld 2mo ago
What this doesn't include: not all people are equal. Do you want the CEO of your new office building to have to wait behind a bunch of plebeians? At least one car is going to have to be reserved for the better people.
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by jhallenworld 2mo ago
I think "solid-state" is a marketing term which means you need to use Fermi-Dirac statistics to model your device, vs. vacuum tubes where you can use Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics. I think you can use Maxwell-Boltzmann at least fo
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by jhallenworld 2mo ago
The server being their server that you eventually have to a pay a subscription to use? Hmm.. Also, interesting permission problems. Are you going to allow a remote server owned by someone else have shell access to all of your computers? A
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by jhallenworld 2mo ago
So actually, this TV is for an AIR B&B I rent out. I guess technically I need to add their stupid EULA to my rental agreement.
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by jhallenworld 2mo ago
The main point of selecting the country seems to be getting you to consent to the country specific EULA. There's also region-based content management, but it's secondary at this point.
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by jhallenworld 2mo ago
I have a new LG TV, holy moly what a terrible user experience. Out of the box it requires you to create an LG account. PITA, but OK. Except I was supposed to set the location first, instead I set it after. So now you have the problem th
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by jhallenworld 2mo ago
>2008 I bought a 2017 Kia Forte S recently.. ($4000 for 137K miles) no touch screen, but many safety features that are not too bad like radar collision detection and blindspot warning. 2019 they started with the touchscreen, and in 2023
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by jhallenworld 3mo ago
When Boston ended rent control in the late 90s, all of the sudden the landlords invested in their goldmine buildings and generally improved the city. It sucks for those trying to rent or buy (including me, I paid 60% more for a house in 20
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by jhallenworld 3mo ago
Suppose you want shelter. It used to be that you could buy a house for a reasonable price and move in. But now that's unaffordable, so instead your have to pay rent. In CPI thinking these are equivalent forms of shelter, but I bet i
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by jhallenworld 3mo ago
No it's cooked. For high tech items, they assume that improved technology means you are getting more for your money even if the price goes up, so they discount it. It's true that you get more for your money, but it ignores thres
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by jhallenworld 3mo ago
>There are no dark GPUs This might not be true. Someone was comparing Nvidia's production rate with known data center capacity, and they do not match. Their conclusion was that people (possibly even Nvidia) were hoarding GPUs- in
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by jhallenworld 4mo ago
Also: Musk's shares have 10x voting power, he can not be overruled by anybody (he will retain ~80% of the votes). Also: SpaceX debt is $20 billion.
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by jhallenworld 4mo ago
See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHD8BDFYyGI
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by jhallenworld 4mo ago
Yeah, it's how you pay dividends at capital gains rate instead of income rate. But also, Apple is kind of stagnant.. if they had something better to do with the money they wouldn't be doing the buybacks.
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by jhallenworld 5mo ago
Not only that, the operating itself was configured by a process known as "sysgen". You relink the entire operating system with options set the way you wanted. It was generally a miserable slow process. At least on PDP-11 that&#x2
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by jhallenworld 5mo ago
See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpHKygZ7OHY CP/M 1.0 was demoed to Intel in 1974, but they didn't buy it. iCOM FDOS was the first operating system that was available to people, and it sure didn't have env
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by jhallenworld 5mo ago
My favorite cheap Casio is fx-115ES Plus 2nd Edition, $17 https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-115ESPLS2-Advanced-Scientifi... Includes GCD and LCM, some of the newer ones don't have them. If you want graphing, there is the
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JOE 4.8(github.com)
4 points by jhallenworld 5mo ago|1 comments
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by jhallenworld 5mo ago
(JOE 4.7 was also recently released)
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by jhallenworld 5mo ago
VxDs and Watcom C... now those are names I haven't heard in a long time. Do any screen editors work in the command prompt windows? Try with "export TERM=ansi".
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by jhallenworld 5mo ago
A somewhat little know part is a "pre-biased transistor": this is a bipolar transistors with built-in resistors, and will often work as a drop-in replacement for a logic-level MOSFET (like 2n7000), but is an order of magnitude che

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