jlmcgraw

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by jlmcgraw 28d ago
It sounds like Microsoft _wanted_ to use '/' as the path separator but was forced by IBM to change it at the last minute: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/why-does-windows-really-use-bac...
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Ask HN: Ideas for small ways to make the world a better place
42 points by jlmcgraw 7mo ago|42 comments
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by jlmcgraw 8mo ago
There is "Apple Machine Language for Beginners" by Richard Mansfield https://archive.org/details/Apple_Machine_Language_for_Begin... I have fond memories from the late 1980s of trying to get the assembler con
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by jlmcgraw 11mo ago
For what it's worth, I was experimenting with this idea for Python (in an almost completely vibe-coded fashion) here: https://github.com/jlmcgraw/pure-function-decorators Whether it's of any actual utility is
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by jlmcgraw 1y ago
Some commentary from the author here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1nguv1a/i_built_an_ll...
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by jlmcgraw 1y ago
I wonder who the handwritten notes on page 98 are by? Starts with "confirm plane reservation on Tue. Sept 2 or Wed. Sept 3" which is correct for 1975
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by jlmcgraw 2y ago
“Democracy drowns in dollars” seems sadly more accurate
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the US lays out a road safety plan that will see cars 'talk' to each other(engadget.com)
1 points by jlmcgraw 2y ago|0 comments
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by jlmcgraw 2y ago
A style I picked up from a relative, who is a lawyer, is to make bullet points with minimal other fluff: Addressee, - Do this - Then that - Be sure to be aware of this I found it impersonal at first, but it's very effe
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by jlmcgraw 6y ago
:You’re thinking of A86: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A86_(software)
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by jlmcgraw 8y ago
I wrote a perl script a while back to create random passphrases based on a random mnemonic word It seems like a good idea to me but I’m not knowledgeable enough about cryptography to know if that’s really true and would be very interested t
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by jlmcgraw 9y ago
Since devices that automatically set their own time are so common now I’ve sometimes wondered why we don’t try moving the time forward/back by some smaller increment each day instead of a full hour twice a year.
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by jlmcgraw 9y ago
I did something very similar but had the thought that making the passphrase be based on an existing word would make a good balance between security and ease of remembering without a password manager. Of course it isn’t as strong as a purely
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Ask HN: How is software used in complicated legal cases?
1 points by jlmcgraw 9y ago|0 comments