prosaic-hacker

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Decisions in the past have long running repercussions(distributedthoughts.org)
5 points by prosaic-hacker 4mo ago|2 comments
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by prosaic-hacker 4mo ago
The article talks about long forgotten reasons why things are as they are. I have heard of a, probably now apocryphal story, of field on a Multinational's paper report that was always supposed to be 0. When the IT team that did the au
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by prosaic-hacker 4mo ago
I am from a earlier generation. Owned a TI SR-51A last year of High school, Then a HP-29c first year of University. I vaguely remember the SR-51A had an limited equation programming : multiply by a constant and add a constant. I remember w
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by prosaic-hacker 5mo ago
About 1/4 of a Security Now podcast or 1/2 of the Amp Hour or Embedded.
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by prosaic-hacker 5mo ago
I will cast my vote for mobile websites over apps on phones. For personal choice reasons I have always had a "budget" phone with less memory and storage (and less cost) than a flagship phone. I also kept them running for years. A
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Ask HN: Old Calcified libraries and APIs used in B2B apps
4 points by prosaic-hacker 1y ago|0 comments
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by prosaic-hacker 1y ago
>>There are an amazing number of "business critical" applications that are running ancient libraries, protocols, etc. Do you know of any examples of these "walking wounded" applications? Can we bring some attention
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by prosaic-hacker 1y ago
I teach in a tech/trade vocational program where 1/2 the students are your generation. All kinds of reasons they are there. (Didn't do well in High School, College, University, Grad School, Gaming in their parents basement s
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by prosaic-hacker 1y ago
Early 80's VMS had a Keep/Purge system for history of files. Everytime you edited a file a version number was bumped up by 1. There was a command, "purge", I think that set the Keep count which was default to 3. This wou
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by prosaic-hacker 1y ago
There was this link on the page https://hackaday.io/project/202541-replica-of-the-pdp-1-pidp...
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by prosaic-hacker 2y ago
TL;DR Don't sweat the future, it will mess up eventually. Just Do something now that is productive for a while and don't be afraid to change you mind or your job. Doing the same thing I have been doing since I was your age. Learni
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by prosaic-hacker 2y ago
I have seen the effect of tools building in several contexts. The most successful were teams that respected the process in that they each, could and would build tools themselves and would adopt other's tools. Without the symmetry then
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by prosaic-hacker 2y ago
I may be a little more "temporally ludditish" than the author. I have bought the cheapest unlocked cellphone that Best Buy, Staples, or Costco had to offer. Most times on Black Friday. I typically paid 150 to 250 Canadian. They la
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by prosaic-hacker 2y ago
Ageism is not death. Just a bump in the road. I am well past 60. For the first 30 odd years I was an individual contributor in both programming and system administration and manager of the same. When one of the financial crises and ageism e
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by prosaic-hacker 2y ago
I have been following ReactOS development for years. I have loaded and run it for various hobby projects. I am glad that the skills developed in working on ROS are transferable to another area.
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by prosaic-hacker 2y ago
This is not a topic that can be explained while standing on one foot. It is a multi layer cake of hand-offs of information similar to the ISO OSI model of networking (which of course is I/O through the network. At the top end is a pr
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by prosaic-hacker 2y ago
Breadboard implementation using the MC14500b Usagi Electric 1-Bit Breadboard Computer P.01 – The MC14500 and 555 Clock Circuit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPA8dHtf_6M&list=PLnw98JPyOb...
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by prosaic-hacker 2y ago
Your desire that everyone learns to swim is laudable but as with all useful skills it takes work. Our completely distracted society is loosing skills like map reading, making change, driving manual, tying knots(still learning) ... (Sounds
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by prosaic-hacker 2y ago
TLDR: 30% success rate for a $89 expense over 200 drives in 15 years is more than enough anecdotal evidence to say it was worth it. I bought it 15 years ago and have run it on about 200 drives. My anecdotal results are in thirds with about
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by prosaic-hacker 2y ago
What will the world look like after the "Great HW speedup Plateau". Will we have top level optimizers rewriting code to get software only speed ups.
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by prosaic-hacker 2y ago
I have be hesitating to buy a PROM programmer. Now I dusted off a couple of old Arduino Unos and a ZIF socket and I will get one of these. What could I build....?
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by prosaic-hacker 2y ago
Their could be a pre-Dinosaur version of this going back to HTML only websites with submit buttons (1995) because java-script came out only in 1997.
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by prosaic-hacker 2y ago
Being nerd sniped into thinking I could learn how to do the same thing for X64. Backing away from the assembler.
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by prosaic-hacker 2y ago
I have a storage room under the stairs which would be a vintage computer museum of its own. I am keeping it there until I downsize the house in the next 5 years. I have been delusionally waiting for that 10,000 year preservation origanizat
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by prosaic-hacker 3y ago
So all those people with FZs I met at Bsides were car thieves. Just how many thefts are linked to its use. Criminals will be add FZs to their gun and drug shipments to Canada
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by prosaic-hacker 3y ago
There is a twist in Canadian law regarding mortgages. Quoting from the page linked below. --- Canada’s Interest Act states the following about amortizing mortgages: “... the principal money and the rate of interest chargeable on that money,
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by prosaic-hacker 3y ago
The whole article has a straw-man feel to it. It is not the senior developers responsibility to create a proper QA policy for the project. It is good that the lead should know how to implement good QA processes. HOWEVER, the real culprit
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by prosaic-hacker 3y ago
I was out this morning. You can, at times, taste the ash rather that just smelling. This afternoon it still smells and you can see a reduction in visibility at the distance of one yard to the next. It has different quality to it than the
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by prosaic-hacker 3y ago
My HP-29C could use something like that. I have it on the shelf beside me I use AA batteries and the seem to have both a good shelf life but I do now about life span because I don't use it much but when I do it still works.
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by prosaic-hacker 3y ago
I teach at a Vocational college the teaches entry level system administration. I am one of those boomers (1959) but I have no degrees above a Bachelors. I could not get out of the teaching because of ageism and assumed if-you-cant-do-teachi

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