ralphc

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by ralphc 2mo ago
The stickers that wrapped around the edge of the floppy and would never stay stuck...
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by ralphc 3mo ago
Never mind, I saw the story on the front page. wah-wah sad trombone for me.
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by ralphc 3mo ago
Um did something happen? I'm pondering an M5 make to replace my perfectly-working-but-won't-be-able-to-get-software-for i9 MBP.
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by ralphc 3mo ago
One advantage of vi is that even though emacs is available on all those systems, vi is actually installed on all of those, setting aside windows. If you know rudimentary vi you can walk up to any of those machines and edit a configuration f
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by ralphc 3mo ago
How do you have non-IBM clones of something like this? It sounds like it would break every law ever made about copying hardware, BIOS, everything. And IBM would come after you with an army of lawyers.
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by ralphc 3mo ago
Common Lisp, and even more so Racket, has reader macros. With a little help from LLMs you might be able to get a Ruby-like language that translates into Lisp. As a last resort look at Racket's "Rhombus" language, it's ba
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by ralphc 4mo ago
I still use a 2019 MacBook Pro, in 2026 I found the best way to warm it up was to use it daily and not blow the dust out of it for 7 years. After I opened it up and did that it's running a lot cooler.
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by ralphc 5mo ago
If Intel virtualization works for Docker, why doesn't it work for things like VMWare or VirtualBox for Intel VM's?
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by ralphc 5mo ago
I've barely read about Category Theory, but isn't it a just a slightly more mathy version of what programmers have been doing all along? Going up and down levels of abstraction, graphs, functions that transform one type of "
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by ralphc 5mo ago
Other magazines mentioned but no love for Computer Language Magazine? It held its own with DDJ when it came to software and theoretical topics.
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by ralphc 5mo ago
Works on my Intel mac running Sonoma 14.8.2. I use Omakub on my Linux machine and missed this when on my mac.
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by ralphc 6mo ago
I didn't save the tweet I saw it in but I saved the joke - "I wish I had enough money to run Oracle instead of Postgres." "Why do you want to do that?" "I don't, I just wish I had enough money to."
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by ralphc 6mo ago
The big headline for our household will be to pause updates as long as needed. My wife is a CPA and having to manually delay and delay updates during the end of tax season(s) (March for corporates, April for personal, then again six months
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by ralphc 6mo ago
I'm in the same boat as waynesonfire and I'm afraid this doesn't answer the question sufficiently. What do you do with an agent? What's a concrete example vs. typing in a chat box.
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by ralphc 7mo ago
I don't know your autonomy with regards to IT within the confines of your classroom but if you can't install ad blockers on the Chromebooks can you set up something like PiHole and direct DNS traffic through it? It won't solv
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by ralphc 7mo ago
I had a Spaceball Avenger which made it so intuitive to play. From my old reddit post about it, "The Spaceball Avenger is a gaming peripheral. It has the usual buttons, but the big ball is used for six degrees of freedom movement. With
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by ralphc 9mo ago
Rarely mentioned is the audio, the Mac's bass and overall sound is much better than any other laptop its size.
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by ralphc 9mo ago
How does 86Box and PCem compare with DOSBox in terms of accuracy?
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by ralphc 9mo ago
Due to the nature of the sport (one person in a metal box, pit crews distanced from each other), after an adjustment period NASCAR races happened during the pandemic. To empty stands. The winner would get out of the car and instead of thund
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by ralphc 9mo ago
The reason my 2018 Chevrolet has HDR radio and my wife's 2024 doesn't.
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by ralphc 9mo ago
The nerdiest project on github sounds like a high bar, what's the project?
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by ralphc 10mo ago
I worked at a perfectly reasonable company that was acquired by Oracle. This was in the 2000s. We were working on a big Java project and were using ADF, the "Oracle Application Developer Framework". It was a piece of crap. One tim
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by ralphc 10mo ago
Everyone talks about GenServers and OTP and all that, and that part is great, but what sells it for me is that it's a practical functional programming language. You get 80% of the FP part of Haskell but you don't have to mess with
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by ralphc 11mo ago
Technically not updates but if you hook up a PowerPC mac with 10.4 Tiger on it you can still get it updated to the latest version released, 10.4.11
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by ralphc 11mo ago
As a user, I'm just here to offer ::applause:: for GraFORTH.
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by ralphc 11mo ago
I often look for movies and series on streaming for when I'm on the exercise bike. Enough plot to keep me interested but not so much that I slow down.
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by ralphc 1y ago
I had to look up Solidity, which I've never heard of but see is at least 10x popular. It's sole reason to exist is for Ethereum.
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by ralphc 1y ago
So. Much. Modula-2. It must have been the future, there were as many compilers, ad, reviews as there were for C. What killed Modula-2?
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by ralphc 1y ago
There's a "Mega Replay" store near where I live, it has second-hand electronics, games and DVDs. The biggest section in electronics is the VR goggles, a lot of people have given up on them.
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by ralphc 1y ago
If the product is API based then it's possible to use a TUI library and make an app that someone can keyboard their way through and have it talk to the mothership through the APIs.

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