salgernon

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by salgernon 1y ago
With experience and ADHD I learned to think in units that can be debugged separately. The experience tells me where those lines should be drawn, and the ADHD taught me to avoid creating units that are too big to fit in my head.
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by salgernon 1y ago
One minor thing to consider is that hobbyists weren't distributing the source code (as posted in the OP) but trading the paper tape of the executable interpreter. They wanted the interpreter so they could write their own software that
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by salgernon 1y ago
I had the same reaction to the site - but I could've been won over if there was a link to E1ite and C@@L basic source for the effects (at least the text effects which could've fit in 4k) Steve Jobs quote: "The problem with Mi
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by salgernon 1y ago
OSINT (not a term I was particularly familiar with, personally) actually goes back quite a ways[1]. Software certainly makes aggregating the information easier to accumulate and finding signal in the noise, but bad security practices do fa
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by salgernon 1y ago
Going through my junk box the other day I found a USB to two port RS-232 converter from that era - that came with 4 colorful snap on front pieces to match your iMac.
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by salgernon 1y ago
Kind of like CAR CAAR etc.
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by salgernon 1y ago
Of “Небезопасный”?
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by salgernon 1y ago
Where are they promising it then? Board meetings? I don't think lying (or creating unsubstantiated truthyness) is the same as saying the quiet part out loud.
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by salgernon 1y ago
I was refactoring a 700 line recursive C function (!) - one of those with all variables declared at the outer scope while the function itself was mainly a one pass switch with goto’s for error handling. I created c++ classes for each case,
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by salgernon 1y ago
I’m surprised nobody mentioned the Rosetta Stone that is infinitemac.org - it’s “just” compiled to JavaScript or whatever but really well done. From their “About”: >>>Infinite Mac is a project by Mihai Parparita to make classic M
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by salgernon 2y ago
If you ever used MPW shell, a lot of those characters were part of the syntax of commands and the regular expression parser so it was common to learn to compose ∫,® ∂ etc. The debugger TMON also used them, so they just become second nature
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by salgernon 2y ago
I love using x macros with c++ to create static types and hooks to disambiguate from basic types. This is more applicable to final executables than libraries - I would never provide anyone with an API based on the mess it creates, but it
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by salgernon 2y ago
With all likelihood anyone still producing commercial (or free!) software today, or in the last 40 years, has users that they would love to see eaten by crows.
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by salgernon 2y ago
In 1988 I was working on a Mac software package and I remember the thrill of his returned “Customer Registration” card arriving. We had a small display cabinet and it went in there (along with Stanley Kubrik’s and as few others) The Radio S
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by salgernon 2y ago
The big loss for me was when many apps took over the windows 3.0 MDI interface style. (Specifically thinking of code here). I was doing some hacking in codwarrior on Mac OS 9 a few weeks ago and it was such a joy to have 5 source code windo
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by salgernon 2y ago
Heard a rumor that seven ate nine, which sounds scary.
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by salgernon 2y ago
I always thought that a near learning project would be training an ML on “real” cards and then detecting fakes. I don’t play the games but I was always thrown by how much effort went into counterfeits, but I guess there’s enough profit for
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by salgernon 2y ago
Why not put out the fires first? Imaging being a first responder hearing this political nonsense takes precedence over your safety. The fires are here. They need to be dealt with.
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by salgernon 2y ago
I’m with parent - what if you don’t have the tool? What if there’s a syntax error in some implementation or dependency such that the tool chokes early? Human readable headers are accessible out of context if the implementation. They also
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by salgernon 2y ago
From the blurb at the top: “ The app is 95% complete, […] I intend to clean up the rest of it, and go GA within a few weeks. ” Assuming the last 5% is going to just take a few weeks is naive from a development point of view. Everyone learn
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by salgernon 2y ago
> people probably already having a lot of tools that they use and prefer. Another tool adds to their work load. Further, a lot of providers are very strict about what tools their organization is allowed to use. In the past I’ve tried to
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by salgernon 2y ago
Worse than that, they change the design and location of the handle every other year, and then replace your toilet paper with 3 sea shells.
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by salgernon 2y ago
adafruit used to sell a little pi powered thermal printer[1] but I always found the case a little fiddly and fragile. And my office mate didn’t care for the thing coming on at random times. (Not as bad as the text only 40 col commercial rec
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by salgernon 2y ago
Sir Terry Pratchett’s _Reaper Man_ offered that snow globes were effectively seeds for dispersing awareness of new cities / malls.
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by salgernon 2y ago
Women’s rights, gay and trans rights and human rights were hard fought for. Defending them is progress.
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by salgernon 2y ago
Not that anyone is likely to see this older thread, but Earth Abides was just released as a series. I haven’t watched it yet, I hope it does the book justice.
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by salgernon 2y ago
Mad Max, obviously, Night of the Comet, The Quiet Earth, A boy and his dog. I think the early 80s was a good time for the genre. Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, and that other Charleton Heston movie with zombies that I can’t remember (no
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by salgernon 2y ago
> I'd like to move the cursor backwards and forwards in long commands easier I believe basic gnu readline semantics are followed here, and most text editing fields elsewhere, with emacs keybindings - ctl-a for start of line, ctl-e
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by salgernon 2y ago
The author of the original game: http://www.sticksoftware.com/ The sealiesoftware implementation is I believe a 68k emulator - and since many AfterDark modules back then did direct frame buffer access, the number of toolbox
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by salgernon 2y ago
I still have an IPC on my desk as a monitor stand. In 1996 I used it as a router for my 24hour 56kbps modem connection, serving all of 204.94.173.x - I was paying tlg.org $145/mo for my Class C address space, and all my home machines

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