satiated_grue

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by satiated_grue 8d ago
They'll pay for it for their private collections, though. https://www.artsy.net/feature/the-algorithm-auction
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by satiated_grue 8d ago
I took the city bus to kindergarten, alone, in the U.S. Things have changed here since, and we have given a name to this specific issue: "Stranger Danger". Neighbors discuss vans cruising town, looking to abduct their children. I&
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by satiated_grue 27d ago
This event is not mythical. That is why the log entry says "First /actual/ case of a bug being found". It's a humorous pointing out of "We've called them bugs for a long time, but this time it actually was
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by satiated_grue 3mo ago
I remember running live and then installing from Yggdrasil in the early 90s on 486 with 8MB RAM and 250MB hard disk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X Really liked Knoppix for a lot of thing
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by satiated_grue 4mo ago
I was fortunate to go to a high school that got a single Apple ][+ in the science department for physics, and a grant to pay a student programmer to develop educational physics software. I was further fortunate to be the student programmer,
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by satiated_grue 4mo ago
From what I've seen, it's the other way around - computers are still fun for the old nerds. I go to events like vintage computer festivals, and old folks are having a party with computers. I look at younger people with computers,
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by satiated_grue 4mo ago
Yes, and the order is important. Sending a carriage return and linefeed to a TTY 33 and then printing works fine. Doing them in the opposite order, if the carriage is to the right of the page, will result in a linefeed (platen rotation) hap
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by satiated_grue 5mo ago
How the world has changed, repeatedly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremvax
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by satiated_grue 5mo ago
There was at least one non-identical ISA slot: https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT_Syst... https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/understanding-pcxt-slot-8/
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by satiated_grue 5mo ago
That's exactly what happened in Ashburn. Loudoun County VA is currently meeting pretty much its entire operating budget with data center tax revenue, and property tax rates have been going down for years. More importantly, Loudoun wen
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by satiated_grue 6mo ago
If one were to release an AI app - what would be an appropriate license? Genuine question.
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by satiated_grue 6mo ago
This would be something neat to do with a core memory array, just like this but bigger: https://www.core64.io/
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by satiated_grue 6mo ago
You'd be surprised to learn how many people fell out of airplanes because of lack of seat belts.
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by satiated_grue 6mo ago
And a flying field was established at College Park, MD where Orville Wright began teaching Army officers to fly in 1909. That airport is still operating and is the oldest continuously operating airport in the world. https://www.n
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by satiated_grue 6mo ago
Super common technique. Aircraft cockpit videos usually exhibit stroboscopic effects because of the scan rate of the camera and the refresh rate of the displays, and those are very expensive devices. Short shutter time photos are just not a
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by satiated_grue 7mo ago
There was also the 8089 I/O co-processor designed for the 8086/8088 that I have never seen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8089
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by satiated_grue 7mo ago
ASCII was started in 1960. A terminal then would have been a mostly-mechanical teletype (keyboard and printer, possibly with paper tape reader/punch), without much by way of "circuit logic". Think of it more as a bit caused a
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by satiated_grue 7mo ago
I certainly remember magnetic media being referred to as "disc". For one quickly Googled example, the Sperry Univac 8433, may its heads never crash: https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/univac/1100&#x2
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by satiated_grue 7mo ago
FL180 is the floor of Class A airspace, "the flight levels", where airliners etc. operate. Relevant chapter from FAA "Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge": https://www.faa.gov/sites/faa.g
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by satiated_grue 7mo ago
In a world where Burroughs/Unisys MCP still exists, I have to believe there is still production code written in Algol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_MCP
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by satiated_grue 7mo ago
This seems to be a bit of an echo of the 1980s and the power shift brought about by the introduction of the IBM PC - the decentralization of control over data and processes from the walled garden of the computer room to the people at their
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by satiated_grue 8mo ago
There's solid representation of Boston and DEC in particular, for example, as well as IBM, so not all /that/ "Silicon-Valley-legacy-centric". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Museum,_B
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by satiated_grue 8mo ago
There are a great many modern modifications available for the 8-bit Ataris, many of them from Poland where the machines saw good sales quite late compared to the US. Using modern electronics (FPGAs etc.), processors, and high-density memori
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by satiated_grue 8mo ago
Here's some context on the RCA 1802 (COSMAC) Membership Card, also by Lee Hart at the same website, which is the real star of the lineup: http://www.retrotechnology.com/memship/memship.html
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by satiated_grue 8mo ago
The Udvar Hazy is being expanded to hold more stuff. The downtown location has more interpretation of artifacts - sometimes at the Udvar Hazy it's hard to really appreciate what you're looking at without a docent-led tour or other
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by satiated_grue 8mo ago
The Henry Ford has tons of cool stuff. A running Apple 1. The working Wright Experience replica of the Wright Flyer that was flown at Kitty Hawk for the 100th anniversary. So much amazing They have not only the actual Wright Brothers Cycle
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by satiated_grue 8mo ago
If you can, combine the NSA visit with a visit to the System Source Museum: https://museum.syssrc.com/ A great museum in its own right, and some overlapping with the NSA Museum (e.g. Crays, TEMPEST Macintoshes).
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by satiated_grue 8mo ago
A fun telling of the story of that boat by the Fat Electrician. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s-ZY0lnGeI
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by satiated_grue 9mo ago
Remember the trademark fights between Apple Music (Beatles) and Apple Computer? Interesting history.
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Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine(en.wikipedia.org)
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