watersb

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by watersb 5d ago
CLARUS THE DOGCOW Hello, old friend.
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by watersb 1mo ago
There was also DesQView/X, an X Windows server for DOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DESQview#DESQview/X
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by watersb 1mo ago
The article discusses the court case, janitor at the observatory the accused.
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by watersb 2mo ago
Cyan shipped at least one Hypercard game, before Myst. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manhole
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by watersb 2mo ago
1000x this. The single most soul-crushing experience I have on today's tech is the whoopee cushion. I type this on a touch device that randomly Cheevers the words. (It literally changed "changes" just now. Henceforth, my word
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by watersb 2mo ago
This is what addiction looks like. I wonder what the average interest rate is these days... I just saw a credit card with a usual (non-penalty) annual interest rate of 28%. Perhaps credit cards and car loans are not comparable. But it'
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by watersb 2mo ago
> Nimitz’s first operational deployment to the Mediterranean began on July 7, 1976. 50 years.
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by watersb 2mo ago
My hot tale on the ground in 1990 was that Russia treated Estonia like an imperial colony. Forced mass relocation of Russian citizens into the country after World War II, all children taught a Russian curriculum in the (public, free, Soviet
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by watersb 2mo ago
I wonder if these planets are more conventional gas giants with extensive rings. I'm trying to understand how they can role out occultation by ring systems but I haven't seen it yet.
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by watersb 2mo ago
When I first encountered this story, it felt like utter madness, something Philip K. Dick would write. It's been wild to reflect upon this story during this past decade.
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by watersb 2mo ago
I was very fortunate to spend a few weeks in Tallinn in the summer of 1990, an astonishing time to be there. Estonia emerged as a tech startup incubator in those first few years of independence, as a way of attracting capital and talent. No
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by watersb 3mo ago
This 32-bit microcontroller has 1 kB of RAM. The Apple Disk II Controller discussed yesterday used two 256-byte ROM chips and a shift register for dynamic memory. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48723102 The linked art
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by watersb 3mo ago
We need "How to talk to your legislators about zero-knowledge proofs".
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by watersb 3mo ago
I'm reading through the comments here before reading the actual Atlantic story, so I didn't see the author's name until you mention it: > Bogost's statement is akin to calling the Amiga 500 the only home computer to
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by watersb 3mo ago
I think that people are still underestimating the technical merits of Intel's 18A fabrication process. I haven't seen any competitor even try to address the backside power delivery of 18A. I suspect that Samsung,TSMC have somethin
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by watersb 3mo ago
Excellent! This made me remember that I've still got a G4 Mac Mini! I was bringing up a current Linux on it, last time I had it running. 2019, perhaps. I need to fire it up...
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by watersb 3mo ago
Former AnandTech editor Gavin Bonshor had reports that the M7 would be manufactured on Intel's 18A node. https://bontechlabs.com/news/apple-is-reportedly-using-intel... Given the risks involved in establishing App
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by watersb 3mo ago
If anyone wants to buy a refurbished PowerPC Mac, I've had good luck in the past with Operator Headgap. http://www.headgapstore.com This is one of those hobby businesses that got out of hand and had to go full time. But the
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by watersb 3mo ago
MC6809 forever! (The Hitachi clone is also quite nice.)
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by watersb 3mo ago
FGCS: the Fifth-Generation Computing System I was really excited about this initiative at the time, just starting my computer science undergrad degree. Hardware that ran Prolog as close to bare metal as possible. Thanks for the reminder. 40
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by watersb 3mo ago
Classic Mac OS aliases are similar to shortcuts on Windows; they are not symbolic links but rather actual files that record the path to the target. I want to call such aliases "normal" files, as opposed to a link, but the path des
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by watersb 3mo ago
> Have you considered the fact the majority of the US is not designed for public transit, or it doesn’t exist at all? There exist societies that have made different choices. The car dependency isn't an act of God.
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by watersb 3mo ago
> Why aren't more US citizens in grad school for STEM if it is so valuable to us? Graduate research in the United States is often an exercise in exploitation of cheap labor. China and India have a large pool of highly educated worke
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by watersb 3mo ago
Even with perfect information regarding R&D outcomes, capitalism is competitive. Capitalism is duplication of effort. I've never been particularly convinced by the crusade to eliminate alternatives to capitalism in the name of elim
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by watersb 3mo ago
Sad news for my GatorBox routers. On the other hand, now they will have less competition. (What's that? Just keep using an older version of Linux? What kind of retro troglodytes do you think I am?)
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by watersb 3mo ago
We certainly weren't ready for the stupidity explosion...
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by watersb 3mo ago
I wonder what this writer's ePub are like. I can't tell what the writing or design are like, because the article renders as a blank page on my old iPad. Also on my 2026 Kindle Paperwhite. It's futile to be old man yelling at
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by watersb 3mo ago
He will hold a Cabinet-level position before 2029.
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by watersb 3mo ago
The better to sell the data, all your privates are belong to us.
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by watersb 3mo ago
From TFA, via StackExchange: launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.rcd.plist will quit the process responsible for the madness (rcd, the "remote control daemon"). You'll have

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