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by whartung 6d ago
There was a time when I sold my computer and bought a motorcycle. Can honestly say that was one of the best trades I’ve ever done. I didn’t buy another computer for 3 more years.
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by whartung 13d ago
Ive always wondered if I sat down with a sketch artist and was asked to describe my wife, how close we would get.
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by whartung 13d ago
Its talked about here: https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Garbage_Collection The process they used was simple, but brutal.
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by whartung 15d ago
A bigger question. How do you all GIFT music these days? My brother recently sent me a new album for my birthday. Very kind. But, it's on vinyl. And I don't have a player. But it just reinforces thoughts I had before. I had wanted
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by whartung 15d ago
I'm hoping to see progress in this space. Folks talking about how 32G is not enough for local use, but then there's been work like this to empower it. My hope is that the new 32G M6 will be "useful" locally, possibly bec
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by whartung 17d ago
I'm sure I'm not the only person to have built a wall unit in a bedroom only to learn, later, getting it out the door, and through the hall, and down the stairs turns out to be job for Dirk Gently. That said, moving some of this f
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by whartung 19d ago
I would submit that the point of the GUI was necessarily "anti-keyboard" as more "pro-discovery", plus adding gestures that would be difficult on a keyboard. Keyboard interfaces can be, but not necessarily, quite opaque.
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by whartung 25d ago
It says I'm terrible. But I've known that for a long time.
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by whartung 25d ago
I've mentioned this before, but the rise of the TUI is the simply the systemic failure of remote GUIs. The primary value statement of TUIs is that they work over SSH with remote systems. But now, we're hearing rumbles about the li
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by whartung 27d ago
Year ago, there was a painter, Thomas Kinkade, the "Painter of light". He became a bit of a pop phenomenon, with stores dedicated to selling high quality prints of his works. And one of the things, so I'm told, that could hap
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by whartung 1mo ago
We watch the Big Bear eagle camera. (I should say it plays in the background.) And some of the fun of it is listening to just the "nature" sounds, mostly birds. But, specifically, the coyotes. We have a snippet of them going for I
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by whartung 1mo ago
The concern is when the data breaks out of the silos. It should not shock anyone that Amazon has an entire history of everything that you've ever bought. I would likely not surprise anyone here that they have a log of every item you&#x
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by whartung 1mo ago
The compiler. That’s the gem of the system. The generated C is reasonably portable, so you can run Scheme programs on systems that “don’t run Scheme”.
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by whartung 1mo ago
Ive always "dreamed" of having something like the ST image but backed by persistent virtual memory, not simply RAM. (Crudely) mmap the ST image to a 100GB file and just change pages. Let the OS flush the pages back and forth. Mayb
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by whartung 1mo ago
Living here in So Cal, where the mountains are a constant presence. Yet, I still stare and wonder. Despite people having been here for thousands of years, I look at a ridge, or a spot on the mountain, and just wonder "has anyone been t
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by whartung 2mo ago
I'm curious how much of the AS/400 architecture leaks out to the application developers. In the end, the vast majority of the work done on these machines was done in RPG and COBOL. Curious if most of the architecture was visible t
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by whartung 2mo ago
Most interesting hotel elevator system I’ve seen was in Washington DC. Instead of hitting the call button, you started the request with your floor. Then the system would assign you an elevator (there were 6 cars as I recall). I assume this
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by whartung 2mo ago
Not just that, but, as I understand it, with some of the modern digital phone systems, they won’t work properly even if you did have someplace to call. And 2400 baud was quite useful for a personal NNTP feed.
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by whartung 2mo ago
Funny thing about Shays. When you see a photo of them, you almost always see the right side of the locomotive, as that's where the pistons and the drive train are. You almost never see the left side of it. The left side is much more un
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by whartung 2mo ago
Well thats the crux. While the display may seem simple (a grid, a few controls), a Web UI CRUD app, while routine today, is NOT simple. While it's been 20+ years since I dealt with either, you can create table, get a navigable (and per
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by whartung 2mo ago
A favorite developing a debugger story was from a friend of mine. They were working on a debugger for OS/2, which was quite notable at the time for being multitasking. And at one point they got to enough of a base feature set that they
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by whartung 2mo ago
Is the Foley/Van Dam book still a go to resource for this? It seems it was updated in 2013, but, honestly, I’m more familiar with the ‘82 edition that was dedicated to 2D. Back in the day, it was The Book for computer graphics.
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by whartung 2mo ago
As I understand it, they done this in simulation, and the human pilots did not fare well. I don't know of the computer aircraft were able to fly beyond human limits (i.e. they don't black out) or not. If the computers can actually
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by whartung 2mo ago
Well, this will be fun. I already have one of these (I'm sure I'm not alone). It's about 500 lines. I found I'm not a huge fan of the JAX-B-ish style serialization of Java objects for JSON. I don't want to really do
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by whartung 2mo ago
I have Jim Ladds book, autographed. My friend went to a book signing and got it for me. It’s signed “They say it’s your birthday — Jim Ladd”. I also saw him when he toured with Roger Waters for “Radio KAOS”. “Good night Jim.” “Good night, B
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by whartung 2mo ago
Are there other computers that run off of SD cards long term successfully that are not Raspberry Pi’s?
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by whartung 2mo ago
Two of my favorite Z80 anecdotes. First, my Father wanted to try to add some peripherals to the original TRS-80 Model 1. So, what he was interested in doing was asserting the BUSREQ pin to tell the Z80 to get ready so that he could have the
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by whartung 2mo ago
That's pretty neat! God help me if I fell down a hole like that. I must say, however, that e.g. code like (compile-compound) is something only an AI can love!
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by whartung 2mo ago
> I find a procedural style of programming so much easier to reason about, both when writing and reading. Then do that. There's nothing stopping you from using pretty much any style of programming that you like. Or mix and match. Or
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by whartung 2mo ago
How are (can) datacenters be taxed? Mind, I don't know, but normally you put in a business, or factory, etc. the state can tax the economic output of the factory. The factory builds things, sells things, they tax the sales of those thi

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