xradionut

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by xradionut 12y ago
Wirth also created successors to Pascal and co-created an operating system and the hardware it ran/runs on.
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by xradionut 12y ago
It's currently unobtainium, it can't be purchased.
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by xradionut 12y ago
Here's a suggestion I haven't seen: Unless you have full management support, a skilled team, valid business reasons for this conversion, and expectations of succeeding, consider moving to another company/job. You've bee
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by xradionut 12y ago
MIPS hasn't gone anywhere. You can get PIC32 chips and boards based on them for various projects include the Open Source TenTec 506 Rebel radio. While there's more tools and chips for ARM on small systems, I still prefer MIPS due
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by xradionut 13y ago
I comment them at the time of creation and add them to my snippets file with the comment.
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by xradionut 13y ago
There's a lot of open data available, depending on what you are looking for. If I had time, I could probably spend it on this SE and earn points, count coup, or whatever. Instead I'm working with a couple of user groups helping lo
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by xradionut 13y ago
The first hit/dose is free. On the other hand you do have companies that do make millions that are bailing on certain aspects of Microsoft tools and servers due licensing costs and increases. I've been involved in IT budgeting for
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by xradionut 13y ago
Lua 1994 Icon 1977
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by xradionut 13y ago
I recommends Zed's to the absolute beginners. If they can handle LPTHW, they are on a good track for the future.
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by xradionut 13y ago
The OP has "dabbled", he hasn't committed himself to a single language nor a good regimen/project to succeed. Let's look at this quote: "On top of that, there’s a constant din of “Python’s not for you, it’s for
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by xradionut 13y ago
Having been "online" since the '80s, I respectfully disagree. Relative anonymity in "real" life leads to antisocial activity and rudeness since there's little chance of identity or recourse. Consider the behavi
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by xradionut 13y ago
This is similar to what I would do in the same situation. If I didn't need the income of my day job, I'd spend the time on public service or charity of some sort. I can't see myself spending money like a trust fund dilettant
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by xradionut 13y ago
It's not debugging as much as what us old timers call troubleshooting. At the university I had an insane advantage over those folks that had never seen a Simpson multimeter nor soldered a component nor seen a schematic. I had spent my
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by xradionut 13y ago
If the organizers really want to make a difference, the site should replace the words "call and email" with "buy and pay".
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by xradionut 13y ago
I refused to install Skype for work, pointing out that it's not as secure as it's alternatives. Plus the fact it's disrupting, crappy software and you still can reach me by email, phone, VPN or walk down the hall to my office
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by xradionut 13y ago
I agree with the author in regards to coding web sites. It's not enough to know a just a few languages, there's a whole frickin' vocabulary of crap piled on layers of services and frameworks frosted by the JS flavor of the we
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by xradionut 13y ago
While I love the blog and the very clear explanations, none of this is new nor amazing to the experienced RF engineer, enthusiast, or practitioner. What's awesome is that the hardware and software are currently cheap enough that more
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by xradionut 13y ago
I used to repair KLA wafer steppers and loaders back in the day as ppart of my job. Not something you would find outside a fab, lab or test facility.
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by xradionut 13y ago
No. "brow" is short for browse. Cookie if you know what language.
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by xradionut 13y ago
I chose my laptop mainly on the quality and layout of the keyboard. Unlike the OP, I don't travel as much so I had more choices due to the fact I have 17.3" laptop.
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by xradionut 13y ago
It's not stupidity for everyone, it's just that every recourse outside of violence has been captured or gamed by those truly in power in the US. Plus the media has been captured 99.9999 percent. And it's not bad enough for th
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by xradionut 13y ago
Have you met the author? Peter is opinionated, but most of the time he has a valid reason for it. As a writer and a programmer, a good keyboard is a necessity for his work. (I'd bet he's typed as many or more lines of code than a
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by xradionut 13y ago
I was given a bunch of DG gear around Y2K. Kept a couple of Aviion boards to hang on the office wall after having to purge the system collection before moving. As much as I love old gear, my interests are currently more modern. Still I&#x27
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by xradionut 13y ago
VAXen to play with? What type of hardware you running on? I vaguely remember VMS and DCL from the late 80's and early 90's, we had terminals everywhere on the floor and in the fab.
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by xradionut 13y ago
How's availability outside of China? I'm not finding many of these systems in the US.
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by xradionut 13y ago
Good, experienced EEs are worth 10 or more recent grads. Especially those that know RF and/or embedded programming. But then again I'm in a area that has a large number of EE's.
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by xradionut 13y ago
I've scrapped most of these systems years ago. Still have a aviion dual cpu board somewhere in the shed, probably doesn't work.
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by xradionut 13y ago
There's probably a few hobbyists that still use SGIs. Octeon is mostly commercial vendors, who could pay for all of OpenBSDs needs out of their fancy executive toilet paper budget. And there's one OpenBSD hacker who uses Loongson
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by xradionut 13y ago
Who still uses an 88K machine? I have the CPU board from a DG/UX machine, but the latest chips are from 93/94.
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by xradionut 13y ago
They could probably kill support and power for some of the "dead silicon" platforms they support. If the CPU hasn't been manufactured in the last decade or two, why support it?

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