Yeah, Ian's cards are the ones I was thinking of. There's an APMSX available on eBay, it introduced me to MSX gaming (and some colecovision and SG1000 conversions).
Worth mentioning, you can buy small-run, newly-manufactured Apple II Z80 cards now in the 16-20MHz range (way faster than the host system), some even have a TMS9918 VDP chip for compatibility with MSX-1/Colecovision/SG1000 stuff.
Maybe possible? But generally in that case when there was no fraud, you just get a bankruptcy-resistant lien that follows you to your grave, and whatever enforcement actions accompany liens. Generally again, absent fraud, they'll work out a high-interest installment plan.
As a 13 year old longhaired wardialer in a not-so-privileged neighborhood in regular contact with a group of same, Xenix was something we commonly encountered. High schools tended to mistrust, rather than encourage computer enthusiasts, and the nearest public library only had a couple elementary books on Unix. I recall feeling like the richest man in the world when a friend got his first job as a night watchman and told me not to ask any questions about where this complete set of Xenix manuals came from. Good ole Xenix on other people's computers became where I honed my shell-scripting abilities at a time when documentation just wasn't so easy to come by.
Have an Atari 130XE, a C64, and two Apple IIs in my office still. Play my favorite old games, hack 6502 code, trace into ROM routines, mess with the latest accessories. (network adapters, solid state storage, accelerators, etc)... sometimes I even beat a game I couldn’t quite beat before. I rarely get time to actually do all this stuff, but when I do...
Agree except interview even more often, as soon as minor issues emerge. Interview a few times a year for no reason whatsoever. Interview because you're tired of the way the boss' tie looks, or because maybe you'll get another 10K a year. Doesn't mean you're unhappy, or that you're even interested in these other companies, but it keeps you in touch and you just never know.
Nice work! I work at [large Utah-based behemoth that sells a full range of connected exercise equipment] and enjoy their interactive rower models. It's always great to see people bring new stuff to market that makes rowing fun, because I've always felt that rowing is one of the best exercises. And since 'connected fitness' is growing so exponentially at the moment, it's probably okay for me to wish you good luck, because I think your product is genuinely exciting.
I... don't understand? You were an unpopular speech platform. I worked in porn for 20 years. I know what it's like to get kicked out of AWS, so does John Young. Why weren't they dockerized and prepared to move containers and backups at the drop of a hat? Why didn't they have hot spares elsewhere? There are literally thousands of hosting companies running the gamut from penny-ante to larger platforms like Rackspace, operating in a hundred countries, many of which don't know and don't wanna know what you're doing. The same is true to a lesser extent of registries. And Apple/Google kicking you out of their stores? You can still bookmark a mobile-friendly web app onto the home screen of an Apple device. You're not going to lose Qspiracy fans and nazis just because they have to do an extra step to get to your site.
Nevermind that maybe, just maybe, if your platform users advocate for violent revolution, you're going to have a harder go of things. Prior to approximately October, 2001, there was a taleban.com too. I didn't read any hand-wringing when they got the axe. Newsflash: At least Tor can't remove you.
The simplest explanation is that they saw this coming a mile away (who honestly didn't?) and this is engineered martyrdom.
PCS and Racing Destruction Set were beyond huge on the Atari 8bits. I never heard of Lode Runner until after the 8-bit scene began to wane and I got into the Apple IIgs (which of course promptly waned as well).
Over time, regulatory bodies become populated by 'retirees' from upper management and directorship of the subject they once regulated. The google-able term for this is 'Regulatory Capture'.
The forensic and rescue applications of this are encouraging; Finding a body or lost person in a forest currently takes an insane amount of humans and effort. If a drone-swarm could produce video or imagery that can be reviewed by a crowd of desk-jockeys, it seems our chances of success just went up a good bit.
Can't believe you're being downvoted for this, it appears to be an objective truth. Both major American parties would be considered (at the very least) conservative in most other countries. Instead, we're guaranteed, year after year, to be one of the handful of countries without single-payer healthcare, a living minimum wage, mandatory vacation... you get the point. That's without considering that certain American policies affect non-Americans (ie record numbers of drone bombings and caged children will continue regardless of whose smiling face is on television). There are workers' parties in the United States, but they are conveniently relegated to minor/rump status.
Oh, fancy pants up there gets codeine! After my extractions, I was sent home with straight-up Tylenol. But it isn't just the USA. In France, my wife had to nearly beg for strong pain relief for her back, but at least the doctor only charged 35 euros for a visit.
Yup, the built-in graphics RAM was 1MHz as well; It couldn't redraw its entire screen inside a single refresh (although by remapping the 65816 stack to screen RAM, it got close enough to do most of it). The integrated disk controller (IWM) also ran at 1MHz.
Begging pardon, 1986, two years after the Mac. It also beat the Mac to market with a color GUI and ADB keyboards and mice. But yup, hardware-wise it was kneecapped from the start (1MHz IO bus, 65816 cpu would never rival m68k, low cpu clock speed) entirely for marketing reasons.
This sounds so much like something that I'd do, that I had to stop and think about my personal hall-of-fame screwups to make sure that wasn't one of them.
I'm operating an 8xPi4/8GB cluster here, the 8GB Pi4s make this a bit more interesting, but my use case is this: I use Wireguard to backhaul an AWS EIP address, and use k8s to manage instances of various small services (gitlab, websites, wordpress+web application firewall, etc), simulate AWS Lambda, and just generally have fun. But to your point: No, it certainly isn't something I undertook with pure practicality in mind.
Work for a leading 'online fitness experience' provider. Our MAU has gone through the roof and well into the sky. I'm not sure what this says about 'fitness' as I've no idea if these people are gonna quit within 6 months (ie if the mechanism by which fitness aspirations begin and die has merely changed) or if people are indeed on the cusp of a new way of living. I hope for the latter, as this has indeed happened to me. But I fear it will not be the norm.
Excellent reading this; My Pi4/8GB cluster uses a 1000bT PoE hub for a backplane, and / is an nfsroot from a node running a Sandisk UASP USB3 SSD. Like the author, I'm blown away by the fun to be had with Docker and Kubernetes on this cluster. Unlike the author, I'm having a great experience with it as a Mac-replacing daily driver (thanks mostly to never running chromium on the same node that runs gnome-session, to spread things out a bit). Love to read about everyone's Pi cluster adventures.
Despite all the rhetoric, no country manufactures like the USA, and the USA was said to have been in 'manufacturing recessing' well before The Current Mess started. Now the price of oil has tanked (ha ha), real estate markets are beginning to groan as open houses are empty and purchase-money mortgages are down 24% from year-ago quarter, and of course an enormous percentage of Americans are unemployed, lacking both work and healthcare. Yes, yes there already is a sudden and deep recession, the scale of which seems likely to exceed 2008 in both speed of onset and depth of bottom.
I don't see government responses as being much different from 2008, ie bail out the large institutions and markets and leave average people in debt, and solutions like that tend to make for very gradual recoveries, barring a sudden attack of common sense, the window for which is already closing. I would therefore submit that we may expect the economic climate to take a year or more before government officials are able to lie believably about seeing promise on the horizon.
Yet another +1 on this: I worked at the same tiny shop (a partnership-like handful of people) for about 15 years; We navigated a few technological transitions throughout those years and made more money than we probably should have, but when I (at age 40+) found myself at a larger shop, learning the latest tech stacks was definitely not the biggest challenge. Indeed, the challenge was slowing down a bit, submitting thoughtful PRs, coordinating with designers, writing documentation... you know, actual engineering process. I got my hands smacked mightily a few times at first, and I got PRs rejected, but I got the hang of it. And yes, my long-dormant telephone magically started ringing again as the technologies, people, and companies on my Linked profile started catching recruiters' eyes again like they did back in the day. It can happen to anyone, but I can see how it'd be particular common among people over 40. After all, I spent my entire 30s with the attitude of "this is working and making plenty of cash, why change it?"
The problem with customer-settable severity levels on anything from tickets to emails, is (my name)'s Law: Over time, all customer-settable severity levels will tend to drift towards the highest available setting. Oh sure, you can try and mitigate this by making the highest level "Urgent (System Down)" but eventually this will lead to a lot of "Urgent (System Down)" level issues too. Another mitigation is to make their visible urgency setting a placebo, but it's not a good one as it doesn't manage expectations.
The only thing that ever really works is deferring to a mutually-respected PM and only allowing them to set severity levels. This is but one reason that truly good PMs are amazing to have around.
Came here to say this, although in a slightly different way. No matter what your bill rate is, if your commit is for xx hours per week/month, you're always going to feel like you're losing. Especially when you _inevitably_ encounter the customer who gets irate when you could only manage yy hours of brainpower in a week, even if those hours were superhumanly productive (and they probably were, amirite, or you wouldn't have burned out early for the week). In an age where so many people are seeing past the lie of butts in seats for 40 hours a week, don't be the one to subject your own self to the same.
What I took from this quote was that IBM and even DEC were shipping enormous devices that were engineered like digital tanks, with redundant data paths, redundant power supplies, somewhat hot-swappable component cards, and a guarantee of several nines worth of uptime, when combined with their first-party operating systems. Breakthrough home computers, by contrast, tended to emerge from "good enough to play games and play with balancing your bank account," having a strong emphasis on arcade graphics, but not so much on reliability.
Socialist? I've never seen the Democratic Party advocate seizure of the means of production by workers. Medicare expansion or state-funded education is by comparison more properly called "social democracy" or even "state capitalism."
In the mid-1990s, I corresponded briefly with Cliff, and he seemed amicable enough; The one thing I recall from our emails is that he was adamant that he didn't persecute 'hackers', apparently pursuing a semantic split between 'hacker' and 'cracker'.
I talked a lot with Hans Hubner as well afterward when he worked at Art+COM, a good bit more than Cliff. I found Hans to be extremely generous, the sort of guy who was just flattered that you sought him out and would literally create an account on his Unix and VMS hosts if you just asked, despite the expensive metered rate he was paying for TCP/IP access at the time. He didn't talk much about the whole Cuckoo's Egg saga though.
Very nice people on both sides; Makes you wonder how much of it was circumstance.