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Here's an Atari ST that's been in daily use since 1985 as a general-purpose business machine at a campground, complete with software written by its single careful owner Who says the good die young?
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I'd be amazed if there weren't still BBC Micros and Commodore 64s still in daily use (possibly inside grey boxes that have just carried out working without anyone knowing what was inside).
There are probably other STs still doing music stuff.
And there's gotta be at least one ZX81 doing something important in a power station somewhere.
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Back in 1980+something I wrote a stock control program for a small TV shop on a Commodore PET (80-column business model) with twin 5 1/4" floppy drives for storage. It was still being used until the owner of the shop died suddenly in 2018. Up until 1990 (when I left England on a permanent basis), he still, fairly regularly, left me messages asking for extra features - that he didn't think he had to pay any extra for.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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� Forogar � wrote: that he didn't think he had to pay any extra for
Ah, but of course.
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It's amazing, the pervasiveness of that type of thinking.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Software engineers are growing increasingly more concerned over the reliability of their software, according to Haystack Analytics. Better late than never?
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UL benchmarks, the creator of popular 3DMark and more, has noted that there can be an impact on the performance, especially related to gaming tasks, due to VBS. The benefits of the upgrade just keep piling up
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I suspect to most of us, VBS === VBScript, not "Virtualization-based Security".
Another TLA not adequately explained until the fourth paragraph of the article.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I think we're just used to blaming VBScript for everything anyway
TTFN - Kent
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Is the strategy, make Windows 11 suck, so everyone will embrace Windows 12?
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Wayforward Machine is an attempt by the Internet Archive to preview the chaos the world wide web is about to become. Would you like to sign up for my newsletter on the updates to my GDPR cookie alert?
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When dealing with deeply nested brackets in Visual Studio Code, it can be hard to figure out which brackets match and which do not. That's what's been slowing me down all this time
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Thank goodness I never have to deal with deeply nested brackets, not to mention Visual Studio Code.
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Quote: file... which has more than 42k lines of code I'm beginning to see the problem.
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I inherited some code that had a few files that were more than 2MB and around 90K lines. There were literally thousands of global variables, some with single letter names. It was horrendous. I have since completely rewritten all of it. Unfortunately, it is still deployed at several sites and I haven't had the time to update them.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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That might not sound like a lot, but President Nayib Bukele has pegged his political future to making Bitcoin legal tender. If they keep this up, they might soon be able to afford a new computer
Maybe a Raspberry 4 from the output of the existing one.
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It's beyond me that so many people in crypto currency space don't realize that a unit of current is a quantitative representation of (physical) value, it is not value in itself. Wasting energy (value) to create a unit of currency is a double liability for the government (waisted value + the promised but not created value).
It's like a pointer in software, the current implementation of the crypto currency is like create a dangling pointer, which in reality requires only a few bytes of storage space, and store it in a terabytes of storage space, without allocate any useful storage space for it to point to ... It seams to make nonsense ...
Maybe I am missing something ...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Maybe a Raspberry 4 from the output of the existing one. And so the war with the machines began...
(at the root of it all, Crypto)
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Microsoft's software suite is getting an upgrade on October 5th with the rollout of Windows 11, and this includes Office Home and Student 2021, and Office Home and Business 2021. They still need to put a new ribbon on the box
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The search giant has abandoned a project that would integrate bank accounts with Google Pay. A new corporate record!
Maybe someday they'll cancel the project before they think of it.
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Interesting map of submarine cables around the world.
Submarine Cable Map[^]
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Interesting - some of these are in the future. And OMG, Facebook owning some of these? Somehow that just doesn't sit right with me.
Quote: Bifrost
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RFS
2024
Cable Length
15,000 km
Owners
Facebook, Keppel T&T, Telin
Suppliers
ASN
Notes
Exact landing points are still undecided.
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Facebook doesn't set right with me.
I wonder who has more data on us, Facebook or NSA?
The less you need, the more you have.
Even a blind squirrel gets a nut...occasionally.
JaxCoder.com
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Of the two, I think I prefer Facebook. Facebook can't (yet) send goons around to arrest you for your opinions.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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