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They are proficient at IBM 370 ASM, but need a lot of help, and a professional level disassembler for x64/x86, and in the converse, if you watch HackerNews, AI is poor/expensive for creating compilers, but it has extensive reference materials for MC68K, Itanium, SPARC, and ARM. This is where Gemini and Co-pilot become good co-pilots.

Waiting for AR

There are many many ways to die, some honorable, and a lot, so very stupid it boggles the mind. The stupid ways to die, was always a very good (spoilers warning) good read.

We always renamed the source archive "Viupdate.lib" and rename the binary 'vi' and the process manger would show that two copies of 'vi' were running.

The ! command. If you run as SUID anything, and the UNIX you had, had a SUID bug, then the shell command SUID as root. Scary when you were running on a "secure" version of UNIX, and it had a SUID bug.

On DOS, the ! Command, gave you access to the levels files, for which you could make a closet level.

I always started a few rounds as every role, and watched the hilarity begin with the stupid ways to kill yourself, which after a few months, were always hillariously fun to read.

Die. Die?

Been on and off playing since I was 19, 63 today. Always good times. I had it in my autoexec.bat, so when I got home, and turned on my machine, I was ready to play. Always abused polymorphic traps. Sorry to see them go.

My guess is that both 3D printed fans and production fans get balanced, but the production fans have an extra bit of design, that makes the profile sail at both a wider speed range, and peaks at a higher speed.

From what I remember from my NASA friend, a few companies, hired a few fluid flow engineers, during the defense bust, and designed fan blades that remarkably increased air flow. ( think profiles like air plane wing ). Something happened and in a few years, there were good fans, and there were great fans.

I happen to own a pair of Noctura fans, and wow! They are great, so I would assume that some heavy lifting was done in fluid flow.

"Writing detailed specs and then giving them to an AI is not the optimal way to work with AI." Perfect. I loosely define things, and then correct it, and tell it to make the corrections, and it gets trained, but you have to constantly watch it. Its like a glorified auto-typer.

"Ignore all of the LinkedIn and social media hype about prompting apps into existence." Absolutely, its not hype, its pure marketing bullshitzen.

I have token issues three times a day, and I just upgraded to pro... and now this... now I cancel. my work flow was co-pilot to Gemini to Claude Code... and the bottle neck was always CC. Always. I am done. It should be pretty easy to replace CC.

AI used to be, the punched card replicator... its all replaceable.

Well, that is a nice premise, I would bet that no humanity has been outsourced.

The counterfactual to virtue signaling is genuine, anonymous, or quiet action—acting on moral convictions without seeking public recognition or social status.

While virtue signaling is a public, often insincere display of moral superiority (a "recognition desire"), the true alternative is "walking the walk" through tangible deeds.

Note: Never make angry the gods of code. Never. If you do, they will leave angry on Friday night, and come back with some *amazing* thing like this on Monday:

Obligatory: Brilliant Work. Brilliant.

"We wanted both and couldn't find it, so we built it and open-sourced the whole thing."

\m/ \m/ /m\ /m\

There are shops, I know of that run a java emulator of a GE Mainframe running... Multics. Someone told me that, and I was floored. Multics.

It was mostly written in COBOL. This is how I got into XENIX/UNIX. A machine went down that was a training machine: It required XENIX on a PC, because it ran on RM/COBOL on XENIX, because all the screens, and the encoding, already written were in COBOL. RM/COBOL had an ancient compatibility, but the code was extremely simple, having been ironed out many decades earlier. ( I got it in 1985, but all the creation dates were 1982. The original files must have been from the mid 1960s. I pointed this out, and someone called me on it. I found a training manual from 1966, and the screens were exactly The same, except of course for the 3270 status line.

It was fast on an 4.77Mhz IBM PC, and much faster on a 10Mhz V20.

50,000 transactions was pretty standard for a IBM Mainframe, now? The z/ Series is still about the same, but it scales up to 32 processors. ( excuse me, billions. per day )

3, 5 and 6 are up. My copies of 1~4 were stolen. :(

https://archive.org/search?query=Dr.+Dobb%27s+Developer+Libr...

And the journals:

https://archive.org/details/texts?tab=collection&query=Dr.+D...

Your choice of adjectives "rabidly" particularly underscores the times.

When someone mentioned that these were available for download, I printed them in high res tabloid, and had them enlarged 4x and put the best two on my wall.

It literally entered my though my pores... I became a better designer, a better illustrator, a better carpenter, a much better visualizer.

I used to live in San Rafael, and San Anselmo, a stones throw away from the Marin Civic Center, and two of his houses... I studied and sketched the Civic Center from many angles, and saw 'Gattica.'

"In 1981, he wired together the backplanes of two DEC VAX-11/780 systems and made the first multi-CPU Unix computer, preceding DEC's dual processor VAX-11/782"

"This model is essentially a copy of the "dual VAX-11/780" computers hand built by wire-wrapping the backplanes of two VAX-11/780 CPUs by then graduate student George H. Goble and undergraduate assistants at Purdue University as part of his work on his master's degree thesis on modifications of the Unix kernel for multi-CPU architecture."

Yes, he was the first. DEC had made a bunch of attempts, he got it to work, and DEC came running.

G. H. Goble and M. H. Marsh, "A Dual Processor VAX 11/780," Purdue University Technical Report, TR-EE 81-31, September 1981.

Thank you!

GOOD GOD! you know that 1 oz of LoX + 1 charcoal briquette = 1 stick of dynomite. I am so glad that only grills were hurt, and a few camera lenses as the sky went dark on the video, because the light was SO BRIGHT.

I am glad to have been 100s of miles away.

Thank you for your work, and of corse for the many many laughs.

One of the first videos you downloaded... Well, from the other end, when it went 'Viral' it maxxed out the OC line that Perdue had, for a week. completely. I saw it once, a year later... and of course... found it hysterically funny, and shared it with my students... "Goble using a bucket attached to a 10-foot-long wooden handle to dump 3 gallons of liquid oxygen (not sold in stores) onto a grill containing 60 pounds of charcoal and a lit cigarette for ignition. What follows is the most impressive charcoal-lighting I have ever seen, featuring a large fireball that, according to Goble, reached 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The charcoal was ready for cooking in - this has to be a world record - 3 seconds."

"Looking at Goble's video and photos, I became, as an American, all choked up with gratitude at the fact that I do not live anywhere near the engineers' picnic site."

https://web.archive.org/web/20120416173854/http://baetzler.d...

I think I could do this for less than 15 cents: four small peices of double sided tape, and the tiny mirror, and two hair pins... but the software? Priceless.

XENIX's second target processor was an 11/34 with a programmers workbench. That nightmare took 3~4 years... Microsoft years, while they used the Pdp-11/70 for development.

We are talking less ram than an Atari..

Its been opened. Although I have issues with Wikipedia, being a creep is not a valid response.

SpeedBoost was supported by vista through windows 10, and although windows 11 regognises a speed boost USB, I do not know it it uses it. When I put windows 11 on two i5 8gb machines and plugged in two speed boost drives, it did not swap a lot to them, whereas in windows 7, under memory load it would use them, at least until I found ChacheMem v2.1 it would manage memory much better than windows ever could.

Windows back to window 2.1 386 supported swapdisks, i.e fake ram.

"So you end up with B players promoting C players for slop."

Micro-slop(tm).

Clearly you were there.

I cannot and will not advocate the burning of books, but I did get a 13 volume collection of Ann Coulter books... And they did burn well. 415F.