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I just had a play going through the source and adding support for a board of my own, and if OP is reading this, I want to share my appreciation for how well this project is laid out. A lot of hardware projects are sort of spaghetti dishes, but this one is very well laid out, tested very well, and feels very clean to work with. Because this helps me with something I'm working on, I wanted to express my gratitude for that.

Thanks :)

The draw that this one gives me over the Zet processor (which btw is great and I've used it here and there in the past), is that Zet is not really maintained anymore. It's not a moving target, that's completely true, but S80x86 has the potential to hopefully do some neat things with 286's and 386's as well.

But for anybody looking for a quick-n-dirty deploy to a board solution, the Zet is fantastic and solid.

So neat. I was working on this exact thing at this exact time too. The massive draw for me was working with some companies that have a reliance on PC and PC/XT workstations with tight hardware resources and needing a simple way to swap out machines. Things like KM4821U memory (and several compatibles) are becoming harder to come by.

I'd love to merge some of my work in if I can find some spots. I truly believe that simply getting a new piece of compatible hardware is just as good as the option of upgrading your software and hardware. Just because we're all on 64-bit platforms doesn't mean that the shop down the street using needs to use it for their POS' either.

Also of tangential relation to this, but my old IBM PC with a 80186 a few years ago finally lost its 6V Lithium battery. I called IBM at that time, referenced 8286121 as the IBM replacement number on the front, and for a bit of money, they sent me a new-old-stock one. I was really blown away.

Also anecdotal, but this is also what we're doing at our company too. Most of us have the 2015 era Macbook pros, and run a split between 10.9 and 10.10. Others that aren't using that gen are using Thinkpads with full keyboards on them with Ubuntu.

It's not ideal, but our environment is rock solid for what we need, and newer software that we need still supports us just fine.

But it could prompt them to see an Apple Care Rep and get a new battery, which would fix the ultimate issue according to them.

If you don't mind the bitbanging, Software SPI could totally be an option for your resistive touchscreen if the screen itself isn't a super active device.

Also, for the camera itself, way, way cool. I love the idea of stumbling on hidden gems in the rough and polishing them into a nice ring.

Also see Uridium on the ZX Spectrum.[1] It's the only ZX game I can remember that had smooth scrolling, and when I first saw it, it left me in awe. I'd love to see how this was achieved.

[1]: https://youtu.be/CKZO-dnEReM

Somebody in the comments of the article brought up a good point. What happens when the site gets shut down? As apparently is the case according to the comment author.

I know it's a trope, a huge joke and everything, but this seems like a perfect place to leave notes on the blockchain. It's something that can't be "cleaned" outside of the darknet, it's permanent, and supposedly impossible to forge a private key to manipulate one party's records. It would make it possible for customers to look back for the records of that wallet, or some tagged transactions to see a record of interactions to give credence to the reputation of that user.

It's a neat idea, removing enough anonymity in a world of the anonymous to establish trust, but not enough to establish a hard identity in order to carry reputation across the *net.

If it helps answer your question, I am a woman and I do not see all men as having narrow views of women. I feel as if there is still a cultural struggle to some degree, but to say all men feel that way is a bit extreme in my mind.

I wonder if there's an analogous group of women that behave this way as well. The article didn't really dive into motivations, so I wonder how much of it is cultural and how much of it is related to general mental health. And if it is related to the latter, is it possibly a universal condition that also afflicts women as well, in such that it may not be sexual, but that small groups of women can have these predispositions to the worth, behavior, and attitudes towards men with little remorse for their ultimate actions against them.

Can you elaborate on how this would fall under interstate commerce? As I see it, they'd be regulating how they treat in-state customers and their connections, not anything coming across the state-lines. i.e. They aren't saying Comcast isn't allowed to do things to a line for a customer in Utah.

It's not about knowing how to do it, it's about watching the thought process of how you go about getting to the solution and how you communicate ideas and problems.

It's really great that he made a widely used piece of software, and he's a prolific developer for it. But if he can't explain the process to how he gets to an answer, it's hard to know how he'll work with other developers on problems.

I assumed it as taking a binary tree (L|R) and reproducing a tree that's (R|L). And if it is that, then writing out the algorithm on a back of a napkin just now was a pretty thought provoking exercise :)

I agree fully, and as I commented above, I don't personally believe this is a place for banks to be for that reason. It's shoehorning a profit-focused entity almost as a charity in my eyes. It incentivizes banks to go after borrowers as if they were a failed business when in reality they're just trying to improve themselves (which is good for all of us).

Completely agree. I don't think banks should be operating like they do now. It's almost charitable in how it works. Banks, who are driven by profit, give out these loans at a massive risk.

I stand by my point because banks shouldn't be in this position. People aren't companies and they shouldn't be looked at in terms of returns. I (and this is my completely personal opinion) think either education should be free or only the government should provide education assistance.

It depends on how spam filters are configured, but yes, subdomains can harm root domain's reputations. However, it's generally seen as OK to use subdomains to mitigate reputations being spread to the main domain. As long as you have your records in order to show what's going on, using a subdomain is usually OK.[1]

[1]: http://www.magillreport.com/Spamhaus-Provides-Answers-Part-F...

The bank should be entirely at fault here. If they looked at a student's request for a loan that said I'm taking a basket-weaving class at Cornell and I need $120k to attend then it's the bank's prerogative to look into the student's past performance, the rate of return for basket weavers, and the bias to which Cornell would prompt higher or lower returns in this area.

Just like any area of lending, it's on the bank to assess the risk of lending.

(And as an aside and I say down below: This is why I feel banks shouldn't be in this position.)

Part of the Udemy course Huffman was offering he said this [1] And honestly, it doesn't bother me all that much. I see it like an engine needing a big spray of gasoline and a spark before it can run. Just because it didn't start with pistons running doesn't mean it's a bad engine. I see it more as faking it till they made it, and it worked. They were their own biggest fans.

[1]: https://youtu.be/zmeDzx4SUME?t=30s

Console verification is an important part of ensuring TASes are accurate. For that, we need an interface into the console's controls among other things.

Exactly. The test points don't need to be numbered either. The CAD tool they use to design the boards can produce a bed-of-nails pattern that can be fed back into QA testing machines. If something fails, they can pinpoint it through the testing facilities and propagate the failures up the chain. At least in my experience with modern manufacturing, unless you have someone doing manual testing with a spring-nail, labelling the test points is completely optional.

It took me a minute with a few googles, but the TS in this case means "Technical Specification", which helped out a ton with searching.

Unfortunately, I'm still not 100% this is what they're referring to, but I think this is it.

https://isocpp.org/files/papers/n3996.pdf

EDIT: Here it is :D

https://www.meetingcpp.com/blog/items/reflections-on-the-ref...

> The other ones were just lazy, working only 9-5

I completely understand the latter issue about taking off randomly for wild reasons, but why is working agreed-upon hours a bad thing?

I have a little design for a Cortex based platform with enough memory to hold these images, but there's no way I could run an entire webkit instance for capturing images. This is a perfect solution me.

So yeah, in my case casper is a no-go.

I started with the Wikipedia article on Chinese Supercomputing [1] but working from there, two more interesting ones are the SW26010 [2] and the Loongson [3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputing_in_China

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SW26010

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson

Cleaning. It sounds sort of childish, I know, but cleaning was always such a secondary thing to me. I wasn't dirty, but I was messy. I would constantly buy things from Amazon, toss the box in the garage.

One weekend, a friend and I flattened and recycled every box in that garage. I bagged up every messy bit of trash, bought new furniture to help organize my things, and I feel like I can relax again in my own home. It was a problem I never knew was harming me, but since that weekend, I've been happier than I have been for several years.

This is the project that interested me the most. Would you mind sharing what it is? I figure there must be some serious nostalgia built in there if you're willing to shell out that much for it.

So I see you everywhere on HN. You usually have the not-so-consensus opinion that I usually agree with. First off, so we have a baseline. I never thought to check your profile and look for projects or blogs or anything.

But wow, you have written some super neat things I had no idea about.

Though apart from just posting to comment praise, more to the topic, I love seeing developer's old work when they were new. It's almost.. humanizing? Like, I swear EVERYONE at one point has were they said "I'm going to learn programming and make the coolest game, better than the other stuff, because I'm creative with ideas."

And then you try it and you realize how not simple and straightforward that is. But you keep on it, you gain a passion for it. And as you posted here, you can see the evolution of skill and pragmatism.

But apart from the topic again, Truecraft is super cool. Sway is super cool and I didn't know about it. I'm going to play with both of them tonight, so thank you for writing two awesome programs for me to spend my day off with :)

I feel like this has to do with Equifax basically not being punished in any major way over the last breach. Their stocks are still priced reasonably well, most of their board is still intact, and US citizens are still required to work with them for credit reasons.

And the worst part is, I have no idea how I as a person could say "I don't want to do work with Equifax because I don't trust them." And if anybody has suggestions on that, I'm totally open, because if Equifax was a dripping faucet, they'd be flooding the house by now.

I love this list, and I'm definitely tacking it on my hobby postboard at home. (Especially for django-reversion which is something I've always wanted and never knew existed!)

I would also like to thank OP for being really responsive to comments. I've been feeling around your blog seeing all this other great content, and I really appreciate the attention you give to people who comment and share :)

Afterwards, yes, but before that all staging tables belonged to a single role under a single staging superuser.