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pinewurston Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office

Another veteran of that era. I think their cult-like behaviors and death marches are falsely remembered as glorious mission. I was in two recognizable startups in that era and, 35 years later, still have disturbing dreams about one of them. What I really, truly miss is lone wolf software development, God bless it!

pinewurston It's Time to Take Starlink Away from Elon Musk

While Krugman has never met anything he wouldn’t nationalize, it’s legitimate and traditional for national entities to enforce communications carrier controls in the national interest.

pinewurston Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

pinewurston Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)

University of Arizona? I remember their antediluvian Cyber in 1984 and helping my roommates punch Fortran on cards. I at least got to use a VAX 11/750.

pinewurston Watson Jr. memo about CDC 6600 (1963)

One can argue that CDC was obliviously dead by the early 70s.

Incompatible, increasingly archaic platforms, the best of those optimal for batch Fortran number crunching, counter to industry growth/interest. Organizational metastasis with a next gen platform (Cyber 180 as Star was stillborn - CISC from hell as 2nd system(s) syndrome) only at the end of the decade. Standards, coupled with profound organizational incompetence, ground it to dust. They made really good OEM disk drives for a while but sold the business off to fund their continuing failures.

There really needs to be a history that’s not an encomium to William Norris, Philosopher King of CDC.

pinewurston Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0x10c

pinewurston The Interim Computer Museum

I believe it's the LCM items that either didn't sell or were not considered worthy of auction by Jody Allen and her droogs.

pinewurston Microsoft Surface Duo

(2020)

pinewurston Tsundoku: The art of buying books and never reading them

(2018)

pinewurston Dissecting the Apple M1 GPU, the End

(2025)

pinewurston Three tough truths about climate – Bill Gates

(2025)

pinewurston Z80 – The 1970s Microprocessor Still Alive (2021)

(on a 600 Mhz Teensy 4.1)

pinewurston Dario's wife tried to raise money from Epstein for a porn studio

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/anthropics-first-lad...

pinewurston Come for ENIAC, Stay for UNIVAC and Skeduflo

That’s a really good book!

pinewurston The Bit Player: My Father with Steve Zissou

His space books are very good.

pinewurston That time when I failed the Microsoft interview

I’ve been through the Microsoft loop(s) several times over the years, and (to borrow from Tolstoy) each was unhappy in its own way. There were great people who would have been a pleasure to work with but always at least one joker in the deck. One just had to laugh because it was so obvious it wasn’t me.

I remember speeding through the loop for something closely analogous to my job at the time, only to be suddenly told by the hiring manager (who up to that time was a strong supporter) in a final interview that I wasn’t qualified. Not wanting to invest any more energy, I formally withdrew, only to get a call from him protesting why I’d do such a thing. Or being told to leave at the end of the day only to be called to drive back 20 miles immediately during dinner, and finding out later that was a mistake. Or being literally screamed at (spittle in my face!) that HPC was only MPI and nothing but MPI. Or being yelled at that Windows Server was exactly the same as an enterprise storage system like EMC/HP/Hitachi. The hits go on.

pinewurston Migrants swim from Morocco to Spanish enclave of Ceuta

They’re called “minefields”.

pinewurston IBM Acquiring HRL Laboratories

Good experience for an IBM takeover then.

pinewurston A Most Sinful Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter

Says a multiply offending sex offender and Russian sock puppet.

Anything he’s against, I have to be strenuously for.

pinewurston American Loneliness

https://archive.ph/MnCIh

pinewurston 'Ziplink Is Now Froggle': The Story Behind the Fake AI Ads That Went Viral

https://archive.ph/PzYLv