Posts by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
(DIR) Post #AaIhILMgAvFsFqokYy by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-09-30T17:44:11Z
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@joeyh This is where I am always grateful that the GPL baked "the preferred form for modifying the work" as the standard for that.
(DIR) Post #AahKZSRg1NCvVST6Zs by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-10-12T15:21:23Z
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@ian This is why the flies printed on urinals are off-center: flows of certain angles don't splash back.
(DIR) Post #Aao5wULWUvBQmD8Wzg by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-10-15T10:47:39Z
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What if the real #Signal #0day was the personal telephone numbers we broadcast along the way?
(DIR) Post #AaoD09inovwleFim3s by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-10-15T22:59:15Z
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@BrodieOnLinux "Kneel before #XOrg."
(DIR) Post #AaxmOJISa9Zii56qGm by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-10-20T12:29:59Z
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@DrTCombs I believe Avery Edison once described the unicycle as the only form of transport that is simultaneously slower and more effort than walking.
(DIR) Post #AbJASICLJZoL7m90eu by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-10-30T20:38:52Z
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@TechConnectify @mattblaze Hugh Laurie recently said something like "America is too big to ever know itself", and I think about that a lot. I think that this place is also too big to know itself, but everyone approaches it like a small in-group where they already understand the complete dynamic.
(DIR) Post #AbKtVIi6YZkeg3lkqu by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-10-31T17:26:38Z
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@stefano ROTATE MOUSE 90° TICKET CLOSED.
(DIR) Post #AbM46N9QCdjhrcp2VE by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-10-31T22:47:44Z
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@fedops @stefano We actually had a chemistry prof at the university where I had my first paid SysAdmin job, and she ran insane parallel FORTRAN molecular simulations on a cluster of things she accessed via a Sun of some variety. Just absolute top-tier research code.We kept telling her to stop rotating her mouse pad (despite the fact that yeah, she had no room on her desk for it in the correct orientation), but despite the literally genius-level programming and chemical engineering chops, she just couldn't handle UX of hardware made in the 90s. I remember on her Mac she would long-press every link in Netscape until she got a drop-down menu, and drag down to release on the "Open link" option instead of just short-clicking the links.Anyway, at some point someone told her to rotate the mouse pad 90° and she literally rotated the mouse instead. Like, she just used it sideways for two whole years until we found out.I sincerely hope that she's still out there, using 2020s tech in the most surprising yet effective ways possible, all while producing papers that still get thousands of citations.
(DIR) Post #AbNclnURq9SBr4M9Xk by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-11-02T01:02:53Z
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@Ricardus Near as I can tell, his last one was created for the sole purpose of hanging out with Prince on air for one last time.It did the job!
(DIR) Post #AbcxMkBxygbAnM0PDs by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-11-09T10:32:23Z
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@mjg59 All of my "Teach SysAdmins To Use Puppet, Not Just How To Use It" materials started with a careful viewing and inspection of the Sorcerer's Apprentice segment of Disney's Fantasia.
(DIR) Post #AbjZjz5lhyFKsENJJo by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-11-12T15:05:44Z
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@Codeberg EVERY AND ALL MOMENTS WILL BE DOWNTIME, FROM NOW TO THE HEREAFTER.
(DIR) Post #AbntghCHH4GMQIp8TI by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-11-14T17:11:53Z
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@vkc Review them for the games you can play on them. Ask of each chair, "can it run doom?"if it cannot, conclude that it is not a "gaming chair".
(DIR) Post #AcQqDGz7TIp9Ssz7sO by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-12-03T11:52:53Z
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@mjg59 I was living in Rockridge when working on the LNX-BBC, and always wondered where exactly to go for a hyper-local pilgrimage.
(DIR) Post #AcVJ6M6zgZcCdrYsiW by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-10-28T22:33:33Z
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I may have just succeeded in making Usagi Electric's #Hellorld challenge work for the #pdp12. I'll have to wait to see if I can cajole @tastytronic to try this on actual germanium.#RetroComputing #VintageComputing
(DIR) Post #AcVJ6N9VohDvrxkPHU by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-10-28T23:03:24Z
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@tastytronic 33 instructions loaded in starting at `0200`. I'm chuffed it worked in vrs's branch of #simh!https://zork.net/git/SpaceHobo/hellorld-pdp12 ← The `Makefile` in this repo will download and build all the tools you need to assemble and run this in an emulator!
(DIR) Post #AcVJ6QluMOif5ujc2q by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-10-31T15:38:28Z
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https://github.com/Nakazoto/Hellorld/wiki/Almost-There#pdp-12 ← Hooray! It's now up on the "almost there" section of the wiki!All thoughts are with @tastytronic's schedule, in the hopes that we can get a live demo to watch, and promote it to the completed section of this site!
(DIR) Post #AcVJ6RYTRpZFWXSOkC by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-11-01T14:25:46Z
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https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/pdp-12-435-at-the-university-of-minnesota-duluth.1241469/page-7#post-1346240 ← Wow, turns out we found a bug in the emulator! @tastytronic sent me videos of him single-stepping through my code from the console, and I was able to watch the blinkylights on my phone from the pub and say "Hmm, looks like the `DSC` instruction is leaving `0030` in the accumulator..."I had a workaround pushed up when I got home, and we have a fix in the emulator this morning. Always good to know the antique hardware's performing as expected!
(DIR) Post #AcVJ6VMZI2Q9Kluwk4 by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-12-05T09:52:02Z
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https://youtu.be/zcP_Dfgvuo8 ← Here is the video I did with @tastytronic explaining the `HELLORLD!` code, and documenting the entire debugging saga—complete with actual photos of my printouts at the pub, and videos of blinking console lights!#pdp12 #pdp #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #dec #HELLORLD
(DIR) Post #AdAI1jdIQxlujIitQu by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-12-25T10:13:27Z
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@GossiTheDog Yeah she does that on purpose.
(DIR) Post #AdCHxSH3Q6Ay3BCMue by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
2023-12-25T21:34:19Z
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@amoroso It's a popular type of rose-tinted glasses, and the Unix-Haters definitely had some valid complaints about the rough edges and sharp corners of the Unix workstations of the era. But this misses two things: 1. Even back then, the Unix systems ran their LISP code something like *thirty times faster* than the purpose-built hardware. 2. Their complaints about stability sound a lot like Unix/Linux nerds mocking Windows in 1996. Both complaints were outdated, after time was put into stability.Watch someone demo a running Symbolics machine from the 80s, sometime. It's a massive pile of fans blowing over boards *covered* in ULA/PLA glue, and the GUI draws at something like one frame every two seconds.There's a talk I used to clip, by B🤬b M🤬rtin, before he let the mask slip and showed what he really was. He recounted a story where Ward Cunningham, one of the original Smalltalk bigwigs, was asked at a conference what made it fail. His answer was a summary of all of the problems with a live-editing environment without a model of source files, or the inability to reproduce or share software without sending over your whole environment, or the fast-and-loose attitude toward data types:> "It was just too easy to make a mess."This also holds true for Lisp Machines. They let you shoot yourself in the gun, and people did, and then you had a million-dollar paperweight until Genius could be applied to right the ship and raise it from the sea floor.One thing the move to Unix brought was reproducibility and stability. And for all the hacky project that Unix itself was in the BSD era, the Lisp payload environments were like little containers that you could stab like a virtual machine. Yeah, people had to go from GUIs back to serial terminals, but they could edit code from a PC at home and they could afford for more than one or two people to use LISP at a time. And hey, your code actually finished before the heat death of the universe!