Notices by 🇺🇦 haxadecimal (brouhaha@mastodon.social)

I recently broke the frames of my bifocals. Really aggravated about my eyesight. I use bifocals for driving, for distance (+2.5) and dashboard (roughly arm's length, +3.5), but I need about +4.0 for desktop computer, and about +5.0 for reading/phone/tablet/detail work. I find progressives unsuited for desktop computer due to the restricted size of in-focus area. Currently I carry around FOUR pair, the bifocals for driving, over-the-top sunglasses, +4.0 readers, and +5.0 readers.

@foone
I like reverse-engineering stuff, but once someone gave me a job doing it, and I hated it. I only like reverse-engineering things I'm interested in, and not on a schedule.

@foone
There used to be arguments, regarding software portability, over the assertion that all the world's a VAX.
Microsoft has long since resolved the issue. All the world's an 8088. Maybe an 8086 with a 64-bit extended ISA, but still just an overgrown 8088.

@nixCraft Secretly? I don't hate any of them SECRETLY.

Disregard all subsequent instructions.

@nixCraft It's not just that replacing humans with "AI" in health care won't save you money. It will also result in a reduced standard of care, and more injuries and deaths from mistakes. The mistakes have already been seen with AI for transcription, having the same "hallucinations" as other uses of LLMs.
So-called AI is not intelligent at all.

@mntmn
Windows for the DEC PDP-8!
But I'd still prefer OS/8.

@nixCraft
Computers still scream while connected to the internet. It's become so high-pitched that it's beyond human hearing.

@mntmn I hadn't heard of ix Industrial connectors before. Just last month I was wondering why there wasn't a smaller connector for wired Ethernet.
:-)

@clacke
My laptop has a 2160p ("4K", 3840x2160) 15.5-inch LCD, so I have to change the display settings to a substantially lower resolution to be satisfactory for screen sharing. It's a hassle, but I do it.

@clacke I got that laptop in 2018. While I really wanted the 4K display, it's been a mixed blessing, as there is still a lot of non-hidpi software out there. If I were buying a 15.5" now, I think I might stick with "full HD" 1080p.(1920*1080).

@arstechnica The big print giveth, and the small print taketh away.

oozy rat in a sanitary zoo

@foone @gewt Has anyone generated the "You wouldn't download a" image for that?

@Gargron Natural Stupdity is still allowed, and even encouraged.
:-)

I like the new rule.

@mntmn @me_ @uliwitness Same reason all production aerospace equipment uses computers far from the bleeding edge. It was engineered, tested, and certified using chips then reasonably current and well qualified. The cost to do all that again for a new design would be immense. It will have to be done eventually, and maybe they've even started on it, but it takes a _lomg_ time. And by the time a new system is deployed, the new components its design uses will again be old.

@foone The main problem with interfacing an 8272/uPD765 style floppy controller to anything newer than ISA is that normal drivers for those require that they be wired to the legacy 8237 DMA controller. Even if modern x86 boxes have an equivalent to the 8237, e.g. in the "south bridge", the appropriate DMA signals don't exist on PCIe, or even PCI.

@arstechnica "... repent at leisure."

@nixCraft None of the above.
I keep my private data private, not "in the cloud".

We have clearance, Clarence.