stevekemp

Like many others here I once wrote a toy lisp in golang, and I added a help function. It would give usage-information for all the built-in functions. > (help +) Arguments N arg1..arg…

Finnish mental health legislation takes a medical approach to compulsory measures, emphasizing the need for treatment of psychiatric patients over civil liberties concerns... Finland has the highest r…

I spent many years using 10BaseT and then later wired ethernet, which meant I avoided WiFi for the longest time. Now you reminded me that I bought a wifi dongle around 2012/2013 and ended up havi…

I do remember there was some point in the mid/late 90s where I had to do a lot of research before buying [desktop] computers and hardware - would this specific network card be supported? Would t…

I got into a routine of buying a (small) set every weekend with my child, when he was about five years old. The moment he first built a model from scratch, following the instructions and without needi…

Kuro5hin was pretty big, back in the day. But /. was the biggie, along with need to know. We get the term slashdotted from there, after all.

Gitlab features are almost always half-baked, sadly.

It wasn't me. But I guess there are a lot of reconstruction projects out there, and they probably have similar challenges.

Tutorials are hard, but there are some great writeups like this which discuss some of the specific problems and trial/error involved https://neuviemeporte.github.io/category/…

The EZ80 offers enhancements to the Z80, allowing the size of the register-pairs to be 24 bits.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zilog_eZ80 …

And because LLMs will "explain" things that contain outright hallucinations - a beginner won't know which parts are real and which parts are suspect.

> Am I missing a cheaper rental service that runs about $1 per film? Honestly where I am I can buy used DVDs for €1 each. I actually went out and bought a DVD player to connect to my TV a year or s…

I recently found a 6502 emulator written in Z80 assembly, which runs under CP/M: https://github.com/davidly/a1/ The full title is " 6502 and Apple 1 emulator for 8…

I live in Helsinki and there's a bar called "Super Bario" which always amuses me as a clever name. (Yes it does provide videogames and beers combined.)

Emacs is my editor, and I have it configured to use snippets in two ways: 1. When loading an empty file it inserts boiler-plate based on mode (largely that is based on the filename suffix). So if I o…

Overnight the sex-worker industry shut down in a lot of countries, meaning escorts/prostitutes suddenly had no customers and income. Early on the "retired" sex workers were the initial …

That reminds me of the Shell Grotto, in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_Grotto,_Margate This video makes the scale more apparent (and impressive) https://w…

Agreed. It was outdated at launch, but it's always nice fuel for the "What if ..?" conversations!

Famously the Sinclair family died with the QL, but there was another machine designed for compatibility and which could have been a contender. The SAM Coupé always looked pretty in reviews at the tim…

There are a lot of famous people who got their start in programming, game-development, and similar things from the ZX Spectrum in the UK. A really iconic design and beautiful machine despite the limit…

It is almost nice to see I'm not alone in those, I've had some incredibly aggressive contacts from "security researchers" reporting about lack of SPF/DKIM records on personal,…

I guess it depends on how you view it. Originally there was a Zork game, then a company was formed and they decided to repurpose their existing game as their first project/product because they ha…

How is this different to the online copies at Archive.org? Other than the advertising.

The Wordstar editor I run on my own CP/M system, with 64k of RAM, contains the 2023-byte long "SPELL.COM" spell-checker. I've not decompiled it to see how it works, but it's s…

"forge" has been used since "sourceforge" if not longer to describe these kind of hosting-packages. I guess technically you could have called Redmine, and other systems at the time…

Back in the day I used r2e, which was an old python scrip for the same purpose. I actually removed it primarily because it was the last package on my system at the time to need python, and removing it…

I would always know it as a kick-bike, but yes agreed. Our child got a kickbike for his 2nd birthday an was proficient in using it within days. From there he moved to a pedal-bike when he was around …

Even now you'll come across this, for example "/etc/rmt" probably exists, and other tape-related binaries if installed.