Reminds me of visits to the print room at university. Down the far end of the hallway because even with the special sound proof door you could still hear it. The line printers for the VAX were proper industrial machinery.
Readit NewsOf course we laugh at this nonsense here, but the general public will swallow it. We should be aware that it is not just in this one area of policy/technology that the governments brightest minds recommend nonsense, it very likely applies to all areas of policy and recommendations. [1].
nickdothutton commented on 1910: The year the modern world lost its mind derekthompson.org/p/1910-... · Posted by u/purgator
During the early industrial revolution people used to present themselves for medical help after complaining that the incessant repetitive action and rotation of engines (e.g. beam engines) hundreds of miles away from them was sending them vibrations which disturbed their sleep. Of course they only started having this problem after reading about such contraptions in newspapers.
I should add that it was not the sound that was disturbing them, these engines were sometimes on the other side of the country. It was the "unnatural", unending reciprocating motion of the things!
nickdothutton commented on 1910: The year the modern world lost its mind derekthompson.org/p/1910-... · Posted by u/purgator
During the early industrial revolution people used to present themselves for medical help after complaining that the incessant repetitive action and rotation of engines (e.g. beam engines) hundreds of miles away from them was sending them vibrations which disturbed their sleep. Of course they only started having this problem after reading about such contraptions in newspapers.
These old ceramic packages are to my mind peak aesthetic for chips.
Years ago I was part of a group of people I knew who could read and edit large parts of sendmail.cf by hand without using m4. Other people who had to deal with mail servers at the time certainly treated it like a superpower.
A significant part of my 1st ever job consisted of editing sendmail.cf’s by hand. Occasionally had to defer to my boss at the time for the real mind bending stuff. I now believe that he was in fact a non-human alien.
nickdothutton commented on People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/sugarpimpdorsey
Competing with sdf.org, eh? (-:
In some sense perhaps, although I doubt there will ever be more than a couple of thousand members.
nickdothutton commented on People still use our old-fashioned Unix login servers utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/spa... · Posted by u/sugarpimpdorsey
This is why I’m setting up a modern shell host community for like minded individuals. Think of it as a high trust social network niche.
GenX has just been quietly banking the cash. Better to be a kingmaker than a king. You can have a longer reign.
Step 2, demand compliance.
Step 3, upon not hearing of compliance, levy fines.
Step 4, upon non payment of fines, declare in breach of (2).
Step 5, block site from UK using DNS, in the same manner as torrent sites etc.
5 was always the goal, 2 to 4 are largely just performative.