mac3n

polled buses with a master are pretty common when you don't mind the performance hit and central-point-of-failure. i believe cable networks work this way.

Comment · 17 days ago

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

Comment · 20 days ago

mmmm! Brain-aaS!

Comment · 20 days ago

another Sam in play here who can see anything you tell your AI and will use that against you.

Comment · 25 days ago

yeah, sooner later everybody is "the enemy".

Comment · 28 days ago

Chinuk Wawa <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_Jargon> a trade pidgin with a simple vocabulary of several hundred words. in common use in the Pacific Northwest a century and a half ago, and still appears in many place names. A few terms even made it into common usage, many by way of the labor movement.

Comment · 28 days ago

I might have gone to the same college, in the 80s. I was a TA helping students punch FORTRAN on cards - already pretty obsolescent.

One thing about the CDC - it had perhaps the worst command interface I've run into. Data files were modeled as tapes, and you had to keep rewinding them.

Compiling a program appended to the object file, but running ran the start of the file, so you needed to rewind between, lest you run an old version. Much time lost trying to figure out why changes were ineffective.

FORTRAN variables had 8 significant characters, but the linker had only seven, so it was possible to get unintentional aliases.

As a grad student, I got to use a VAX.

Comment · 29 days ago

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.11.711219v1...

"Hypothesis: A modern human range expansion ~300,000 years ago explains Neandertal origins", an alternatate take by David Reich, who has done a lot of work in this area. He notes that Neanderthal haplotypes appears largely replaced by Sapiens.

This would make them our siblings rather than our cousins.