omnibrain

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I'm getting old and wired.

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Comment · 2 days ago

Have you seen the Fender Evangelion Telecaster? https://guitar.com/news/gear-news/fender-2020-evangelion-asu...

Comment · 1 month ago

Funnily I did exactly this, so the {lastname}.name is now legacy for me and nobody else of my family ever picked up the offer to have {firstname}@{lastname}.name adresses anyway. Later (but before my name change) I managed to secure {lastname}.de which I stupidly missed during the early internet due to being a stupid teenager with stupid convictions. If I had secured this back in the day I think they would happily started using it but now they are all too settled in their provider/free webmail addresses.

Nice twist: The father of my wife owned {newlastname}.de since the dawn of the internet. So I'm still fine on that front. ;)

Comment · 1 month ago

About 20 year ago I registered {lastname}.name and have dozens third level domains below it. So there are "privately owned" second level domains under .name for quite some time...

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Comment · 2 months ago

"Object thinking" by David West was eye opening about this back in the day. The gist is to model the objects not along the line of real world entities, but along the line of "behaviour" like you mention.

Show HN: Free Vision TUI Library for Go github.com

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Comment · 2 months ago

Yes, stop making TUIs. Make GUIs in Terminals!

It’s ridiculous how far we have fallen behind the Terminal GUIs from the early 90ies. Look at the Turbo Pascal IDE and business apps built with it. Windows, window management, scrolling in windows, rich dialogs. Everything there. While many modern TUIs are just lists with numbers you can select. Everything is pretty rudimentary

I was missing a real terminal GUI library for some software I built. The rudimentary libraries did not work for me.

That‘s why I took Free Vision (the Turbo Vision derivative for Free Pascal) and ported it with the help of Claude Code over to modern Delphi, then modernised the object system and added lots of features and from there we ported it to go.

There are still lots of bugs and oversights (some caused by me not really knowing how original TV worked) that I fix as I go along using it for real projects.

https://github.com/oldwired/fv-delphi-modern https://github.com/oldwired/fv-go

Comment · 2 months ago

They had bet 100% on it killing PA-RISC and DEC Alpha. They ported HP-UX, OpenVMS and NonStop to it. All 3 of them were tangled up in long running enterprise and government contracts.

They since discontinued HP-UX, offloaded OpenVMS and ported NonStop to x86-64.

Comment · 3 months ago

I just built one of those plant sets. I'm use to that modern instructions just place 1 or two bricks per step. But these plant sets took the cake. You had to build identical submodules. From the picture at the box you could see that it's essentially 8 times the same submodule. But the way the manual presented it was, that you build one submodule 2 times, fit it to the base, then build it 2 times again (same illustration!) and put them on the other side of the base. Then you start building the top and build the same submodule 2 times again, fit it to the top and then 2 times again and fit it to the other side of the top.

Comment · 3 months ago

IIRC the Apple website used to use (client side image maps) them. But I suspect that was Mai my so they could do some research where users actually click on their screen.

Riding a Spitfire: The Story of Margaret Horton rafa.org.uk

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Comment · 5 months ago

It's the shell around the core.

The Fulda Gap: A Cavalry Scout's Account of the End of the World That Never Came twitter.com

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Analysing the Urban Attack: Insights from Soviet doctrine as a 'model checklist' researchcentre.army.gov.au

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Comment · 6 months ago

German here and me and my wife almost exclusively use Apple Maps, mainly because it looks and feels nicer. The differences in navigation are miniscule, but if we want to really check the traffic before we start we do a quick glance at Google maps. One difference in navigation we noticed is, that Apple Maps gives some small local streets - those just one revel above "Feldwege" (agricultural/forestry roads) - more weight than they should have. They are not really "single track" (almost unheard of in Germany) but come close, with no lane delineation dashes, etc.