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So if I start with $1M of my own money, is it bootstrapped? If family (with fuzzy conditions) ponied up $250k, is it bootstrapped?

Isn't that more of a Wordstar copy? I loved QBasic but never hade any love for JOE.

Somebody needs to tell the troops it's over.

It's not quite like that. It's not that 1967 design is unsafe, nor that the MAX design is unsafe. The problem is that 737 pilots were allowed to fly MAX max without recertification…

You can have great productivity in C++, but it's also a very complex language. When I code in C, I make many mistakes, but they are all stupid mistakes. When I code in C++, I somet…

My father once thought he was wrong, but soon realised he was mistaken.

On HN just recently there was a post about the Navy and their wargames. The winning strategy had use for old-school tactics like radio silence, using motorcycle couriers, and signa…

Yeah, but if they REALLY wanted to, they could have emulated an 80268, it would have been plenty fast even in interpreted emulation. The whole NTVDM machine would fit in L1 cache. …

Not entirely dissimilar, depending on the org.

Could it use Nvidia G-sync somehow?

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=29427884&goto=item%3Fi...

I may be mixing up timelines here, but a C64 with 1571 and a RAM expansion (REU) would approach a cheap PC clone in price, so not much use if the main goal was to use GEOS. It's al…

Here you go: https://web.archive.org/web/20211201093209/https://uce3b70f9...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BELCO16pwNM

Or neutral and boring looking, or you would just attract another sub-set of kids playing with the angry plugs.

I have no mouth and I must have iScream?