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It was deleted because it was posted here.

yeah, same. they really need to be blocked from HN, permanently.

my favorite part of this bullshittery that there's quotes around my name. it's just my name. it's on my license and everything. anyway you can keep linking to my threads. I just wo…

ADHD. If I have a long-form blog post to write end, I get caught up in going back and rephrasing and re-editing and such, and it never gets finished. Twitter's paragraph-size chunk…

Feel free to write it as one! But personally I can only do it this way, as I've got rather bad ADHD. So when I'm writing, it's a choice between "a rambly twitter thread" or "an unf…

Yeah, if you read to the bottom I apologize for this. I made this rant at 5am after being in the hospital for 8 hours, I could barely see the screen. It's amazing the thread doesn'…

A few people have mentioned that! I'm keeping my eye out for a second one, so if I find one (or I figure out a way to talk to off-the-shelf hardware with this one) I'll send it his…

The drive itself was actually very powerful and capable, it just was very limited by having to talk to the C64 using the Vic20-compatible interface, which had issues. That's why th…

Very neat! That sounds like it's pretty similar to this one then. I wonder if the FISK was directly inspired by the DiskFax? I'm hoping to get in touch with the designer so I may h…

oh, hello! I've been looking for a DiskFax machine for a long while, in fact I think it was my searches for that that ended up finding this one (on ebay). That was a few years befo…

Sorry. I've got ADHD, so that's really the only way I can usually do these things. I'm planning to videoify it in the future, if that's more your style.

I checked, and that means it's basically illegal to fly a drone in the bay area: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DB54FczUQAEQ5D6.jpg:large

I've actually got the game in-box, that's how I remembered it. The only web-version I know of is the one based on the novelization, which is only available on internet archive now:…

I just now realized this story I'd been ignoring isn't about the game "Portal" for the Apple II. Activision published a game with that title in '86 about exploring the future inter…

We also had weird CCITT Group 4 issues, because of someone trying to be extra smart and convert TIFF to PDF without a recompress (PDF supports Group 4 compression too, so you can t…

I bet I worked with the same company when I was with the government. We had a subcontractor who'd been hired to digitize something like 200 million paper records (they made it abou…

I think they mean use the magic numbers so you can limit to common file formats like jpeg/png/gif/bmp/tiff/etc instead of just dumping everything to imagemagick, which has the side…

I swear I've had amazon ask me if it was alright to deliver to a new address on weekends. Maybe that's a recent feature?

That was a joke. Sorry, more than one person thought it was serious.

It's an old trick for compression/size limit competitions. You have N bytes allowed, but you can get an extra M bytes by putting them in the filename (minus however many bytes it t…

Seems unlikely. This page is at least 16 years old.

Ollydbg run traces and in a plain text format. I'm constrained by my target application only working on older versions of windows, so I can't easily insert a compression step in th…

Yeah, one of my main debugging tasks right now is primarily limited by my SSD write speed. Instruction-level traces take 9gb at minimum, any more significant work takes quite a lot…

There are some. I had to deal with a microsoft project using one, and in the end the only solution we came up for dealing with it was extracting the decompression code out of the E…