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Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by busymom0 »

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #170
busymom0 wrote: post #168

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Fair. But if a user has accessibility enabled, that should override the css itself no? Also even with the focus outline disabled on other sites, I am able to navigate with the keyboard to text input fields. OP's site doesn't have any input fields so not sure why they have that CSS in place as I don't think it's doing anything.

You are making the assumption that the user has some modicum of control over the browser's configuration.

No I am not. Users who require accessibility have it setup in their MacOS/Windows settings. It's a global setting for them. It's not website specific.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by pjmlp »

normac2 wrote: post #155
Cullinet wrote: post #128

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C isn't in my mind close to the metal but potentially lets you be more sympathetic to the metal. Thanks for your drawing attention to this, I'm looking forward to reading.

Well, at the very least it's close in that it's native compiled (and not in a very abstracted way like JIT languages mostly are).

C like any other language, also has JITs and scripting implementations to chose from.

WASM, MSIL, Tendra, TIMI are all examples of JIT/AOT implementation that have C (or C++) as part of their source languages.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by mvanaltvorst »

normac2 wrote: post #109

Notice: this is written in fairly nicely-written C, not ASM with demoscene level micro-optimizations, like you might expect. Goes to show how much you can get out of hardware just by writing code sensibly in a native language (and native libs/tools, of course).

> Goes to show how much you can get out of hardware just by writing code sensibly in a native language (and native libs/tools, of course).

Personally, I find this a far less impressive demo of the SuperH SH-4 CPU than, say, Doom running on a graphical calculator. A http server (not https) simply opens sockets, writes a string, and closes the socket, a task which is usually purely I/O bound. Implement something basic like HTTPS (introduced in 1994) and watch this CPU grind to a halt.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by pjmlp »

saagarjha wrote: post #151
jhallenworld wrote: post #40

Well Casios are better than TI calculators. My current favorite calculator is Casio ES-115 PLUS2 https://www.amazon.com/Casio-fx-115ESPLS2-Advanced-Scientifi... I like it because when you enter sin(pi/12) you get (sqrt(3)-1)/(2*sqrt(2)) in mathematical notation, which is really nice for a $16 calculator. Here I'm going to hurt TI: If you need a TI-84 or TI-89 for school, the place to get them cheap is shopgoodwill.co…

> Well Casios are better than TI calculators. For scientific calculators, I would agree. For graphing calculators they might be better on technical merit or cost, but everyone is going to write programs for the TI so you might as well get that one.

Not everyone, TI seems to be US thing due to the government agreements.

I never owned one, and got three generations of scientific programmable CASIO calculators.

It was either that or HP ones, as TI were pretty much ignored in Portugal.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by DrSiemer »

the_third_wave wrote: post #119

Last year I bought I used TI for my daughter who needed it for school. I got her the oldest version, the one which takes AAA batteries and communicates with the outside world through a serial link. A project like this brings to mind the possibility of stuffing a Raspberry Pi Zero in the battery compartment, hooking it up to the school WiFi, using a terminal app on the calculator to communicate with the Pi and in that…

One of my proudest cheats was cramming the keywords of an entire presentation in French on a tiny round piece of paper, stuck to the glass of my wrist watch, so I could literally cheat while the whole class and teacher were watching me. Somehow I actually got away with multiple glances, only receiving a single remark about "being a bit too focused on the duration of my presentation".

My cousin, who has always did have good entrepreneurial instincts, actually managed to turn a decent profit selling highly detailed printouts of micro cheatsheets at school.

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by punnerud »

the_third_wave wrote: post #119

Last year I bought I used TI for my daughter who needed it for school. I got her the oldest version, the one which takes AAA batteries and communicates with the outside world through a serial link. A project like this brings to mind the possibility of stuffing a Raspberry Pi Zero in the battery compartment, hooking it up to the school WiFi, using a terminal app on the calculator to communicate with the Pi and in that…

And if IT use the Cisco management console, they get the location down to 3-7m diameter of every WiFi, Bluetooth, Microwave ++ that is using the same band as WiFi.

I was earlier in a startup that made an indoor navigation map, where you could get the blue dot without installing anything, by using this Cisco feature: https://use.mazemap.com

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by fgrsnau »

sleepy_keita wrote: post #56

The author seems to have their own AS for "experimentation purposes" https://tbspace.de/as203478tbspacenetworks.html https://bgp.he.net/AS203478 https://www.peeringdb.com/net/10981 I've always been interested in doing something like this, although it's prohibitively expensive for me, even for IPv6-only.

Check out the dn42 community if you simply want to play with the tech stack for free. The network uses the private AS range, allocates addresses from the private address ranges and peering happens over point-to-point VPN links.

See https://dn42.eu

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by sleepy_keita »

numpad0 wrote: post #167
dannyw wrote: post #160

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This actually doesn't seem that bad for a hobby (I'd be using this almost as a fee to help me learn more about networking). Does APNIC give out ASes for hobbyist and experimental use?

There’s no hobbyist program but neither is it corporate/for-profit only, from what I see. There are few people(mostly network engineers or researchers by trade and/or business owners themselves) who are assigned ASN to their homelab gears from JPNIC. Knowing the right doors to knock etc.

Good to know. Thanks

Re: This Website is hosted on an Casio fx-9750GII Calculator

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Post by dotancohen »

midasuni wrote: post #96
Firerouge wrote: post #9

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Maybe we'll get a follow-up on hosting a distributed cluster of casios to handle global load balancing

Back in my day it was a Beowulf cluster running on hot grits serving Natalie Portman pictures

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