Post-Apocalyptic Programming
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Post-Apocalyptic Programming
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Re: Post-Apocalyptic Programming
#2Note: This is fun and all, but beware of taking the “Post-apocalyptic” premise too seriously. Down that road lies only hard drive hoarding and becoming a prepper.
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#3The title "post-apocalyptic programming" made me think, if there is an apocalypse and we have to start programming from scratch again, surely we will need some NAND gates to make a CPU and surely the first language we need to create is Forth.
And this article does talk about creating a Forth from scratch. Excellent choice for post-apocalyptic programing.
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#4Similar premise to CollapseOS[1]. In the event of some kind of tech-effecting apocalypse or something we'd likely have to make do from less than scavenged laptops and desktops.
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#5Obligatory mention of http://collapseos.org
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#6I wonder if we got sent back to early modern period technology how much computing would be possible that didn't depend on access to semiconductors. Would glass-blowing and metallurgy be good enough to make thermionic valves (tubes) for example? Would water-wheels, animal power, and perhaps crude steam engines be enough to power them?
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#7Somewhat related question: a few years back I saw a dedicated "low-power e-paper Wikireader" type of product which could display a text-only backup of Wikipedia. In essence just a niched e-book reader, really, but with the additional effort of putting it all together in a usable format. Does anyone know of a modernized solution that displays images as well?
Re: Post-Apocalyptic Programming
#8Note: This is fun and all, but beware of taking the “Post-apocalyptic” premise too seriously. Down that road lies only hard drive hoarding and becoming a prepper.
In lieu of the obviously better solution of proactively preventing apocalypse, to what degree of seriousness do you instead suggest we acknowledge the "post-apocalyptic" premise? What else than becoming a prepper would you do?
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#9Let's have a look at low-power devices (for post-apocalyptic programming?) - is the Panasonic Toughbook CF-U1 MK2.6 from 2012 the perfect post-apocalyptic device when low power consumption trumps everything else? It has a 2W CPU and dual hot-swappable 7.2V 2900mAh batteries that last 9 hours (i.e. 4.62 Watts). The keyboard is somewhat terrible but the display is "daylight readable".
No, it looks as if the Acer Spin 7 5G SP714-61NA-S8Z7 with its Snapdragon 8cx Gen2 5G is even more efficient, its 56Wh battery has a claimed battery life of 29h (i.e. less than 2 Watts!).
Re: Post-Apocalyptic Programming
#10Somewhat related question: a few years back I saw a dedicated "low-power e-paper Wikireader" type of product which could display a text-only backup of Wikipedia. In essence just a niched e-book reader, really, but with the additional effort of putting it all together in a usable format. Does anyone know of a modernized solution that displays images as well?
It was literally called the WikiReader. But yes, it had some serious limitations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader