imekon

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Almost all remote-work news is negative now but was positive in the beginning of the pandemic. Have you noticed this or am I going crazy? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I changed jobs during the pandemic. I asked if I could work remotely permanently, they said yes. It's in my contract I work from home, not the office. I've been watching the "sea change" as working remotely has been removed from various companies and wondering why? If all the research points to it being better, then - again - why? The speculation about it being related to real estate is depressing!

There be ๐Ÿ‡๐Ÿฐ in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh the horror! I have a laptop running Linux! Two laptops even!!!

Somebody help me!

Windows is too bloated to run on said laptops. On one, during it's life, it could barely do an update! I eventually wiped Windows and put Linux on it. It worked fine, just not very fast. I mean 4Gbytes is a bit of a squeeze.

Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

12 years I think for my imekon account on reddit.

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"You're just high functioning!" (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 

Doctor said this when I asked about autism/asperger's. Never did understand what that could mean. Looked it up recently and... oh.

"High-functioning autism (HFA) was historically an autism classification where a person exhibits no intellectual disability, but may exhibit deficits in communication, emotion recognition and expression, and social interaction".

Blรฅhaj Lemmy hacked in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

had to remove cookies from lemmy.blahaj.zonw for my login to work

Building my own machine in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I wrote to Texas Instruments and they sent me back a paperback book describing every TTL chip from 7400 upwards. I read it cover to cover and learned quite a bit about TTL logic back then. I used TTL as the glue logic getting everything going, as well as 68xx and 65xx series chips to cover all sorts, like ACIAs, PIOs and video controlllers.

The internet did not exist back then. Even though I worked for a large American computer company with their own private network (text only), still no internet as such. It was called books and libraries back then. Oh... and no Amazon either.

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Building my own machine (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 

Back in the early '80s I built a kit computer (Compukit UK101), a 6502 based machine with 4K of RAM and BASIC in ROM.

I took the circuit for the UHF output and made my own 6809 based system initially with 4K of RAM and a simple IO board that talked to a 7 segment 8 digit calculator display.

That machine grew to four double Euro sized breadboard with 64K of dynamic RAM, a simple video controller based on the 6545 chip and a floppy disk board based on Western Digital chips.

All done by contacting manufacturers by post and asking for datasheets as a student.

I ran a commercial OS called FLEX/09 (much like CP/M). I had a language called PL/9, a one pass 6809 compiler that was C like but much simpler. Barely any runtime, squeezed to fit into 48K of RAM - an editor and compiler. I wrote my floppy disk formatter with it.

It all died when the wire wrapped wires turned black and the system stopped booting. By then I'd moved onto BBC machines - Electron, Master and Archimedes (ARM based). Eventually I bought a 486-DX2 50MHz - a machine I still have but no idea if it will still even switch on.

Having a hardware background got me a job working for an audio company doing device drivers and eventually a job in audio working for Codemasters, my first games company.

how has your pride month been? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Been OK. Used to go on marches but my partner's recent operation has reduced that quite a bit. We used to go every year here in London (and sometimes Brighton). We saw Pride in Canada a few years ago... it was odd to us seeing our hotel celebrating it.

I still remember my first gay pride march in the mid '80s when it was political in the UK, and we marched outside No 10 Downing St and yelled "Gay Rights!" back then.

PiDP-8/i TSS/8 computing experience in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I worked on DECmate - the PDP8 system that DEC had for wordprocessing. I learnt the machine code instructions to support the software.

What was the first modem you ever had? How fast was it? in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

300baud from work. Fun times logging in with it. Eventually moved to 2400baud.

Starfield's already the top seller in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Mine was No Man's Sky...

Data Shows Most Switch Owners Are Women, Gamers React Poorly in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I remember when they took a group photo of all the people involved with the racing games at Codemasters. Around 600 of us... someone commented, "who are all these people?". Well, programmers (AI/Phyisic/Audio/etc), Artists, Sound Engineers, Producers, HR...

And there were women as well. Yes, that's right, women develop games as well. There's one of my team.

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jerboa is tiny! (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 

Just installed jerboa on my android phone... it's tiny! 2mbytes?!? An app this small! Wow!