Ἀlexios 🇺🇦

Not an —er or an —ist. Underachiever. High-functioning idiot. Invisibility is my main skill.

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[Ἀlexios 🇺🇦 @vincula]

@charlieholtz I personally use other address under 127.0.0.0/8 and leave only localhost on 127.0.0.1. But whatever works!

[Ἀlexios 🇺🇦 @vincula]

@DefenceForceOrg @StarLightPL Lexx is like a fever dream. Low budget and weird. And strangely funny at times.

[Ἀlexios 🇺🇦 @vincula]

@EquusFindy @tercio_miranda @scribblesonnapk Why two CPLDs/ASICs or whatever these are under the hood?

[Ἀlexios 🇺🇦 @vincula]

@loudscotsbloke Does it have text mode? Also no. But it's so weird and cute! It's even stranger with the external keyboard connected. 9-year old me was duly impressed!

[Ἀlexios 🇺🇦 @vincula]

@tschak @OldTechAdverts @Google That just makes me want to set up a Usenet node! I haven't done that in decades. (but the amount of spam pushed me off it back then)

[Ἀlexios 🇺🇦 @vincula]

@mperedim @JimAndrakakis @hakmem Lots of people have said this (the period in years is often left out). If I recall correctly, there's a version of it in the Jargon File / Hacker's Dictionary, too.

[Ἀlexios 🇺🇦 @vincula]

@scaryfish And I say this as someone with those obsolete tech skills, who is still 100% irrelevant today.

[Ἀlexios 🇺🇦 @vincula]

@scaryfish People who laugh at kids who can't use rotary phones are often the same who ‘want to live without technology’. They're present-shocked, feeling irrelevant and this makes them feel like their skills with obsolete tech makes them better than kids and skills with today's.

[Ἀlexios 🇺🇦 @vincula]

@Jhykron @zoggins There were special applications (modem & printer control, synchronous comms, etc.) that needed the extra signals, but as devices became more intelligent and speeds higher, out-of-band signalling stopped being used much.

[Ἀlexios 🇺🇦 @vincula]

@computermuseum A little too authentic for my liking. 🤣

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Glory to our Defenders!

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[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Even nature is on Ukraine’s side.

[Ἀlexios 🇺🇦 @vincula]

@loudscotsbloke My last several repairs have been like ‘It's old. Check capacitors first.’ [immediately finds shorted capacitors] ‘Well, what do you know, it works now!’

At this point, I think I need to sell my DSO and logic analyser and invest in a good in-circuit capacitor tester. 🤣

[Ἀlexios 🇺🇦 @vincula]

@DefenceForceOrg @and_coder Same for me, but Computability & Intractability was a theoretical course. I think it was assumed we'd learn about the practical applications in another course. (it's been a few decades, maybe we did have that explanation and I don't remember it)

[Ἀlexios 🇺🇦 @vincula]

@DefenceForceOrg @and_coder It's just a theoretical estimate for the algorithm. When the algorithm runs on actual hardware, knowing how your hardware works at a low level can seriously influence your choice of algorithm, especially on the more limited architectures we know and love.

[Ἀlexios 🇺🇦 @vincula]

@and_coder @inciprocal Two things to remember about O(·): it's a worst case description of complexity, so if you have special needs and/or special knowledge about your data this can influence the choice. And, the larger the n the more accurate the comparison.

[meteo.gr - Ο καιρός @meteogr]

Παναγιώτης Τσούρας:
"Ένα διπλό red sprite απο την καταιγίδα στο Αιγαίο πριν λίγη ώρα. Ο μητρικός κεραυνός που τα δημιούργησε εντοπίστηκε στην Ικαρία και είχε ένταση 76κΑ."

[Ἀlexios 🇺🇦 @vincula]

@PPsarrakis @mouseio Διόρθωση, έχουν καταργηθεί κάποιες διατάξεις του, αλλά είμαι χωρίς καφέ και δεν θα κάτσω να τον διαβάσω όλο για να δω αν τελικά μπορώ να παίζω Elite: Dangerous χωρίς να φοβάμαι έφοδο των ΜΑΤ. ☕🤣

[Ἀlexios 🇺🇦 @vincula]

@PPsarrakis @mouseio Και γελάγαμε πολύ οι εκτός Ελλάδας τότε. (κλαυσίγελως ήταν) Μας είχε κράξει και το The Register. Απαράδεκτος νόμος. Και δυστυχώς είναι ακόμα σε ισχύ, οπότε προσοχή όσοι παίζετε πχ σκάκι γιατί υποβοηθείται από μηχανικά μέσα και είναι παράνομο. 🥲

[Ἀlexios 🇺🇦 @vincula]

@HereBeDragons3 @robcfg Most micros were made on super-tight profit margins and were poorly thought out in terms of localisation. I think even the Oric Telestrat was QWERTY, and it was sold in France.

It was eye-opening when I saw the 16 bit Apricots and their localisation features.