mdhughes
@mdhughes@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on ‘I’m a modern-day luddite’: Meet the students who don’t use laptops 1 week ago:
Went to school before the late '90s: Write everything in paper notebooks & exam books.
Went to school between late '90s-2020s: Tap it all into a computer. Learn nothing.
Went to school late 2020s on: Write in paper notebooks, in between scavenging the ruins for food.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 5 weeks ago:
His books are also fun, The Stench of Honolulu was good, the opposite of a hard-boiled PI.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 5 weeks ago:
A degree in CS is valueless for actual working jobs. You need to write software and show that you know what you’re doing. And if you can do that, you may not even need a job from anyone else. The time when companies would just overstaff and have paid interns is long over.
- Comment on Power Without the Price – Atari TOS 1.x + GEM 1.x – GUI Wonderland 3 months ago:
I was doing some ST retrocomputing last night, and GEM was just great, so much cleaner and simpler than modern GUIs.
- Comment on Dont copy 5 months ago:
Other way around. You punched the edge to make it writeable (or double-punched to write on the back side, if you were brave). Cover it to make it read-only. The 3.5" sliders were the same mechanism, open was write, closed was read-only.
- Comment on The Franklin Ace 1000 - An Early Apple II Clone | The 8-bit Guy 5 months ago:
I wonder if he Dremels the case open and explodes the power supply. (no, I don’t click his links)