#Soylent | Logs for 2018-09-15
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[00:11:09] <Bytram> Just got an internal server error when trying to preview a story
[00:11:17] <Bytram> hit back in my browser
[00:11:22] <Bytram> hit preview again
[00:11:27] <Bytram> got another internal server error
[00:11:36] <Bytram> back again
[00:11:40] <Bytram> previrew again
[00:11:57] <chromas> What if you push back twice, then preview?
[00:12:06] <chromas> (be sure to copy your work though)
[00:12:23] <Bytram> fwiw, that was from the *initial* vierw of a submission
[00:12:31] <Bytram> preview worked, this last time
[00:12:43] * Bytram changes release date/time stamp
[00:12:46] <Bytram> hits preview
[00:12:47] <Bytram> okay
[00:12:54] <Bytram> hits save
[00:13:00] <Bytram> all seems to have worked
[00:13:04] <Bytram> gremlins in the machine
[00:13:09] <Bytram> #g
[00:13:09] <MrPlow> Google search. #g <search query>
[00:13:13] <Bytram> #g gremlins in the machine
[00:13:13] <MrPlow> https://en.wikipedia.org - "A gremlin is a folkloric mischievous creature that causes malfunctions in aircraft or other ... This led folklorist John Hazen to note that \"the gremlin has been looked on as new phenomenon, a product of the machine age – the age of air\". Some ..."
[00:13:14] <upstart> ^ 03Gremlin - Wikipedia
[00:13:51] <Bytram> And i always thought a Gremlin was a car created by AMC
[00:14:02] <Bytram> #g gremlin car
[00:14:02] <MrPlow> https://en.wikipedia.org - "The AMC Gremlin is an American subcompact automobile introduced in 1970, manufactured and marketed in a single, ..."
[00:14:04] <upstart> ^ 03AMC Gremlin - Wikipedia
[00:14:11] <Bytram> ta dah!
[00:14:24] <chromas> Preview/Save's working while twoing
[00:14:38] <Bytram> good to no
[00:15:02] <Bytram> is gonna have to be an early night for me tonight...
[00:15:12] * Bytram is running out of 'ooomph'
[00:15:29] <Bytram> ~gnight chromas
[00:15:30] * exec somewhat shamefully drops a boot of BEER-brand beer on chromas
[00:15:40] <chromas> ~g'noight Bytram
[00:15:49] <chromas> Need to make an alias
[00:15:51] <chromas> ~g'night Bytram
[00:15:53] * exec unnecessarily poops a handful of Soylent Green for Bytram
[00:16:08] <Bytram> nightime snack?
[00:16:24] <Bytram> Alias? You mean with Jennifer Garner?
[00:16:29] <Bytram> #g Alias Jennifer Garner
[00:16:29] <MrPlow> https://en.wikipedia.org(TV_series) - "Alias is an American action television series created by J. J. Abrams, that was broadcast on ABC for five seasons, from September 30, 2001, to May 22, 2006. It stars Jennifer Garner as Sydney Bristow, a double agent for the Central ..."
[00:16:30] <upstart> ^ 03Alias (TV series) - Wikipedia
[00:16:31] <chromas> Was she in that?
[00:16:42] <Bytram> yep
[00:17:31] <Bytram> I watched all of the first season and, well, life got very interrupted and I only caught part of the 2nd season
[00:17:33] <chromas> ~macro ~g'noight internal ~gnight %%trailing%%
[00:17:35] <exec> 02 *** error: invalid cmd (must be either INTERNAL or PRIVMSG)
[00:17:36] <Bytram> did you watch it?
[00:17:38] <chromas> ~g'noight test
[00:17:40] <chromas> :'(
[00:17:43] <chromas> no
[00:17:47] <chromas> I remember it existing though
[00:18:41] <Bytram> sorta like a female james bond who could kick butt, was incredibly smart and resourceful, and just a mild-mannered college student by day
[00:19:20] <Bytram> it had such promise and hten kinda went sideways in season 2, from what little I saw
[00:19:26] <Bytram> anyway,
[00:19:40] <Bytram> bedtime is calling
[00:20:13] <Bytram> chromas: btw, did you notice you reached 350 stories posted?!! Congratulations!
[00:20:17] <Bytram> https://soylentnews.org
[00:20:18] <upstart> ^ 03SoylentNews: Hall of Fame
[00:20:26] <Bytram> and this time for sure!
[00:20:36] <Bytram> gee bullwinkle, that trick never works
[00:20:42] <Bytram> =)
[00:20:52] <chromas> Neat. I'm gonna start posting all the ari subs just to catch up
[00:21:40] <chromas> Alt-right alt-right alt-right! —ari mcconaughey
[01:36:34] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Scientists Engineer a Powerful new Weapon Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria - http://sylnt.us - advanced-debugging
[02:06:57] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - Scientists Engineer a Powerful New Weapon Against Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria - http://sylnt.us - advanced-debugging
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[02:21:01] <SoyCow1984> #submit https://techcrunch.com
[02:21:01] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
[02:21:27] <MrPlow> Submission successful. https://soylentnews.org
[02:21:28] <upstart> ^ 03SoylentNews Submissions
[02:21:38] <SoyCow1984> #submit https://www.sfgate.com
[02:21:39] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
[02:22:04] <MrPlow> Submission successful. https://soylentnews.org
[02:22:05] <upstart> ^ 03SoylentNews Submissions
[02:22:07] <SoyCow1984> #submit https://www.cnet.com
[02:22:07] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
[02:22:29] <chromas> That's because nobody calls anymore
[02:22:33] <MrPlow> Submission successful. https://soylentnews.org
[02:22:34] <upstart> ^ 03SoylentNews Submissions
[02:23:06] <SoyCow1984> The percentage of scam calls in US mobile traffic increased from 3.7 percent last year to 29.2 percent this year,
[02:23:28] <SoyCow1984> and it's predicted to rise to 44.6 percent in 2019
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[02:30:17] <SoyCow1984> #submit https://www.sciencedaily.com
[02:30:18] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
[02:30:43] <MrPlow> Submission successful. https://soylentnews.org
[02:30:45] <upstart> ^ 03SoylentNews Submissions
[02:31:33] <SoyCow1984> #submit https://www.sciencedaily.com
[02:31:34] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
[02:31:59] <MrPlow> Submission successful. https://soylentnews.org
[02:32:00] <upstart> ^ 03SoylentNews Submissions
[02:32:53] <SoyCow1984> #submit https://krebsonsecurity.com
[02:32:54] <MrPlow> Unable to find a summary for that page
[02:37:00] <SoyCow1984> #submit https://arstechnica.com
[02:37:01] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
[02:37:26] <MrPlow> Submission successful. https://soylentnews.org
[02:37:28] <upstart> ^ 03SoylentNews Submissions
[02:37:36] <chromas> =submit https://krebsonsecurity.com
[02:37:37] <upstart> Submitting "In a Few Days, Credit Freezes Will Be Fee-Free — Krebs on Security"...
[02:37:40] * chromas steals the credit
[02:37:59] <upstart> Sub-ccess! https://soylentnews.org
[02:39:06] <chromas> me--
[02:39:06] <Bender> karma - me: -1
[02:39:18] <chromas> it grabbed a comment instead of article
[02:39:24] <SoyCow1984> lol
[02:39:49] <SoyCow1984> at least it grabbed something...
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[02:41:55] <chromas> =submit https://krebsonsecurity.com
[02:41:57] <upstart> Submitting "In a Few Days, Credit Freezes Will Be Fee-Free — Krebs on Security"...
[02:42:19] <upstart> Sub-ccess! https://soylentnews.org
[02:42:32] <chromas> das better
[02:42:52] <chromas> Now it's copyright infringement
[02:42:53] <SoyCow1984> much better
[02:42:57] <SoyCow1984> :)
[02:43:01] <SoyCow1984> chromas++
[02:43:01] <Bender> karma - chromas: 219
[02:43:26] <chromas> Hm, since you originally tried to sub, does that mean I can accept it and change the submitter name?
[02:43:38] <SoyCow1984> you may
[02:43:45] <chromas> SoyCow1984++ # many subs
[02:43:45] <Bender> karma - soycow1984: 1
[02:47:34] <chromas> I think we should just leave the subs with the meta description string and change the theme to look like cards
[02:47:50] <chromas> twittlentnews
[02:48:22] <SoyCow1984> #submit https://arstechnica.com
[02:48:23] <MrPlow> Submitting. There is a mandatory delay, please be patient.
[02:48:31] <SoyCow1984> That would be pretty cool
[02:48:45] <SoyCow1984> add in a shuffle button
[02:48:48] <MrPlow> Submission successful. https://soylentnews.org
[02:48:50] <upstart> ^ 03SoylentNews Submissions
[02:49:43] <chromas> Instead of editing, we'd just go vote on the interesting subs and then the software will schedule it automatically to save effort
[02:56:14] <SoyCow1984> automated copyright infringement
[02:56:18] <SoyCow1984> arrest the bot
[02:56:35] <chromas> butt hay, the meta diz fields are made for it so it's okay
[03:02:52] <chromas> hehehehe
[03:02:55] <chromas> pnas.org
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[03:05:55] <exec> welcome Ethanol-fueled: San Diego, CA, 22°C/72°F, 8:05 pm PDT, Friday, 14 September 2018
[03:06:00] <Ethanol-fueled> Hahahahahahah
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[03:12:27] <exec> welcome Ethanol-fueled: San Diego, CA, 22°C/71°F, 8:12 pm PDT, Friday, 14 September 2018
[03:12:49] <Ethanol-fueled> Half of my blood is Cain's blood,
[03:13:07] <Ethanol-fueled> Half of my blood is Abel's,
[03:13:20] <Ethanol-fueled> One Eye looks to heaven,
[03:13:33] <Ethanol-fueled> One Eye looks for trouble,
[03:14:24] <chromas> Which one looked for trouble?
[03:14:49] <Ethanol-fueled> Daddy lived by the bottle,
[03:15:01] <Ethanol-fueled> Daddy died by the barn,
[03:15:27] <Ethanol-fueled> He froze one night, momma said 'serves him right,'
[03:15:43] <Ethanol-fueled> the DEVIL WILL KEEP HIM WARM.
[03:18:41] <Ethanol-fueled> this is what we go through
[03:18:52] <Ethanol-fueled> https://www.youtube.com
[03:18:54] <upstart> ^ 03YouTube 4 Runner Cain's Blood
[03:21:28] <Ethanol-fueled> chromas scum, it seems my buddy is here
[03:21:47] <Ethanol-fueled> Ethanol-fueled out.
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[03:56:20] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - SpaceX Plans to Fly a Passenger Around the Moon Using BFR - http://sylnt.us - queue-up-some-Pink-Floyd-for-the-journey
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[08:47:12] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - GRACE-FO Spacecraft to Switch to Backup System in Microwave Instrument - http://sylnt.us - Amazing-GRACE
[10:56:31] <TheMightyBuzzard> coffee++
[10:56:31] <Bender> karma - coffee: 4296
[11:05:21] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - YouTube and Netflix Upload AV1-Encoded Videos for Testing - http://sylnt.us - pictures-or-it-didn't...nvm
[12:22:12] <Bytram> coffee++
[12:22:12] <Bender> karma - coffee: 4297
[13:27:10] <Bender> [SoylentNews] - "Vampire Facial" Gone Wrong - http://sylnt.us - bad-blood
[14:37:45] <Bytram> https://www.youtube.com
[14:37:46] <upstart> ^ 03The 28th First Annual Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony (2018)
[14:38:03] <Bytram> So, that did not work so well...
[14:38:28] <Bytram> I have a bandwidth cap of 6GB/month
[14:38:57] <Bytram> youtube-dl -f 136 url
[14:39:01] <Bytram> got me just the video
[14:39:07] <Bytram> now I need to
[14:39:13] <Bytram> 1) get the audio
[14:39:18] <Bytram> 2) merge audio with the video
[14:40:13] <Bytram> I'm thinking I can do "-f 140" to get the .m4a audio, but how then do I merge the two together?
[14:40:48] <Bytram> yep, #1 is working
[14:40:55] <boru> We need to get you a sneakernet.
[14:41:17] <Bytram> It appears that youtube-dl uses ffmpeg to do the merge?
[14:41:32] <Bytram> #g youtube-dl
[14:41:32] <MrPlow> https://rg3.github.io - "youtube-dl is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and a few more sites. It requires the Python interpreter (2.6, 2.7, or 3.2+), and it is ..."
[14:41:33] <upstart> ^ 03youtube-dl
[14:41:53] <boru> Yeah, that's what mpv uses for pulling videos from that site.
[14:42:12] <boru> Do you want to download a copy, or just stream it?
[14:42:39] <Bytram> d/l
[14:42:47] <boru> Hmm.
[14:42:52] <Bytram> I now have, for the sake of brevity:
[14:42:54] <Bytram> foo.mp4
[14:42:58] <Bytram> foo.m4a
[14:42:59] <boru> I think mpv will stuff in in /tmp
[14:43:05] <boru> Ah, right./
[14:43:13] <Bytram> and... win 7 pro
[14:43:25] <boru> C:\temp, then.
[14:43:55] <boru> Unless you've got `/cygdrive/c/temp` in the case of cygwin or some such.
[14:44:24] <boru> I only use windows for games now and again, so that's about as far as I can help, unless you're using win2k.
[14:44:29] <Bytram> no cygwin...
[14:44:38] <Bytram> tried installing it once, years ago
[14:44:51] <Bytram> so borked up my system it took me a wek toget things running normally again
[14:45:01] <Bytram> that included a boatload of regedit sessions
[14:47:31] <Bytram> am trying: ffmpeg -i foo.mp4 -i foo.m4a bar.m4p
[14:47:38] <Bytram> ugh
[14:47:43] <Bytram> am trying: ffmpeg -i foo.mp4 -i foo.m4a bar.mp4
[14:51:18] <Bytram> well, it seems to be chewing away just fine, albeit at about 1170 kbits/sec and gradually
[14:51:28] <Bytram> increasing and then decreasing and...
[14:51:44] <Bytram> soMB of about 600 MB completed so far
[14:51:52] <Bytram> try again,
[14:52:05] <Bytram> about 30 MB of 600 MB completed so far
[14:54:34] <Bytram> more accurately, (amounts in KB):
[14:54:35] <Bytram> 86880 foo.m4a
[14:54:35] <Bytram> 510436 foo.mp4
[14:55:38] <Bytram> and... just reached 55000kB converted
[14:55:59] <Bytram> which took about 6m15s
[14:57:12] <Bytram> a rough extrapolation says that should take about 57m
[15:03:11] <boru> Seems like an especially long time.
[15:03:50] <Bytram> core 2 duo
[15:03:54] <Bytram> need I say more?
[15:04:01] <boru> Thanks for reminding me, though; I have inadvertently downloaded 5TB today.
[15:04:14] * boru halts rsync script.
[15:04:25] <Bytram> to its credit, both cores are running at 97+% and at just under 80C
[15:04:50] <Bytram> inadvertantly... 5 *terabytes* ???
[15:04:54] <Bytram> zoinks!
[15:05:15] * Bytram would offer boru an internet, but it looks like you already tried to download one!
[15:05:31] <boru> Yeah, I cache the bits of astronomical data sets I'm using locally to speed up processing.
[15:05:38] <Bytram> nodndo
[15:05:49] <Bytram> bigdata++
[15:05:49] <Bender> karma - bigdata: 1
[15:05:51] <boru> SDSS in this instance.
[15:05:56] <Konomi> well I was going to ask what you were downloading with the sly suggesting it was porn
[15:05:57] <Bytram> #g SDSS
[15:05:57] <MrPlow> https://www.sdss.org - "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey has created the most detailed three-dimensional maps of the Universe ever made, with deep multi-color images of one third of the ..."
[15:05:58] <boru> (Sloan Digital Sky Survey)
[15:05:59] <upstart> ^ 03SDSS
[15:06:00] <Konomi> ~
[15:06:09] <Bytram> kewel!!!!!
[15:06:13] <Bytram> Konomi: !!
[15:06:24] <Bytram> good to "see" ya
[15:06:30] <Konomi> I meann I downloaded 4.4MB of porn recently
[15:06:35] <Konomi> I know that is not as impressive
[15:06:54] <Bytram> but those were, umm, big bits?
[15:07:04] <Bytram> or...
[15:07:11] <Konomi> nah they were both pretty average and it was cute so
[15:07:13] <Bytram> enhance! enhance!
[15:07:37] <Konomi> it was also drawn porn so
[15:07:51] <Bytram> ahhh, the original data compression algo
[15:08:26] <Bytram> yep, about 20% done... will be a few minutes beyond an hour to finish conversion
[15:08:40] * Bytram hopes when it gets done that it actually works!
[15:09:24] <Konomi> why mp4 and not mkv?
[15:10:29] <Bytram> tried it, but somehow the D/L gets messed up or VLC has conniptions
[15:11:03] <Bytram> end up with a huge blocky mess with an occasional viewable screens worth of stuff that gets pixelated into blocks again, every 15s or so
[15:11:31] <Bytram> I tried a D/L of latest youtube-dl and VLC and still no joy
[15:11:39] <Bytram> mp4 works, so I just stick with that
[15:11:52] * Bytram checks stats
[15:12:15] <Bytram> looks like I am compute bound... ~98%cpu and only about 100KB/sec disk
[15:12:34] <Bytram> spinning rust, 7200RPM
[15:13:01] <Bytram> well,it won't go any faster with me watching it
[15:13:08] <Konomi> avi works too
[15:13:10] <Konomi> you could use that
[15:13:20] * Bytram mutters something about water boiling or too many cooks or something
[15:13:36] <Bytram> well, I've been at it long enough, don't really feel like starting over atm
[15:13:42] <Konomi> hehe
[15:13:42] <Bytram> will keep it in mind for the future
[15:13:53] <Bytram> #g avi program
[15:13:54] <MrPlow> https://www.divx.com - "The AVI format is popular for watching standard definition video. Our AVI player is compatible with tablets, TVs and PCs."
[15:13:54] <upstart> ^ 03AVI Format | AVI Player | AVI Codec | DivX.com
[15:14:10] <Bytram> Konomi: ^^^ is that the one?
[15:14:20] <Konomi> oh poor divx no one cares abpout you anymore
[15:14:42] <Bytram> wasn;t it Circuit City that pushed that format way back when?
[15:14:55] <Konomi> no clue don't live in the usa
[15:15:24] <Konomi> all I recall was xvid
[15:15:28] <Bytram> ahh, makes sense that they would license it to different companies depending on target country
[15:15:31] <Konomi> then everyone just used h264
[15:15:34] <Bytram> nod nod
[15:15:40] <Bytram> yup
[15:15:41] <boru> FWIW, someone else could do the grunt work on a better machine, and you could fetch it from there, then.
[15:16:21] * Bytram reminisces of when 1 GB disk drives finally started to appear; if you could find one for less than $1,000 you had a great deal.
[15:16:58] <Bytram> yeah, but that means another 500MB + download, and I get 6 GB / month
[15:17:09] <boru> One of my threadrippers is about to finish its job here, and I've got synchronous GbE here at home.
[15:17:11] <Konomi> I'm glad I don't have to think of those ~
[15:17:35] <Bytram> for the things I do, it is generally more than sufficient
[15:17:52] <Konomi> I think the first hard drive I brought was 80gb
[15:17:59] * Bytram doesn't watch TV and only downloads the occasional program or yt vid
[15:18:09] <Bytram> mine was 40MB
[15:18:20] <Konomi> I mean I had older computers before that
[15:18:22] <Bytram> Seagate Technology ST-251A
[15:18:31] <Konomi> but that was because my parents would only get me awful second hand relics
[15:18:49] <Bytram> had to partition into 32MB and 8MB cause DOS 3.0 could not handle more than 32 MB in a partition
[15:18:50] <SemperOSS> My first hard disk was 10MB SCSI, I bought an RLL encoder and got 15MB out of it.
[15:18:58] <Konomi> everyone with 1ghz+ computers and they are like here is a 486
[15:18:59] <Bytram> SemperOSS++ RLL
[15:19:00] <Bender> karma - sempeross: 1
[15:19:02] <Konomi> thanks
[15:19:27] <SemperOSS> Bytram: Thx
[15:20:27] <Bytram> oh, and the computer I got with it... came with extra memory chips (to bring me up to a whole 1MB of RAM), the drive cables, the drive itself (in its own box), and a speedy 80286 @ 10MHz w/ 1 wait state or 12MHz with 2 wait states
[15:20:32] * SemperOSS has been moving and had to go to a meeting abroad at VERY short notice and just starting to get back. Sitting in a train on a three-hour trip to the airport :-(
[15:20:38] <Bytram> so, all I had to do was read all the manuals
[15:20:43] <Bytram> figure out what went wear
[15:20:48] <Bytram> *where
[15:21:00] <Bytram> put the right master slave jumpers in the right place
[15:21:03] <Bytram> lowlevel format
[15:21:05] <Bytram> format
[15:21:20] <Bytram> and hope and pray that in the process, I did not let out any magic smoke
[15:21:38] <Bytram> oh, manuals were written in broken English
[15:21:42] <Konomi> I don't miss any PC clones
[15:21:50] <SemperOSS> Always fun setting jumpers and hoping you didn't do anything wrong
[15:21:53] <Konomi> I'[d love to have an amiga or something to modify
[15:22:01] <Bytram> worked like a champ for quite a few years.
[15:22:12] <Bytram> even installed Lotus 123 on it and never had a problem
[15:22:41] <SemperOSS> Ah, the trips down memory lane (pun intended)
[15:22:48] <Bytram> oh, and the bare hard drive cost me about $250 at the time
[15:24:15] <Konomi> it would be more fond memories for me if I hadn't got those computers 20 years after they were masde
[15:24:19] <Konomi> >.<
[15:24:59] <Bytram> I think, all-in, it cost me ~$2500 for the system. that was back in the late 1980's
[15:26:12] <Bytram> https://www.goodgearguide.com.au
[15:26:14] <upstart> ^ 03A walk down memory lane: PC adverts and reviews from the 1980s
[15:28:15] <SemperOSS> PC World, BYTE Magazine, Steve Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar and Jerry Pournelle's Chaos Manor. Those were times and magazines.
[15:28:25] <Bytram> yep
[15:28:49] <Bytram> sw an advert once for a guy who was ordered to clean out his garage of all his old magazines...
[15:29:16] <SemperOSS> The joy of marriage, I guess?
[15:29:27] <Bytram> scored Byte magazines going back... starting from the end of their first year in business, and had prolly ~5 years worth
[15:29:43] <Bytram> then my lady friend at the time made ME chuck them.
[15:29:57] <Bytram> I think I saved the first year's worth somewhere, but may have been lost along thewaY
[15:30:02] <Bytram> sad face
[15:30:18] <Bytram> back when S100 bus was a thing!
[15:30:19] <SemperOSS> I feel for you!
[15:30:24] <Bytram> CP-M!!
[15:30:31] <Bytram> Altair!
[15:30:39] <SemperOSS> Apple ][
[15:31:01] <Bytram> and then came the magazine that people actually bought, JUST *FOR* the advertisements: COMPUTER SHOPPER
[15:31:04] <Bytram> SemperOSS: thansk
[15:31:18] <Bytram> what, something like 500-600 pages in its prime?!!
[15:31:42] <Bytram> #g OSI Challenger 4P
[15:31:42] <MrPlow> https://en.wikipedia.org - "Ohio Scientific Inc was an Ohio-based computer company that built and marketed microcomputers from 1975 to 1981. Their best-known products were the Challenger series of microcomputers, ... The Challenger 4P (C4P-MF) came with color display output capability, using a TV or TV converted to have direct video input, ..."
[15:31:43] <upstart> ^ 03Ohio Scientific - Wikipedia
[15:31:54] <Bytram> ^^ my very first computer
[15:32:02] <Bytram> had a whopping 4KB or RAM!
[15:32:09] <Bytram> s/or/of/
[15:32:11] <exec> <Bytram> had a whopping 4KB of RAM!
[15:33:27] * SemperOSS started with an AIM65 as my first computer. 6502, keyboard, printer, casette interface and 1KB RAM. I doubled the price and bought another 3KB for a total of 4KB
[15:33:51] <Bytram> 6502++
[15:33:52] <Bender> karma - 6502: 2
[15:34:14] <Bytram> LDA STO CMP
[15:34:36] <Bytram> mucho nifty index addressing modes
[15:34:49] <Bytram> and who could forget page 0 which had faster access? =)
[15:35:01] <Bytram> memories++
[15:35:01] <Bender> karma - memories: 1
[15:35:11] <SemperOSS> LDX, LDY and 256 bit offsets that could not extend beyond a 256-bit barrier
[15:35:41] <SemperOSS> Rolled around to the beginning of the page
[15:35:42] * Bytram sits corrected
[15:35:46] <Bytram> nod nod
[15:37:15] <SemperOSS> I managed to create a complete floating point package for the AIM65 and one of my friends did an FFT algorithm based on it
[15:37:36] <SemperOSS> SIN and COS using CHebyschev polynomia
[15:37:41] <Bytram> Yowza! That IS impressive
[15:38:02] * Bytram struggles to remember stuff from his Numerical Computing class
[15:38:29] <SemperOSS> That was my best subject at university
[15:38:41] <Bytram> did not help that we were taught how to implement an FFT before we were taught what they were and what they were used for and that was before we were taught the math for it.
[15:39:03] * SemperOSS did a symbolic calculation engine written in ALGOL
[15:39:13] <Bytram> my physics classes were generally a couple weeks ahead of our math classes
[15:39:38] <SemperOSS> I took me a while to get my brain around the principles behind FFT
[15:39:59] <Bytram> if they had thought to get them synched up, it could have been a real joy to see the theory and practice come together, but in the order it was actually presented, it prolly hastened the clearing on the top of my head
[15:40:35] <SemperOSS> Reduced hair growth???? (Tee hee)
[15:40:53] <Bytram> well, now it'smore of a vacant lot
[15:41:02] * Bytram debates
[15:41:56] <Bytram> decides to make a bite to eat, catch a quick nap, and then head off to work (starts about 2 hours from now) and runs for almost 9 hours... is gonna be a *late* night for me
[15:42:12] * Bytram takes a quick look at the story queue
[15:42:39] <SemperOSS> Have a good nap and a good time at work. I'll probably be home and sleeping then.
[15:42:54] <Bytram> ugh, only a couple stories to spare in the queue
[15:43:04] <Bytram> SemperOSS: thanks... appreciate the good wishes
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[15:49:28] <Bytram> laters
[17:07:28] <Konomi> tea++
[17:07:28] <Bender> karma - tea: 591
[17:07:37] <Konomi> I have much to make up for
[17:59:51] <chromas> #smake Bytram
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[18:00:05] * chromas gives Bytram -c copy
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