albandread

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I like the Collapse OS concept. I once typed Fig Forth from a booklet I ordered from America into a Sharp Z80 computer. Society was in the main computer free at the time. It was like the post collapse era. To restart the software industry from scratch; I recommend etching a modern version of that Fig Forth booklet onto stone tablets; perhaps provide a scheme interpreter written in forth as well. They will never need anything else.

albandread

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I agree for hardware; we need to etch the instructions into a stone tablet; for powering up and rooting an android phone. Some of the phones are water resistant; shame the batteries will likely kill most of them.

albandread

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Type slowly and thoughtfully instead. Draw diagrams using an appropriate tool. Handwriting is tedious; pointless; painful to learn and bad for your hands.

albandread

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As Boris criticises Brazil; he might want to reflect that until the 1990s; here in the UK we used to set our own fields on fire to burn the stubble. I remember the smoke; and the red sun and moon.

I am pro preserving the rain-forest; but interestingly enough that is also a human managed environment and has been for 1000s of years.

As for bio-diversity; I am pretty sure a lot of the UK was once forested and certainly had wolves, bears and other inconvenient creatures; at this point we are starting to even wipe out our insects. For the sake of bio-diversity we should re-introduce all those animals.

albandread

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Probably means they wont sue you or bill you if you use it in your own processor designs. The article mentioned releasing a softcore for FPGA; that at least means you can run the instruction set on something. There are even enthusiasts that might be interested in using an FPGA to build a whole computer; for example the Amiga community have a PowerPC based operating system. Instruction sets must also be an acquired taste; Power seems complex to me; but a lot of people clearly like it.

albandread

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The truly brilliant will just win at the new soft skills game as well; and just adapt their behaviour. They are very used to hiding among us.

The description brilliant jerks; does come over as despising of talent.

albandread

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I thought he said it was ctrl-alt-delete before. I think he has been cleared on the whole 640K thing. I guess he must be talking commercially; rather than about technology or ethics.

albandread

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And heat; I have some computers I just don't run for the hot three months of the year; and I live in a temperate climate. In the winter though; they are nice room warmers.

albandread

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I am all set to buy one second-hand in five years time. But only If the design looks less like a tea-trolley in real life than it does on the video.

albandread

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They don't just work any more; I have an older cheese grater mac pro; and new video cards for it are a dismal lottery. You could say this is why a modular Mac is a bad idea. My Apple MAC SE; still just works; it runs Word 5; which is all it ever did.

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