Probably this is being posted because of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41567573, which some initially assumed to be the result of a Stuxnet-like cyberattack by a state actor. Others quickly pointed out it's far more likely a hardware-based supply chain attack; so not really anything like Stuxnet at all.
(I’m being a bit provocative and assume today it stores locally only but a future TOS change will secretly and “anonymously” upload your data ‘for training purposes’ —- that’s what everyone else is doing these days)
It's extremely contrived and deus-ex-machina all the way through.
The "history" the show goes over is crammed into it's Drama first story. The history is there for nostalgia bait, not to celebrate the history or educate. That's why pretty much everything interesting that happened in computing was mangled into coming from the same like 5 people.
And the characters are all just narcissistic assholes who are self destructive because it means the show gets to carry on for another season. It also has the cliche density to feel like a high schooler's homework project.
If you find yourself addicted to reality TV drama, you will enjoy it.
Imagine if you tried to take "It's always sunny in Philadelphia" seriously, and also were watching it because you cared about Philadelphia history. I felt actively patronized the whole time.
I was annoyed by the C64's that were shown as having "C:>" prompts as if they were MS-DOS machines. I think I get where that was coming from -- people who were too young to remember the period were designing the sets and vaguely remembered that "old-timey" computers had "C:>" prompts and given that C64's are old computers, assumed they did too.
Wrong. That's like saying the Patrick O'Brian Aubrey/Maturin novels are "contrived." Hello, it's fiction. It isn't there to educate, except insofar as the situations the characters find themselves in teach you something about what it was like back then.
The acting is horrible. The writing is terrible. The story veers off into areas unrelated. There is a moment of a thoroughly unrelated homosexual encounter. (What was the point of that?!) Moments I know that are so really stretched too far to be believable. And on and on.
I lived through that era, too. As historical fiction, HACF is pretty decent. "areas unrelated" -- hello, it's FICTION about a specific era, and, without knowing what specifically you're talking about: maybe those "unrelated" areas are period-setting, or character-developing.
HACF not for you. Let's leave it at that. You can't please everyone.
I'll add Judy Estrin to the list of cool girls from the time, in addition to the non-famous ones I worked with. Her little company stomped our big company at making X terminals back in the 80's. We were probably 70:30 M/F among our ~two dozen new grads.
No, you're wrong. I was there. It was mostly guys, but there were plenty of women as well. Radia Perlman, to name just one famous one. I recall another from Lawrence Livermore whom I met at an IETF. I went to grad school with several of them.
There certainly is a lot of woke revisionist BS around. No doubt about that.
Edit: in my current book "This New Internet Thing" one of the characters, Cassie, wants to adopt a child as a single woman. I got advice on that process by Heidi Buelow (RIP), who was last at Oracle but worked on the Xerox Star, and adopted two children of her own (Cassie is not modeled on Heidi, except for that). Heidi unfortunately died while I was writing it, and I can't find any online obituary on her.
Since we're talking about "back in the day" naturally some of those people have crossed the Great Divide. You can find a few women in here as well:
And since two is more than zero, it's not actually unrealistic to write a fiction about such a character.
A fiction protagonist is often the outlier because they have more interesting interactions than the median type and hence there's more material for the story. This is a pretty basic tenet of drama, not some woke invention.
Better option: Apple's Notes.app which comes included, you can also make a note full screen and it looks almost the same. On top of being iCloud synced to all your devices for free.
Unfortunately, Notes is incredibly slow. Even with just a few hundred pages of text in a note, and no images or complex formatting, it stutters on text input on an iPhone 15 and, while not stuttering in input, is jerky and slow to scroll on an M1 MacBook Pro. That means that there’s management overhead — going back and editing notes to split them up — to keep it usable, which is almost exactly contrary to the point of this article’s type of writing-and-writing-alone tool.
I guess it's a bit odd, but how many people are actually using their cable to transfer files? I cant remember that last time I did anything like that. And I would wager 95% of people only ever use their cable for charging, not file transfers.
So much motion going on with these sites... I actually find most of these to pretty bad, just flashy. Great websites are fast, clean, organized, give me what I want with minimal fuss and look great at the same time.
So the people who put this UFO hearing together (mostly republicans) set this all up and timed it just to cover up Hunter saying hes guilty on tax charges? Riiight...
Some businesses last for decades, some only for a few short years. The reasons are varied. Nothing that really needs to be normalized here. It is what it is, don't overthink it.
I would love to see a complete modern pc wrapped in a retro styled keyboard like this. With usb-c power and video output you could just plug it into a monitor with one cable.
Get a full-sized keyboard - a model M would work fine here - and a laptop with a broken screen plus some assorted bits and pieces. Fit the motherboard from the laptop in the keyboard after making the required openings in the keyboard enclosure. Hook up the power supply and a monitor and voilà, a keyboard PC.
