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The color scheme of my high school which had probably been last renovated in the 70s (before I went there in the late 90s). Same flooring for sure.
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So, are we talking ALL computers? Or just PCs? It seems like the old computers were just aping the color of lab equipment like the power supplies and such from the 60s. I have a HP 6113A on my desk from 60-something and the faceplate is the exact same light beige color. As for PCs, the IBM 5150 came out and set the standard… many of the rest were “clones”. And if you want people to believe your computer is a clone of the 5150 then it better be the same color at least. Funny enough though, my dad started a tech company in the early 80’s and we had an IBM “Industrial” model pc. It was gray, not beige at all, so I don’t think it was as set in stone as everyone thinks. But I haven’t done a lick of research so I may be completely off
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# ? May 8, 2022 04:00 |
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I always assumed that the dude in Cathode Ray Dude was a dude called Ray. Nope. That fact that his name is the same as an old joystick I have somewhere is very fitting though. He reveals it at the start of his 100,000 sub celebration stream. It's great that he's climbing in popularity, he seems like a very good egg. A 9+ hour stream is well out of my range though, jeez -edit- Heh, after watching about 5 minutes, I might well end up watching loads of this. The guy is a treasure, and it looks different to 99% of streams YerDa Zabam fucked around with this message at 07:41 on May 8, 2022 |
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The most refreshing thing about the way CRD presents things is they will straight up say "I can't verify this, I don't know who to contact and there's no information online, but this is how logically I think it would work". Lots of other tech people seem to veer towards just stating things they've guessed as truth and not really being open that they didn't base it on research.
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# ? May 8, 2022 11:57 |
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His videos seem long for me to watch too often. Still, I enjoyed that one with the mystery Beta tape I think it was with sprite animations.
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Cross-Section posted:LGR did a fun video on one of those: Haha wow what a blast from the past. I bought one of those off craigslist way back for a few hundo to play games, mostly to stay awake, on a lovely graveyard shift job. Wish I would have kept it for the novelty, oh well..
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# ? May 8, 2022 17:57 |
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My dad had a very low end Acer laptop (with a Sempron CPU) but it obviously used the same case as that, without the red accents, and to this day it's the crappiest computer in terms of build quality that I have ever touched.
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# ? May 8, 2022 18:38 |
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Adolf Glitter posted:I always assumed that the dude in Cathode Ray Dude was a dude called Ray. Nope. Towards the end of the stream he said he will cut it into the individual segments and repost them separately (maybe on his second channel) which as someone who watched the stream I would highly recommend simply because there were a lot of adorable technical issues/stream breaks and stuff. Nothing ruinous, just saves you skipping through the loading bits.
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# ? May 8, 2022 19:35 |
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Former Human posted:I expect James Bond to bust through the ceiling, tear that place up, and Nothing 'token' about her presence; women made up a far greater proportion of computer programmers back then than they did after the mid-80s.
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# ? May 8, 2022 20:46 |
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Klyith posted:That fits, 1970s IBM had a loosened tie and a bottle of booze in the design office: As promotional pictures for the System/360, I'd guess these are from the 60s, not the 70s.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Nothing 'token' about her presence; women made up a far greater proportion of computer programmers back then than they did after the mid-80s. Yeah if I remember the history, programming the computer was considered unskilled manual work (because paper tape), hence it fell to women to basically make the computer do what the men wanted it to. You see this in old footage of Bletchley Park and Colossus too.
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njsykora posted:Yeah if I remember the history, programming the computer was considered unskilled manual work (because paper tape), hence it fell to women to basically make the computer do what the men wanted it to. You see this in old footage of Bletchley Park and Colossus too. I think it's the other way around: programming was considered unskilled mostly because women were the ones doing it. And women were programmers due to WW2. During the war tons of women got employed as computers ("person who computes") -- women got the job because labor shortage. They did much of the first programming during war and post-war, it was very similar work. But as programming became more important they got squeezed out, particularly in the education system.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:As promotional pictures for the System/360, I'd guess these are from the 60s, not the 70s. Tried to do a reverse image search https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/system360/impacts/ IBM's website doesn't date the photos, though one of the advertisements they show does say 1964 on one website I found. The movies they mention the 360 being in are 70s films. edit: It does say "last spring" the 360 was introduced. Those aren't the same photos there exactly but look to be the same series.
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Kia Soul Enthusias posted:Tried to do a reverse image search My guess was based on System/370 being announced in 1970 and shipping in 1971. I guess theoretically those promo photos could have been produced in the 70s, but it still seems likely to me that they come from the 60s.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:My guess was based on System/370 being announced in 1970 and shipping in 1971. I guess theoretically those promo photos could have been produced in the 70s, but it still seems likely to me that they come from the 60s. Yeah that's what I think based on that ad. Plus the file name includes 1964 :P
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quote:Hi, I told Tom it wasn't pressing, but that I'd be happy to get forwarded either some material or names and other ancillary information even by June or July, so while it might drag out a bit, it's at least one step closer. Meanwhile, I can keep myself harmlessly occupied by looking through the DIN Standards site, and maybe find a way to access the 50 year old material from a publishing house without having to pay through the nose for it.
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It looks like DIN 13721 could be a starting point, if you can find out what it superseded
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Thanks Ants posted:It looks like DIN 13721 could be a starting point, if you can find out what it superseded
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Thanks Ants posted:It looks like DIN 13721 could be a starting point, if you can find out what it superseded From finding a copy of that and what looks like a sensible Deepl translation, it looks like 13721 is just about measuring the reflectivity not setting the standards, I think DIN EN 12464-1 (and it's versions) are closer to the mark. Hopefully posting the summary isn't quote:National foreword
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# ? May 9, 2022 23:18 |
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Linux tech tips is really on point today
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# ? May 12, 2022 19:41 |
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LOL, Linus didn't want to pay for movers so he got his office staff to do it for him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hirwWTJ42ck Also, at 10:45-11:05 one of Linus's kids gets a burn in on him
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Mr.Radar posted:LOL, Linus didn't want to pay for movers so he got his office staff to do it for him: this guy really is the small boss nightmare in a geek package
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# ? May 18, 2022 19:04 |
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only a matter of time before linus does a sponsored video for exo-skeletons
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# ? May 18, 2022 19:07 |
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Inept posted:this guy really is the small boss nightmare in a geek package He reminds me of the nickle-and-dime mindset of media production as well. Why pay people to safely bring a radio dish up on to a roof when you can use a rope and almost kill yourself
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# ? May 18, 2022 19:29 |
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Linus seems like he kinda sucks to actually work for. Which is par for the course in the evolution from "normal youtuber to rich guy"
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Preeeeeetty sure all of those employees could nope the gently caress out of it and you're all projecting poo poo, but ok. The YouTuber grind mentality which Linus has spent years perfecting is "why pay the guys who know what they're doing when we can hit the red button on a camera and monetise it?"
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I mean, he spent time in a video pontificating about workers comp claims and his wife runs HR. Pretty sure that has never led to a toxic environment before, you're right.
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On the one hand, if you're dumb enough to be intimidated by that rinky-dink setup idk what to tell you. On the other, his business is built on entertainment value and provoking a reaction from his audience and at some point you have to wise up to the fact that it's all an act. Why in the hell would you, a millionaire and known internet personality where many a weirdo lurks, want your employees traipsing round your newly decorated home unless there was some kind of financial or business benefit to it? When the video first went up on floatplane the top comment was somebody noticing all the poo poo they forgot to pixelate and how their residence could be located.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:I mean, he spent time in a video pontificating about workers comp claims and his wife runs HR. Pretty sure that has never led to a toxic environment before, you're right. Latest WAN show Linus talks about how Yvonne is vicious in negotiations as well, so all around great people to work for
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# ? May 18, 2022 19:58 |
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Charles Leclerc posted:On the one hand, if you're dumb enough to be intimidated by that rinky-dink setup idk what to tell you. Its....not about being intimidated by their rinky dink setup? When you actually work there and your bosses wife is the one handling HR stuff, that's a problem.
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Any kind of family ties/relationships up in the hierarchy is a pain in the rear end. A long time ago, I lost a job, because I dared to clap back to a known-to-be-"difficult" secretary, that happened to be the girlfriend of the HR boss.
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:Linus seems like he kinda sucks to actually work for. Which is par for the course in the evolution from "normal youtuber to rich guy" I mean, the money seems good and he seems to want his employees to be as well paid as possible. He's said his aim for the company is for everyone who works for him to be able to afford a house. That said, yeah dude even (especially!) if you think you're a great boss and "more a friend than a boss" just pay for an external HR and encourage your staff to unionise because it's good governance.
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Remember when people would say "the geeks will inherit the earth" and it seemed like super utopian and not just men with tech brain making bad decisions
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I think that trying to judge whether LTT is a fun or lovely (or both!) place to work based on the youtube videos is like trying to judge whether a movie set was a fun or lovely environment based on watching the movie.Jim Silly-Balls posted:When you actually work there and your bosses wife is the one handling HR stuff, that's a problem. I said the same earlier itt and someone replied that they also have an external HR firm, which might be the place an employee with a HR problem would go.
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I do feel like they could take Worksafe (BC's version of OSHA) more seriously. It's a curse of the young to ignore it until it catches up to you.
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ltt does not pay well. neither does floatplane. the people you see on camera who seem happy are happy because they value being on camera more than having decent working conditions. everyone else doesn't last long at ltt
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Kia Soul Enthusias posted:I do feel like they could take Worksafe (BC's version of OSHA) more seriously. It's a curse of the young to ignore it until it catches up to you. Yes, being a martyr and shoving things around that are too heavy used to be easy and now I end up with a sore back for two days, so I'm not doing it again. I've got this back for maybe 40 more years, I'm not wrecking it for someone else's profit.
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They had better be taking care of Anthony
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the talent deficit posted:ltt does not pay well. neither does floatplane. the people you see on camera who seem happy are happy because they value being on camera more than having decent working conditions. everyone else doesn't last long at ltt How do you know this? have ex staffers gone on twitter rants or something?
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Charles Leclerc posted:Preeeeeetty sure all of those employees could nope the gently caress out of it and you're all projecting poo poo, but ok. The YouTuber grind mentality which Linus has spent years perfecting is "why pay the guys who know what they're doing when we can hit the red button on a camera and monetise it?" overclocking things until they start on fire, sure. attempting to make a raid setup with no fail protection, why not? having your staff move you isn't interesting, it's lovely.
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