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Re:Feedback: I try to answer “how to become a systems engineer” by tra3 on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @01:29AM (#36134794)
> used to be able to tell what the machine was doing from the HDD whirrs

This is a tell. You’re old enough that stacks used to be shallower and you were closer to the OS.

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Re:Feedback: I try to answer “how to become a systems engineer” by mjevans on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @01:37AM (#36134847)
Often the audio ground was the same as the system ground and you could literally hear activity as low static when the speakers were on.
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Re:Feedback: I try to answer “how to become a systems engineer” by anotherhue on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @03:29AM (#36135530)
and occasionally a ghostly french singer

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2010/mar/03/p...

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Re:Feedback: I try to answer “how to become a systems engineer” by PhilipRoman on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @08:50AM (#36137748)
Eh, from my laptop's noises I can tell approximately what is showing up on a remote console running over X11.

For some reason whenever text is updating it makes a faint buzzing noise.

The matrix movie joke about seeing code is actually pretty close to the truth. Not necessarily a sign of a great programmer, but still a nice skill to have.

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