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by 1wd 9y ago
I remember reading a story years ago about one early VGA card company. They had somehow heard about a competitor using a flip-flop(?) to make their VGA card twice as fast. They puzzled over this idea for a long time, wondering how that comp
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by 1wd 9y ago
Another fascinating short question answered by Tim Sweeney about a neat hack / feature of the excellent Unreal 1 software rasterizer: http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Texturing_As_In_Unreal.shtm...
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by 1wd 9y ago
The story has apparently been recounted and rewritten many times since at least the "June 1978 issue of Traffic Safety magazine". https://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/icecream.asp
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by 1wd 9y ago
There's one EU directive [1] that concerns "funicular railways and other installations with vehicles mounted on wheels or on other suspension devices where traction is provided by one or more cables", which "shall not ap
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by 1wd 9y ago
"we still lack a decent high-quality JSON Schema language" Yes. Why?
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by 1wd 9y ago
In another article he writes: "In China, where I was born, there are a lot of people who work much harder but could not enjoy similar results. The difference is that I was lucky enough to have had the chance to move abroad at a young a
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by 1wd 9y ago
https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox is very similar but has a more active community.
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by 1wd 9y ago
Yes, you set up Sync once on each device, with a password. You can configure what you want to sync (bookmarks, tabs, preferences, ...). I only sync bookmarks, those just appear automatically. I never tried syncing tabs. I see now there is a
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by 1wd 9y ago
According to [1] Sweden uses SS-ISO 8601 and Norway uses NS-ISO 8601. According to [2]: "All members of CEN[3] (all of Western Europe and Scandinavia, and most of Eastern Europe) are required to adopt the EN 28601 European Standard. Mo
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by 1wd 9y ago
I recently read [1]: "There are three ways in which information may be learned or committed to memory: by rote, assimilation, or use of a mnemonic device. By Rote. Material to be learned is repeated [...] It seems to be the least effic
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by 1wd 9y ago
Or {{{ }}} as used by Creole. Unlike Org-mode, which despite the OP's claims is not at all standardized, Creole is an actually standardized [1] (but probably still under-specified) lightweight markup language. As shown on the Wikipedia
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by 1wd 9y ago
Looks related to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15164166
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by 1wd 9y ago
At the ~one hour mark there's a summary slide: Old school | New school ----------------------------------------|------------------------------------- Cross product -> axial vector
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by 1wd 9y ago
The quoted part can be found on Google Books in "The Memoirs of Richard Nixon -- By Richard Nixon". The context there does not mention the word "nuclear" though, only "increased force". Some other quotes from t
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by 1wd 9y ago
C# had "var" since 2007. C++ "auto" is from 2011? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_Sharp_3.0#Local_variable_typ...
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by 1wd 9y ago
There are many differencese between "compatible" regular expressions, for (many) examples read the end of section "Important Notes About Lookbehind" on [1] or compare 24 dialects on [2] for example. [1] http:/&#x2F
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by 1wd 9y ago
Doom used game design principles though. At least Romero hints e.g. in [1] that was the case. ("Golden rule of level design: finish the first level last", classic horseshoe.) In [2] he lists other "core principles" (alth
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by 1wd 9y ago
Did you mean 72641 days or years? (And could / should we include somehow that "hashes/second" increases by factor of ~2(?) each year?)
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by 1wd 9y ago
Or Python: result = do_this() if boolean_flag else do_that()
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by 1wd 9y ago
Mechanical and electrical engineering industries were seriously affected, according to Swissmem: https://www.swissmem.ch/en/news-medien/news/mem-industrie-di... According to Credit Suisse, "nearly all se
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by 1wd 9y ago
Yes, sorry, I meant to write [not rise to].
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by 1wd 9y ago
It's the other way around: EUR/CHF=1.09 means 1EUR=1.09CHF. > [2011 to 2015] the Euro was exchanging [at] CHF1.20. [Then] the exchange rate stabilised to between CHF1.05 and CHF1.08 to the Euro, due in large part to further int
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by 1wd 9y ago
You can claim your kudos (patch karma / programming internet points) on openhub (formerly ohloh): https://www.openhub.net/committers/351081
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by 1wd 9y ago
Graphviz is a great tool. The project seems to have some big problems though. The last stable release was three years ago. 100% reproducible regression bugs for very simple input are not even looked at for years. The build process is so com
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by 1wd 9y ago
When I last looked at this I found: plus a+b: addition Example: 1+2 -> 3 from a{b: selects the a-th element from b Example: 3{4,5,6,7,8 -> 7 find a~b: Not implemented? Or maybe this exploits some old-style C behavior? rs
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by 1wd 9y ago
And the comments on that page (840kB) are smaller than the Javascript on a discourse site (4MB).
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by 1wd 9y ago
So, don't call any standard library functions, which might all actually be macros according to the standard?
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by 1wd 10y ago
OT: Who thought that pulse gif was a good ideas? http://cloud2.opensystemsmedia.com/share/images/pulse.gif
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by 1wd 10y ago
Nice. I wondered, for what kind of problems should I bother to file issues? The page says: > so please file issues about anything that doesn’t work as expected! Wouldn't that be quite a lot of obvious stuff? I just opened one web pa
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by 1wd 10y ago
Here's one metric: The Pascal 1990 ISO Standard was under 100 pages long. The C90 standard was about 230 pages, and the C11 standard about 700 pages long.

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