BruceEel

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by BruceEel 6y ago
Despite my somewhat crippled ability to think RPN, I love the simplicity and expressiveness of the above.
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Ah, interesting, I wish the title had been prefixed with "What if ". There's a language where THEN basically means ENDIF... Forth, if memory serves me right?
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by BruceEel 6y ago
...not The Onion.
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Yes, it was indeed implemented at OS-level, you could point at the assigned name/alias from, say, a paint program and find the files/dirs you'd expect to see. Changes to files/dirs too worked as expected as far as I can
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by BruceEel 6y ago
No direct experience with union mounts (I'm on Mac) but it sounds like those would do the trick.
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Yes, for things like PATH. But ASSIGN did more, you could essentially create a "device" (combining all ADD'ed things) that could be transparently accessed as such by other programs. It worked like a version of the Windows SU
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Anno 2020, I still miss ASSIGN ... ADD.
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by BruceEel 6y ago
> then knowing AT commands to disable "wait for dial tone", because somehow that didn't work in my country, I spent the good part of a week thinking my Smartlink 2400 was defective before I figured that one out...
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Interesting. It seems to me that a lot of effort if being put into figuring out how far "as if" can take us, rather than doing better than "as if".
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Quite. Guess they had a spare Sunday....
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The Case Is Building That Covid-19 Had a Lab Origin(independentsciencenews.org)
63 points by BruceEel 6y ago|27 comments
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Shame. I have installed Linux Mint on my MB Air and it does works quite well. It boots very quickly and even fails to come back from sleep no less infrequently than High Sierra itself.
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Not a Microsoft fan, but simple C / Windows API code from 25 years ago would likely compile and run on Windows 10 unchanged. My limited experience with Swift suggests that even 25 hours ago could be a tall order...
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Am I the only one who came here expecting to read about crooks conspiring to sign me up for a Master of Fine Arts?
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by BruceEel 6y ago
> Andrew Tanenbaum: I said that his work was amazing and thanked him. He shrugged me off. I think he felt busy or didn’t care. I was happy that he listened. I'd signed up to attend his 'afscheid' lecture, thinking I might
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by BruceEel 6y ago
This is so interesting and so difficult. Van Vogt wrote about the cortical-thalamic pause in Null-A (1948), you could almost read this as vindication of Korzybzki and Van Vogt.
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by BruceEel 6y ago
I liked Tanenbaum's book but I think I understand what you mean with theory vs application. Back when I was working on my toy OS I also bought the book describing the implementation of an OS called MMURTL, apparently the book and the c
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by BruceEel 6y ago
> Thinking about the power we give to big entities is a central mechanism to build the society we live on. That's why we should think about what we buy, the media we consumme, etc. Elsewhere on HN today we have 'On the Folly of
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Great find! Another interesting and rather different take on Finnegan's Wake is Terence McKenna's FW talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdXBulkqH5s , worth listening to.
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Nice. Reads like a follow-up to Stroustrup's 'The design and evolution of C++' and perhaps a good 'what's been new in C++' /low down for anybody looking to pick up the language again.
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by BruceEel 6y ago
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk - Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization Priceless, thanks for sharing.
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Highly subjective but: K&R indeed and K&Pike's 'The Practice of Programming'. Vince's 'Mathematics for computer graphics' (haven't read his calculus book but it's on the wishlist). Petzold&#x2
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Nice one. I certainly remember doing more thinking before starting to code, sketching things out on paper&post-it's. No gisting or stackoverflowing things into an editor just to see if they compile! Never had to deal with punchcard
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Yes, jimage is relatively new but this is more about the way the ransomware attempts to evade detection. The way it gets in, according to the Blackberry article, is through vulnerable, internet-facing (or anyway, hostile-facing) RDP server
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Indeed, thanks!
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by BruceEel 6y ago
So x86/64 support via BT, cool. But I couldn't readily find any (English language) docs describing the native instruction set, have you folks seen any?
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The Eight Spiders(youtube.com)
2 points by BruceEel 6y ago|0 comments
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Notice they refer to comorbidity from ageing and vascular calcification and thus the importance of K2. Good sources are dairy or, if you are vegan, natto! It's a (stinky) K2 MK-7 bomb [1]. PS: the formatting from hell? preprint looks l
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Who remembers impatiently hitting the refresh button just to be able to purchase(!) an OS X Tiger (10.4) Family Pack as soon as practically possible? From there to here.
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by BruceEel 6y ago
Interesting! Could sufficiently enhanced compile-time reflection (say we do get supercharged CT reflection in C++2b*) be used to implement fully transparent&automatic versioning in serialization frameworks? I know very little on this s

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