DerekL

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by DerekL 4y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33519824
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by DerekL 4y ago
Posted at the same time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33519824
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I don't see how decimal-to-binary conversion would have anything to do with the TIA chip. I suspect that it used a polynomial counter instead of a binary integer counter because it used fewer gates and had less delay. By the way, the C
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by DerekL 4y ago
> … if you want the greens or noone … BTW, it's no one or no-one .
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by DerekL 4y ago
One reason that 3DO consoles were expensive is that the manufactures made nothing from game sales, unlike most consoles. There was a fee for making 3DO games, but it was small and only went to the 3DO company, not the manufactures.
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It's a called a login wall , not a paywall, since you don't have to pay anything.
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Title is misspelled. Should be than , not then .
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> It is included with the new Apple TV 4K, or can be purchased separately for $59 (US) starting today, and is compatible with all generations of Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD.
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by DerekL 4y ago
> - magnetic fields suck. Plastic gets brittle. The chips in credit cards aren't damaged by magnetic fields. Mag stripes will eventually be discontinued. (For instance, cards from Mastercard won't have mag stripes after 2033.)
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> … it’s not clear how a typical user would have gotten a scanned photograph of a baby onto a Mac in 1984. Image digitizer existed for Macintosh and other computers. Some examples: • MicronEye, from Micron Technology, Inc. https:/&
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by DerekL 4y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33170826
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It doesn't matter how the NES compared to computers, because computers cost much more. Also, less RAM is required if the program is on a cartridge.
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> It’s a weird thing that the company that made iPods for a few years defined that term and we have gone with it since. Apple didn't coin the term. People started using the word in 2004, but iTunes didn't have podcast support u
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by DerekL 4y ago
> Why drop curly braces? What do you mean? It uses curly braces for compound statements. But it doesn't require curly braces to define a one-line function.
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Similar problems happen even in C. Suppose you have this line inside a function: X *y; Are you declaring a pointer, or are you performing multiplication? It depends on what “X” is.
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Yes, you need to know about integration to understand the central limit theorem, or to do any statistics with continuous values. But most of the time spent in calculus class is not learning what limits, derivatives, and integrals are. It&#x
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by DerekL 4y ago
Not just scuttlebutt. One of the detectives has already pled guilty. https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/23/us/breonna-taylor-ex-officer-...
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Starting in 2006, the entire state of Indiana uses DST.
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Title should have (1986), the year this was published.
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> As an off-topic peeve, why is "Nix" capitalized in the title when nothing else is? Good question. The entire title is original, even though the article title (“Japan declares war on floppy disks for government use”) is clear
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Title needs (2018).
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That reminds me of a video, “‘Why don't you just hack a Vita?’”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4MhnhqGeFI
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by DerekL 4y ago
But don't most sports games do this (sell a full-priced game every year instead of providing roster updates as DLC)? It's not just EA.
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Yes, it was. Sublogic was the developer of Microsoft Flight Simulator.
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by DerekL 4y ago
Snow Leopard had few user-facing features, but it did have new APIs, such as Grand Central Dispatch and OpenCL, and also an optional 64-bit kernel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Snow_Leopard
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* lightning
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ECAD is software.
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How terrible, a dense urban jungle, with miles and miles of quadplexes. You can barely see the sun anymore, blotted out by gigantic two-story buildings.
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Title needs (2019).
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by DerekL 4y ago
It's “Pascal”, not “PASCAL”.

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