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by DerekL 6y ago
By the way, what's marlin?
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by DerekL 6y ago
That movie was titled Office Space , not The Office .
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by DerekL 6y ago
> the first Microsoft Flight Simulator was on the Apple II? Back then, Flight Simulator was still owned by subLOGIC. Microsoft got a license from them to make the IBM PC version.
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by DerekL 6y ago
IBM sold their personal computer business. They still make mainframes, and they design (but don't fabricate) POWER microprocessors.
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by DerekL 6y ago
You can buy Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime and Overcooked! 2 from Steam and play them on SteamOS.
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by DerekL 7y ago
My understanding is that Microsoft doesn't want to support C, and the only reason Visual Studio supports C at all is for legacy code. Also, you can use 3rd-party compilers with Visual Studio. Really, anyone writing C nowadays should ig
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by DerekL 7y ago
A multiple-level break is a good idea, but I think that Java's labeled break is a better way to do it: find_in_array_loop: for(i = 0; i < n; i++) for(j = 0; j < n; j++) if(array[i][j] == x)
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by DerekL 7y ago
What are you asking for? Do you mean that if you return a small struct from a function, the fields are placed in registers instead of memory, if they can fit? This is up to the ABI, not the standard, to define, and some ABIs already do tha
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by DerekL 7y ago
By the way, those coordinates are in the Atlantic Ocean, with no land in sight.
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by DerekL 7y ago
The actual subhead is, “Governor Cuomo is issuing an executive order letting the state seize and redistribute ventilators from hospitals and companies.” Maybe it's been changed since this was posted.
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by DerekL 7y ago
There are special copyright laws for chips. In the US, it only lasts 10 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit_layout_desi...
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by DerekL 7y ago
> * Missing operations such as … simultaneous div/rem Doesn't the div function do this? > * There's no "bitcast" operator that changes the type of a value without affecting the value. The most common workaroun
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by DerekL 7y ago
For comparison, the Apollo Lunar Module had a launch mass of 15,200 kg.
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by DerekL 7y ago
That was Maximilian Schell.
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by DerekL 7y ago
Mentioned on page 9 of the article.
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by DerekL 7y ago
This list is about two different things: what languages are allowed in the project, and what languages are supported by end-developers. I imagine that an end-developer could write their Fuchsia program in any language they want, but if it&#
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by DerekL 7y ago
Actual title is “Candle Touch™- The First Smart, Connected, Real-Flame Candle”. Don't editorialize in the submission title.
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by DerekL 7y ago
Interactivity was added to QuickTime movies. I think this feature was called “wired actions”. I have no idea how this relates to the HyperCard integration. Apple didn't make an authoring tool for this feature, but another company did
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by DerekL 7y ago
Title is misspelled, should be “Caucus”.
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by DerekL 7y ago
I've played two games like that: the arcade game Gravitar, and Gravity Crash on the PlayStation 3.
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by DerekL 7y ago
Why don't we put effort into identifying and diverting the asteroids?
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by DerekL 7y ago
Title is misspelled. It should be '!=', not ' ='.
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by DerekL 7y ago
It looks like Hacker News's clickbait filter messed up the title by removing the numeral “128” from the front.
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by DerekL 7y ago
I bought MoO Classic and MoO 2 on GOG.com a while ago. I just tried installing and playing them on macOS Catalina, and I can verify that they work. But the stand-alone installers aren't notarized, so you'll have to approve them ma
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by DerekL 7y ago
Title is misspelled: Should be “Talking”, not “Toking”.
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by DerekL 7y ago
What does the Internet not existing before the ADA have to do with it? Also, movies existed before the law did, and so did online services (for example, AOL, CompuServe). By the way, the Internet existed, but it wasn't available to the
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by DerekL 7y ago
That's weird that you couldn't find the original Crossy Road. The website says it's available from Amazon. I've played both games on iOS, and I haven't noticed a performance difference between them. Also, the origin
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by DerekL 7y ago
Maybe you don't need to go to a dense coastal city for your first job, but what about your second job, and your third job, etc? Very few jobs in tech will last your entire career. You could take a job in some random small city, but you
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by DerekL 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Mutants_from_Space
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by DerekL 7y ago
Note that Atari BASIC for the 8-bit computers wasn't made by Microsoft and is incompatible in some ways. Microsoft did port BASIC to the Atari computers, but not until 1981, and it was much less popular.

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