DerekL

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by DerekL 3y ago
Title needs (2022).
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by DerekL 3y ago
Yeah, it might not have saved power, but it did allow the machine to spend time on useful things.
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by DerekL 3y ago
The title is misspelled. Speed limit is two words.
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by DerekL 3y ago
You can't show animations with e-ink, because the refresh rate is very low. How would you even show a mouse pointer?
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by DerekL 3y ago
Note that that function has a sleep parameter. It doesn't return until an event has arrived or the sleep time has elapsed.
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by DerekL 3y ago
Yes, it's not a first class language, but the parent explained why it can't be. If you tried to implement a dynamic library with a C++ interface, you can't add virtual functions to later versions of the library without breaki
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by DerekL 3y ago
By the way, the original Atari models, the 400 and 800, did not have BASIC built in. (They may have been bundled with the BASIC cart, I don’t know.) Subsequent models had it built in.
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by DerekL 3y ago
Title is misspelled, it should be “Ram”, not “RAM”.
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by DerekL 3y ago
You can't. First, here's a lemma: Given three distinct lattice points (points with integer coordinates) A,B,C in the plane, either ⦟ABC is a right angle or tan ⦟ABC is rational. Proof: Assume that ⦟ABC is not a right angle. If eit
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by DerekL 3y ago
You can do that in modern C++, except that you have to create a lambda and assign it to a variable.
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by DerekL 3y ago
Microsoft banned controllers that they didn’t license. Microsoft-licensed 3rd-party controllers are still allowed.
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by DerekL 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38545522
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by DerekL 3y ago
You also need all powers of primes.
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by DerekL 3y ago
It does work.
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by DerekL 3y ago
Also, they wrote “sufficiant”. I guess they meant sufficient .
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by DerekL 3y ago
Rust is great, but you don't have to yell about it.
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by DerekL 3y ago
It actually is “stomach flu”, because that's the common name for gastroenteritis, even though it's not related to influenza.
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by DerekL 3y ago
The US has a $1 coin, but stores never give it back in change, using $1 bills instead. Some vending machines do give it back in change.
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by DerekL 3y ago
The type of construction doesn't really matter. There are soundproofing materials that can be installed behind drywall.
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by DerekL 3y ago
The article does in fact mention that inadequate ventilation is part of the problem.
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by DerekL 3y ago
These tubes only connect various locations of a single base, they don't cover the entire moon. The longest trip is probably only a few kilometers. Rockets are more expensive, require more maintenance, and consume fuel or reaction mass.
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by DerekL 3y ago
Also, it was never called “OSX”.
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by DerekL 3y ago
Not HHGttG. After a time, the rights reverted back to the author of the original work (Douglas Adams). Same for the Shogun adaptation.
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by DerekL 3y ago
* lose
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by DerekL 3y ago
VHS beat Betamax mainly because the cassettes were larger, allowing for longer recording time.
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by DerekL 3y ago
From the article: > Businesses can offer cash-to-card services for in-store purchases with a lot of stipulations including no associated fees or time limits.
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by DerekL 3y ago
It looks like many stores cut down on robbery opportunities by not having a cash register. They don't give change back, they only give store credit if you don't pay in exact change. That way, they can just put each cash payment in
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by DerekL 3y ago
Probably because some code already defines “bool”, “true”, and “false”, so adding those to an existing header would break it.
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by DerekL 3y ago
The article was about life, not intelligent or technological life, so communication isn't relevant.
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by DerekL 3y ago
> Betamax was also objectively better than VHS. No, Betamax was worse for most uses than VHS. The picture quality of Betamax was better at roughly the same tape speed, but the cassettes held about half the amount of tape. Slowing down th

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