DougMerritt

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by DougMerritt 3y ago
Either that, or perhaps Linux was always secretly a micro-kernel, and the Tanenbaum / Torvalds flame war was performance art.
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
"The black powder is used in fuses, primers..." -- Thank you, I was momentarily baffled as to why the military would care about black powder.
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
"Genre: stressful puzzle platformer? You play tetris and a platformer at the same time." Appears to be a 7-day game (starting with a basic Tetris implementation, though)
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
Really we need a menu of stains. But wine rings + coffee rings are a good start.
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by DougMerritt 3y ago
"The AARD code was a segment of code in a beta release of Microsoft Windows 3.1 that would determine whether Windows was running on MS-DOS or PC DOS, rather than a competing workalike such as DR-DOS, and would result in a cryptic error
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
The point is that their "isomorphic" graphics library generalizes over only the typical capabilities of early 1980s 8-bit systems with sprites etc. X11, Wayland etc have a thousand times as much capability. Their solution is possi
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
Reading through all of that, they're saying that they avoid a jungle of ifdefs to support multiple similar architectures, and they say the way to this is "isomorphism", which is supposed to be the opposite of abstraction. Ok
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
Ok, that's cool, but what does it mean for a Basic language compiler to be isomorphic?
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
Wow. Have you got a link? I hadn't heard about that. That's kind of a mind blowing list.
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
One alternative CPU model were the various Lisp machines. A really amazing example, though, was Intel's first 32 bit CPU, the iAPX 432 [1] -- it was actually object oriented. And it supported garbage collection (like Lisp machines). It
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
Yes, but they're also choosing the monitors that pass QA best. It may be that all of their monitors have zero defects, but that is statistically unlikely. Look at chip manufacturing. They really care about high yields, but there are a
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
So you always buy Class I monitors, guaranteed zero dead pixels, not the affordable Class II monitors with up to 15 dead pixels? [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_13406-2#Pixel_Fault_Classe...
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
Ok, but they're not friendly to anything but assembler. Well, since they typically have memory that cycles in the ballpark of instruction cycle times (unlike desktop and server CPUs where there's two orders of magnitude differen
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
For many years I've used e.g. 2023 Mar 25, in the spirit of ISO 8601, to avoid all these problems. I say "in the spirit of" because, as I recall (it's been years since I read it), the standard is quite focused, whereas I
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
What is a "tulip-wheel printer"? I get no search results. If you meant "daisy-wheel printer", wikipedia says that was 1970 and later. [1] Just as general interest, not because I have reason to think it was used for his t
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
Measuring database speed is ultimately I/O bound, measuring a language's speed is typically CPU-bound.
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
If I understand correctly, I think they mean that the bug is that they achieved a perfect landing by leaving the tab. I think.
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
You would think, yeah.
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
A surprising number of people have never been happy with Python 3 and even say it was a mistake. Whether you hear this attitude probably just depends on who you're around.
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
I guess that's a standard from 1980... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-1750A
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
The most difficult aspect of this is that SQL is typically called from some other language (Javascript, C++, whatever), which gets data from somewhere (a web form, a previous database query, a file) and needs to plug it into a new SQL query
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
He knows the famous result that "Equivalence of two Turing Machines is undecidable", but hopes to find a subset for which it is decidable, which would allow various interesting algorithms. Unfortunately a decidable subset is not
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
> For example if we write in the terminal “git checkout” and after we press Space, a dropdown will appear with all available branches. Nice. I wouldn't want to discourage an interesting project like this, but a word to the wise: usi
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
> Crazy they have physical masks with features as small as 7nm. Everything about this is crazy complex, and the state of the art in any given year is also secret to TSMC and other tiny-feature-size fabs. But in addition to gradually uppi
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
Interestingly different kind of experiment. Wasn't its first effort sweeter than you requested, or did I get confused?
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
Very interesting. Cognition and Turing equivalence are not things I automatically assume to be the same, so the paper's title is a question I hadn't stopped to consider previously. Makes intuitive sense, though.
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
https://archive.is/NMPKI
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
See author's comment to you, below; they aimed wrong in their reply.
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
I forgot to say: xv has been my favorite UI of any image display program I've ever seen, and I've been sad that it has rarely been available on the various platforms I've been on. So now I'm encouraged to give it a whirl
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by DougMerritt 4y ago
Wikipedia: by John Bradley...Stable release: 3.10a / December 29, 1994; 28 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xv_(software) But, github: This directory hierarchy contains the source code for the XV software..

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