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by DrTung 8y ago
Was on Windows from 1986-2010, Ubuntu 2010 - today, but will be switching to MacOS on a MacMini soon, and the reason: Apple's old filesystem HFS was slooow when grepping/compiling etc. but the new APFS is comparable to EXT4 in spe
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by DrTung 8y ago
Good read but class template argument deduction is not mentioned.
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by DrTung 8y ago
In a few years I'll probably have grandkids and when I read this, think it increases the chance that those kids will still be able to go to Disney World in Florida, i.e. it will not be submerged.
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by DrTung 9y ago
More than 40 years has passed since I read it, but I still remember that last part of the book, where he goes skiing down to the waiting guards. You know when you read the last sentence that it was the last sentence of the book, no need to
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by DrTung 9y ago
Agree 100%. I had a bunch of legacy Winform apps and faced the same dilemma. Solved it by switching to Qt. It's excellent even if you just use it for Windows development, i.e. never use any of its crossplatform abilities.
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by DrTung 9y ago
Me too. Finally I understand how the leakage works: no actual reading of kernel memory is taking place. Instead, the read-ahead/speculative logic causes one of two addresses in user space to be read, and thus placed in the cache. So,
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by DrTung 9y ago
2nd that! First machine I learned assembler on was a 11/45, still remember toggling in a bootloader to load RSTS/E from the RK05-disk :-)
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by DrTung 9y ago
Agree, good article. Thanks to it I think I understand more why cryptography based on elliptic curves (like Curve25519) is considered pretty safe for now.
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by DrTung 10y ago
There's also a huge, ever increasing, technical debt that's dragging down the quality of Windows. For example, switching from Windows\System to Windows\System32 for Chicago made 100% sense, but how did we end up with 32-bit softwa
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by DrTung 10y ago
I 2nd that. Before I've usually ended up with PT Mono, but this Go font is bit more pleasing to work with. Thanks Google.
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by DrTung 10y ago
It's easy to do a pessimistic forecast: In order to sway the opinion Trump will need a fake attack on US soil around October, something big and spectacular. Then join our TTT movement: "Trump for a third term!"
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by DrTung 10y ago
Good news: the purchasing process works fine. Bad news: you cannot download the font (the supplied URL, when clicked, first goes to gumroad.com then to cloudfront.net which gives the error: Safari cannot open the page).
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by DrTung 11y ago
Reminds me of Objective C happily calling a nil ptr, Apple wants to be generous and not pester you by terminating your app :-)
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by DrTung 11y ago
I remember cracking A2FS1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWIuTP_A6IQ This was before floppy disks, the game came on a cassette, but it had the same style of boot0/boot1 encryption. Starting the game from a copied cas
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by DrTung 11y ago
Perfect, thanks. I've meant to get up to scratch on the override and final keywords, fixed now :-)
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by DrTung 11y ago
Thanks, good timing :-) of this article, been trying to understand why my new fancy Skylake CoreI5-6500 crashes with "Switched to clocksource tsc" when booting Ubuntu 14.04 (Ubuntu 15.10 works fine, so not a big problem).
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by DrTung 11y ago
Have you tried fail2ban? It really helps to keep the hacking attempts down on your ssh-server(s), especially if you increase the bantime from the default 600 seconds to a couple of million...
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by DrTung 11y ago
I like that motto "Typing is no substitute for thinking." in the PDF. Applies equally well today :-)
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by DrTung 11y ago
Always thought he'd opensource Minecraft and then sell it to Unicef (or Unesco) for 1 dollar. But alas it was not to be :-(
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by DrTung 11y ago
Alright, finally I understand how they did that AWESOME menu bar in Visual Studio.
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by DrTung 12y ago
Not mentioned was the A2FS1 Flight Simulator Game, I still remember hacking it to make a tape copy. 1st stage loader was easy, but when I started the game from the tape copy it just printed: "Stolen aircraft!" "Stolen aircraf
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by DrTung 12y ago
"Running Light Without Overbyte" still remember that title, when reading Dr.Dobb's while waiting for my turn fiddling with a new KIM-1 computer at my friend's house in 1976. A while back... I was a subscriber for many ye
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by DrTung 12y ago
You're right, it wasn't the software as such (more like the design of the system). I just read more about PIO and it's funny, it reminds me of a short story I read a long long time ago, written by Arthur C Clarke, I remember
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by DrTung 12y ago
The Saab Gripen aircraft that is mentioned did crash anyway (in its first flight show over Stockholm 1993 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidents_and_incidents_involvi... ) in spite of that specially crafted fly-by-wire
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by DrTung 12y ago
Thanks for the link, I'm trying jupp now, and indeed it feels a bit newer. One thing that causes screen refresh problems for me with joe/jstar, is editing files with long lines, say 160 characters or more. I'll see if jupp fa
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by DrTung 12y ago
Not just for a writer, for programmers too. Without my WordStar plugins for Xcode and QtCreator I work much slower.
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by DrTung 12y ago
Thanks, this is a good URL to use for a quick test if you have an internet connection, e.g. "traceroute uz" or "ping uz" (On my Mac, you can type just "uz" in Firefox but in Safari you need "uz/"
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by DrTung 12y ago
Being Swedish I totally agree with XKCD since that's how dates are written here since the 70's. But this standard seems to be receding, for example recently the Swedish DMV had to change so that on new driver's licenses the d
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by DrTung 12y ago
Very minor complaint but first of January 1984 is always depicted as '1984.01.01' in the game, regardless of I18N selected. While this is good in Germany, it many countries like US you instead prefer something like '1/1&
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by DrTung 13y ago
Most links are still valid, like this one for their (last?) announcement: https://www.mtgox.com/img/pdf/20140220-Announcement.pdf

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