Gordonjcp

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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
There's a lot of reasons it's a pity it dropped out of the EU, but one upside is that it gives us room to rejoin as a proper member, using the Euro, in Schengen, etc. Or, maybe just Scotland and NI, and Wales and England can becom
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
A lot of it reminds me of the olden days of Sinclair ZX81s with 1kB of memory, of which roughly half was free once you drew on the screen and defined a few variables. We used to write things like "LET A=COS PI" instead of "LE
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
That doesn't really work in practice though. I've seen the aftermath of a Renault Megane hitting a Ford Explorer, and it wasn't pretty. The Megane was a writeoff, with significant intrusion into the passenger area. The Explor
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
> But a 30mph head-on collision with another vehicle will almost certainly kill you in one of these trucks. A 30mph collision in the average American SUV will kill all the occupants too, because they have absolutely no safety features.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
It's bonkers how many laws there are against perfectly ordinary and normal things like importing cars in the Land of the "Free". In the UK you basically just need it to have some form of braking system and nothing likely to s
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Did you forget what the OP asked? Is anyone using Forth in production? I very much doubt it.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
If you're writing it in Forth, why bother having a C compiler?
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
I'm currently using equipment that's working perfectly well running on NiCads and solar panels that are only a little younger than I am. I expect in another 50 years they'll be a bit on the tired side, but it won't be my
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
In which case, I'm sure you can give some examples.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Actually it's the "bottom 10%" that'll keep trying different stuff until they figure it out. It's the "expert gamers" who skip tutorials and then get stuck and end up all frustrated and angry because the g
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Probably not. It turns out that it doesn't map to modern computer processors terribly well. It's an amazing and elegant language, but anything that does register-to-register operations is always going to be faster than register-to
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
If I have to do it twice I stick it in a proper script, with some comments, so I remember what it all does next time I go to do it. I do this particularly for stuff like complex ffmpeg filter chains where I need to do a lot of stuff to a vi
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
"Taxi service" would be more likely.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
In the UK, it's illegal to encrypt for the purposes of obscuring communication. There was a lot of noise about G3RUH modems in the olden days when 9600bps packet was starting out, because they used a "scrambler" to whiten the
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Yeah, but how many times do you see a one-liner that's in a nice little boxout, but there's a scrollbar and you need to slide it backwards and forwards to read the whole thing?
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
No, because then you'd have a short line of text that takes up a huge amount of space. Your lines of text on the screen should never be much wider than your hand at arm's length, ever, for any reason. Not even if it's an exam
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
I wouldn't have thought so, since most DMR products are certified for use in the US by the FCC and include fairly strong encryption. Also, do bear in mind that most people don't need to care what the FCC says, or stick to their ru
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
You still need to physically meet someone you trust to exchange keys, however you slice it.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
What's wrong with it? If it gets as far as loading an OS you ought to be able to run the Forth disk. The big problem they have is sticking on filter calibration, because one or other of the 405x multiplexers fails.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Forums didn't have multiple HTML pages in the early 90s, they stuck everything into a database like they do now, and pulled it out with PHP3, or even Perl (the one I wrote was PHP-FI, then converted to PHP3, and is now entirely lost).
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
But OP mentioned doing all the "dynamic" stuff in the browser. I know how static sites work, I run dozens of them for people. I don't see how using WASM improves the situation any.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
So taking a fairly simple forum that I run as an example, on every page load you'd pull down 100MB or so of database, and then query that down to just the one chunk of a few hundred bytes to display a post, in the browser? Why is that
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
I had a thing recently where someone was updating some entries on a system I look after, decided the changes hadn't applied properly, and clicked "Roll back" to put it back to its original state. Whatever had gotten into it,
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Most likely a "ROM emulator" that would plug into the ROM socket on the board, replacing it with a few kB of static RAM that you can pop stuff into from a computer. In the mid-90s I used an already pretty obsolete CP/M machin
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
I live in a part of the world with sustained 140mph winds for about four weeks a year. We manage to keep power and comms running.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Well, the naive way to do it would be to detect the onset of each beat by assuming it corresponds to kick drums on fours, and then speeding up or slowing down the track you're mixing into to correspond with it, timing it so the fours l
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Ah, right, so while you and I don't care what numerical value in the enum EINVAL has, if I take that numerical value and stuff the binary into another OS then it means something totally different. Right, it's not that it *isn&#x27
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
"If EINVAL is not a compile-time constant, four of the initializations above are not valid" Wait, why isn't EINVAL a compile-time constant, shouldn't it just be an enum?
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
Maybe you need to get a more reliable internet provider, or switch to 4G.
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by Gordonjcp 3y ago
"Lost" how?

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