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by Koshkin 2y ago
Love these kinds of articles. (Now, I can only imagine how insanely more complex the modern hardware is!)
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by Koshkin 2y ago
The Tiny C compiler deserves to be mentioned.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
Well, there are quite a few monarchies where people enjoy freedom of press. (You probably meant “absolute monarchy”.) On the other hand, I am not sure what the lack of freedom of press in one country has to do with these events in another
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by Koshkin 2y ago
Indeed, the article is extremely confusing. The wave in wave-particle duality is not the wave (function), one that collapses. For instance, electromagnetic wave is not the same thing as the wave function of the photon.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
(Somewhat hidden in the article is the fact that these CPUs are based on the MIPS64 architecture.)
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Can China's Loongson Catch Western Designs? Probably Not(chipsandcheese.com)
5 points by Koshkin 2y ago|2 comments
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by Koshkin 2y ago
From Wikipedia: Most nebulae are of vast size; some are hundreds of light-years in diameter.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
And yet, it is the atomic nucleus that is one of the most complex objects in nature.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
I couldn’t help but notice that the circuit layout looks like a uniform gate array rather something resembling a custom layout you usually see in die photos.
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by Koshkin 2y ago
Since years back I already can’t help but keep thinking of paper books as nothing but printouts of text files. (And I no longer want or need printouts.)
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by Koshkin 2y ago
An Apple-esque expensive stuff. (A pen sheath, $32.)
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by Koshkin 3y ago
That post made me want to start running a BSD on my laptop. (It’s an older ThinkPad, so things are expected to work well on it.)
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by Koshkin 3y ago
A great way to learn assembler is to closely examine code generated by a compiler, e.g. on godbolt.org.
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by Koshkin 3y ago
It’s not so much the ‘std’ thing, it’s the double colon that is an abomination. I never understood why they couldn’t simply use a single dot like some other languages have done.
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by Koshkin 3y ago
When I was younger, I thought that we eat in order to live. Growing older, I realized that the opposite is true.
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by Koshkin 3y ago
Yes, for COM programming you better switch to C++.
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by Koshkin 3y ago
Says the fact that their objects of study are different.
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by Koshkin 3y ago
No, because physics is not mathematics.
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by Koshkin 3y ago
Fun fact: in Greek, the semicolon is the question mark. (Actually, the regular question mark looks like an overturned and exaggerated semicolon.)
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by Koshkin 3y ago
The Vala Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39528496 - Feb 2024 (no comments :)
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by Koshkin 3y ago
MVS TK5 has (a clone of) ISPF built in. https://www.prince-webdesign.nl/tk5
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by Koshkin 3y ago
Not that I know of. Also, the page includes snapshot.zip and a number of scripts to start you off.
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by Koshkin 3y ago
‘moshix’ has many excellent videos on Youtube about the IBM mainframes and their operating systems - including how to run them on an emulator, for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl8qG9KilJg .
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ChrysaLisp GUI Demo [video](youtube.com)
152 points by Koshkin 3y ago|9 comments
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by Koshkin 3y ago
But (as usual) reviews on Amazon offer a wide spectrum of opinion on these.
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Running an IBM Mainframe OS on a PC [video](youtube.com)
13 points by Koshkin 3y ago|0 comments
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by Koshkin 3y ago
Well, > As of April 2022 it is best to use the Asahi installer. https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/apple/
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by Koshkin 3y ago
It’s formal in places and certainly rigorous, but I don’t find it difficult.
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by Koshkin 3y ago
> execute assembly I always thought that assembly was a type of programming language.
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by Koshkin 3y ago
Or you can get it from WinWorldPC

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