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by Someone 5mo ago
That page has logos of Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo. That makes me assume this won’t be a Google product, but a series of products that carry the “Googlebook” label. If so, there likely will be some variation in the cases.
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by Someone 5mo ago
Quite possibly while improving output. Managers that are gone will not require attention from developers.
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by Someone 5mo ago
> I wrote most of the Wikipedia article about BetaBASIC If you still want to work on it, add sample code. I think that’s a must for a programming language page. I see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_BASIC doe
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by Someone 5mo ago
> can we determine based on a player's month of birth if he could statistically become a good goalkeeper, defender, midfielder, or an attacker? So, what’s the answer? My guess would be a “no”. Because of the way age categories are d
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by Someone 5mo ago
There are/were quite a few CPUs where the program counter is one of the general purpose registers. For example, https://developer.arm.com/documentation/den0013/0400/ARM-Pro... : “The ARM architecture pro
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by Someone 5mo ago
> The Apple ][ shipped initially with a Tiny BASIC inspired interpreter (Integer BASIC) Citation needed. Wikipedia doesn’t mention this influence, for example ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_BASIC ), and Woz d
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by Someone 5mo ago
IMO, it would be better if they removed the claim “It doesn't provide a useful security feature” because, even if it does, the collateral damage of making non-Google, non-Apple OSes second class citizens remains, and that is the main p
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by Someone 5mo ago
> not-particularly-reasonable assumption that Apple would want to own a fab, and the wildly unreasonable assumption that they would accept any outside customers for the fab Isn’t running a fab only while it makes top of the line chips a
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by Someone 5mo ago
> the real problems with velocity have always been more organizational than technical If you go back far enough to the time when and one-offs and all programs were written from scratch, I doubt that. https://www.cs.utexas.edu&
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by Someone 5mo ago
FTA: Experience the power of our minuscule Gallium Nitride charger. With 65 watts of charging power over USB-C
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by Someone 5mo ago
> I was once told that the tab key can be represented in different ways on different systems, and that's why spaces are safer because they're always represented the same. The main counter argument is that users have different p
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by Someone 5mo ago
Mostly naked grownups, with a few fairly tall children who are naked, except for the fake pubic hair.
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by Someone 5mo ago
And? If you mount a Unix file system on another system, you may see ‘invisible’ fuels whose name starts with a period, may even see weird files named “.” or “..”, may not see ACLs, and may not see any file attributes such as user and group
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by Someone 5mo ago
> sensible to store information relevant only to this OS in a specific cache somewhere within that OS. For most of these files, this isn’t information that can be reconstructed, so caching isn’t an option. Also, the information has to mo
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by Someone 5mo ago
I guess the amount of rotation needed between “airtight seal gets broken” and “lid can come off” is fairly short for these thermos. If the difference is, say, a full 360° turn, pressure will get relieved before the lid can come off. See als
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by Someone 5mo ago
> Someone who expects tar to behave like other UNIX systems is going to be surprised by this They shouldn’t. The GNU tar manual already shows this behavior. https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node
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by Someone 5mo ago
> What people realy want: as little OS as possible to let them run just the things on their computer they want to run. Citation needed. “As little OS as possible” would mean not having a standard clipboard, not having a standard way to i
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by Someone 5mo ago
Also, chances are programs chose “TMP” because file extensions in MS-DOS were 3 characters, max, and programs used to use “.TMP” for names of temporary files.
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by Someone 5mo ago
One example of such an optimization is that overflow checking can prevent vectorization of code. See for example this post: https://lemire.me/blog/2016/12/06/dont-assume-that-safety-co... . It is ancient,
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by Someone 5mo ago
It also comes in very handy when you need a 8m cable, but only can buy them in lengths of 5m and 10m, or when you’re wiring an entire building, and figuring out which lengths to order up front is a major pain in the ass, certainly compared
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by Someone 5mo ago
And ‘every’ Mac developer thinks people will want to run their tool all the time. For this kind of read-only tool, I doubt that’s the case. A regular application probably serves most users better. Also, if you want users to have the option
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by Someone 5mo ago
For that to happen, I think there has to be room at the bottom for a product that will not cut much into the sales of higher priced iPads. For laptops, it seems they had/found that room, but I doubt that room is there for iPads. The lo
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by Someone 5mo ago
Not “normally”, but “in computer science” and even then, mostly “in the past” and even then, only “typically” (there are sorting algorithms that make zero comparisons. See for example https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~paton/re
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by Someone 6mo ago
> Go strings are just arrays of bytes, https://go.dev/ref/spec#String_types : “A string value is a (possibly empty) sequence of bytes” https://pkg.go.dev/strings@go1.26.2 : “Package strings implements
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by Someone 6mo ago
> It still can be done much cheaper. I just fixed my excessively cheap register allocator for my c compiler rcc. From that data, “GCCO2” is about twice as fast on compilation + single execution of some program as your C compiler rcc. Tha
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by Someone 6mo ago
If you want to support file I/O in the standard library, you have to choose _some_ API, and that either is limited to the features common to all platforms, or it covers all features, but call that cannot be supported return errors, or
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by Someone 6mo ago
High-NA EUV, apparently. https://www.reuters.com/business/asml-says-next-gen-euv-tool... : - ASML's High-NA EUV machines ready for high-volume production - Machines have processed 500,000 wafers, showing technical
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by Someone 6mo ago
> But proving the object exists is still useful, of course: it effectively means you can assume an oracle that constructs this object without hitting any contradiction. I don’t think that logic holds in mainstream mathematics (it will ho
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by Someone 6mo ago
They said “a domain that was making about $9k/year in ad revenue”, not “a domain that was making about $9k/year in profits”. Also, even if it were making about $9k/year in profits, if that comes with large costs (be it labor
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by Someone 6mo ago
> Even a mouse needs hundreds of millions of neurons to do what a mouse does. Under the very light assumption that a mouse doesn’t have neurons it doesn’t need, a mouse needs whatever number of neurons it has to do what a mouse does, so

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