Suzuran

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by Suzuran 2y ago
Oh, but we do know - In order to be compatible with the existent languages, it's going to have to look similar to what we have now. It will have to keep 8 bit bytes instead of going wider that's what IBM came up with in the 1950
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Just mandate that everything must be run on an Intel or ARM chip and be done with it. Stop pretending anything else is viable.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
It's not like English is much better on its own; We have the "Progressive Apostrophe", which is intended to warn the reader than the letter S is about to appear ("not responsible for accident's", "employee
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by Suzuran 2y ago
It is my understanding that due to the structure of modern web browsers it is by design that they execute arbitrary code from various sources, be it plugins or updates or whatever, and due to the microcode issue any flaw in any of those was
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Security issues are the driver now. I had to shut down some machines at work last month because their CPUs have a microcode flaw that the vendor is not releasing a fix for.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
All things are transient; All things will end. At least this isn't ending with the island being abandoned by humans and the cats trained to depend on them being abandoned to starve.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
I don't think so; I don't remember ever seeing it
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by Suzuran 2y ago
I did this once with the deliberate intention that be traceable. Holding down a few keys while clicking on a specific small set of pixels in an application we were developing for a customer would produce a specific message that was attribut
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by Suzuran 2y ago
And this is why the hobby is dying. Home ownership is well beyond the means of most of the population now, and rental properties/apartments do not allow antenna structures. Those who persist and evaluate portable/mobile HF ops or
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by Suzuran 2y ago
You're right, I forgot about him. I would argue that he's a special case - He was prosecuted only because he negatively impacted other billionaires, not because he harmed one of us common rabble. But I did not specify that origina
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by Suzuran 2y ago
They've already removed themselves from society, that's most of the problem. They are now above society, immune to the laws that restrict us. They feel this should give them the right to rule us with literal power over life and de
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by Suzuran 2y ago
I think they are referring to the MIT license and similar, but not wording it well. I can take something that is MIT-licensed and incorporate it into a closed-source commercial product, and I am not forced (as I would be with the GPL) to op
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by Suzuran 2y ago
They are separate from the other kernel developers, but not in the negative way you seem to want to assign to me. They aren't an outside invasion, they are a cultural revolution. They may want to work on Linux but it's clear that
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by Suzuran 2y ago
What they're getting at is that it probably would have been better if the Rust people had started their own kernel project, cherry-picked the pieces of Linux they wanted, and then made their own new thing without three decades of obsol
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by Suzuran 2y ago
This sounds like a problem that needs solved, not a club to beat people with when they complain about it.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Orbiter has had modules using this for more than a decade so I see no reason why it can't be done for Kerbal other than nobody on the Kerbal side wants to do the work.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
The Medicare people advised this as well. I have attempted to contact my Congressional representative, but have not received an answer yet.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Currently looking into overseas mail-order. I'm too far from Mexico or Canada to drive there; I haven't considered darknet/alibaba because if I get sold a fake, I won't be able to tell without lab tests, and I can't
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by Suzuran 2y ago
No; It is my understanding you cannot sue the federal government or its constituent parts, they have sovereign immunity.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Long story short, my Medicare records got screwed up. Some database entry isn't in the correct state that allows their processes to proceed. None of the humans I can get in contact with has the authority (or knows anyone with the autho
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Very far from the only working one. I have a working one, for now, but we don't know how much longer I will be here because I am currently dying from a government paperwork error that nobody in government has the authority to fix.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Oh, there is/was a C compiler for the -10 (KCC), but it wouldn't support the modern dialects that the *BSD kernels are written in. Just having the language isn't enough, you have to be able to support the build chain of a mod
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Good, it can stay there.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
The standard specifies that you must have an independently addressable unit of storage that corresponds to the basic character set. The PDP-10 does not have this.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
If it's blue, then yes.
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by Suzuran 2y ago
When you get so big that you think you can start telling your customers what they want instead of listening to them, this is what happens. Novell did the same thing with small/medium business LANs. In DEC's case, they thought they
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by Suzuran 2y ago
I feel I should point this out because it seems to be a point of confusion: "PDP" is not a single unified product line. The numbers do not indicate linear progress. There is no architectural relationship between a PDP-8, a PDP-10,
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by Suzuran 2y ago
The problem is that the PDP-10 is really unsuited to running C. It doesn't use 8-bit bytes and doesn't have a native "byte" datatype, just words and halfwords. There are byte instructions, but you have to construct a &qu
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Depending on whether or not you consider a KS a "real" PDP-10, my KS actually uses less power than my modern PC does under load. The KS sits just under a kilowatt running UETP, but my PC spikes north of 1.2 when running benchmarks
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by Suzuran 2y ago
Of course they do, the AI allows us to gouge the customers out of so much more. You must be new to this capitalism thing.

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