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by Taniwha 3y ago
There's one other thing that's different in those early Cs, there was no union, and structs worked differently. Effectively a field in a struct was just an offset, and all offset names were part of a global namespace of all field
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Also available here under c:games https://xkcd.com/1975/
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by Taniwha 3y ago
yes I think it was the building one back from Lawrence - they were much more like a traditional supermarket then - and the Computer Literacy Bookshop was a block up in the same strip mall
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by Taniwha 3y ago
I think the address they have for the original Frys (where I bought chips in the mid '80s on a Sunday) is wrong - they were originally on the corner of Lawrence and Oakmead Pkwy
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by Taniwha 3y ago
I worked at Chromatic, we built a series of 2-wide VLIWs, writing a compiler (actually just the assembler) that could extract that parallelism was pretty easy, just some low level register flow analysis, I can imagine getting something like
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by Taniwha 3y ago
yeah exactly, calling dlsym on every malloc would kill performance the other bug of course is that it's not thread safe
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by Taniwha 3y ago
US High Power Rocketry people have been fly these (NO and plastic) since the late 90s - this certainly isn't the first of its type
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by Taniwha 3y ago
strace works on anything that makes a system call - written in any language
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by Taniwha 3y ago
(background I implemented Algol68 as an MSc project in the early 80s) So Wirth was a big part of the Algol68 working group but grew disillusioned by it's resulting complexity - he went off and invented Pascal, essentially taking the ea
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by Taniwha 3y ago
AWS's FPGA instances (essentially a big xylinx on a PCIE board) are probably a good place to start here, any standard probably should allow for the multiple sorts of interfaces that those guys provide
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Years ago I figured out how to get the best first approximation ... borrow a gym for a day, make 1000s of metal plates with hooks and a bar code, one for each gate, have a robot take rubber bands and use the netlist to hook up the plates. T
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by Taniwha 3y ago
For those who don't know "fflush(0);" flushes ALL FILEs
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by Taniwha 3y ago
The LD50 of fluoride in drinking water is actually lower than the LD50 of water itself - drink enough fluoridated water to die from fluoride poisoning and you'll die from water poisoning first
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by Taniwha 3y ago
I think that depends on the concentration of the iodine in the salt
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by Taniwha 3y ago
yes exactly, my Jewish wife has been supporting her Gazan refugee friends marching in the streets here in NZ against Israel's killing of tens of thousands
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by Taniwha 3y ago
That market is still there, there's a floor of fabric, and floors of tailors, you can get anything made. I didn't start going until after 2010ish I think it's very safe at night, I've wandered all over, certainly safer t
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by Taniwha 3y ago
For a while Shenzen had both - but charged a 2 kuai tax if you got in a petrol cab (the electric ones were blue) - now they're all electric
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by Taniwha 3y ago
This animation gives you a great idea of how fast it has grown https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shenzhen_Metro_evolution.... It's a modern subway (puts NY to shame) - I've been going since ~ 2010, almost ev
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Most people are in Shenzhen are from other parts of China, you'll hear Mandarin (the default) Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien etc - most people probably speak some dialect of Mandarin as well as their birth language
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Buy and read the book - you can point at stuff in it, it's designed with that in mind - take a hand calculator so you can type numbers/prices - point at things, smile a lot Do learn a little Mandarin, start with Nihao = hello, Xiè
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Then do what every other county on the planet does, include sales tax in advertised prices
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Yeah me too, they really ought to explain themselves better
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Remember: You have the right to be silent .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DH4FdxKCNg
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Frank Pendleton in the box was some of the best TV ever
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by Taniwha 3y ago
I think that the single index register in the 6800 was a mistake. So was the requirement for a crazy clock driver (the 6802 fixed that)
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Tiny tapeout 6 is coming up you should knock one out https://tinytapeout.com/
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by Taniwha 3y ago
You'll know they have a working time machine when all the university physics departments suddenly start getting their research grants funded by lottery winners
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Only for some people, I've taken low dose aspirin (family history of heart attack) for 20 years now without any side effects (except perhaps not dying from heart attacks)
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by Taniwha 3y ago
So the short story is that the missiles were essentially radio controlled drones, radar measured the location of the target and the missile and from the ground the analog computer flies them together (or close enough that the bang will brin
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by Taniwha 3y ago
Tiny Tapeout's take many months - I expect it before the end of the year

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