Taniwha

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751.
by Taniwha 4y ago
yes but this is California, by law there is a crosswalk at EVERY uncontrolled intersection (ie those with no traffic lights) pedestrians ALWAYS have the right of way
752.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Remember that in California there is always a nominal crosswalk at EVERY uncontrolled intersection, whether it's painted in or not, they're really just drawing attention to an existing crosswalk, not creating a new one
753.
by Taniwha 4y ago
It was a different time - memory/CPU speed trade-offs were very different - we saw RISC once we were able to move cache on-chip (or very very close) - but at that point CISC made sense and the 432 pushed CISC to the extreme. IMHO the x
754.
by Taniwha 4y ago
krita
755.
by Taniwha 4y ago
The last paragraph sums it all up: "encryption protects our privacy where the law falls short"
756.
by Taniwha 4y ago
No, not in Fortran of that era ~ was pretty much missing from most card punch keyboards
757.
by Taniwha 4y ago
does it work for unary +/-?
758.
by Taniwha 4y ago
really "while (1)" is the same as "while (1 != 0)" but it's not really any difference, and as mentioned 1==1 and 1!=0 will be optimised out to the same thing
759.
by Taniwha 4y ago
it's no big deal, just one person's coding style, I've done the same thing for at least 40 years now
760.
by Taniwha 4y ago
I'm looking forwards to buying cheap FPGA mining rigs for my CPU project
761.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Here in NZ (but also in Germany and I'm sure other places) we use MMP - it's pretty simple - take your existing setup and halve the number of representative seats - we all get 2 votes the first vote chooses a local representative
762.
by Taniwha 4y ago
I'd forgotten that RK05s only had 1.5Mb which made me think about my disk quota as a student around the same time on a mainframe - 500 180byte blocks - ~90k - but I could back my programs up and take them home - on cards
763.
by Taniwha 4y ago
last year we spent 25% on social welfare (everything from retirement pensions to the dole), 17% on healthcare for all, 13% on education (from preschool to tertiary) - military was ~3% One big difference of course is that here in NZ the govt
764.
by Taniwha 4y ago
yeah here in NZ we pay 39% marginal over $180k, 33% $70k-180k - no state tax - mostly free public health (5$/drug $100 max per year, $30 to visit GP, nothing for hospital/urgent care/everything else) What we don't do is
765.
by Taniwha 4y ago
oh great - part of what I do is RF design, I work in a faraday cage
766.
by Taniwha 4y ago
These managers are getting fired because they had been put in charge of stopping the union forming - this is a threat to the managers at other Amazon locations to be more evil - "pour encourager les autres"
767.
by Taniwha 4y ago
they shouldn't be there at all, I'm not going to provide advice on how they could be any more evil
768.
by Taniwha 4y ago
They're also sticking to higher roads in many areas because the fields around them have been flooded by the defenders
769.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Of course there is - I've gone to Shenzhen several times and hired people to build my kickstarter - including supplying of most of the parts, building the PCBs, assembling the boards etc - the only time I ever interacted with the gover
770.
by Taniwha 4y ago
depends on where you live - growing up in New Zealand we don't have a tipping culture, servers will get to you, in your turn, try and demand service and you're cutting against a cultural grain, perceived to be trying to claim you&
771.
by Taniwha 4y ago
I think those are 68k ops - PDPlls didn't have special addressing registers (just general R0-R7) and MOV/MOVB opcodes
772.
by Taniwha 4y ago
That whole network stack was based on a simple premise from the telco world ... that you should charge by the byte for a virtual end-to-end connection (just like we used to charge for a phone call - N bytes and M bytes/min). IP sort of
773.
by Taniwha 4y ago
It's one place C shows its roots .... mov (r0)+, (r1)+ is a PDP11 instruction as is mov -(PC), -(PC)
774.
by Taniwha 4y ago
I think they are talking about the later stages of boot strapping 'stage2' where they are writing a more functional, but still small, C compiler in a C subset that can be compiled by this one
775.
by Taniwha 4y ago
Used to be instruction sets were corporate (IBM, DEC, Burroughs etc), seeing one mandated by a country really isn't that different
776.
by Taniwha 4y ago
"cryptocurrency" hah! It's not a viable currency until its transaction costs are comparable with me using a $20 note at the corner store
777.
by Taniwha 5y ago
Point her at AdaFruit.com, buy her a gift card In particular have her browse https://learn.adafruit.com/ to look for stuff that interests her
778.
by Taniwha 5y ago
I live in New Zealand, 1Gb uncapped fibre is available in most urban areas at reasonable cost (sub $100/month) - I keep getting feelers from the fibre company to upgrade (to 2/4Gb) and I honestly can't imagine why I'd bo
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by Taniwha 5y ago
Visited Hanoi with our (just) adult kids a few years ago, we chose to mostly avoid American War (that's what they call it) era stuff - but one day we split up and went to an excellent art museum, the kids ended up at a museum to the ev
780.
by Taniwha 5y ago
um yeah cough "Mỹ Lai" cough

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