ThomasWinwood

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by ThomasWinwood 4y ago
Everything is buggy. Welcome to software.
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by ThomasWinwood 5y ago
For the benefit of future readers who don't get it, if nothing else: the "salmon problem" (in German Lachsargument ) is an old argument that the origin of the Indo-European language family should be in the Baltic region, bec
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by ThomasWinwood 5y ago
> It has always existed. When men collected food and survived they shared. If there is an surplus of something you do not need, what do you do with it? Eventually, I guess, they started bartering. Bartering is a primitive way of trading.
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by ThomasWinwood 5y ago
> Using a faster linker by default, e.g. Mold. Although I don't know whether there are portability or other issues here. mold supports precisely one platform: x86_64 Linux. It also doesn't support linker scripts beyond what is
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by ThomasWinwood 5y ago
If you really do want to leak memory, Rc<T> is overcomplicated - just call `Box::leak` and throw away the output.
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by ThomasWinwood 5y ago
As I understand it the amount of time we were tossing radio into space was quite brief, and more modern radio traffic is directed at the ground (since after all if you're leaking signals into space you're wasting power). One of th
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by ThomasWinwood 5y ago
They could do what Apple did and provide a Windows compatibility layer which gets progressively more buried as old software gets replaced until it's just kept around for the weird stuff that never gets properly updated because it'
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by ThomasWinwood 6y ago
Much like the majority of the Latin-speaking world, Italian underwent a sound change where [k] softened before a front vowel. The original [k] can be found in Sardinian and the now-extinct African Romance.
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by ThomasWinwood 6y ago
The pronunciation used in schools for didactic purposes has only a modest relationship to authentic historical pronunciation. Pronouncing eta as [i] is an influence from modern Greek - in ancient times it was [ɛː], as described by the autho
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by ThomasWinwood 6y ago
You make it sound like there's a machine you can put a Game Boy ROM into and get out a disassembly, which is kinda true ( https://github.com/mattcurrie/mgbdis ) but it doesn't automatically split out data blo
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by ThomasWinwood 6y ago
Personally, as a fan of retro games consoles (which are broadly in the same boat as retrocomputing hardware) I'm as interested in new independently-produced software as I am in the software released during the hardware's commercia
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by ThomasWinwood 6y ago
This is probably a hot take, but I don't think standard libraries should contain a random number generator. There is no globally correct choice of PRNG algorithm. If you need randomness, you should ask what kind of randomness - cry
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by ThomasWinwood 7y ago
Allow me to reply to your complaint about tweet threads with a tweet thread. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1066547670477488128.html