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by Tor3 1y ago
SGI used three ABIs for their 64-bit computers.. O32, N32, N64. N32 was 64-bit except for pointers which were still 32 bits for exactly that reason - to avoid doubling the memory needed for storing pointers.
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by Tor3 1y ago
We ended up with SGI machines for technical data processing (huge amounts of data), tons of processing going on in parallel. We went through DEC systems (Alpha), Sun, HP, IBM. The SGI systems could handle way more load than any of the othe
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by Tor3 1y ago
It's sad that the networked way of working we could do back then seems to be gone forever. Just something simple as sitting on a workstation with an Emacs window or two.. and then having to leave that particular workstation to someone
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by Tor3 1y ago
Also, those new SDKs make slightly older Android versions not work anymore with the updated applications, in some cases. My main Android tablet can't get updates for several apps, and some apps are updated but won't work with e.g.
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by Tor3 1y ago
I'm reacting against the word "intuition" here. Nobody said it isn't a wave. But it's not like a wave as our intuition says. (Though it does not _always_ look like a wave - check out the timelapse video from Kuji ha
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by Tor3 1y ago
A tsunami absolutely does not fit our intuition of what waves are. It looks like a wave. But it does not stop. It just continues. That little wave goes on an on, farther and farther inland. After an hour it may still go on. It's a nigh
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by Tor3 1y ago
Absolutely. I'm annoyed by the "Sure!" that ChatGPT always start with. I don't need the kind of responses and apologies and whatnot described in the article and comments. I don't want that, and I don't get that
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by Tor3 1y ago
I remember the very high price of CP/M-86. If that was because of DRI's pricing and not something IBM did, then indeed that made the choice simple, in Kildall's disfavour.
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by Tor3 1y ago
As others have commented already: Most people in Europe can speak at least two languages, and even the minority who can just speak one can typically understand several. Even my old parents, when they were alive, could understand at least th
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by Tor3 1y ago
How very strange. I don't get any kind of translations of native sites (government or otherwise).
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by Tor3 1y ago
Hm.. I don't seem to have that particular problem. I use VPN sometimes, but for other reasons, so I don't normally do my searches there. With the native IP I get both English and Japanese results, depending on what it finds, but f
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by Tor3 1y ago
I've seen a bunch of different shorts which have the same AI-generated horrible voice. I always assumed this was just the author preferring to script the audio and generate the voice. Can I assume this is actually big-G auto-dubbing th
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by Tor3 1y ago
But here the CEO resigned with six months extra pay from the day she leaves, which is in six months from now. so she'll have six months where she's still employed, and paid normally, to search for a new job. Which she should be ab
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by Tor3 1y ago
And it's available everywhere. All Unix platforms had it back then, and the still existing ones (AIX is alive, at least) have it available. Which made it easy for our company to base our build system on GNU Make for everything, back i
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by Tor3 1y ago
Agreed. My company decided on using GNU Make on every platform we supported, which back then (last century) was a bunch of Unix variants, and Linux. That made it possible to write a simple and portable build system which could be used for e
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by Tor3 1y ago
Same here, but the reason is simple - there was a bunch of people with the same first name in my class (1st grade). So we all went by our last name. And, as those still are close friends of mine, after all these decades, they (and everyone
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by Tor3 1y ago
Not sure what you mean by practically usable Linux kernel. It was perfectly possible to use the < 1.0 kernels on a floppy, with enough tools to do useful work.
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by Tor3 1y ago
On the other hand, when Linux was new (I switched to Linux in early 1992), you could install it all on a floppy and boot in a few seconds. Not much difference really. Just way more flexible with a Linux floppy than a DOS one.. I kept a Lin
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by Tor3 1y ago
In Japan individual crackers are typically wrapped in plastic inside the package, possibly due to the high humidity, possibly for social reasons (or both). Gift packets of for example chocolate also always use individually packed pieces. In
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by Tor3 1y ago
I didn't consider that - my eyesight wasn't checked before I was nearly five years old, then my father started suspecting something (I still remember him asking if I could see a crow a couple of hundred meters away, between two sl
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by Tor3 1y ago
I also have problems with faces, if they've changed slightly or I see them in unfamiliar places. I don't have aphantasia, or problems recalling my past - quite the opposite, I have strong visual memories from before I was three. O
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by Tor3 1y ago
It's more because entering addresses on web forms can be a major problem in Japan, there's no system to it. You have to use the correct font (half-width, full-width), and sometimes you have to write it twice, and sometimes with di
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by Tor3 1y ago
Browser autocomplete works Really Badly for Japanese addresses (no standardized way of inputting addresses, including which font to use), so it should solve one major problem in Japan. That's different from e.g. my home country. Or alm
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by Tor3 1y ago
That's true, and it would be much easier to remember, but then you lose the feature where you move to somewhere else but you still use the same code - which is also a function of this system (you just update your address once, in that
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by Tor3 1y ago
As some other comments mentioned, the way addresses are entered in web forms in Japan is not standardized. So autofill just doesn't work, a lot of the time. It may even seem correct, but then this particular site wants the address to
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by Tor3 1y ago
Agreed about the signing.. that's useless. But at least for some shipments with value we have to show an ID (not just any ID - I always carry my passport though), back in my home country. Just signing is worthless, in particular when t
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by Tor3 1y ago
Indeed - at least now you can enter the property address (e.g. a four-digit number followed by a dash and another number, as in this small town) into google maps and it'll show you where it is. Not long ago it was more like driving in
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by Tor3 1y ago
Where I am there's now only some music at 17:00, ideally that should announce that it's time to leave work and go home, ffs.. but as this is Japan, it doesn't seem to serve a purpose - people don't go home. That music u
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by Tor3 1y ago
Quick question - you wrote "There are few safety checks" - did you mean "There are a few safety checks"? I'm trying to figure out if this is implemented badly or not.
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by Tor3 1y ago
> The idea that there are pure languages, is ridiculous. Agreed. French, of course, is 100% impure if we're supposed to think that way.. it didn't exist a dozen centuries or so ago, all its words are from Latin and regio

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