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by Tor3 2y ago
The one I worked with had a C compiler as well, though it was K&R and not ANSI. The instruction set supported operations on 8-bit values by op codes which selected the lower or higher 8 bits of a word, so the compiler itself worked tran
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by Tor3 2y ago
I worked with a 16-bit minicomputer as late as 1995.. word addressable, not byte addressable.
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by Tor3 2y ago
You used that exact line of argument in another comment too. Nothing limiting it to DNA, and why would that matter anyway? It's like any other scientific research.
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by Tor3 2y ago
The problem is that it doesn't really train it - in a way it's the opposite. I've heard about someone using a belt which vibrated like that. After using it for a while they felt completely lost without it and lost all feeling
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by Tor3 2y ago
In Norway the switch happened almost overnight, approximately 1980. Good riddance, the plural polite forms didn't exist in my dialect anyway and it always sounded extremely cringy when somebody tried to use those forms in dialects whic
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by Tor3 2y ago
A species isn't defined by if it can interbreed with other species or not. Horses and donkeys can produce offspring (although they are mule - and there's some discussion about how certain Neanderthal/Sapiens combinations coul
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by Tor3 2y ago
I have an inner voice when I think about dialogue. When I construct a discussion in my mind. And only then. I don't use an inner voice when I think about other things, how to do things, or figure out problems. Way too slow, and after a
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by Tor3 2y ago
As for Japanese, the by far more important difference is, in my opinion, that the verb comes last. Imagine an automatic Star Trek Universal Translator feature: Can't happen. You can't translate the sentence as it's being spok
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by Tor3 2y ago
>That pretty clearly forces every Guugu Yimithirr speaker to have to be constantly aware of the compass directions so they can clearly point at things, it's quite unsurprising that they are very good in instinctively knowing where t
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by Tor3 2y ago
> anybody telling you they know what happened before the time we had written records are selling you something. Right, so plate tectonics didn't happen because nobody wrote it down when America and Africa gradually separated? Supern
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by Tor3 2y ago
"I suspect that Germany would have surrendered a year earlier if the Allies had offered some version of amnesty rather than unconditional surrender." That assumes that rational thinking (by, in this case, the German side) is invol
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by Tor3 2y ago
Can you be a bit more explicit in describing what the problems were? I don't immediately see why that wouldn't apply way more to Windows at the time. I did not use OS/2 much, but.. I did write some communication software so t
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by Tor3 2y ago
Well, this cleared up the NCP confusion for me at least. I was only vaguely aware of how the Arpanet functioned, but I had also seen this "NCP was a precursor to TCP" claim, every time Arpanet came up in discussions. But it wasn&#
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by Tor3 2y ago
A Makefile dependency: Left : right Left depends on the right. I don't think the ability to learn that concept is related to programming culture/background. What follows below that is what happens. Left : right
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by Tor3 2y ago
>"the characteristic length scale of strings is assumed to be on the order of the Planck length, or 10−35 meters, the scale at which the effects of quantum gravity are believed to become significant." Does it matter for the the
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by Tor3 2y ago
I can't really see how you go from what the paper said to your conclusion about String Theory. A lot can be said about the latter, but I don't see how that paper changes anything about that in particular. As for the paper itself.
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by Tor3 2y ago
As someone having owned several.. are you sure about that? I've never seen a Jimny with 5 airbags. Not in Japan either (as a Jimny fan I always check them out whenever I get the chance). I can't see how that could ever have been
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by Tor3 2y ago
I've had English as my second language for many decades, most of what I do every day is in English, nearly 100% of what I read is in English, and most of what I watch or listen to is in English. And I have to speak English with all of
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by Tor3 2y ago
I brought a pot.. metal, made for this.. I thought that was a given. It would easily last forty-fifty years (re the original article). Not that I would need the pot all the time, fish I would grill in various ways, e.g. on a stick on a fire
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by Tor3 2y ago
I'm not sure what the answer is, but for the record whenever I spent a few weeks in the mountains as a younger person, I never brought rifles, lighters, or gps beacons (or any other electronics). I did have matches though, in a waterpr
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by Tor3 2y ago
> You make sure to use a Japanese specific font (not just a CJK one) if the language setting is JA. It's not that hard... I need to use Japanese language in a setting outside of the local language setting. Even my wife needs that (s
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by Tor3 2y ago
Phones handle that this way, but it's not necessarily a good thing if that's the only way they can get the ephemeris data. I used to navigate in Japanese cities using not my phone, but my tablet. Worked fine. Then I changed to an
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by Tor3 2y ago
Line was previously owned by Naver, but is now Japanese-owned. I believe it was actually developed in Japan - it happened as a reaction to communication problems during the 2011 earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster. It's an a
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by Tor3 2y ago
I don't understand this definition of "alive". Isn't every cell in my body alive? There are definitely differences between an alive cell and a dead one.
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by Tor3 2y ago
It's more like how long it was since they were written - I couldn't find any other pattern (I started reading through old floppies a long time ago). They simply seemed to fade with age.
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by Tor3 2y ago
Absolutely agree. Source: I've read (in the last decade) tons of old floppies from (mostly) the late eighties. The recovery rate for 5.25" DD and HD floppies were nearly 100%. I had only a couple of floppies with issues (though it
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by Tor3 2y ago
Emacs auto-saves to a temporary file (#<filename>#), it won't update your actual file until you yourself save. Can't get better than that. Never lose anything, never save a change you don't want.
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by Tor3 2y ago
The problem is not their personal fortune. Nobody has a problem about taxing their bank account. The problem here is that they're taxed as if the value of their company is a personal fortune. Thus, money that actually exist in the comp
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by Tor3 2y ago
The issue is a very specific one in this case. Maybe not as much for the person mentioned first in the article, the problem is more easy to see for a bunch of the other emigrants (and is a continuing problem for the many more who can't
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by Tor3 2y ago
4) Argh, I meant 10pm or it doesn't make sense - I shouldn't try to use English time-units, I should stick to the 24-hour system I know. I always mess up that.

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