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by Tor3 8mo ago
Some years ago I was by chance listening to a radio program about advertising. They interviewed a marketing guy and he insisted that it was illegal for you to visit the bathroom or the kitchen while the ad was running (on TV or on the radio
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by Tor3 8mo ago
- Typo: I meant to write "Stevens' book"
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by Tor3 8mo ago
That a lot of software wasn't written in C on VMS is beside the point, the fact is that a totally normal K&R C was available on VMS, just the same as e.g. Pascal was available. And the C compiler was popular among people writing TC
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by Tor3 8mo ago
"I wonder if it's still in AIX." lslpp -l|grep -i motif X11.adt.motif 7.1.5.31 COMMITTED AIXwindows Application Development Toolkit Motif X11.compat.lib
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by Tor3 8mo ago
Hm? VMS also had K&R C, and a simulator I worked with at the time was written (not by me) using that compiler.
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by Tor3 8mo ago
Woz talked about the early days in an interview, and he said something like (paraphrasing) "Steve [Jobs] could call companies and get free samples for me, and negotiate low prices for other stuff, something I simply couldn't do&qu
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by Tor3 8mo ago
All of those are quite useful.
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by Tor3 8mo ago
My opinion differs - learning how memory is accessed via assembly language will make it super easy to understand e.g. how C pointers actually work, something which can be surprisingly difficult for those who go directly to a high level (com
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by Tor3 8mo ago
For that you'll need Apple II documentation - though that's device-specific information. It's easy to find online, e.g. https://nicole.express/2024/phasing-in-and-out-of-existence.... , but there's l
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by Tor3 8mo ago
Seconded. I bought the first edition of "Programming the 6502" way back in the neolithic, and I enjoyed it greatly. I even read parts of it again now and then these days too, just because I like it. I used to write assembly on, a
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by Tor3 9mo ago
Some are, some are not, and some are before time and below budget. In other words, it varies.
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by Tor3 9mo ago
I haven't been able to find reliable LED lighting, except when compared to particularly low-quality incadecent lights. Cost-wise it's a no-brainer, LEDs are more expensive. They are, however, getting better. They used to be total
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by Tor3 9mo ago
It's actually hydro+wind in Norway, not just hydro. Hydro has been able to cover nearly 100% of household needs, and most of industry, up till now. The wind, controversial as it is in some places, has managed to offset some of the prob
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by Tor3 9mo ago
In Japan, where we're currently getting rooftop solar (like nearly every single house everywhere) there are indeed some large solar installations, but the point of rooftop solar (which the government is encouraging) is that it reduces
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by Tor3 9mo ago
Not sure how it is where you live, but when I pay taxes they don't go to politicians. The taxes go to health care facilities, infrastructure, education, etc. etc. Only a small percentage goes to pay politicians, and it's all in t
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by Tor3 9mo ago
What was listed by the poster you replied to are genuine real facts, so the one who should look harder is you, in this case.
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by Tor3 9mo ago
Where heating is needed, and where heating is done by electricity, changing to LED lighting indoors don't make any difference whatsoever. Unless your main heating source is a heat pump. In my home there's a heat pump upstairs, but
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by Tor3 9mo ago
Games and articles and anime all include "lords", as far as I can tell. But feudalism wasn't universal, there were lot of (what we today would call) countries without feudalism. There could still be (fairly local) kings, but
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by Tor3 9mo ago
The "Johnny and the Dead" series by Terry Pratchett included a school mate of Johnny who liked to make computer games.. and he created a realistic game about flying your spaceship to some nearby star or somewhere. Everything was r
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by Tor3 9mo ago
What's the problem with decimals? They're all numbers. -4.5 degrees C is fine, isn't it? (The actual temperature right here right now). Where's the problem?
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by Tor3 9mo ago
The "everything is a file" approach is nice in many cases, I'm worried though if it works everywhere. Maybe if done right. Subversion (SVN) shows branches as separate file trees.. and ClearCase too (though I'm on thin ic
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by Tor3 9mo ago
Indeed it's rude, but since I suddenly found myself unplannedly having to use an iPhone I found that's it's hard to position the speaker so that my ear can actually hear the other person.. I have to carefully keep micro-adjus
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by Tor3 10mo ago
How does it compare to Zerotier? The way I understand it it's kind of overlapping functionality but not necessarily everything. What I want from Zerotier is basically what you described about Tailscale. The two problems I have with zer
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by Tor3 10mo ago
I'm using the Chrome extension in Vivaldi, and I hear no sound. Yomitan and the older Yomichan work fine. BTW, is there a way to remove the romaji? Having both hiragana and romaji together is not good. Edit: And for some words there&#x
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by Tor3 10mo ago
It's a very good investment to spent a week or a month (typically depending on age) to really learn hiragana. Learn hiragana and katakana in parallel. Use an app like 'Kana mind', for example, to enforce memorization. Using r
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by Tor3 10mo ago
After a certain age many people, and I'm definitely one of them, stop using phones for anything serious. Too small screen, unreable fonts, or alternatively zoomed-out fonts make pages unreadable anyway. So I'm basically back to u
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by Tor3 10mo ago
As others have said, people prefer different ways. My wife (Japanese) writes on Windows (Japanese edition) in romaji, and she's very fast. But she also says that in fact most Japanese (at least of her generation) don't write that
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by Tor3 10mo ago
Cover the button in epoxy..
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by Tor3 10mo ago
There have been reports of TVs with wi-fi managing to find an open network nearby and using that to get access to its updates and to send its telemetry. Having to physically hack a TV to disable its wi-fi is just.. At this point maybe a mo
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by Tor3 10mo ago
My N900 (Made in Finland, an early one) was great. I would have used it still if it wasn't for the fact that after 3G disappeared it was useless. The battery could be replaced (as others have mentioned), so it was perfectly fine still.

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