WalterGR

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by WalterGR 2y ago
Where?
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by WalterGR 2y ago
You submitted the wrong URL. I think you meant to submit https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/birth-of-86-dos
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by WalterGR 2y ago
40+ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43811864 13+ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43812742
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After 53 years, a failed Soviet Venus spacecraft is crashing back to Earth(gizmodo.com)
131 points by WalterGR 2y ago|46 comments
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by WalterGR 2y ago
Thanks! If I recall correctly, there are macros to control the level of code optimization? And some implementations can turn it off entirely for interactive use? Or am I off-base?
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by WalterGR 2y ago
x86 MOV instruction: “The mov-only DOOM [game] renders approximately one frame every 7 hours, so playing this version requires somewhat increased patience.”
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by WalterGR 2y ago
64 comments yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43802574
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by WalterGR 2y ago
4 days ago. 380+ comments. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43775926
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by WalterGR 2y ago
I haven’t used CL recently so I can’t speak from experience. But it looks like: CMU CL, SBCL, and LispWorks have steppers. Clozure does not. (Edit: an answer on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37754935/what-a
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by WalterGR 2y ago
Can you provide case history to support your interpretation of the Constitution?
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by WalterGR 2y ago
> a debugger with stepping, a feature that most free CL implementations lack. I think most free CL implementations have a stepper. Which ones do not?
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by WalterGR 2y ago
(2023)
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by WalterGR 2y ago
I think that’s supposed to be tongue-in-cheek.
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by WalterGR 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43799302
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by WalterGR 2y ago
The article seems to be nothing more than a Daily Mail write-up of this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisthisthing/comments/1k225tp/i_...
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by WalterGR 2y ago
2 days ago, 110+ comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43790491
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by WalterGR 2y ago
The article lists the capacity of virtually none of the drives it’s recommending.
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by WalterGR 2y ago
“Geologic time scale” - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale - discusses “eon”. (I didn’t realize the term meant anything other than “a long time.”)
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by WalterGR 2y ago
Article tagline: “Just the dialogue—no sound effects or music cues.” Do any HNers find those cues sufficiently distracting that they’re excited about this feature? I always have subtitles on. While I find those cues occasionally amusing,
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by WalterGR 2y ago
Also >100 comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43789807
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by WalterGR 2y ago
> No wonder they're losing population They’re not. Net change went negative during the pandemic but has since rebounded. California’s population fell in only 3 of the years 2011 - 2024.
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by WalterGR 2y ago
Shells that use readline (such as bash) may have a history search feature built-in and on by default. Try pressing Ctrl-r or Cmd-r and see if a prompt pops up. You can build your own workflow by hand by doing something like: 1. Turn on you
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by WalterGR 2y ago
(Edit: Retail packaging, I mean. Too late to edit my comment.)
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by WalterGR 2y ago
That’s also fairly common for cheap ‘thumb drives’, as I understand it. I’ve been bitten by that before. (Edit: Allegedly if you use low-numbered storage blocks you’ll be okay, but the advertised capacity (both packaging and what it report
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by WalterGR 2y ago
What hardware, though? I want to build a NAS / attached storage array but after accidentally purchasing an SMR drive[0] I’m a little hesitant to even confront the project. A few tens of TBs. Local, not cloud. [0] Maybe 7 years ago.
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by WalterGR 2y ago
Only in some states, under some circumstances, and not necessarily completely.
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by WalterGR 2y ago
Video description: “Last year, Apple Intelligence was introduced. It included a next-generation Siri, with features like a new screen animation, recognition of more natural speech, conversational context, enhanced product knowledge, on-scre
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by WalterGR 2y ago
Playing in the Creek (hgreer.com) 342 points by c1ccccc1 3 days ago 120 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43650656
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by WalterGR 2y ago
RSS = Resident Set Size. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_set_size
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by WalterGR 2y ago
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43660914 “That groan you hear is users' reaction to Recall going back into Windows” (arstechnica.com) 100 points | cratermoon | 18 hours ago | 106 comments

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