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by acegopher 5y ago
My recollection matches yours. Smalltalk was too expensive and hard to program user-facing apps as quickly as VB or C++ with MFC. So front-ends were either VB or C++/MFC if speed was needed on the front end, and C++/DCOM on the ba
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by acegopher 5y ago
I don't think SaaS and "potentially harder science companies" are necessarily opposed. I think there are still a lot of un-discovered niches that marry the two. Anything hard is going to take longer, but also result in less c
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by acegopher 5y ago
RISC-V doesn't offer the same advantage over ARM that ARM has over x86, so that's unlikely to happen.
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by acegopher 5y ago
I think the de-facto ARM desktop is already here. It's the M1 Mac.
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by acegopher 5y ago
The delayed-choice quantum eraser and the Triple Phasor Paradox might be the "glitches" of today's physics.
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by acegopher 6y ago
How do you measure impact?
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by acegopher 6y ago
You forgot the link... would like to read.
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by acegopher 6y ago
No. WSB is not "a regulated entit[y]" that "disadvantage[d] investors or otherwise unduly inhibit[ed] their ability to trade certain securities". Robinhood is and did.
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by acegopher 6y ago
This isn't so much a case of allowing a baker to make a gay wedding cake, as that's discrimination. This is more like the bar kicking out an unruly patron, which is a terms-of-service violation. It's a big distinction, unless
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by acegopher 6y ago
It's not so much being a strong brand, but becoming known in a small niche that is key to avoid becoming reliant on Google. You only need to be reliant on Google if you don't know who your audience/niche is. Once you know tha
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by acegopher 6y ago
Thank you for Empire! I definitely played the Intersel version on my Amiga in maybe '89, and then on my IBM-PC 386, but I believe I also played via Zenith terminal on a PDP-10/11 on Compu-Serv (my Dad was an early employee), in th
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by acegopher 6y ago
For example, electric drag racing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_drag_racing
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by acegopher 6y ago
The Logitech 920 is still a GREAT webcam. I'm not sure what there is to improve?
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by acegopher 7y ago
Because the health care system is built with those estimates in mind. It's the same with electricity infrastructure on climatologically hot days. The infrastructure is only built to handle a certain normal peak load. COVID-19 like a he
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by acegopher 7y ago
PyPi has 2FA for user logins to the website, which: "safeguards against malicious changes to project ownership, deletion of old releases, and account takeovers. Package uploads will continue to work without users providing 2FA codes.&q
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by acegopher 7y ago
What was the vector by which they gained access? I have fail2ban, password login turned off, key access, airtight firewall, etc. and now am worried.
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by acegopher 8y ago
Your assumption is that a company with 300,000 employees would be able to only hire A players. The larger the company, the more it will naturally HAVE to trend towards average. Most successful large companies are successful because they kno
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by acegopher 9y ago
Technically, it's not death rates that matter, but occurrence rates. Death rates could decline because of better treatment outcomes.
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by acegopher 10y ago
Globally there has been a lot of wage stagnation at the worker level. Anecdotally, a lot of folks in my social circle have traded working hours for salary. They used to work 50-60 hours for the same salary they are working 40 hours for now.
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by acegopher 10y ago
Why can you see the Instagram logo on Android if it doesn't support wide color?
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by acegopher 10y ago
Don't need the wayback machine, this is currently available here (and a great article): http://www.thebookoflife.org/how-we-end-up-marrying-the-wron...
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by acegopher 12y ago
The MOST exciting time will be when it hits 2147483647.
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by acegopher 12y ago
I remember having recently survived Y2K having to go through all our code and databases again before UNIX time went from 9 to 10 digits in September of 2001.
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by acegopher 12y ago
>What distinction are they trying to make between "free to play" and "free"? I think the distinction is that Android Platform is "free". The Unreal Tournament Platform is "free". Both give you usab
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by acegopher 13y ago
It's the same one referenced there, only non-obfuscated and commented. From the OP: An obfuscated version of 8086tiny (condensed into just 4043 bytes of C code) was a winner of the 2013 IOCCC contest. Significant interest followed for
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by acegopher 13y ago
Correct... my mistake, I put "+" when the original code was "*".
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by acegopher 13y ago
Right, the reason it won't ever emit F is because RND(1) will never return 1, it's implementation will return 0<=X<1, and INT() is a truncation, so INT(RND(1) + 15) will return an integer between 0 and 14. Adding one gives 1
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by acegopher 13y ago
If you are interested in a more "conventional" Forth chip, check out the J1[1]. It's 200 lines of verilog, so you can put it on an FPGA pretty easily. But it's even easier than that because the J1 is the basis of the Gam
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by acegopher 13y ago
I used an Xacto knife to create an extra notch in Commodore 64 5.25" disks back in the day so that I could take the single-sided disks and make them double-sided. I would take one disk flipped over the other, mark the notch with a perm
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by acegopher 13y ago
In the past three years I've seriously used Gnome 2, awesome, xmonad, XFCE, Openbox, KDE, and Gnome 3. For window managers without Desktop Environments I generally rolled my own, but used GNOME DE under xmonad. What got me started on a

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