adamnew123456

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by adamnew123456 7mo ago
> Well, most architectures do not use plain jumps with implicit arguments for function calls, but have explicit call/ret or branch-with-link instructions. Anyone who wants to go deeper on this would be well served doing some reading
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by adamnew123456 11mo ago
> Languages for scientific computing like FORTRAN provided multiple floating point types such as REAL and DOUBLE PRECISION as well as INTEGER, often also in multiple sizes. This was to allow programmers to reduce program size and running
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by adamnew123456 2y ago
I would say less overuse of final, more underuse of interfaces. If everything takes/returns/stores values by interfaces (excluding data containers with no behavior) then you don't need to "jailbreak" any class to mo
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by adamnew123456 2y ago
No such luck :( Both the bt1.archive.org and b2.archive.org trackers appear to be down. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1814b8e2673e8a4547fd9c4f1a417b05860230b4&dn=MIT_Structure_of_Computer_Programs_1986&tr=http%3A%2F%2Fbt1.archive.org%3A6969%2
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by adamnew123456 2y ago
I seed a torrent of the SICP lectures that originally came from IA, I'll have to see if that's still up and if there's some way of getting the other torrents from the tracker. If you're lucky there's other seeds aro
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by adamnew123456 2y ago
They only have Windows binaries, but it's just Python 3 with Tkinter. Should work anywhere if you have a GUI-enabled Python (eg python3-tkinter).
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by adamnew123456 2y ago
> and the nucleus of an atom or neutron star has a density on the order of 4x10^17...if you can build the entire ship out of pure neutrons, you're still coming up short by a factor of ~100 Would you be getting into black hole territ
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by adamnew123456 3y ago
Have MS managed to figure out window snapping for WSLg yet? From what I've heard (maybe this is dated) there are a bunch of limitations that come from them using a primitive compositor for their Wayland setup. Xpra (or even a full X se
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by adamnew123456 3y ago
> GIMP will stall for 10-15 seconds at startup looking for XSANE plugins. Apparently it's calling some external server, bad in itself, and that external server is slow. Worse, this delay stalls out the entire GUI for both GIMP and o
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by adamnew123456 3y ago
Huh, my other pages don't have the same issue. I guess the search indexer must've died - I'll restart it in an hour or two. FWIW, the snapshot of c2 that this runs off of is somewhat dated ( https://archive.org&#x2F
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by adamnew123456 4y ago
You might find Chess960 interesting then. The starting position is randomized, with enough variations that memorizing an opening book no longer really helps. You have to start evaluating the board from move 1 in the same way that you do 20
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by adamnew123456 5y ago
> I think I’ve had more trouble with data loss from Evernote than those index cards, ironically… Plain text file and a text editor app, assuming rich content isn't a requirement. There are a million of them - personally, I've n
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by adamnew123456 5y ago
I looked into the equivalent setup for WSL a while ago. The thing I could never solve was: how to manage the hosts windows via the virtual environment's WM? Without the integration that setup is just extra config for no gain. Because i
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by adamnew123456 5y ago
In case anyone wants more detail on the internals: The initramfs is the first root filesystem a Linux system has but it resides entirely in RAM. It's initialized using an archive stored on disk, but after that point can be modified fre
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by adamnew123456 5y ago
It has to do with how long you expect a given dollar to live. Below a certain point a dollar doesn't persist very long since you're mostly living paycheck to paycheck. If you're spending most of what you earn, then what matte
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by adamnew123456 5y ago
> Maybe I'm going to piss many people off here, but vim is not an user-friendly text editor. An user friendly editor should pop some kind of prompt when I pressed the first g/G key and show me what I could press the next, not t
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by adamnew123456 5y ago
I've noticed a similar pattern at $JOB - we started doing a daily "WFH status call" in early April last year. There was nothing like it previously, just a weekly report on important bugs, support items, etc. that we worked on
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by adamnew123456 5y ago
> No way to get around it. Well...none of them are particularly easy, compared to punching holes in your local firewall. CGNAT takes you one step closer to digital serfdom (all hail our managed lords!) That said, I'd say IPv6 would
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by adamnew123456 5y ago
Not PS/Office (more of a dev workflow - VS, Intellij, DB admin tools), but I've personally found that straight KVM with the default virtual hardware is good enough. The last big adjustment I made was getting a dedicated SSD for th
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by adamnew123456 5y ago
I personally have no desire to use it outside of Windows, but Powershell fixes all there things if you're so inclined: > flags are inconsistent At least among the core command set, there is a set of "core flags" like -Erro
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by adamnew123456 5y ago
You're thinking of /dev/dsp, which was an OSS thing before the move to ALSA. It still exists on the BSDs AFAIR but has to be emulated on modern Linux: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/103746/
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by adamnew123456 5y ago
I guess that's where the What If blog went, it hasn't been updated for a while now. No timestamps on the last post but wiki says he started writing this column for NYT late 2019, which feels about right. https://what-if
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by adamnew123456 5y ago
I guess I'll be the one to make the obligatory "magit is awesome and if you use Emacs you should definitely check it out" comment. Other that being horribly slow on Windows I can't think of any downsides. Aside from the
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by adamnew123456 6y ago
Seeing the ShadySIM project mentioned on that page reminded me of this DEFCON talk, which talks about some of the capabilities of the SIM OS (some of them run Java!) and what power they grant you over phones if you have control over the und
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by adamnew123456 6y ago
> That's madness - I can't imagine why they'd do that. I think your confusion is in assuming that this is something you do rather than it being the status quo that receives no attention. Up until recently I had about $80
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by adamnew123456 6y ago
Agreed. I find it easier to interact with people in service situations if they're responsible for the whole experience. The point of going to a restaurant or a barbershop or getting take-out is that you're leaving the whole proces
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by adamnew123456 6y ago
> Even on a mostly non-algorithmic feed like Reddit, the highest upvoted comments on popular subs always feature an extremely predictable response, like a dad joke, followed by similarly predictable sub-comments written solely to garner
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by adamnew123456 6y ago
A sibling comment mentioned Sway, and I've also used this on both Fluxbox and i3. I would be surprised if Awesome didn't have it as well. The only problem is that (at least in Fluxbox's case) it suffers from poor discoverabil
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by adamnew123456 6y ago
I'm not sure fad is the right descriptor here. Unix WMs have had virtual desktops since the 90s (80s?), MacOS got them around 2006 and Windows in 2015. Use by the non-initiated may not be that high, but that shouldn't be surprisin
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by adamnew123456 6y ago
The Advent of Computing [1] podcast recently put out their episode 47 which I think provides a sort-of explanation of this line of thinking. The short answer is that the context in which Emacs was originally developed (a contemporary of Uni

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