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by adrian_b 5mo ago
See another comment that quotes TFA, where what Jef says shows that Canon Cat was not at all "along the lines of his original vision" for the Mackintosh project. He says that his Mackintosh was also intended to have a graphic di
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
In TFA, Jef Raskin claims that the story about the mouse is not entirely correct: JR: No. I designed it to be graphical from the ground up. But the text portions of the interface, which I also cared about, would have been cleaner. People ha
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
This is exactly the theory of the RISC and VLIW processors, which replaced, respectively, the vertical microprograms and the horizontal microprograms stored in ROMs, which were used in the processors of the seventies, with normal programs w
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Denormal processing is slow only on certain CPUs, where the designers have been lazy, so when denormals are encountered that is handled by a microprogrammed sequence. During the last half of century there have been plenty of CPUs where deno
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
It is not correct because it does not implement the FP arithmetic standard and this can lead to much greater numerical errors than expected. NVIDIA is not responsible alone, because the Microsoft DirectX specification includes the non-stand
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
That "freeware" is not a marketing gimmick. Because AMD (formerly Xilinx) does not provide complete technical documentation for their FPGAs, the only way for using the products that you buy from AMD is that "freeware". T
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Like I have said, in a browser there should not exist truly modal windows. The cases when modal windows are used abusively are far more numerous than the cases when they are useful. Perhaps there should be a way to warn the user when moving
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Unlike TFA, the corresponding research article is open-access: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady2486
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
I agree that it is not a fault of the tool, but of the human who must have used it improperly. However, rsync is one of those applications where correctness has an extreme importance. If it fails completely, that is still not so bad, but an
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
For me the fact that dickovers are possible is a bug in all JavaScript interpreters. In my opinion, any decent browser should make impossible both dickovers and also other related hostile actions, like the possibility for a Web page to modi
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
While there are also other reasons for the great progress of USSR under Stalin, it is likely that the most important cause was provided by the benefits that USSR got from being among the victors of WWII. After the war, USSR incorporated tot
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
The failed competitor for Saturn V: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket)
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
In its most widespread sense, "purple" is not a part of the spectrum. Normally "purple" is used for colors that are equivalent with a mixture of red and blue, so that none of the spectral colors can match that mixture. &
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
You are delusional if you believe that you can distinguish AI-generated texts from human-generated texts, because obviously you can't.
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Wars have accelerated technology for 2 reasons. The first is that the governments were willing to allocate vast amounts of money and resources for the development of new materials that would give them advantages over the opponents. During n
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
That does not mean much unless the dose is specified. Any vitamin will cause diseases in high enough doses, the problem is that for most of them, like also for most other essential nutrients, the safe upper limits of daily intake are known
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
There was recently some announcement from the US govt itself (after the Mythos announcement) that they were pondering about allowing model releases from now on only after approving them. So it may not be strictly true for the moment, but it
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
The earlier Microsoft compilers included since 1985 the debugger CodeView, which could do all that and much more. Around 1990, the development tools offered by Borland and Microsoft for C and C++ were pretty much equivalent and they both we
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
The first use in computing of the word "heap", which refers to a data structure used for priority queues or for sorting, i.e. a kind of binary tree, was in an article published in June 1964, about the algorithm "Heapsort&quot
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Not in theory, but in reality. Of course, nowadays there is little resemblance between portage and the FreeBSD ports, after a few decades of separate evolution. When I switched to Gentoo (in 2003), among the Linux distributions (after previ
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
I do not agree with this. Here the guilty part is POSIX, not bash. Most bashisms are very old and they come from ksh. Bash has added very few features beyond what was already quasi-standard in UNIX shells. POSIX has standardized a shell var
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
> I've been using Gentoo since 2003, and I don't really plan on changing any time soon... Exactly the same is true for me.
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
The conclusion "open models are roughly 8-10 months behind the closed frontier" is presented without adequate evidence. Most of the open models that have been benchmarked are old, e.g. 6 months or more older than the latest open w
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
All CPUs from all vendors have tons of bugs like this, which are mitigated in the operating system kernels, e.g. in the Linux kernel. I am pretty certain that the Linux kernel must also contain specific code for various quirks of all Arm CP
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
I agree with what you say, but "Never was" is contradicted by your Wikipedia link, which shows Ukrainians in the second position at the 1926 census, being overtaken by Tatars in the more recent censuses. However, it is not said wh
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
I call that completely BS. Of course, if you make a statistics over a very large number of people, then you will get that on average the older people will be more conservative and less likely to come with revolutionary theories. The problem
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
For me, "clanker" sounds funny, not derogatory. In the same way, for me "meatbag" sounds too funny to be an insult. On the other hand "robot" sounds derogatory for me, as it etymologically suggests a slave who
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Any UNIX-derived operating system has some kind of command-line utility for sending email messages (named mailx or mail or Mail). I do not remember if I have ever used the GNU mail program that is available on Linux, but my e-mail server is
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Inside a vacuum chamber cooled at very low temperatures, they move a scanning tunneling microscopy probe over the surface of a silicon wafer, and with it, in the locations that they choose, they can build some carbon atom structures attache
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by adrian_b 5mo ago
Among the constructed languages that I have seen, I believe that Interlingua was the closest to how a language that could replace English as the international language should be. I disagree with some grammatical choices made for Interlingua

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