ahefner

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by ahefner 5y ago
I'm sorry, but "some rando"?
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by ahefner 5y ago
Not sure about that. $15 per bottle gives a winemaker enough rope to hang themselves manipulating the flavor in an attempt to appeal to some idea of mainstream tastes and ending up with the wine equivalent of botched plastic surgery. I&#x27
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by ahefner 5y ago
That's neat. There's lots of interesting circuit simulators on the web now, but has anyone ever seen a toy/simple simulator for VLSI devices? Something where you could draw in metal/poly/whatever layers to create an
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by ahefner 5y ago
I'm not sure that qualifies as halfway (or even remotely) plausible, but with sufficient pipelining (tens of thousands of optical printers with parallel IO hardware and an equal number of people developing slides and loading them up),
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by ahefner 5y ago
The irony of the pinball TILT sensor, at least in my personal experience, is that if you don't understand what the "TILT!" indicator on the backboard means - which childhood me and my aunt, trying to play a game of pinball in
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by ahefner 5y ago
An even better arrangement is a Magic Trackpad on the left (or non-primary) hand for scrolling and gestures, combined with any comfortable vanilla (almost certainly non-Apple) mouse on your primary hand for pointing/clicking/dragg
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by ahefner 5y ago
Is there a reason you believe FreeDOS interrupt latency would be inferior to MS-DOS? (I can certainly imagine virtual 8086 mode / emm386-style shenanigans, varying with configuration and what's loaded in your config.sys, but this
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by ahefner 5y ago
If there's anything halfway plausible that could've been connected directly to the Cray, this is a golden opportunity for someone to write the first demo on an exceptionally historic platform. Good luck ever seeing it running on r
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by ahefner 5y ago
What's the deal with these wiki sites that seem to consist entirely of user generated content, but absolutely bury it under mountains of ads? How do these places exist, and why do people continue to contribute to them?
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by ahefner 5y ago
Contrasting the tiny fanless AppleTV boxes with the comically over-sized messes that are the most recent console generation, these products are a galaxy apart.
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by ahefner 5y ago
Apropos of nothing, but I really wish grocery store discount cards were illegal, even though taking a usually anti-government / authority stance I find it really hard to justify as a law. It's completely ridiculous how every major
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by ahefner 5y ago
CPUs can and do have UB in the instruction specifications. x86 definitely does.
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by ahefner 5y ago
It may be a misreading, but not an intentional misrepresentation. I suppose it depends on how you interpret the term "exploitation". Most frequently this is used implying some harm is being done to the exploited party. My comment
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by ahefner 5y ago
Paying people for work and enabling them to earn a living constitutes exploitation?
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by ahefner 5y ago
I'm a little baffled how "licenses" for instruction sets became a thing. Old CPUs, anyone could clone them or write emulators for them. There's nothing particularly novel about an instruction set encoding, even if you ha
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by ahefner 5y ago
The funny thing to me is that you can't always even pay money to the government itself without involving some middleman parasite that takes 1 or 2% for themselves.
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by ahefner 5y ago
I'm very concerned about these and similar (e.g., recent New York) sort of dictates that place large populations at the sole mercy of the electrical grid with no robust backup. If the electricity goes out - recalling recent events in T
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by ahefner 5y ago
Exactly.
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by ahefner 5y ago
I don't get it either. The 2D APIs used for font rendering built into every window system (xrender, etc.) are already hardware accelerated and more than fast enough. Going to OpenGL or whatever this uses just seems ridiculous. There&#x
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by ahefner 5y ago
Also random old lisp stuff.
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by ahefner 5y ago
You can try, but so many games have been released half-finished, never subsequently completed via patches, and as a result sunk their studio and the whole franchise they were a part of. Games that should have become classics instead remain
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by ahefner 5y ago
I think very much this. I've known Lisp for a longish time now (even used it at work on occasion) but never considered to seek out a "Lisp job" because language choice is far from the most important criteria in a job. At the
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by ahefner 5y ago
Is the state so large that it's worth the effort sending diffs rather than the whole state? Being a bit of contrarian, and not a front end person, I'm inclined to believe that you could do the DOM manipulations pretty easily in pl
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by ahefner 5y ago
I'd be interested to see that benchmark. A ~3 GHz Pentium 4 sounds like a good reference point for single threaded performance since it's a reasonably modern OoO microarchitecture and reflects the moment that clock scaling stopped
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by ahefner 5y ago
Should be illegal. How much to purchase the browsing histories of some US congressmen and senators?
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by ahefner 5y ago
My traditional setup is Sawfish. No desktop environment, just Sawfish, xterm, emacs, and a browser. I still run this today on a Debian desktop at home and a RHEL VM at work. Occasionally I swap Sawfish for StumpWM (I have an old X220 around
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by ahefner 5y ago
I'm sometimes believe that full general purpose embracing of unicode for text, with no clean distinction between "machine-friendly" text versus "for human" natural language text (in every script since the dawn of ti
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by ahefner 5y ago
How so? SX was always the crappy version.
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by ahefner 5y ago
The really weird thing is that I have an older iMac that seems to be powered on constantly (albeit with the screen off - I don't understand why) and also an M1 Macbook Air which does genuinely go to sleep with the lid closed. I seldom
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by ahefner 5y ago
Start your Python REPL, do your interactive development, measure your average time before aborting and reloading the python instance. How much time elapses? Minutes? Hours? When I've done Common Lisp heavily, I've lived in the sam

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