albanread

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by albanread 5y ago
People should zoom right out and think about the whole RISC-V project. When our phones have billions of transistors, are we seriously supposed to believe that RISC philosophy still matters. Personally I greatly prefer the user programmable
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by albanread 5y ago
"Every M1 Mac .. due .. for .. refresh .. " Great, I look forward to Apple sending me an M2 to put into the CPU socket, or will it be a download to reconfigure my M1 into an M2.
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by albanread 5y ago
Back in the day I joined evening classes just to get access to the technical college library. Reading books was a thing then. I do see some value in erasing human history and starting again. We have been so comprehensively vile to each othe
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by albanread 5y ago
If anyone was serious about democracy they would give tax payers the option to select the services they are willing to pay towards. Tick the box to pay towards a new Aircraft Carrier, a new Hospital, Vaccines, Making viruses more deadly etc
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by albanread 5y ago
I think the message of They Live; is that our rulers complete lack of empathy for ordinary people means they might as well be aliens. Also I don't think it was a vision of the future; it was about society at the time.
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by albanread 5y ago
If Microsoft were a person; they would be a rich, lucky, lazy, easily distracted person who takes zero pride in their work, content to leave inconsistent garbage littering a product used by hundreds of millions because they are just too bor
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by albanread 5y ago
There was a short story where children were put behind a wall and brought up to believe that magic was real; at some point it started to work for them.
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by albanread 5y ago
I think the concept has been explored quite widely. Indicators might be that groups of physicists believe in new tiny particles and then discover them. Depending on how powerful the effect is; it might have interesting implications. Conside
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by albanread 5y ago
You are right and it is a useful thing to know. There is a commercial license to help encourage the big well funded customers to pay for the tools they need to compile millions of lines of company confidential ADA. And a license for only op
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by albanread 6y ago
Any chance the UK can get a refund then? "Before the end of this decade, the F-35 Lightning will provide the ultimate punch of the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers. The F-35 is an Anglo-American joint effort, design
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by albanread 6y ago
I can confirm for you; that there is no rational reason to assume the authors own MacBook is a new M1 system.
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by albanread 6y ago
In contrast we have Americans, a people who would never cheat - and perhaps do not even understand cheating as a concept. It must be grand to live in such a country that has no need for laws, police, judges or prisons.
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by albanread 6y ago
I agree we all learn by example; and by copying. I remember in the 1970s people used to say that the Japanese could only copy the west; they couldn't create things of their own; their culture or even their different brains prevented th
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by albanread 6y ago
As an alternative to ending free speech for everyone; perhaps users should have to pass a course on critical thinking; before being allowed to use twitter.
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by albanread 6y ago
I think we would want to visit them; and that's the reason we hope they might like to visit us. And we hope there is some easy shortcut through space; that we might figure out in the next few centuries; so we can visit people while we
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by albanread 6y ago
The current iMac design is really great; there is nothing wrong with bezels on a desktop monitor, what harm do they do? The chin is a good place for the apple logo, it also raises the screen so you don't need a stupidly tall looking wo
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by albanread 6y ago
Try taking a picture of a fast moving object in the sky with your phones camera, it is quite hard to do; even at an air-show where they all line up for you.
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by albanread 6y ago
I seem to remember that when programming this OS; your app was responsible for almost everything; including things like animating the close button when you detected a user clicked on it; and also the slightest mistake you made would crash t
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by albanread 6y ago
I think the author underestimates how much this changes things. Assuming we know for certain there is no free will; the way we treat bad behaviour should change - people who behave badly should simply be retrained. There should be no punish
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by albanread 6y ago
It really was the original RISC in a personal computer; you could actually buy one (especially in the UK); and run it at home; the others were things that lived in computer rooms and drove green screen terminals.
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by albanread 6y ago
"The entire reason palaeontologists make that split is because of a catastrophe that struck 66 million years ago." True; also the reason we have human people reading websites is partly due to the same catastrophe.
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by albanread 7y ago
I miss it too; Pascal (Delphi) used to be one of my favourite compilers; until Dennis in tech support refused to reset my version 10.2 license registration limit the other day.. Time to move on I guess.
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by albanread 7y ago
I think we search for possible explanations of our own very good luck that you outlined above; and partly this search is due to the way our own brains work; we believe there must be a reason; so make up stories.
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by albanread 7y ago
I agree; and this is why there is not one jot of extra risk in exploring and testing; our simulation could be shut down at any time for some incomprehensible and arbitrary reason; so lets just enjoy reality while it is still there. For all
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by albanread 7y ago
Or that Zeus had sometimes turned up and spoken to them.
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by albanread 7y ago
This seems worse than classic religion; we seek not just to believe the universe is a creative thought in Gods mind; we also plan to discover how Gods mind actually works; and look for flaws in creation. lets wish ourselves luck with that.
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by albanread 7y ago
I also thought about Dylan when I heard of this racket direction; and took another look at it; Open Dylan has tremendous documentation (a very enjoyable read.) The compiler has been updated relatively recently to use LLVM; the command line
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by albanread 7y ago
This language should be called `Visual Difficult` since it seems to offload memory management to the human; while the compiler aggressively critiques them. It is safe though; as in fool proof.
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by albanread 7y ago
I am staying subscribed; I don't have the spare time to watch all of their shows; so getting bored of it; is not a problem; I like that they don't have adverts; and you can just play what you choose when you do have the time. This