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by amiga386 2mo ago
> Wait, why would interned immutable strings require more instructions when doing regular string access? Java automatically interns static strings (e.g. from class files), but does not automatically intern dynamically-allocated strings,
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by amiga386 2mo ago
That's not how copyright works. There is no "use it or lose it". You legally retain control of licensing for copying and distribution, including derivative works (samples) for the full copyright duration. In this case, it&#x2
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by amiga386 2mo ago
Alternatively, https://www.diffordsguide.com/ run by Simon Difford
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by amiga386 2mo ago
https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/07/10/you-cant-fully-disa...
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by amiga386 2mo ago
What such a hat looks like: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_beaver_hat_-_D...
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by amiga386 2mo ago
Tell that to entire towns and villages of unemployed weavers. Ultimately, the factory owners asked their rich and powerful friends in government to help them out, and they started having show trials and executing anyone who impinged on fact
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by amiga386 2mo ago
Post WW2, the US set up some fantastic levers of power that let it establish and maintain its hegemony at arms length: the United Nations and the UNSC. NATO. The petrodollar. Pax Americana could've gone on forever. However, those lever
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by amiga386 2mo ago
In case anyone wondering what the "famous" MOVEP instruction does, this: MOVE.L #$AABBCCDD,D0 MOVEP.L D0,(A0) Writes to the 8 bytes pointed at by A0 in this format: AA xx BB xx CC xx DD xx Where xx are bytes
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by amiga386 2mo ago
I'm sure the effort is good, but the article is not. It reads like breathless corporate crap. It also doesn't have any video of this FMV, though what I see in the HTML source is an attempt to use a third-party site to embed youtub
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by amiga386 2mo ago
Actually, it's an apt label because the machine looms were brought in by factory owners so they could employ less skilled operators who commanded a much lower wage, and the factory owners pocketed the difference. Skilled weavers were u
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by amiga386 3mo ago
Feynman's quote is distinguishing knowledge of the thing itself (e.g. its behaviour, properties) which he thinks is useful, from ontological knowledge (naming and categorising) which he cares less about. As a physicist he only had to r
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by amiga386 3mo ago
A much clearer article from yesterday on making casefolding 15x faster by removing an if: https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/do... Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by amiga386 3mo ago
This is true, but the example given yesterday showed that even if branches can be very well predicted (e.g. processing UTF-8 text which is 99.9999% ASCII), branchless code can result in speedup by making autovectorisation possible. If the b
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by amiga386 3mo ago
I don't think it's a real problem. It's a way that one group of humans agreed to label things, and that way is the currently dominant way. Even the agreed rules (whoever publishes first gets dibs on the name) are just an ince
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by amiga386 3mo ago
There was also AMP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Mobile_Pages ), where Google gave a huge reputation boost to your pages provided you served them under a different URL that Google could discover, and you ma
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by amiga386 3mo ago
Nothing's out there! Well there must be something out there. There is nothing out there - all there is is sea and birds and fish. And? And 20,000 tons of crude oil. And what else? And fire. And anyt
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by amiga386 3mo ago
On the downside, millions wrongly killed, imprisoned, fined, families torn apart. On the upside, think how good that Falsehoods Programmers Believe About DNA article will be.
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by amiga386 3mo ago
Don't forget the reverse. If your DNA's an insufficient match to your children, they take your kids away. https://womenherald.com/health/the-chimerism-case-how-lydia-...
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by amiga386 3mo ago
If you want to know what it's like to program for RISC OS: https://www.riscos.com/support/developers/prm/
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by amiga386 3mo ago
The canonical criticism is Old Man Murray's Death of Adventure Games describing one mad puzzle in Gabriel Knight 3 (1999) with an improbable solution which admits no simpler or more logical solutions. Not to pick on it, because the a
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by amiga386 3mo ago
> My skills with a sword are highly venerated! > Too bad they're all fabricated.
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by amiga386 3mo ago
Please let it not be meta. Please oh please oh please. Thimbleweek Park 1 was nothing but meta. Return to Monkey Island was corpo art and meta. "The real treasure was the friends you made along the way, computer game player". Than
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by amiga386 3mo ago
English compound nouns can be open, hyphenated or closed. What is acceptable usage changes over time. Some say that compound nouns "harden", e.g "file name" became "file-name" became "filename", and t
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by amiga386 3mo ago
writes "demoscene" all across the scene ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ Which scene is that? Is it the scene about demos? A "demo" "scene" if you will? "demoscene" comes from dem
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by amiga386 3mo ago
> When a copy was finished (which could take some time), the program helpfully played a little "boing" sound. And how that "boing" sound worked is interesting in itself. It's one of the few uses of Paula's &
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by amiga386 3mo ago
It can be either. In the demoscene, sceners just call it the scene . They also like to agglutinate words, e.g. copyparty , sizecoding and so on. You can split or join the word if you like.
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by amiga386 3mo ago
So OpenAI and their models are like Rod Hull and Emu? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kek1vs6bM2k
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by amiga386 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Escapist_(magazine) > Enthusiast Gaming sold the website to Gamurs Group in September 2022. [...] The entire video team, including Croshaw, resigned to form an employee-owned outlet
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by amiga386 3mo ago
OK, but you to admit "largely replace bash with the Python REPL" is something of a stretch. I didn't read the list of languages given by the earlier poster as specific list, I read them as "<list of random programming
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by amiga386 3mo ago
I put it to you that a "shell" that does not natively run the executable programs you type is a non-starter as a shell. I would be ready for the window if I had to type import subprocess; p = subprocess.run(args=["curl&

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