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anikom15
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anikom15
4y ago
Pedestrians have right-of-way everywhere in the United States.
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4y ago
The best programmers are the ones who can solve problems without writing a single line of code.
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5y ago
It’s far older than that. The reputation existed since at least the Pinto fires.
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6y ago
C is a good language for solo projects because of it’s simplicity. By simplicity, I mean understanding what it’s doing under the hood. ‘Portable assembly’ is not an unfitting title. Big C projects work well when they are carefully maintaine
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6y ago
I’m not sure if it was the original purpose of C, or of it’s what made C popular, but compared to BASIC, processing strings in C was much faster.
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6y ago
What’s scary is programmers assuming any function as being safe. C programmers don’t trust anything, and they’re better programmers for it.
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6y ago
That’s what I thought. Just wanted to make sure (I’ve spent a lot of time modeling analog TV systems). Maybe some of the later decoder chips in the late 80s and onward operated digitally but haven’t looked into it too much.
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6y ago
It’s because most ‘subwoofers’ are glorified fart boxes that have terrible harmonics, coupled with the fact that placing a subwoofer in the wrong spot can create poor room frequency response. Two subwoofers is preferred. Four subwoofers is
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6y ago
Did analog TVs have quantization noise?