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by anyfoo 2y ago
720x350 for the pervasive 80x25 text mode actually (a resolution which wasn’t commonly used at that time for graphics modes otherwise). I’ve mentioned in another comment what I think may be missing for it to look right. And I’m not really b
572.
by anyfoo 2y ago
I think it's much more than that. It's also scanlines, and more generally how a pixel looks when it's represented by electrons hitting the phosphor through a shadow mask. Even when a shadow mask is made up of holes, not slits
573.
by anyfoo 2y ago
I know, very familiar with that one, and still, it's not the same.
574.
by anyfoo 2y ago
You can't control what information flows through an outbound connection, not even in trivial cases. Even if you straight go ahead and say "I allow you to make this connection, but I'm not even allowing you to send any data&qu
575.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Getting that change onto the system sounds like "at best a big delay and at worst a nonstarter".
576.
by anyfoo 2y ago
They never look right. It's not just the fact that it should be 9x16 instead of 8x16, or that sometimes (often?) the aspect ratio is off, it's something fundamental about how that 9x16 VGA font was rendered on CRTs. A really good
577.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Yeah, I know that feeling well. The day after completing a massive thing, I'm super happy to have a zero day, and just enjoy the feeling of having accomplished something big. Other days, not so much.
578.
by anyfoo 2y ago
I would be very surprised though if the people who actually implement the control systems (as in doing the hard math) don't use radians, though. Is that really not the case? Using degrees just seems like unnecessary extra steps when de
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by anyfoo 2y ago
It's never a compiler bug, and it's definitely never a CPU bug. Unless you're a low level kernel developer, then it's both! (Jokes aside, it's still much, much more often not than it is, but it definitely does happe
580.
by anyfoo 2y ago
That's a big assumption. Alyssa may very well not spend all her walking time writing code (setting aside the implication that writing code is not "enjoyable" for now). Feynman was a very successful physicist. A nobel price me
581.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Fair, I was mostly thinking electrical engineering and similar. For civil engineering, I'm curious what is common. As soon as you have Fourier and/or Laplace Transforms, you will most likely end up using radians, and are these not
582.
by anyfoo 2y ago
In math and engineering, in which context this is, he's absolutely right.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I don't think b) is realistic at all. They're just using scare tactics. https://help.apple.com/pdf/security/en_US/apple-platform-sec...
584.
by anyfoo 2y ago
I personally think "user retention" is a harmless sounding euphemism for induced addiction.
585.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Ugh, I mixed it up with Kyouto, thanks. (ou instead ō however is just as legal as oe is for ö in German.)
586.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Do you write Iulius Caesar or Julius Caesar? Same writing system (or rather, it even originated there). Generally, even without the counterexample, you just postulated an arbitrary, somewhat contrived rule. "Cities can have different n
587.
by anyfoo 2y ago
In Japan, you never see the “Tokyo” spelling. And that’s not just because of romanization, the romanized word is “Toukyo”. I’m German, by the way.
588.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Are you writing Tokyo, or Toukyo, as the literal romanization from the Japanese word would be? Wait, why are you using the Latin alphabet at all, when the official Japanese spelling is 東京? Just because English and German share a common spel
589.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Sorry, I mistranslated “clock” (hence why I differentiated “wristwatch” in the sentence before). We owned a Funkuhr-Wecker in the 80s, so, an alarm clock synchronizing to DCF77, in the 80s. The wristwatches came a bit later, yeah (not that
590.
by anyfoo 2y ago
I don’t think anybody at that time could have built a laser emitter, even. Not sure why you would want to, to solve that problem, even today. I feel like the point of my question was lost.
591.
by anyfoo 2y ago
We could argue about that, but let me rephrase then: What technology that you can neither touch, nor that buzzes in airwaves, could they have used to solve this problem back then?
592.
by anyfoo 2y ago
I can touch microprocessors, and lasers are buzzing in airwaves. It’s the same electromagnetic radiation as what we know as radio, just at much, much higher frequencies. But this was asked in the context of solving this problem, in the 1950
593.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Relays maybe? EDIT: Not sure why I was downvoted. Relays seem like period-accurate technology (happy to be corrected), and they’re comparably slow.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I stand corrected, it seems to indeed have been the US Navy that pioneered time signals. France followed up a few years later. I don’t know who had the first system accessible to civilians, but at this point we’d just be arguing details.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
> I’m not particularly patriotic, but this kind of thing feels particularly American. ??? America has no doubt done some very remarkable things (the moon landing, the first backward compatible color TV standard), but I don't think t
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by anyfoo 2y ago
> OK, change FUSE to SPDK, you get your userspace VFS layer: https://github.com/Saltflow/spdk_blob_top_fs I am not familiar with this project. It looks to be a VFS-like framework for userspace? If so, I don't s
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by anyfoo 2y ago
No, the difference is in what parts of the OS are in what privilege level and address space, and how they communicate with each other. It has nothing to do with the shape of teams building them. If someone is building a filesystem or a netw
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Those things are completely orthogonal. A microkernel can arbitrarily restrict what user servers are viable (for example just the ones it ships with), just like a monolithic kernel can arbitrarily restrict what loadable kernel modules are v
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I am addressing the “why” that you both claim. The person I replied to said, I quote: > A distributed project encourages fiefdoms, a centralized one asks for a taskmaster with final say. What does the distinction between microkernel and
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Again, what is the difference between a microkernel and a monolithic kernel, and why does it influence the politics of development? And, again, why does a monolithic kernel imply “central control” in development, over a microkernel?

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