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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Etymology says that "interpreter" is made of "inter-" (between) and "-pretium" (price, value, worth, merit). So an interpret is a middle man/woman whose merit is to help people communicate, I guess. For in
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
If you want neither Minicom nor Screen, and Socat is a bit too minimal, there is dterm[1] [1] http://www.knossos.net.nz/resources/free-software/dterm
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
We have the exact same situation in Europe: if you some of the many words English inherited from French, they are written exactly the same, have exactly the same meaning, but are pronounced in a very different way.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
More energy means more heat. You don't want to walk fast and arrive all sweaty and out-of-breath at a shop or a meeting etc.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
> The reason why the web exploded was because ... Depends on which big bang you talk about. Gopher lost to HTML because Gopher was TUI-oriented when HTML was GUI-oriented. And Gopher lost a second time when Web 2.0 (JS expansion) occurre
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
An ARM SoC chip has a lot of stuff inside: it has USART(s), SPI controller(s), I2C controller(s), SDRAM controller, sometimes LCD controller, USB controller, ethernet controller, a crypto coprocessor, graphic acceleration... Of which you on
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
The material difference is that this editor is an order of magnitude smaller than a browser. Sure, you can go "we have plenty of RAM/storage/battery these days", but consuming 10x more of every resource you can think of
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Yes, and there is no reason you can't have a cow as a pet because they have pointy ears and a tail, like cats. It seems you've lost your way, my friend.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
"Own your data" maybe is not the right term. What is needed here is that your data does not vanish because the hosting service goes down or under or terminates your account. Maybe things like Mediagoblin or IPFS could do that job.
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
> With things like game programming the worst that can happen is your game is slow or buggy or laggy but usually you’re not exposing it to the huge, often malicious audience Not my domain of expertise, but cheating and lags in online rea
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
It is indeed this GR. I might be misinterpreting the result, but "Systemd but we support exploring alternatives" means, to me, that there is some unhappiness here. To begin with, I believe the GR would not have happened if there w
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by astrobe_ 6y ago
Debian also ran a poll a few months ago in order to reevaluate that choice, at least partially. Quite the hint that all is not jimmy-dandy. As a programmer in embedded, Systemd feels like it solves problems we didn't have, and introduc
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Climbing the abstraction ladder does not lead to Heaven. Rather to Noah's ark, according to the law of leaky abstractions. Java has this reputation of being a lot of boilerplate code, and indeed when you compare it to Forth code this i
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
> But if you _do_ reuse connections, or use something like QUIC, then you can get better performance I don't have opinions about the rest, but this is a good point. With text-only I think one could easily slurp a whole Gemini site i
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Did someone also pointed out that CRLF is a pointless Microsoftian archaism? There's no need anymore to use two characters to mark the end of a line.
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Yes, but it won't happen. It is stupidly expensive and if you leave mild criminals nowhere to go they will destroy the CCTVs (happens a lot with speed cameras, and that's just normal angry drivers).
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
1 = 0.9... is the consequence of purposely ambiguous and questionable notation. That's an old teachers' trick to make students talk and listen about mathematics.
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
That's utterly broken logic. If you are doing well with a missing finger on your right hand, certainly it won't bother you if we chop the same finger of your left hand ?
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
If my memory serve, we are talking about a government that would love to kill or backdoor crypto - all in the name of "stop the terrorists" and "protect the children", arguments that are also about saving lives. People w
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Ask the person to turn their head left and right. Or to put on glasses. Combine simple tests like this and it becomes exponentially more complex for the gadget to pass them.
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
That's deliberate. The saying "a picture is better than a thousand words" doesn't apply when the picture is 16x16 pixels. Every single icon that makes sense to you now (the floppy disk, the binoculars...) do so because y
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Two 2D Images. The brain doesn't have to guess much when it can use the parallax effect created by both eyes. That's why quite a few animals have two eyes. And I believe that's why we have two ears, too.
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
I learned Forth by myself with Pygmy Forth (no Internet, no book, just the docs of that system) when I was 15 or so. It was my third language after Basic and assembler. I believe that the challenge of Forth is not to learn it, but to unlear
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
He is retired, but he still mess with computers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SASQMl0rvYg The sound is terrible at the beginning, it gets a little bit better later on. You can watch his demo if you want more details: ht
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Well, if you insist, sure, but social networks are focused on people while forums are focused on topics (news article etc.). The difference is significant enough that some people may post on various forums all day long but never on Twitter
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
There is an older paper by Anton Erl that already showing variations in performances for the same implementation technique from one generation of Pentium to another and of course between AMD and Intel. Personally, I stopped worrying and use
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
The kids of today would probably much more interested in doing something fun with their smartphones than doing something on a fatass PC. A smartphone is actually much more interesting than a computer, when you look at it (camera, microphone
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Incidentally, I always though that in animes it is often a big deal for a character to catch "a cold" because plot ; unless their cold are actually more aggressive than western colds (or flues)? I wonder more and more which one i
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
Probably it takes a lot of experience to use both correctly. If we are talking about a small programs, no threads, no chances of reuse (no modularity) - in other words "Keep It Simple and Stupid" - then it is fine. But KISS is dif
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by astrobe_ 7y ago
The forms are in open access, anyone can fill one form, so they surely did consider variations in accuracy (if not plain sabotage). They are probably submitting the same data to multiple people and the cross-checking the submissions. Also,

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