benj111

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811.
by benj111 3y ago
It's the geek version of prepping. It isn't about taking prudent steps to cover yourself again likely scenarios. It's an excuse to put a flamethrower on you pickup / write you own software stack from scratch.
812.
by benj111 3y ago
I recommend people follow that link just to see the post at the bottom showing numbers being defined from nothing (well @sp, 0 also has to be defined)
813.
by benj111 3y ago
Movsb can move the data in one instruction so I don't see why it's 'unrealistic' I don't really get your objection. 512bytes is rather arbitrary, yes. But I don't see why it becomes less relevant when it's
814.
by benj111 3y ago
I provided an example to show they aren't 2 sides of the same coin.
815.
by benj111 3y ago
Well theres pointer dereferencing. I'm not sure if the int type actually does anything. It may just be Typeless, and there's no difference between an int and a pointer, if you want to treat an int as a pointer, you just dereferenc
816.
by benj111 3y ago
Why don't you just both preferentially use the ev? Yes there are some situations where you need both cars, but for the rest you could just use the ev? Not judging, genuine question.
817.
by benj111 3y ago
In the UK we 'technically' have a fuel duty escalator that goes up each year (I say technically because it's been overridden by the chancellor every year for the last decade). Anyway, I think that's a good idea for these
818.
by benj111 3y ago
If you had an ev, surely you would preferentially use that though, lower running costs etc. People don't make long journeys nearly as often as they think they do. So the biannual long trip would be balanced out by all the other journey
819.
by benj111 3y ago
No because farmers are rural, and live in their business. If you live in a rural area you need to drive more because less places are in walking distance, not that that means you can't use an ev, but you know 'people'.
820.
by benj111 3y ago
Or just remember what the U is USB actually stands for. We've been through the mutually incompatible plug standards. USB was introduced to solve that. Now we're back to mutually incompatible cable standards.
821.
by benj111 3y ago
You could apply that to everything. If I turn on (or keep on) my light when usage isn't completely covered by renewables, should that be calculated as using all fossil fuels? The logical extension is that everyone should calculate the
822.
by benj111 3y ago
Electricity demand has fallen by ~10% over the past decade while we've been introducing EVs and heat pumps and stuff. These things are all more efficient than the hydrocarbon equivalents, further depending on the measure, if you count
823.
by benj111 3y ago
: - not 1 + + ; Disclaimer: I've never written forth, so this may not be valid for any particular forth implementation.
824.
by benj111 3y ago
Well there are already forth chips, so forth still wins.
825.
by benj111 3y ago
F150s and the like are getting increasingly popular. When I see one actually carrying something in the back I'll let you know.
826.
by benj111 3y ago
Well they've stopped making the fiesta now, so there isn't a car version to actually buy.
827.
by benj111 3y ago
As you say, they're compound words. English is a mongrel of a language with more special cases than most of my code. But I don't think the silent k in kn is an example of that. Flammable/inflammable Foxes/oxen. Tomato&#x
828.
by benj111 3y ago
Ok. I used -1 as a short hand for 0b11111111(11111111(1111111111111111(11111111111111111111111111111111)))) Not doesn't rely on wrap around arithmetic. Wrap around arithmetic is only undefined for signed values. What platform doesn&#x2
829.
by benj111 3y ago
>If you can fix your car you have the skills to start on electronics! I'd like to think that this is a comment on the ease of fixing cars, rather than a comment about how fixing cars is basically embedded hardware/software dev.
830.
by benj111 3y ago
Slightly off topic, but why did 1 become the truthy value and not -1? Logical nots would then work. And youre still an inc/Dec away from the opposite.
831.
by benj111 3y ago
>pyknotic If you're coming up with words I have to Google, I'll stick with my "quite consistent"
832.
by benj111 3y ago
>cache, knowledge, repertoire Tbf English is quite consistent on 'kn' having a silent k. The other 2 are french imports.
833.
by benj111 3y ago
I don't think the mutation analogy really works. C of 40 years ago is nothing like modern c. Same for basic.
834.
by benj111 3y ago
I think youll find Assymetric is a measure of how much of an arse someone / something is. At my job, this is something we are measured on. ( I work in a call centre, for a government complaints dept)
835.
by benj111 3y ago
Why do you think we have multitasking os's? There's no other reason for being able to open multiple instances of a text editor.
836.
by benj111 3y ago
Settlers at least, had support for 2 mice back it the day.
837.
by benj111 3y ago
Depends on the car, my current car has a car sized blind spot.
838.
by benj111 3y ago
A criticism of lisps and forths is that users offer end up writing their own languages that no one else can understand. If everyone is using a different niche of the same language then you have the same problem.
839.
by benj111 3y ago
No but if this hypothetical instruction set doesn't even include shifts, it wouldn't be surprising if it missed other instructions.
840.
by benj111 3y ago
How are you defining free will. I have free will to eat the burger, or not. The biggest impacts on that decision are whether I like burgers and if I'm hungry. Whether I'm 'in the mood' is the only random component. And t

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