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by benttoothpaste 6y ago
Technically it’s supposed to be a USB toaster. Not sure how practical such a device could be.
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by benttoothpaste 6y ago
Well it can still be true that FreeBSD runs Linux binaries better than its own native binaries, though I don’t think this is the case.
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by benttoothpaste 6y ago
For me it’s x2x. It’s painful to think how many useful tools Wayland is deprecating.
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by benttoothpaste 6y ago
Now we just need a Sosumi Flatpak...
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by benttoothpaste 6y ago
I no longer remember the numbers but the speed ups were measurable. That FPU had 24 FP registers (as compared to 8 in a regular 287). The best case would be to load a matrix to the registers and then have a bunch of vectors to multiply the
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by benttoothpaste 6y ago
I remember using povray too. Officially it required a 386 pc but it could be recompiled for 286, which is what I did. My PC had a IIT 2c87 coprocessor that had special 4x4 matrix multiply instructions, so of course I modified povray to take
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by benttoothpaste 6y ago
I found Qt (GUI) to be fairly easy to learn. It does OpenGL as well: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtgui-openglwindow-example.html
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by benttoothpaste 6y ago
> I was ready to return the device as broken until I realized this. Actually you probably should return such devices as broken.
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by benttoothpaste 6y ago
Zx Spectrum was actually less confusing because it required LET before variable assignment.
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by benttoothpaste 6y ago
What we need is CMakeCMake. A special CMake for building CMake rules with its own special meta-language.
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by benttoothpaste 6y ago
My mom’s oven requires regular power cycle because it’s touch UI locks up so often.
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by benttoothpaste 6y ago
It makes the logs less noisy. And with much less noisy logs it is easier to notice if something undesirable is happening. Also from my experience this 50% is more like 99%.
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by benttoothpaste 6y ago
The most secure boot is the one that does not take place ;) So maybe there is a method in this madness?
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by benttoothpaste 6y ago
> People you didn't invite can show up. To be fair you can have that with remote meetings as well. There is even a name for it: zoom-bombing.
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by benttoothpaste 7y ago
If you are on H1 then once you lose your job you'll be immediately out of status. Now being out of status is not a very big deal, but it does mean you'll need to find a new employer willing to sponsor you as soon as possible. USCI
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by benttoothpaste 7y ago
I've always suspected that "go fmt" is a tool of income suppression...
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by benttoothpaste 7y ago
For regular mortals the cheapest way to get Mathematica is to get Raspberry Pi. Raspbian has Mathematica in its repo (sudo apt install wolfram-engine). The performance is not great but maybe the latest RPi 4 will help.
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by benttoothpaste 7y ago
In South Carolina Boeing produces 787 Dreamliners. The 737 Max is produced in Washington.
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by benttoothpaste 7y ago
echo "127.0.0.1 facebook.com twitter.com ycombinator.com youtube.com" >> /etc/hosts
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by benttoothpaste 7y ago
Unity is still available but needs to be installed explicitly (apt install ubuntu-unity-desktop).
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by benttoothpaste 8y ago
It used to be like that but these days it is possible to get a security clearance while retaining the second citizenship provided there is no "conflict of interest". Whether there is a conflict of interest or not will be determine