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451.
by bregma 2y ago
My first "home" computer (a home-built COSMAC Elf) had 256 bytes of static RAM (in two DIPs). No DRAM at all. I don't think Radio Shack even sold DRAM.
452.
by bregma 2y ago
I dunno. That phrase sounds like poetry to me, why improve it?
453.
by bregma 2y ago
Would it? Or is it undefined? No C++ runtime I know of will generate a new, different vtbl just to switch it out when invoking the non-owning base class destructor on an object. Nor am I familiar with any part of the C++ stnadrd that mandat
454.
by bregma 2y ago
Non-productive activity time is a Good Thing that improves everybody's life when done in moderation. At least Factorio is generally better than drinking, doomscrolling, or gambling in terms of social responsibility.
455.
by bregma 2y ago
I work every day with real-life systems where int can be 32 or 64 bits, long long can be 64 or 128 bits, long double can be 64 or 80 or 128 bits, some systems do not have IEEE 754 floating point (no denormals!) some are big endian and some
456.
by bregma 2y ago
The difference between address A and address A+1 is one byte. By definition. Some hardware may raise an exception if you attempt to retrieve a value at an address that is not a (greater than 1) multiple of a byte, but that has no bearing on
457.
by bregma 2y ago
Every wood-paneled Canadian rec room in the 1970s had a crokinole game set up right beside the rod hockey table and maybe the stacks of empty two-four cases. Just thinking about it brings back the smell memory of stale beer and cigarettes m
458.
by bregma 2y ago
Growing up in the 1960s we called them all Dinky Toys. Dinky was the best: they even had die-cast UFO SHADO interceptors and Space:1999 Eagles in the 1970s when I was too old for such things (but still secretly coveted them).
459.
by bregma 2y ago
It doesn't work. I keep trying to get off the diabetes and I just relapse after a few weeks. It doesn't help that my body tries to hide the glucose everywhere, like attached to hemoglobin or in my liver in the form of glycogen so
460.
by bregma 2y ago
Coca tea is ubiquitous in Peru. Morning, noon, and night. It's on a par with mate or green tea in other parts of the world. Mostly harmless. The leaves are readily available everywhere, like right beside the chewing gum at the checkout
461.
by bregma 2y ago
Don't forget you need a balun to convert the RF from the coax output to the parallel-pair antenna input. Of course, the antenna input was already in use by the rabbit ears so you have to double up.
462.
by bregma 2y ago
Holy cow, don't look for recipes on the web. If you're luck any ingredients and instructions are only 2/3 through. More often 23 pages through.
463.
by bregma 2y ago
Let me guess. The start the machine, say the magic incantation "Zoom. Enhance." and the answer pops up in an animated sequence on a 72-inch high-def television screen after showing a brief animation of some kind of chemical proces
464.
by bregma 2y ago
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from AI.
465.
by bregma 2y ago
Can't wait for them to turn this tech loose on Mars photos. So many human faces waiting to be found.
466.
by bregma 2y ago
Well, no. Primarily, the sun warms the surface of the Earth, and the Earth itself generates heat. What WE are doing is reducing the amount of heat radiated from the surface of the Earth until atmospheric expansions reaches a new equilibrium
467.
by bregma 2y ago
You're still using Yao? Pfff.
468.
by bregma 2y ago
What percentage of Debian Developers are Canonical employees? 40%? 60%?
469.
by bregma 2y ago
> There was a time when people would have said the same about make. The shell is the simple command that is guaranteed to be on all Unix systems from the get go. Make is the new kid on the block. I seem to recall it being praised very hi
470.
by bregma 2y ago
I once listened to an interview with him in which he was asked if he always wore black. His response was that no, earlier in the day he was wearing grey but it clashed with the rain so he went home and changed.
471.
by bregma 2y ago
First you take Manhattan. Then you take Berlin. You want it darker?
472.
by bregma 2y ago
Churchill was a terrible politician but an effective leader and an able administrator. It's the politician aspect of him that usually gets ridiculed.
473.
by bregma 2y ago
Sounds like you had a difficult beginning but a wonderful Finnish. Like many books.
474.
by bregma 2y ago
At the circuit level (where the performance is determined) it doesn't matter if your half-adder combines its left and right inputs or its right and left inputs. So no, there is no difference in efficiency or performance when it comes t
475.
by bregma 2y ago
Even then I find myself often mentally substituting the bafflegab technobabble with the well-worn but still useful English words that would have clearly expressed exactly the same ideas to someone half a century ago. And likely still half a
476.
by bregma 2y ago
I dunno. Comparative anatomy was a thing then and the anatomist may even have been fond of sweetbreads. They were still popular on menus in Paris when I was there a few months ago. It's possible they were more notable for their absence
477.
by bregma 2y ago
Mathematically it's true. Anything that can be enumerated (that is, has an ontological mapping with the set of whole numbers) can be interpreted as input to some function which can be evaluated to some result also with an ontological m
478.
by bregma 2y ago
Same with pacemakers, joint replacements, insulin pumps, glucose test strips, heck even bloodletting razors and leeches. You should be able to just order them online from an Amazon reseller or pick them up down at the Quickie Mart and take
479.
by bregma 2y ago
It came from someone for whom modern "AI" is indistinguishable from a Potemkin village.
480.
by bregma 2y ago
(1) Studies have shown that patron will make larger and more frequent orders when placed through an app rather than in person. This increases revenues. (2) The app gathers statistics. Marketing and sales are so addicted to massive amounts o

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