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by bregma 3y ago
> Or a moonshot program for computer chips. I can do that. I can imagine the Apollo program just like it happened, with one spinoff being computer chips and microelectronics. If it wasn't for Apollo we'd probably still be using
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by bregma 3y ago
Well, you know, things like microelectronics, medical imaging, telecommunications, weather forecasting, stuff like that. Nothing important. Certainly we would have been better off if that money was spent here on Earth rather than sending it
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by bregma 3y ago
TAoCP is a delightfully written comprehensive encyclopedia of computer science for those interested in learning how and why stuff works; it is fundamental theory at its best. Without having read it I would have spent my life without even kn
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by bregma 3y ago
> eventually will leak lovely chemicals into groundwater Far better to transform them into even worse chemicals through exothermic reactions and send them invisibly through the air to all your neighbours.
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by bregma 3y ago
I don't know if you're aware of the irony presented by suggesting videos about how to use a phone if you're visually impaired.
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by bregma 3y ago
It's archaic if you're a dabbler, a hobbyist, an academic, or a junior dev who lacks the experience of shipping software into the wild. For the rest of us, we have learned the hard way, sometime repeatedly, portability and adheren
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by bregma 3y ago
The current (SDP 8) kernel has 15331 lines of code, including comments and Makefiles.
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by bregma 3y ago
It's only a matter of time now before sports and other performance entertainment are replaced by generative AI.
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by bregma 3y ago
In C a NULL is often a valid non-dereferencable pointer value. If you're checking for invalid pointer values you need to check for any of the 0xfffffffffffffffe possible invalid values. If all you're doing is checking for NULL you
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by bregma 3y ago
Are you under the misapprehension that drugs use is not rampant inside prisons?
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by bregma 3y ago
So, only self-hosted debugging on x86_64 Linux. A good start. Now make it work for other common CPUs (aarch64, RISC-V). Make it work for other OSes (FreeBSD has ptrace, for example). Make sure it handles signal and thread trampolines, calls
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by bregma 3y ago
No no some doctor with their 8 or more years of formal professional education knows nothing compared with some rando on the internet who may have read a book by some other rando and has an anecdotal testimonial. This is patently true becaus
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by bregma 3y ago
Except cards are keyed and unless you clipped the other corner, a reversed card would not fit in the card reader.
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by bregma 3y ago
I think the word you're looking for is 'agile'.
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by bregma 3y ago
Punch cards for weaving looms date back to the industrial revolution (early 1700s) a century before Jacquard. That's like saying Watt invented the steam engine.
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by bregma 3y ago
Generally, you'd have a deck of cards consisting of JCL, FORTRAN, and data. Your first cards were usually something like $ACCOUNT (for billing) and $JOB (for identification), the program code, then //DATA and the data. You wo
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by bregma 3y ago
It makes your git graph instagrammable.
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by bregma 3y ago
Not even in the USA.
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by bregma 3y ago
Milkweed is a very hardy and invasive species. My experience (and I have acres of it volunteering on my property) is it grows anywhere and everywhere in any kind of soil but it prefers full sunlight and doesn't like its feet too wet (i
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by bregma 3y ago
Landau was replaced in M:I by Leonard Nimoy, indicating Space:1999 and Star Trek may be in the same universe.
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by bregma 3y ago
I think it was more like "will civilization last another 10 years?" in the 1970s. The atomic bomb was a button press away and the finger was hovering. The population bomb was constantly hovering. The draft saw your friends shipped
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by bregma 3y ago
Sulphur dioxide. That's the thing that caused all the acid rain that was going to be the end of all life as we know it back in the 1980s when were still concerned about global cooling, right? The same thing that made it possible to pra
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by bregma 3y ago
Maybe. Growing up in the 1960s we all expected to die in the imminent nuclear holocaust. That was a relatively good thing because if we didn't most people were expected to perish from mass starvation by the year 2000 due to the global
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by bregma 3y ago
The 1590s? Do you think Shakespeare was the only one writing plays and sonnets for Tudor mass consumption? Heck, do you think Homer was the only poet to ever don a toga way back in the day?
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by bregma 3y ago
What about OSes that are not built around monolithic kernels and the syscall() paradigm?
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by bregma 3y ago
The Judas story marks the biblical transition from the Bad Drunk god that was violent, arbitrary, and demanding of human sacrifice (eg. Isaac, Jesus) into the Feudal Manor Lord god that bestowed the divine right of kings. Many a Roman empoe
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by bregma 3y ago
Bees don't just leave their queen and fly off. If there's a queen there's brood but if the queen dies the workers begin to disperse, and also start to lay (haploid) eggs that only hatch into drones which also disperse. On the
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by bregma 3y ago
Unless the core finding was that funding was running out and they need more money.
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by bregma 3y ago
Correlation is not causation. There are plenty of other drugs (especially alcohol) used for self-medication that are also linked to psychoses, as well as non-drug behviours that are strongly correlated to psychoses. The immediate jump to ca
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by bregma 3y ago
I've eaten seaweed. It only seemed like it lasted that long.

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