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by bxparks 2y ago
> The traditional full sized layout was designed prior to mice being common, which immediately becomes evident when you try to center the alpha cluster of such boards with how doing so pushes the mousing area uncomfortably far off to the
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by bxparks 2y ago
Yeah, never seen that usage of "cleave". I would have expected that sentence written with a different word: "People in the remote mountain villages still cling to their old traditions." With regards to "cleavage&q
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by bxparks 2y ago
Ha, you make some good points and I would be ok with those words. But just because the root word (inflame) and some of its derived words are useful, that doesn't mean that we need to allow all possible prefix and suffix derivations of
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by bxparks 2y ago
That was a fascinating article. > Cleave is often cited as the go-to contronym: it can refer to splitting something apart and to uniting two things Weird, I cannot remember ever seeing "cleave" used to mean "uniting two th
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by bxparks 2y ago
It's funny, I didn't notice the missing "than" until much later. After I learned the intended meaning of the original sentence, my mind just seemed to insert the missing "than" automatically.
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by bxparks 2y ago
I also moved from Ubuntu to Mint, and from GNOME to MATE. Been very happy. The only time I got annoyed at Mint was when they recently changed the default mouse pointer into something that looks like a deformed marshmallow. So instead of a p
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by bxparks 2y ago
I couldn't understand the original wording either, but after reading one of the sibling comments that explains it, it suddenly made sense. I think you left out a few words that most English writers would include. So instead of: > &q
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by bxparks 2y ago
One of the PDF files on the GitHub page has some info about the software implementation: "* The original C version running on Z80 @ 4MHz was really slow! (maybe 25% of HP-25 speed) * I started to re-write the emulator in Z80 assembly *
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by bxparks 2y ago
Airlines fill those seats by upgrading people with status or miles.
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by bxparks 3y ago
I think "East San Francisco" would be more accurate...
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by bxparks 3y ago
Doesn't surprise me. The USPS is doing some idiotic things with their Informed Delivery emails that I get every morning. Sometimes they contain inbound and outbound tracking links. If I click on a tracking link, I land on a webpage tha
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by bxparks 3y ago
I completely agree with your analysis. I think I meant "interop" instead of "superset" when craving for something better than C, but not as mind-numbing as C++.
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by bxparks 3y ago
I looked a bit deeper into your website and I am impressed with the amount of work that has gone into this language and its tools. I agree with the other commenters that eC seems like a pragmatic and ergonomic extension to the C language. I
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by bxparks 3y ago
By the way, you seem to be shadow banned, though it is not clear why. This is your first post since your account creation almost 4 years ago, so it's not like you have any history of writing bad posts. I vouched for you to undead your
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by bxparks 3y ago
I would bet that neither small claims or class action is possible in the US because ASUS has a forced binding arbitration clause in their End User Agreement that almost no one read when they activated their phones.
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by bxparks 3y ago
That's a bit harsh, but I understand your sentiment. I wish that one of the numerous supersets of C would gain some traction, for those cases where C must be used. I'm thinking of cases such as bare-metal embedded, operating sys
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by bxparks 3y ago
For quick cropping, rescaling, and batch processing, this is the BEST image editor on Linux (using Wine of course).
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by bxparks 3y ago
In theory, yes. But in practice... I wouldn't be surprised to see many systems fail. It's probably not a code path that's been tested much, if at all. Kinda like those systems that went down on Feb 29, 2024. I mean, how does
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by bxparks 3y ago
How about all the extra fees that the dealer will add? ("Destination charge", "Doc fee", "Total fees", etc, etc, I can't remember.) Is that included in the price that we are haggling with the dealer?
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by bxparks 3y ago
Regular economy is not even designed for normal sized people. :-/
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by bxparks 3y ago
Are you sure you are replying to correct post? Some people in this thread are resorting to name calling. That is unfortunate, but that's not me. All I wanted was a sense of the relative risk of leaded solder compared to the other sourc
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by bxparks 3y ago
You have strong opinions on the use of leaded solder. I'm curious if you have some numbers to drive home your point. For example, what is the relative risk of using leaded solder for a hobbyist creating a handful of prototype circuit b
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by bxparks 3y ago
Your criticism that a broken wire is outside the scope of the TCP protocol was clear and valid. The subsequent paragraphs about garage collection are tough to follow. You have multiple parenthetical remarks, a quotation which I think is use
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by bxparks 3y ago
I unflagged you by vouching for you. I found your post difficult to understand and couldn't figure out what you are trying to say, but I agree it was not deserving of a flag.
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by bxparks 3y ago
I don't understand. Your friend has a catering business that throws parties for wealthy people? Because wealthy people don't get enough parties? Or did you mean metaphorically. In that case, what kind of metaphoric "welcoming
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by bxparks 3y ago
I can understand getting the years 2000 (leap), 2100 (not leap), 2200 (not leap), and 2300 (not leap) wrong. But getting the year 2024 wrong is, disappointing, to put it diplomatically.
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by bxparks 3y ago
Definitely, "labels as values" (aka "computed gotos", https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Labels-as-Values.html ) is so much better than Duff's device. Unfortunately, computed-gotos is not a
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by bxparks 3y ago
In their defense, making the long distance prefix (1) the same as the country prefix (1) did not help spread that knowledge. I think most American know that something called "country calling code" exists, but probably couldn'
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by bxparks 3y ago
I like quite them. With LED candles, there's no danger of fires if you forget about the candle, or if you accidentally knocking them over, or if something accidentally goes over the candle. There is no mess to clean up as the candle me
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by bxparks 3y ago
I must not be the first person to think that government sponsorship can play a positive role with funding and promoting critical software projects. Just as basic science research is funded by agencies such as the NSF, NIH, DARPA, DoD, and s

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