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by cbd1984 11y ago
That's a more high-flown version of what used to be called a "Java school": Pure job training, no theory, no concept of advancing the field. Also no concept of teaching people things which will be useful when the specific ski
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by cbd1984 11y ago
It comes from the same word, gelum , Latin for frost, which also gives us "gelatin" and "gelato". "Cold", on the other hand, comes from Germanic roots (Proto-Germanic kaldaz .) They both come from the Proto-I
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Sounds like you did something and then you got better. Sadly, post hoc ergo propter hoc is not a treatment modality.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Q: What attacks is it secure against? A: ... Q: How do you know it's secure against anything at all? A: ...
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by cbd1984 11y ago
“I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them.” — Pauline Kael (this is what she actually said) http:
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Back in the 70s, there wasn't any interest in movies, music, etc. from the 30s. I don't know, Hawkeye Pierce did a pretty good impression of Groucho Marx. I think it's down to numbers: There are a Hell of a lot more peop
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> UNIX got battle-hardened during its college years Is that when it finally gave up making shar archives? For the unitiated: A shar is a "shell archive", or a shell script which (typically) makes heavy use of 'here documen
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Interesting. I didn't realize there had been any substantive new work done on linkers in decades.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> even despite all of the outstanding issues with the US economy There's a difference between a temporary setback and problems with the fundamentals. This is the case in the private sector and it is the case with sovereign entities,
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by cbd1984 11y ago
As simple matter of showing how the local software works: The comment was gray when I found it and upvoted it, so I don't think replies undo downvotes. The UI of this place is terrible on mobile. Fingers aren't styluses, and nobod
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> But doesn't static linking JUST link in the used features of the linked libs? No, not if it works like it does in C and C++. Lisp used to do that, back when Symbolics still existed; it was called tree-shaking, as in "shake th
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> (If you're not paying for it you're the product.) Yep, that's precisely how GNU Emacs and Linux work. (I hate trite sayings.)
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by cbd1984 11y ago
It's trivial if you are told what the algorithm is. If you're expected to randomly remember it perfectly and implement it that way, it's hard.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
The example code (linked to directly from that page) is cool. I think the whois client is especially nice: http://www.basic-converter.org/whois.bac.html It's just a very simple way to talk over a network. Mainly, thoug
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BaCon – A free Basic to C translator for Unix-based systems(basic-converter.org)
23 points by cbd1984 11y ago|1 comments
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Just so we're on the same page, here's what corporatism means: http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/corporatism.htm > In the last half of the 19th century people of the working class in Europe were beg
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by cbd1984 11y ago
From the comments there, early MIPS architectures are also patent-expired at this point. They might have had more actual work done with them back in the old days, so their code might be in better shape now.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Right. I forgot the Not Micro Channel Bus. ;) Next I'll be forgetting what PCMCIA stands for, I guess.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
RISC is also often described as register-register, as opposed to register-memory or stack or accumulator-based. In a pure register-register design, all opcodes which use the ALU only operate on data stored in registers, and only store data
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John Mashey on RISC/CISC(userpages.umbc.edu)
26 points by cbd1984 11y ago|4 comments
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by cbd1984 11y ago
ISA has never meant Industry Standard Architecture. Why did they get that wrong? It's just such a weird error to make, especially at the postgraduate level.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
RISC wasn't about reducing the number of instructions, it was about reducing the instructions themselves, to make them simpler and faster to execute.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Meh. If you define your terms correctly, absolutely nothing is original.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
This is pointless: If you let me define the terms, I can 'prove' that the Ancient Romans invented radio, computers, and whatever else, and nothing of note has been created since 500 CE. Picking out the 'first' of somethi
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Add that IBM tried to kill VM multiple times, and wanted everyone using System/360 to standardize around OS/360. "The Mythical Man-Month" is the story of OS/360. Hence VM still exists.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
https://devuan.org/ Just so everyone knows that the anti-systemd crowd has somewhere to jump, as opposed to just sitting around being angry about decisions which have already been made.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Uh, no, fighting words means something that's immediate , as in you're literally right in front of them insulting them and they punch you in the nose. It can't be done over the Internet.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Why not China ? They're heavily invested in us, both in terms of bonds and in terms of selling us stuff. Both of that goes away the second they challenge us militarily, and their economy couldn't take it.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Who are we fighting who has a good air defense? Also, who are we fighting who would have a good air defense the second week of the conflict? (Don't say China. China has replaced Confucianism with Waltonism, as in Sam.)
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> However, I can't encourage people to go and harass or do harm to the hogs. Yes you can actually. You just can't plan a specific crime at a specific place and time.

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