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1231.
by cestith 5y ago
There may be (at least officially) no double entendre intended, but of course you're far from the only one to have heard it.
1232.
by cestith 5y ago
This is good advice. Problems you have yourself you understand better and have probably already had some thoughts on how to solve them. Even idle thoughts in the past can be really handy when it comes time to think deeper about solving it i
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by cestith 5y ago
If you like this project and are on Twitter, you might want to consider following @TubeTimeUS who besides this posts all manner of retrocomputing projects through all stages of the building, testing, and design tweaking process.
1234.
by cestith 5y ago
"MADE WITH <3<3" (but with graphical hearts) "FYOOZE"
1235.
by cestith 5y ago
HP LX series was a big one. The AlphaSmart Dana almost fits, too - it was a Palm device rather than just the dedicated word processor and keyboard functions.
1236.
by cestith 5y ago
I suspect Apple's rights might be spelled out more in the sales contract to SoftBank than in a separate license agreement. Acorn created the ARM processor, but Apple is a cofounder of ARM Holdings (Acorn, Apple, and VLSI Technogology).
1237.
by cestith 5y ago
Apple switched from Motorola 68k to PowerPC, too, and Sun switched from 68k to SPARC. The Amiga, NeXT, early Palm devices, and the ST were also using members of the 68k family. That's an ISA born in 1979 and largely replacing (and insp
1238.
by cestith 5y ago
Power ISA includes an endianness switch in the spec. Power and Power64 are all BE and LE. Most Linux distros only support modern versions on LE though. Debian has a BE port but it's not considered a primary release target. The last PPC
1239.
by cestith 5y ago
The similarity to the Eisenhower Matrix for task scheduling is apparent. The two of them would pair nicely in a discussion. https://www.eisenhower.me/eisenhower-matrix/
1240.
by cestith 6y ago
ARM is a CPU ISA. A MacBook is a whole computer. A general purpose OS to be really useful needs to support the CPU, yes, but also the boot hardware, the bus, the video devices, keyboard, pointing devices, speakers, mic, line in, line out, t
1241.
by cestith 6y ago
I'd rather spend time writing new branches against approved, merged upstream rather than submitting to an upstream branch that may never get reviewed and merged. Keep in mind, too, that the longer a branch lives the more rebasing it go
1242.
by cestith 6y ago
How about birth? Birth sounds good. And from conception to birth it's covered under the mother's name?
1243.
by cestith 6y ago
Yes, and when you regularly ask too much of the other party in those negotiations they band together and ask you to stop. Much like what's happening in the story.
1244.
by cestith 6y ago
under 40 days ago someone posted to HN a SIGPLAN story about teaching compiler from the final phase to the first phase of processing the translations. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26237368 It gives you an AST you ca
1245.
by cestith 6y ago
Do you know why it's called "pop music"?
1246.
by cestith 6y ago
Most songwriters write songs then shop them around. They're not typically freelancers writing a song for an act for pay. They're like small software shops writing source code, and then the company that licenses that code, compiles
1247.
by cestith 6y ago
> ~99% of Linux users and administrators have never seen a digital tape drive I would question this assertion. Some of us have been doing this a while, you know. > Do we really need Probably not. > no benefit Benefits include bein
1248.
by cestith 6y ago
There are numbers one can call for ANI / ANAC info from a landline. They vary by carrier and sometimes region. MCI has a well-known line that reads back your number. Of course, I haven't had a land line in years and my cell phones
1249.
by cestith 6y ago
Since tar is a streaming format originally intended for tape and compression is done via external programs against the full archive, it's a little difficult to look inside the archive if it's compressed. Other formats accomplish t
1250.
by cestith 6y ago
> we still have to extract an entire archive just to look at the list of files GNU tar has -t and --list, while NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD all have -t. None of them extract the archive to list the contents as far as I am aware.
1251.
by cestith 6y ago
It has nothing to do with patents. It's not a non-practicing entity making a claim against big targets hoping for a windfall. It's probably not even intentional from Sega themselves - people make mistakes, even lawyers. Yes, it in
1252.
by cestith 6y ago
This has nothing to do with patents. They're not trolling, which is generally registering something and sitting on it waiting to sue. Sega is a practicing entity with a copyright on a game that's actively being sold. Someone'
1253.
by cestith 6y ago
Well, Perl is still a solid and improved replacement for sed, awk, and shell. PSGI puts it about on par with other platforms for persistent web apps with Mojolicious, Catalyst, and Dancer all solid frameworks for that. It's reasonably
1254.
by cestith 6y ago
Define "involved". Then think of all the anti-malaria work around the world. And think about how many government computers around the world run Windows and Office. Then think about who uses Azure.
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by cestith 6y ago
Excellent question. I think a big part of the customer story is eventually getting a standardized object model like Corinna into the core language. I do know a lot of objections to Perl have come from the bare-bones built-in objects and the
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by cestith 6y ago
This document is mostly discussing how they can deliver on a product vision without breaking existing code too badly. The product vision would be a different document of which features to add and why.
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by cestith 6y ago
Is it too short a time for Massachusetts Republicans to make different compromises than the national party in federal legislation, though? Let's not pretend that a Republican in Massachusetts, California, Illinois, or New York is in th
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by cestith 6y ago
I'm guessing this was on a Mac. Apple calls it "Natural scroll direction". If so, go to the Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Mouse and uncheck the box labeled "scroll direction: Natural".
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by cestith 6y ago
Ideally you want to lower recidivism. Giving people who were stealing or dealing drugs a reasonable chance of making a good living in a legal way reduces recidivism. Getting people with unstable homes and unstable lives counseling and train
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by cestith 6y ago
There should also be a lot less carcerial punishment. We overuse the prison system. Far too much of that is due to either minimum sentencing laws the judges and even prosecutors tend to hate and to line the pockets of private prisons or pri

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