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by ch_123 7y ago
Maybe I am missing some context here, but why would a game studio make a backwards-compatibility-breaking change to the engine a five year old game? I know that it's a popular game, but this sounds like an excuse to me.
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by ch_123 7y ago
> Dealing with them in a more elegant way than inelegantly crashing goes all the way back to 1962 in a near-forgotten language called LISP. Even as someone who isn't a Lisp programmer, I find the idea that Lisp is a "near forgo
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Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students(jonlennartaasenden.wordpress.com)
193 points by ch_123 7y ago|339 comments
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by ch_123 7y ago
I really wish they added a GUI configuration editor - editing large JSON files by hand is a poor user experience IMHO.
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Intel Xe DG1 Discrete Graphics Card Pictured, Being Sampled to ISV’s Worldwide(wccftech.com)
1 points by ch_123 7y ago|0 comments
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by ch_123 7y ago
Recent thread on the subject of A/UX: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21881271
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by ch_123 7y ago
Unicomp (the company that took over IBM/Lexmark's buckling spring tooling) makes a Sun layout keyboard which is also worth mentioning for those who like a larger keyboard: https://www.pckeyboard.com/page/produ
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by ch_123 7y ago
> I wonder how an A/UX with memory protection and preemptive multitasking would fare today. I believe A/UX had both of these things, although it ran all the System 7 applications inside a single address space. I suspect that wi
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by ch_123 7y ago
As an atheist who received a Catholic education, I think calling a Santa hat a religious symbol is a stretch - Saint Nicholas is generally not depicted or described as wearing a "Santa" outfit. It's really more of a Western c
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by ch_123 7y ago
Amongst other applications, Strain Gauges can be found in the Trackpoints commonly associated with IBM/Lenovo's Thinkpad laptops: https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/91/5c/4b/e86a79d...
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by ch_123 7y ago
I'm reminded of Steve Job's insight into why Xerox failed to capitalize on their Alto/Star tech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1rXqD6M614
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by ch_123 7y ago
Lots of mention of Brexit in this article, and not many mentions of the fact that the owners of Wrightbus were pumping huge amounts of money into religious organizations, as well as giving themselves large bonuses while _at the same time_ l
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by ch_123 7y ago
For me, Windows XP was the last version of Windows I found the need to reinstall regularly. I skipped Vista, and from 7 onwards, I never felt the need to do a reinstall. I set up my current desktop with Windows 8.1 more than 5 years ago, up
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by ch_123 7y ago
Within the last few years, the IBM i systems use exactly the same CPUs as the AIX systems. In fact, I believe they sell the same models of servers to support both OSes.
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by ch_123 7y ago
See: http://www.dtjcd.vmsresource.org.uk/pdfs/dtj_v04-04_1992.pdf (page 113 of the PDF) http://www.decus.de/events/alphamigration/vortraege/porting_... It sounds like both took about two
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by ch_123 7y ago
A related presentation from a few months ago which goes into some extra detail: http://vmssoftware.com/pdfs/webinars/X86_OpenVMS_V9_0_Update...
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by ch_123 7y ago
I would say that the main difference is that many applications written for Windows 95 will work just fine on a Windows 10 system. The Mac ecosystem has nowhere near the same amount of longevity.
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by ch_123 7y ago
If you have WSL installed, I believe it's possible to use the standard Linux serial utilities with a USB-RS232 dongle. If WSL was not an option, I personally would still use PuTTY
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by ch_123 7y ago
> Example: Learning CoffeeScript was a total waste of time. Given how CS inflenced the ES6 (and later) revisions of Javascript, I find that hard to believe unless you stopped writing CS and went back to writing JS exactly as you did befo
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by ch_123 7y ago
I was aware of this project, but not the fact that it originated at Compaq - the home of VMScluster and Trucluster at the time.
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by ch_123 7y ago
>The cost is very high - when I looked, 1 million per year is the baby version with only 1 CPU enabled and no license to run the cryptographic accelerator and limits on software, etc. At one point, IBM was selling base-level mainframes f
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by ch_123 7y ago
I suspect the parent poster is asking why the US Navy didn't keep it in better order at the academy, and not why the South Koreans didn't get a better ship.
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by ch_123 7y ago
If performance is a concern, you probably don’t want to buy a $39 SBC. It doesn’t need the latest and greatest to be useful.
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by ch_123 7y ago
> Apple discontinued the iPhone SE at the tail end of 2018 and has stated that the next iOS update will not run on the old SE hardware. Apple has in fact stated that iOS 13 will run on the SE: https://www.apple.com/ie&#x2
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by ch_123 7y ago
Is it really inconceivable that they didn't know that he was there, or that they did not recognize him, or that they were unaware of his criminal record?
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by ch_123 7y ago
> Ada code controls rockets like the Ariane 4 and 5, many satellites, and countless other systems where small glitches can have major consequences. A somewhat amusing endorsement given that the infamous failure of the maiden launch of th
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by ch_123 7y ago
> As it is, grocers typically have to have a single person at the helm of each bank of four to six machines. The machines are prone to requiring manual overrides, and often the single machine-herder is overwhelmed trying to keep up; I he
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by ch_123 7y ago
By that logic, all current affairs investigations must be politically motivated.
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by ch_123 7y ago
> In 2007,[2] the media reported that the remaining ammunition for the TP-82 had become unusable and that a regular semi-automatic pistol would be used on future missions. Assuming the gun fires 28 gauge shotgun shells and standard AK74
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by ch_123 7y ago
> mean you have the right to smoke, but any organization promoting it has been squashed by legislation, banning advertisements and glorifying it. Why? Because smoking causes cancer and will kill you and your kids. FWIW, I know of at lea

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