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by dajt 9y ago
There is at least one puzzle in HRM where I can't get either the size or speed opt. It's annoying me a bit.
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by dajt 9y ago
I got the same feeling playing TIS-100! It's cool it has a bit of story to it, but I just kept thinking to myself "I may as well write real software".
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by dajt 9y ago
I'm trying to get my kids to play Human Resource Machine. I hate the name but the game is okay. Because it's basically drag and drop assembly language the amount of steps for the challenges quickly rises. That's a bit of a sh
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by dajt 9y ago
Yeah, my comment was a bit snarky. At least CL admits side-effects and non-pure functional programming are necessary. McCarthy obv knew what he wanted to be able to express and process, but the LISP he ended up with after the s-expression i
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by dajt 9y ago
"I do it to grow as a software engineer" That's why I keep poking at CL, and don't bother much with the others. I don't think I'll get much of a paradigm shift from D or python but if I ever grok CL properly I&
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by dajt 9y ago
I've spent a single day in NYC all my life so have no idea. I'm wondering if ferries are easier to run as there is less infrastructure. There are the equivalent of stations and maintenance depots, but not rails. I don't know
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by dajt 9y ago
"All of those things are there for a reason, and most of them are very well thought out" From reading about the history of LISP I'm not sure I agree. My take on it is that It was never meant to become a real language as it is
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by dajt 9y ago
I agree with the risk/reward thing. I think you need to take into account how likely you are to use the language before investing a lot into it. I ignore smalltalk, ruby, perl, python, all that stuff. I don't want to use them, and
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by dajt 9y ago
I keep bouncing off LISP, but keep coming back assuming there is something I'm missing. I'm not convinced it is just 'what is the difference between setp, setf, defvar, and defparameter?' I think it is fundamentally diff
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by dajt 9y ago
No chance. The deferred maintenance would be even worse, operators would come and go rebranding everything every few years, they'd all point fingers at each other when something went wrong... ugh. Look at the mess the UK rail system is
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by dajt 9y ago
Look up mechanical signal interlocking. It's pretty interesting.
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by dajt 9y ago
Because the NSA is keeping those secret so they can still use them. All these recent 'leaks' are just misdirection so when OpenBSD becomes the defacto standard PC OS they still have a way in ;)
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by dajt 9y ago
That's my take on the mobile phone market. Pointless money and effort wasted every year rather than keeping the current perfectly good phone going with further OS updates.
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by dajt 9y ago
He didn't say a lot of people were crying out for a 3rd way, just that some were. I'm guessing there were not many. It's the same with the GNU/linux desktop. In the overall user population only a tiny fraction of people
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by dajt 9y ago
That looks really cool. I built the cpuville kit a few years ago but its I/O decoding was borked, it didn't expose enough control signals through its extension mechanism, and its pin headers were at an odd spacing so you couldn&#x
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by dajt 9y ago
Eh? Just write your own bank switching code. The whole setup is different to MMU paging. Not having looked at the specs I'm guessing you do an I/O write to something that sets the bits of the address lines above 15 to select the b
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by dajt 9y ago
Because for a certain type of person having your code run on a real Z80 is much cooler.
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by dajt 9y ago
I only use facebook for the model engineering group(s) and unless they decide discussions about miniature locos are dodgy I should be okay. I can see there is a potential trap there for the people who decide to mix their personal and profes
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by dajt 9y ago
My day job is software development, and your second paragraph made me shudder. So imagine what someone who doesn't want anything to do with IT would think! The majority of the world do not want to know about containers, hosting service
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by dajt 9y ago
There are no costs for IT I'd be willing to pay for. The nature of the business is such that it wouldn't even be worth having a shopping cart type app running. The web presence of the business would basically be an advertisement,
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by dajt 9y ago
I may have a business one day that sells bits for model steam locos. Many people who are likely to be my customers belong to a facebook group, and probably don't use their PCs much except for facebook and e-mail. And if I needed to pos
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by dajt 9y ago
What about printing two images, each with only 1 black pixel in a different place?
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by dajt 9y ago
Airports take a lot more space than train stations. Living near an airport is horrible due to noise. Trains are a lot quieter than planes. You can fit more people on a train than on a plane. You can load that train with more people a lot mo
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by dajt 9y ago
It isn't security I'd be worried about. I'm sure there is some real wizardry in the formatting algorithms and many bugs related to it fixed over the years. Rewriting the TeX engine would just be a huge effort to almost certai
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by dajt 9y ago
Knuth spent all those years getting rid of bugs and this guy wants to bring them back? I didn't get that impression.
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by dajt 9y ago
I thought Be would be the spiritual successor to the Amiga and attractive to the original Amiga user base. Having said that I didn't buy one because I didn't want to spend time and money on a platform that was obviously not going
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by dajt 9y ago
Yep, it's just a hobby and not a terribly expensive one as you say. I loved my Amiga 500 & 2000 back in the day, and spent more on them than this costs although it was obvious they were never going to be main stream. I wouldn'