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by dded 13y ago
The first schematic editor I ever used displayed with Regis graphics [1] on a VT125 terminal. But it only used a small subset of Regis. One escape sequence would put the terminal in a mode that mapped the 8th-bit set bytes to a bunch of a
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by dded 13y ago
One significant user-visible feature of 3.13 is nftables: https://lwn.net/Articles/564095/
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The Number Empire(numberempire.com)
4 points by dded 13y ago|0 comments
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by dded 13y ago
Thanks. I might have to check out Bredin (Proust, at 4k pages, is perhaps too long! :-) But I appreciate the recommendation. That split in society was emphasized by Tuchman, as I recall.)
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by dded 13y ago
Any recommendations on a good book-length account of the Dreyfus Affair? I've read the chapter in Tuchman's Proud Tower . I've always loved her books, but this is just a short chapter in a longer book. (I also read Shirer&
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by dded 13y ago
> In North America, one does not hear the word “jest” that often That's not my experience. But certainly I'll admit that North America is a big place, and your experience could be different. I grew up in a blue collar town in
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by dded 13y ago
For a beginner's introduction to C++, I really liked Koenig and Moo's Accelerated C++ . It's from 2000, I don't know if there's a newer edition. Speaking of Koenig, I also like his C Traps and Pitfalls (1989). S
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by dded 13y ago
Hennessy and Patterson is in its 5th edition. That makes me feel old. I can only vouch for earlier editions, but this is a good book. (I'm only familiar with the 1st and 2nd editions of this book, and of the two, I greatly prefer the
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by dded 13y ago
Have you any experience with VNC clients on ChromeOS? If so, what's the performance like? I found the following, which mentions Chrome Web Browser, is that equivalent for the sake of applications? https://chrome.google.com&
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by dded 13y ago
> But is it really so bad? I don't know. It's not like "Gimp", which is viewed by some as insulting to handicapped people. But it wasn't clear to me that the Nimrod developers were even aware of the US connotat
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by dded 13y ago
I'm not sure why this is down-voted. Connotations differ in different cultures; I merely point out that "Nimrod" does not have a universally positive connotation. If this is connotation is intentional, perhaps as humor, plea
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by dded 13y ago
Near the top of Nimrod's homepage ( http://nimrod-lang.org/ ) is the following quotation, which leads me to believe that the language creators think they have picked a good name: The most important thing in the programm
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by dded 13y ago
I know a Cobol programmer who did (is doing) something similar.
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by dded 13y ago
> If everything is a command, then "#" must also be a command In my mind, that's an argument that at least something shouldn't be a command. But perhaps it simplifies implementation enough to be worth it. > To say
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Executed Ohio killer Dennis McGuire took 15 minutes to die with untried drugs(nydailynews.com)
5 points by dded 13y ago|4 comments
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by dded 13y ago
> Comments in Tcl work perfectly fine I agree with what you're saying, but allow me to go meta. Comments in Tcl are a bit strange. This works: # say howdy puts hello But this does not: puts hello # say howdy For t
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by dded 13y ago
Since today seems to be Tcl Day, I thought I'd submit this: the beginning of the famous Tcl War . Here is a direct link to John Ousterhout's reply: http://www.vanderburg.org/OldPages/Tcl/war/0009.ht
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Why you should not use Tcl (1994, "The Tcl War")(vanderburg.org)
1 points by dded 13y ago|1 comments
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by dded 13y ago
Yeah, but I'm glad we don't still use corduroyed roads. Tcl is a wheel worth reinventing.
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by dded 13y ago
Surely you mean "fame" and not "infamy".
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by dded 13y ago
> One of my fondest memories working with Tcl was in the EDA industry. Thanks to its legacy, Tcl/Tk enjoys widespread usage in the entire workflow - from logic design to sign-off Those of us actually using EDA tools are not necessar
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by dded 13y ago
It definitely matters. I've always struggled with NX. VNC is easier, but slower.
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by dded 13y ago
It should be resistant to the firewire DMA attack even if it had firewire. Modern processors protect against this. AMD calls their mechanism the device exclusion vector, I forget what Intel calls theirs.
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by dded 13y ago
While we're on the topic of X displayers, is there something like this or VNC for ChromeOS?
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by dded 13y ago
> raising camera phones in unison to capture the slides he presented... ISSCC solved this a long time ago (when cameras weren't yet phones) by giving everyone a CD of every presenters' slides.
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by dded 13y ago
Yes, X11 itself can display over a network. But it's quite painful over an even somewhat slow link.
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Ford CEO says auto industry needs privacy rules set by law(mercurynews.com)
1 points by dded 13y ago|0 comments
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by dded 13y ago
Is anyone familiar with this? How does it compare with VNC or NX?
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Intel mothballs new Arizona factory(oregonlive.com)
4 points by dded 13y ago|0 comments
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Future: clean single-source support for Python 2/3(python-future.org)
1 points by dded 13y ago|0 comments

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