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by dfawcus 3y ago
Oddly enough, I never used them at the time. It was the CLI compilers, and makefiles. Possibly because most of the work I was doing was cross compilation for embedded systems, not targeting DOS nor Windows. However it was often using Borl
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by dfawcus 3y ago
That then becomes a problem if the first PR is accepted and rebased while the others are outstanding. Or at least it is with bitbucket. If the first PR is instead merged, the commits vanish from the start of the sequence in the other PRs.
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by dfawcus 3y ago
It does, if you interact at the CLI, where a "PR" concept does not exist. git diff ^initial-commit~1 final-commit However for that to be available after a contribution has been included in the master branch, one has to use
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by dfawcus 3y ago
For a similar case in Go, where I wanted a run time variable shape of graph, I was able to do without using an array. That was simply by spawning more goroutines. So for the rx (mux) side, they all just write in to one shared chan which it
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Actually, I was going to suggest that if CLOSE don't fit here, maybe just omit it from your channel version. I first came across it in the Go version of them. The libtask/libthread and Alef versions do not include it. Its absence
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by dfawcus 3y ago
The CLOSED() function, used after a RECEIVE() strikes as allowing a race. Rather something like: RXORCLOSE(c_j, v_j, VAR closed: BOOLEAN) DO Sj as an additional guard seems necessary, otherwise these two send side sequences can not
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by dfawcus 3y ago
I had a read of the page after you updated it. I find the proposed SELECT function to be unwieldy, to the extent that one would really want some syntax added instead. Assuming I'm correctly inferring from the above, the WITH looks bet
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by dfawcus 3y ago
libtask can be directly compiled from the code on Russ's site[1]. I've a copy locally compiled up, as of about 6 months ago. For libthread, I'd suggest trying Plan 9 from User Space[2,3]. It has been a while since I played w
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Since I now actually got around to reading the page... You end the section on Go with "Go adopted the concurrency concept from Newsqueak and added new features, such as buffered channels.". However Alef itself added those buffered
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by dfawcus 3y ago
A simpler example would be wishing to have a send with a timeout. A simple implementation in go would be like: func sendit(text string) bool { select { case TxChan <- text: case <-time.After(10 * time.Mi
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Yes one needs another channel. No, one can not just close the channel, because it is the sending end (which can close the channel) which is blocked, and the desire is to tear down the graph upon which its send is blocked. Certainly in Go, i
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Real world programs I've written in CSP style have made use of Alt (or select in Go) on mixed collections of receive and send channels. One simple use case is for a dynamic graph of channels, where one wishes to be able to 'cancel
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Even DRI's MP/M from 1979 had preemptive multi-tasking, as long as the platform supported an clock interrupt. You can find the documents on bitsavers, the binaries may well be there and/or on Gaby's site.
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by dfawcus 3y ago
It is generally available behind the counter in chemists all over the UK. One simply has to ask, and there are no ID requirements. There is a limit to how many they will supply, but I'm not sure what it is. Generally available now in
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by dfawcus 3y ago
If I was to try, probably "Are-Za". However I suspect that would quickly evolve in to "Arse".
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Huh? Simply "eff-ess-sea-kay"
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Actually, a variation on that may be practical without it having the overbearing big brother aspect. Simply ban then for children. So one has to be over 18 to possess and/or use one. Anyone providing a smart phone to a minor would be
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by dfawcus 3y ago
This seems like a scheme for ensuring that no anonymous / pseudo-anonymous interactions can occur. i.e. how would an adult establish that they are over 18, and hence are not to be restricted. The only way would seem to be to provide s
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by dfawcus 3y ago
The original source, and previous commercial docs.
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by dfawcus 3y ago
The consequence is due to the impact of the Lugano Convention 2007, as the piece mentioned. So it is not just German courts, it is any court of an EU member state, plus those of Iceland, Norway and Switzerland. Which is possibly the same me
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by dfawcus 3y ago
To defeat it, one would have to regularly send cover traffic (i.e. push messages saying "nothing happened"), and accept that notification of messages may be delayed until that regular period. i.e. the app sends its push token to i
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by dfawcus 3y ago
I threw some 16 bit files at it, all of them puked in one way or another. One was a CP/M-86 "small model" executable, the other an object file (16 bit intel OMF object file) - i.e. compiler output. Boomerang looked like it&#x
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Maybe it is region dependent? The Z80 was still being used in embedded designs in the 90s. One company I worked at was still supporting Z80 systems and s/w at least until around '94. Possibly later, as I didn't work on those
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Yeah, but given they seem to be proposing that the UK change from its current natural position, to what would be permanent BST, it seems daft. (It would help if they'd included the UTC offsets with their diagram) I'd suggest that
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Well one could always grab his "BBC BASIC (86) Plus for MS-DOS" from his site ( https://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic/dosbasic.zip ), and run it in some from of "DOS Box". As his page about it states: &
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by dfawcus 3y ago
I always preferred "Dead End", but "Cul-de-sac" seems to have taken over with the road sign planning departments since the 70s.
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by dfawcus 3y ago
There was more to the Scottish colony in Darien failing than just that, the English state had a hand in it, and an incentive to ensure it failed. As to the post failure financial effect, that was mainly on a bunch of rich folks. Scotland p
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Nah. Once they enter territorial waters, and not engaged in 'innocent passage' they are legitimately a target for us to defend ourselves against. However in 1939, that would have been around 3-4 miles off the shore, so your point
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Re "fair vote" It wasn't the advisory nature of the referendum which denied some British citizens living abroad a say, it was that they'd been domiciled abroad for at least certain number of years. That has long been a
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by dfawcus 3y ago
Isn't the idea that fasting is not starving the non-cancer cells, it if forcing them to switch over to fat ketone bodies as their fuel source, rather than glucose? Plus that the suggested fasting for chemo is intermittent, say a day o

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