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by drfuchs 7y ago
In 2019, I was able to spend 4 days in Canada without touching a single Canadian Dollar. On the other hand, 4 days in Germany absolutely required cash at virtually every meal and other non-hotel purchase.
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by drfuchs 7y ago
For the Greek-impaired: “Medium must be destroyed.” [Edit: Latin! I meant Latin! Oy, vey!]
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It’s very old-school; check out newspapers and books printed a century or two ago.
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Because in the US, an initial “1” unambiguously means “this is the start of a long-distance number; a 3-digit area code follows”.
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by drfuchs 7y ago
Setting the record straight: Cynthia Dwork, not Latanya Sweeney, (co-)invented Differential Privacy. And Proof Of Work (later used by Bitcoin and HashCash). And Lattice-based Crypto (resistant to quantum computer attack). And Nonmalleable C
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by drfuchs 7y ago
None of the content seems to cover Turing Machines and The Halting Problem, and all the rest of the Automata and Language Hierarchy stuff in, say, Ullman's "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation"? Compu
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by drfuchs 7y ago
Some states have laws that say cards must not expire or have fees, and they must be redeemable for cash. Unfortunately, New York does not seem to be among them: https://www.ncsl.org/research/financial-services-and-comm
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by drfuchs 7y ago
I’ve always wondered how much CPU time and memory bandwidth is taken up by the OS zeroing out pages before handing them out, as well as programs and libraries clearing chunks of memory. I guess it’s enough that I’m surprised that there’s no
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by drfuchs 7y ago
“Apple deprecates OpenGL across all OSes”: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12894/apple-deprecates-opengl...
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by drfuchs 7y ago
The point was that you shouldn’t be charged for the hour you spent waiting in the line to pay.
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by drfuchs 7y ago
For the geographically-challenged: present-day Austria is land-locked, and thus has no call for a navy, let alone a naval academy.
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by drfuchs 7y ago
IBM mainframes in the 70's invariably came with the IBM 1403 high-speed band printer, which pretty much represented the apex of band-printing technology. They printed 132 column, 66 line pages of EBCDIC text at a few seconds per page (
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by drfuchs 7y ago
As a consumer-products company, color is something Apple has long been obsessed about. The highlight of Steve Jobs' intro of the multi-color iMac G3 in 1999 was his comment about their colors: "Don't you just wanna lick &#x27
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by drfuchs 7y ago
As an American, I observe that the Brits use “isn’t it” to express something similar to “fei”. Example: “That’s the entrance, isn’t it?” seems to mean “You thought that that is the exit, did you? You’re an idiot.” The closest we Yanks have
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You’re mistaken about the PDP-10. Yes, you could pack two pointer-to-word pointers into a single word; but a single word could also contain a single pointer-to-byte. See http://pdp10.nocrew.org/docs/instruction-set&#x2
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by drfuchs 7y ago
Because it slows things down by 3 or 4 orders of magnitude?
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What is missing is a way for one's wasm code to make WebGL or 2D canvas calls (or even write directly into a bitmap canvas), without writing a bunch of Javascript trampoline / thunk / whatever code. If I'm mistaken, a po
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by drfuchs 7y ago
Unlike “ls” and “cp”, “make” is a real word, so to help us human readers parse the document’s prose, adding the section number in parentheses gives our brains a quick clue as to what’s going on.
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The reference to “Tops-20 JSYS manuals” is analogous to “Linux syscall wiki”. “JSYS” is the opcode for “Jump into the operating SYStem” on Digital Equipment’s 36-bit mainframes.
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by drfuchs 7y ago
Given everything he says, why does he bother to keep it open-source at all?
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by drfuchs 7y ago
First time I’ve seen a Terms of Use clause like this one: “Light patterns, like those which might be displayed when using the Services, may result in epileptic seizures in some people. Discontinue use of the Services, if advised by your phy
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by drfuchs 7y ago
Just to not leave a misimpression: Emacs (and TECO) never ran on the Stanford Sail machine (which ran the Waits OS); The "E" editor that was native to Sail/Waits used combinations of the Meta and Control keys for commands, wh
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by drfuchs 7y ago
The article is simply incorrect. The VT100 (and VT52 before it) had an ESC key, right where you'd expect it to be. Just about any terminal you might have bought in the 1970's had one. It's shown clearly in the document the a
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Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes(washingtonpost.com)
658 points by drfuchs 7y ago|392 comments
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How can soheil opt out?
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That's nostarch.com/gtfo for the uninitiated.
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UTS was the very first Unix on a 370, with a full Version 6 Unix in 1979. The cast of characters is especially interesting: Tom Lyon (the one who made it "real" at Amdahl; became early Sun employee), and the rest of the Princeton
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I'll bite: What is the maximum size of a process’s address space on an iPhone?
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The whole original idea behind the patent system is that you would be granted a time-limited monopoly in exchange for making your idea “patent” (frequently pronounced “pay-tent”, and meaning “obvious”), rather than trying to maintain it a
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It’s in the original statement of Monty’s Paradox: it is strictly the case where Monty Hall knows which is the good door, and always opens bad doors, then offers you to swap the one remaining door for yours. Anything else isn’t Let’s Make A

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