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by drfuchs 4y ago
Clarifying my point further: Let's say I'm looking at a hex dump of memory contents (as you still can do in gdb and lldb with "p/x"). The debugger shows me four consecutive bytes as: 0x89ABCDEF. If I'm on a b
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Because pretty much no machine in the universe used little-endian before Intel decided to save a cycle somewhere in the 8008 design, so there was no reason to have a way to refer to it. And even then, nobody paid much attention until IBM p
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by drfuchs 4y ago
OK, temporarily-victorious little-endians: Explain how you find it perfectly natural that the bits in a byte are big-endian? [Various replies (and votes) indicate I had better edit to clarify:] How come the single byte value written as 0x12
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Indeed, pre-TeX, Phyllis Winkler prepared all of Knuth's papers using TYPIT sticks for all the math symbols. Unfortunately, I didn't nab her typewriter and TYPIT box after her retirement, but here's a good set of photos and e
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Blown-Away Guy may be the most iconic still image, but I'd say the most iconic moving image with sound was the commercial for Memorex cassette tape with Ella Fitzgerald and the "Is it Live, or is it Memorex?" tagline: https
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Would you please provide a translation for us Americans? Thanks.
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by drfuchs 4y ago
When we were undergrads, I remember looking over Tom's shoulder at some Unix code he was studying, and I worked up my courage to ask what "*cp++" meant. He said something about about "pointers" and "post-incre
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by drfuchs 4y ago
FTFY: "Phake News"
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by drfuchs 4y ago
I was there, too, from a few months after the founding of Frame, to a year after the acquisition by Adobe nine years later. From the Frame side, it seemed like Adobe figured they were doing a kind of mix of an acqui-hire and putting a plac
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by drfuchs 4y ago
It was hard to understand from the inside, too. The programming staff for the Mac port of FrameMaker was two guys, plus their manager who also contributed code. To be fair, it also needed separate testing, slightly modified manuals, box, a
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by drfuchs 4y ago
The definition of "used" is approximately "delivered to a customer". Doesn't even matter if they returned the box unopened, and got a refund; you still can't sell it as "new". And, no, I'm not s
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by drfuchs 4y ago
I call at least partial BS on this claim. In the US, you can't sell as "new" anything that has even a single "used" part in it. That's to protect consumers from, say, buying an electronic vehicle only to find
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Why do you trust the assembler you got from somewhere any more than a compiler?
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Odd; their home page doesn't mention a new release. https://neovim.io
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by drfuchs 4y ago
Anybody have more color on the nature of the "recent, very unfortunate series of events in one of our clusters [such that] multiple disks failed in short succession"? What kind of "events"? A failed climate-control syste
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by drfuchs 4y ago
(Obligatory:) Neat! Still, a lot of copying bits around, and more JS than one might hope for. Could you send a pointer to canvas into the C code and operate on it in a direct, zero-copy way there?
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by drfuchs 5y ago
If I understand correctly, there's a real edge case going on here: Everything Krebs reported was simply what he was told by a then high-ranking employee of the company. True, Krebs didn't know this at the time, but I would think
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by drfuchs 5y ago
On the contrary. Take a punch-card, stick it in your 029 keypunch, and add 80 bytes of information to it by typing away. Now it weighs less than when you started. Information has negative mass.
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by drfuchs 5y ago
One word: Recruit!
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by drfuchs 5y ago
Well! Yup, "Book" internal design and implementation was all me. I don't think anybody else at Frame even knew the message existed, until that fateful day. The bug that caused it to come up was also mine. Any pointers to l
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by drfuchs 5y ago
In FrameMaker's "Book" functionality, where you can stitch together a bunch of individual chapter files into a larger document, there's a very edge-case possibility of hitting a situation where there's no solution t
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by drfuchs 5y ago
Using hash-mark to mean “pounds” goes back to 1850 at least. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign A few decades ago, it was very common to see at the deli counter, in the handwritten prices on signs jabbed into
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by drfuchs 5y ago
Correction for posterity: "In their ruling and in the trial transcripts..." For instance, in the transcript, check out the part where (Trump-appointee) Judge Newsom wonders "And you've got the Pennsylvania Republicans on
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by drfuchs 5y ago
Yes, minority groups certainly have valid concerns, which of course can be addressed. But what is your alternate explanation of how this particular group of Attorneys General happen to have been the ones to sue? In their ruling, the (Republ
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by drfuchs 5y ago
If Alice's household Census data is re-identified, the attacker may learn that she's in a single-sex relationship. Sure, her neighbors may know, but now some organizations that maybe don't have her best interests at heart ar
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by drfuchs 5y ago
OK, I'll bite: Has the name "Rubik" been canceled? It took me a while to realize that they were talking about Rubik Cubes.
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by drfuchs 5y ago
There's a perhaps apocryphal story that, to avoid motivating programmers to pad out their comments, IBM decided to measure productivity not by number of lines of source code written, but rather by number of bytes of object code generat
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by drfuchs 5y ago
I think the lovely comment by svat covers the extent of her contribution to TeX: the eqn language informed the design of TeX's math-mode syntax. But that's all I'm aware of; it seems the much-copied quote you mention is off b
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by drfuchs 5y ago
Well, then you're sure to like https://www.saildart.org/JMC (John McCarthy).
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by drfuchs 5y ago
Yeah, he's for real, and I heard him tell this story (and a number of others) about 40 years ago, for what that's worth. In addition to his other info on the web mentioned elsewhere here, there are also quite a selection of his f

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