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by drudru11 11y ago
... If you can still swing the mortgage
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by drudru11 11y ago
They finally gave column selection. Nice!
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by drudru11 11y ago
Agreed, but my cg education (many moons ago), usually covered point in poly with a specific section of code to do ray intersection with segments. None that I can recall used the stencil trick, which is so much more clever and simple than
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by drudru11 11y ago
Is there any reference to where this technique originated? I think it is much more elegant than the traditional point-in-poly ray-cast rasterization technique.
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by drudru11 11y ago
That is not absolute. The binaries are the absolute truth.
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by drudru11 11y ago
Not just hard drives, but CPUs are sold like this as well.
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by drudru11 11y ago
There was a command to resume the OS after a break. You just hit 'c' then enter. http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/field-notices/misc...
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by drudru11 11y ago
This is cool. In the old days... computers came with these things built into the ROM (BIOS, Firmware, etc.). They were mostly called a 'ROM Monitor' or just the 'Monitor'. I never knew why they were called that, but I wo
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by drudru11 11y ago
Wow - nobody thought this was funny?
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by drudru11 11y ago
Quite obvious. The sound and the apple car is just them trying to get a DeLorean to travel back in time. That way they can get Steve Jobs back.
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by drudru11 11y ago
Ah - that makes sense. That pattern of cmd driven UI was very common in those days. I think just about every EDA package does that. However, instead of Lisp, they used TCL. Thanks for sharing this. I think it is always great when people ach
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by drudru11 11y ago
How did you see the drawing? I had a VT-100, but they typically could not display graphics.
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by drudru11 11y ago
Heh - I brought that up to the Mill guys when they announced at Stanford. I asked them if they knew about that system in the Newton. They did not.. They mentioned that there was a Burroughs system (probably the 5000) that did that.
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by drudru11 11y ago
Completely agree. It would be nice if we could get some much better architectures in more common hardware. This stuff just isn't top of mind on anything in the SOC world (raspberry pi).
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by drudru11 11y ago
VMS did not share memories throughout the cluster.
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by drudru11 11y ago
Yes. There was a level of quality and thought put into the systems that I haven't experienced since. Just to provide some more contrast... Just about every other system had to be rebooted daily or every few days. The problem with VMS w
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by drudru11 11y ago
I was a VMS admin for a few years. I have tremendous respect for DEC tech.
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by drudru11 11y ago
They are the trusted source for my public key.
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by drudru11 11y ago
Why is centralized crypto with a freemium biz model so welcomed? Remember Snowden? Remember parse?
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by drudru11 11y ago
Great engineering!!!!
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by drudru11 11y ago
I like the solution. It is a classic solution too. A famous aphorism of David Wheeler goes: "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection";[1] this is often deliberately mis-quoted with "abst
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by drudru11 11y ago
They needed x86 virtualization. The cheaper ARM systems don't support that (yet).
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by drudru11 11y ago
rename is atomic, but it is not guaranteed to be durable. In order for rename to be durable, I've learned that you have to fsync the parent directory. I was saddened when I learned this. I used to use this old trick for a lot of my sys
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by drudru11 11y ago
That is correct. Also, even before that people were putting blit operations in DRAM as well as GC ops.
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by drudru11 11y ago
3 things 1. This problem used to occur in ceramic packaging. A physicists the early Intel discovered this problem. 2. Those who say ECC isn't necessary are usually the ones who never measure error rates. 3. Cheap x86 killed Sun, not th
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by drudru11 11y ago
au/x was an interesting UNIX, but it did have its flaws. If the system beep occurred, the kernel would lose interrupts. Needless to say, this was not a good thing.
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by drudru11 11y ago
vezzy - thanks for posting! You do not disappoint :-) I really like it when people use the segment architecture to do something interesting. It forces people to really think about the question... what is a kernel? Also, their technique of
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by drudru11 11y ago
Yeah, I guess both are true :-)
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React team drops Slack for Discord chat instead(facebook.github.io)
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by drudru11 11y ago
I don't believe that exercise is part of the course anymore.

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