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> Only if you are talking about UCSD Pascal on the early Apple systems I'm not. If you aren't familiar, take a look at the original edition of Inside Macintosh , particularly the "summary" sections (e.g. page 213 of
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by duskwuff 1y ago
As I recall, the "official" language of early Mac development was Pascal - just normal Pascal, not any of the OOP extensions like Clascal or Object Pascal. All of the documentation in Inside Macintosh assumed you were using Pascal
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Inasmuch as the victim might have had some underlying manic tendencies? Perhaps. But that's no excuse, either from a moral standpoint or a legal one (see [1]). And I have a suspicion that susceptibility to this sort of psychological ma
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https://archive.is/20250720231325/https://www.wsj.com/tech/a...
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> I've wondered what became of the tech. Remember that Peltier coolers don't make heat disappear - they just move it from one side of the cooler to the other, and produce a lot of additional waste heat in the process. There are
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by duskwuff 1y ago
And on the other side of the equation, exchanges observe where their customers' coins are going, and may blacklist customers who transact with suspicious counterparties (like coin mixers).
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Thank you for taking "ELI5" literally. Made my day. :)
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by duskwuff 1y ago
That's too far in the other direction, IMO. The IRC protocol was a poorly designed mess. Tying yourself to it means inheriting all of its bizarre quirks and limitations, and there's very little that existing IRC servers do that wo
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> It lacks any modern browser (and probably the power to deal with https) It should be able to run Netscape 4, but HTTPS will indeed be an issue - less because of speed, more because a browser that old will lack support for modern cipher
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Yep. The focus on dramatic code names, "access levels", and "containment" is all very characteristic of SCP fictional content. (The use of Unicode characters like U+2588 FULL BLOCK to imitate "censored" text is
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(Rochus edited their post after I replied to it; the article I was referring to was https://zmainframes.com/zlog/cobol-modernization-in-2025-bre... .)
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Grok has seemed unusually prone to bizarre behavior, even if you don't count the times that its system prompt was modified (like the infamous "please talk about white genocide" incident in May). Part of the problem seems to b
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by duskwuff 1y ago
By "new COBOL projects" I mean green-field development of entirely new projects written in that language - not the continued development of existing COBOL codebases, or development of tools which interact with COBOL code. As an as
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by duskwuff 1y ago
Forth was neat, but it was a bit of an evolutionary dead end. I'm not aware of any significant concepts from Forth which were adopted by other, later programming languages.
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No one's starting new projects in COBOL.
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How is that even relevant here? Apple is only delisting this app from the store, not removing it from users' devices.
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> so they can trilaterate or triangulate strike locations I don't think that's feasible. These sensors work by detecting radio waves which propagate near the speed of light. Even if you had two sensors separated by 1 km, they&#
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by duskwuff 1y ago
> There is a similar trend in India with Aryuveda/Unani. It might actually be worse. There's a strong religious/nationalist element to some Ayurvedic promoters in India which vociferously rejects any kind of scientific rig
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by duskwuff 1y ago
I don't understand the Verdana hate. It's a decent screen font, especially at low resolutions. It may not be ideal for print, but that isn't what it was designed for.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
You might be right. Either way, it's a signal.
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That's a clever theory, but the company specifically described it as having "zero energy storage costs ".
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Zero. There's no market for consumer archival-only storage; magnetic tape has been an enterprise-only product for 20+ years. Even write-once formats are barely holding on; recordable Blu-Ray production ended earlier this year.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
1) What on earth do they mean by "zero energy storage"? Magnetic tape doesn't consume energy at idle either. Hell, even hard disks can be powered down. 2) "Also, the optical-based new tech’s touted 50-year life is 10x th
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by duskwuff 1y ago
I disagree. Hyperion has some of the surface elements of a cyberpunk work - primarily by way of "The Detective's Tale" (Lamia's story) - but it isn't cyberpunk overall, no more than it's a horror novel by way o
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I don't think I've ever seen one with an age gate stricter than "please enter your date of birth".
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Absolutely not "banned". Movie theaters customarily won't let children under 17 into R-rated films without a parent, but there's no law that I'm aware of enforcing that - it's purely an industry custom. And t
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Not at any usable level of performance. It's a completely different hardware architecture.
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The reply to the "it may be..." message is from a @sun.com email address, and confirms "that is the essence of it". Fixed links for the message and reply: https://web.archive.org/web/20091028/ht
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A short course of the medication for post-surgical pain is unlikely to be a serious risk, either in humans or dogs. The patients in the study were taking the drug over a long period of time (months or years) for chronic pain.
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by duskwuff 1y ago
On a somewhat related note: the Game Cube and Wii editions of Zelda: Twilight Princess are mirror images of each other. If you're playing on a Game Cube, Link is left-handed, but he's right-handed on a Wii.

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