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by edmccard 11y ago
>what different did these guys accomplish? Instead of taking something like Mono that was pre-built to run on their system, they took the CoreClr source that did not have a working build for FreeBsd, and got it to the point that it did
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by edmccard 11y ago
That link works for me--what's supposed to be missing?
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by edmccard 11y ago
I take care of my elderly parents, who each have over a dozen different pills to take each day, and this kind of repackaging is really helpful; although I would have thought it's the kind of thing that drugstores already do. (At least
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by edmccard 12y ago
Yes, at one point Edward Teller ("father of the H-Bomb") thought that thermonuclear weapons might set off a self-sustaining fusion reaction in the atmospheric nitrogen. I only know about this because as a kid I read a lot of pre-s
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by edmccard 12y ago
As an extra data point, the typing speed is fine on my old 1.6 Ghz Athlon 2650e, 2G RAM (running FF 36.0.4 under Arch Linux)
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by edmccard 12y ago
>Did I say anything about software? Well, you did say: "Who'd like to sponsor? Or should I just spin up a GitHub repo for the code and a kickstarter for the prize money?"
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The Alphabet of Satire – Rube Goldberg(city-journal.org)
23 points by edmccard 12y ago|2 comments
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by edmccard 12y ago
>There are 300 billion people in the United States, for them to each get even $1000/year, that's $3 trillion 300 billion? No. There are only around 318 million people in the US.
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by edmccard 12y ago
>Is there another tutorial that can explain the fundamental of "emulator" first before the NES part kicks in? >PS: I'm planning to use Java for this side-project. One place to start might be to try and write an emulator
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by edmccard 12y ago
As to scripting in D: I don't write a lot of D code anymore, but thanks to snappy compile speeds and the 'rdmd' compiler driver (which automatically tracks dependencies), it really does have a sweet spot for writing little pr
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by edmccard 12y ago
No, it will be supported using -std=c89 or -std=90, unless you also specify -pedantic.
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by edmccard 12y ago
>those lawyers would write "As you know VMWARE was damaged to the tune of several billion dollars because they didn't use the GPL correctly, and we know that you aren't using GPL correctly either..." If the GPL is lit
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by edmccard 12y ago
>We'd ask it to produce a simplified version. Yeah, that would work :) Maybe the question I should have asked, is: What if we ask a super-AI for a proof of the ABC conjecture, and the result is something too complicated for humans t
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by edmccard 12y ago
>Do many "otherwise smart" people actually believe "superhuman machine intelligence is prima facie ridiculous"? I don't know how "otherwise smart" I am, but I wonder how we would be able to tell that a
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by edmccard 12y ago
>It won't be long before someone runs a top-of-the-line X86 to Power8 benchmark using FreeBSD. >Here is such a comparison using linux: > http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh092914-story02.html Which benchmarks
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by edmccard 12y ago
>...your logo, which seems to have been inspired by malware and perhaps labels required for industrial chemicals Or maybe "pyret" is pronounced like "pirate" and the logo was inspired by the skull-and-crossbones pirat
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by edmccard 12y ago
FTA: "In 1996 Baumeister, now teaching at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, co-authored a review of the literature that concluded that it was, in fact, 'threatened egotism' that lead to aggression. Evil, he sugge
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by edmccard 12y ago
>Maybe it's because I grew up with personal computers ... (early 8-bit machines, then DOS on a PC) that I find it hard to get scared or excited by local-only exploits like these. In the 8-bit world, if you don't have a hard dri
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by edmccard 12y ago
>Yeah, no. Usually good books get translated, period. Great books certainly get translated in every direction. But for merely good books, I wouldn't be surprised if readers outside the US consumed more books translated from English
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by edmccard 12y ago
That if something has a velocity of X cm/sec this year, it might have a velocity of (X+1) cm/sec next year.
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Have we reached 'peak food'?(independent.co.uk)
4 points by edmccard 12y ago|1 comments
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by edmccard 12y ago
>Did anyone ever actually believe that there was a fire-all-ze-missiles button? Well, a lot of us believed that there were only two possibilities for nuclear war: either no missiles got fired, or they all did -- either in an escalating p
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by edmccard 12y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8909927
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by edmccard 12y ago
"An address will exist in the country's postal service's database" This is the one that I've run afoul of -- not because I live in a brand-new building, or a houseboat, or 30 miles from anywhere on an unnamed road;
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by edmccard 12y ago
>it seems theres a cap at 45% That number is for photovoltaic cells converting light to electricity; the 90% in the article is for converting light to heat.
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by edmccard 12y ago
Slide 16 says that ME v1.x used an ARCTangent-A4 and that ME v2.x uses an ARC 600.
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by edmccard 12y ago
>What were the AA batteries for? Some motherboards from the 286 era used 4 AAs as the CMOS backup battery.
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by edmccard 12y ago
>I don't understand why randy would focus on making tools for blocking people on Twitter though... Usenet had killfiles, email has spam filters, Facebook has unfollow...no reason not to focus on something similar for Twitter. >It
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by edmccard 12y ago
>I guess there was an entire set of illegal opcodes on the 6510 Yes, but they were the same set of illegal/undocumented opcodes as the 6502.
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by edmccard 12y ago
>16-bit? Did they mean 4-bit? This batch of recovered Nimbus images was converted from film to digital; there was another [1] where the analog data from magentic tape was digitized. [1] http://www.moonviews.com/2010/

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