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by elch 5mo ago
If humans have souls, do other organisms have them too? Is this a trait unique to Homo sapiens? Did Neanderthals, for example, have souls? And if the theory of evolution is true, at what point did “humans” begin to possess souls?
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by elch 5mo ago
And none of those "amenities" existed anymore in Oberon.
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by elch 5mo ago
It is probably worth noting that C++, like C/Unix, originated at AT&T Bell Labs and was originally referred to as "C with classes." Classes were implemented using a preprocessor. https://www.tuhs.org/Archi
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by elch 5mo ago
Did Multics actually have something really similar to the much later envars introduced in Unix?
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by elch 5mo ago
But he tries to quantify this interference. Anyway Animats's comment is the one that points IMHO to the most likely cause of the observed waveforms. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47931024 PS Now that I’ve taken
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by elch 5mo ago
1.5 Vpp ripple measured on a 40 MHz scope - when the waveform is 50 MHz according to him...
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by elch 5mo ago
I guess he also believes that 50 MHz or so signals can be measured reliably on a 40 MHz (on paper at least) scope.
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by elch 5mo ago
Very possible. I was too lazy to investigate. BTW Thanks for all fixes, especially this one https://bug.dillo-browser.org/511/ . Dillo (3.2.0) crashed quite often on my system because of this bug. I hope I will compile
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by elch 5mo ago
I meant browsing HN with Dillo. And it is not Dillo's fault. Other not "mainstream" browsers have the same problem.
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by elch 5mo ago
It’s a shame that in my case trying to use Dillo here (HN) keeps returning 429, something that doesn’t happen with "full‑size" browsers (JS?).
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by elch 5mo ago
https://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/vax/microfiche/vms-source-list...
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by elch 5mo ago
(1978)
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by elch 6mo ago
Did you mean the C authors?
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by elch 6mo ago
Meanwhile the average EE prices for business in USD/kWh: UK: 0.442 USA: 0.148 India: 0.124 China: 0.097 Russia: 0.096
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by elch 7mo ago
He (Lawson) can only point to his paper from 1967 and the fact that in 1964 he was asked to join PL/I team due to his earlier published works on linked lists. https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/363332.36
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by elch 7mo ago
Pity you didn't look a little further, where there was more syntax and semantics... The concept of a high-level language is, of course, relative, but if, for example, someone considers Forth to be an HLL, then imho, the language/f
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by elch 7mo ago
If we start playing the "who was first" game, then for the Soviet machine Kiev (Kyiv), an "address language" with a "prime operation" was created in 1957-59. The prime operation and address mapping. The prime
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by elch 7mo ago
The original paper is probably behind a paywall. But you can have a look at an excerpt (chapter 2) from the book Virtual Machines (2006) by Iain D. Craig. https://beckassets.blob.core.windows.net/product/readingsamp...
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by elch 7mo ago
You had commented before I created a new account, so I will just add that I have never seen Wirth claim that he or his colleagues at ETH were the originators of the idea. Moreover, this idea was already used in Wirth’s “first” language, nam