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by epcoa 3y ago
Yes. For one no one has mentioned that the 386 itself had no on die hardware floating point. That seems like a huge one. Even if only a few instructions were added to the “core” some are huge like CMPXCHG, CMOV and although not an instructi
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by epcoa 3y ago
There were private FTP and IRC bots, DC++, etc. Private Minecraft and other game servers are still pretty common. > Internet still has not achieved that kind of decentralized p2p in the mainstream. BBSes were never mainstream. Personal c
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by epcoa 3y ago
Up to date BSD code would still avoid copyleft so that is not a valid explanation.
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by epcoa 3y ago
First there is TEALS, this isn’t exactly what the GP describes but it is similar. The other thing is that your attitude and satisfaction can be very different if you are “just visiting” from a relatively lucrative career vs imprisoned in th
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by epcoa 3y ago
No it wouldn’t have. They sold walkmans new in the US until 2004 and Japan 2010. Cassettes were not retro tech in the early 2000s, especially among the poor. And for recording, cassettes and microcasettes were still common then, digital voi
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by epcoa 3y ago
Oh that. That's more of a rage "quit" because of longstanding disagreements and personal problems with an individual, no "crew" ran them out. Of note it's not like they stopped their drama, it continued on the
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by epcoa 3y ago
What the fuck are you talking about?
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by epcoa 3y ago
The gp isn’t only talking about a particular implementation. The concept and terminology of an “open file description” (represented by a struct file in Linux and BSD and others) in contrast to a “file descriptor” are standardized/docum
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by epcoa 3y ago
> speak and hear the basic Latin alphabet. The Latin alphabet does not have a single pronunciation. And the vowels are ambiguous across the most common languages so you can't even make an argument that they are intelligible. You&#
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by epcoa 3y ago
So a handful of non graphically intense RPGs from a relatively obscure/cult publisher doesn't really contradict minority though. That particular game was released in early 1990, relatively late into the life of the NES and not exa
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by epcoa 3y ago
I highly doubt there was a readily available C compiler for the 6502 in the 1980s. In any case the idea that developers were widely using C pre N64 is bull. Even in the SNES era it was the minority.
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by epcoa 3y ago
Sorry but both boffinAudio and you are providing considerable misinformation. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5339769/relative-perform... Bus activity makes CAS and any atomic operation far more costly than a
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by epcoa 3y ago
> if you consider it a thing in its own right. There is no guarantee you’re getting a SIGCONT, so it is, and you could have stopped there. Furthermore, they aren’t paired in any meaningful way. You can get a SIGCONT without any STOP (you
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by epcoa 3y ago
> What you've done is turned signals into interrupts, which is .. hokey No that is precisely what they are - user space interrupts. Thats how they work. That’s why one has to worry about async safety and signal safe calls. I have no
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by epcoa 3y ago
What about SIGSTOP?
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by epcoa 3y ago
> If the buffer doesn't have a width of 256, 65536, or 4294967296, then you're out of luck Why so much hyperbole? You’re not out of luck. You can atomic increment/add the unsigned no matter the buffer size. You don’t worry
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by epcoa 3y ago
So then what is the advantage of using a signed type in this case? And C++20 already standardized it I know that I already acknowledged this. Should I go back and rewrite all the old correct code so you feel better?
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by epcoa 3y ago
> What I mean by "bend the rules of arithmetic" is that if we decrement from zero, we suddenly get a large value. Yes completely consistent with rules of modular arithmetic. A programmer ought to be able to extend math horizons
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by epcoa 3y ago
Unsigned doesn’t really bend any rules and their behavior around wraparound is well defined. Therefore there is another use case : circular buffer indices.
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by epcoa 3y ago
const in C and C++ are an abomination. On a pointer they don’t tell the compiler to do shit, because they can’t. That I can agree with TFA. However I agree with the GP that dismissing it entirely is a little misplaced. It serves as a hint&#
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by epcoa 3y ago
The water is brown, the slime is a very desaturated green but it is definitely a green hue.
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by epcoa 3y ago
Perhaps you are confusing the water for slime and the slime for acid, which quake 1 did not have. There was nothing called acid, what it was always called (as stated BY THE VERY subject document here) was slime. Quake 1 had 2 instantly da
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by epcoa 3y ago
You don’t remember Quake at all then or are confusing it with something else. Slime was abundant, it’s showcased along with the bio suit in E1M1. It has a tremendously distinctive player injury scream. The ever famous: “Player can't ex
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by epcoa 3y ago
Please elaborate what is “fun” about that fact? The drinking age is 19 in most of Canada, 18 is the exception. And the drinking age varies all over the world. It used to be between 21 in most of the US until the voting age was lowered to
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by epcoa 3y ago
v4 being completely random has terrible properties even on a non distributed database. Probably better to use v7.
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by epcoa 3y ago
Keeping a populace dumb and uneducated works pretty well.
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by epcoa 3y ago
iptables/ebtables is deprecated even in RHEL. While people are free to continue not to transition to nftables complaining about problems with iptables after a decade of its replacement is a bit silly.
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by epcoa 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Express_Data_Path
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by epcoa 3y ago
It was, briefly. Long before Wi-Fi was a household name when 802.11 (no b) was just standardized for industrial use there was an FHSS PHY. I think Proxim or one of the other defunct industrial data capture companies sold it into the 2000s.
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by epcoa 3y ago
The link you posted doesn’t make it seem unlikely inasmuch as it completely pillories even the notion of using Linux for avionics on both technical and economic merits, completely counter to your claim that it would “be great”. So why woul

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