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by eschaton 5y ago
Do they have full programming information publicly available for their extensions yet? Something akin to the Motorola manuals but for their extended instructions and addressing modes, including the instruction encodings.
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by eschaton 5y ago
Just look at what the fall of the USSR did for life expectancies there!
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by eschaton 5y ago
There are other movements in the region but they tend to be seen as even more antithetical to western governments. For example, the PKK wants to establish a modern secular Kurdish state. Turkey, Iraq, and Syria are opposed because it would
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by eschaton 5y ago
Politically targeted violence has been a reality in North America for hundreds of years, mostly enabled the past 150+ years in the US by organizations that exist to keep their members anonymous. The Proud Boys and 3%ers and Oath Keepers tha
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by eschaton 5y ago
Why’s that? You support keeping everything related to Symbolics locked up and hidden from the public? It’s 30 years old, it has no actual value besides research.
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by eschaton 5y ago
In fact, your effective rate goes down as you get wealthier, because progressively less of your income is treated as “ordinary income” with respect to the tax code, and there are more options available for paying high-end management firms t
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by eschaton 5y ago
You say “fair and flat taxes” as if there’s no sort of contradiction there.
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by eschaton 5y ago
Also, once the Symbolics 3600 series was released in the early 1980s, Symbolics looked like they were just resting on their laurels relative to the rest of the industry. There weren’t binary-compatible performance improvements every year
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by eschaton 5y ago
The owner of the Symbolics IP is an unbelievable idiot for not making sure the modern emulator is distributed far and wide, with source, so people can experiment with and enhance it. That’s the only value it holds today but they seem determ
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by eschaton 5y ago
Lucid was founded because Symbolics was unbelievably expensive and unbelievably arrogant. “We will always be the best so you have no choice but to pay our prices, nobody can match our performance or technology.” They wouldn’t even let a com
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by eschaton 5y ago
They were (are) slow, though. By 1990, workstations a tenth the price were just as fast, and while Symbolics was trying to scale Ivory past 14 MHz, RISC CPUs were rapidly approaching 100 MHz and CISC CPUs were heading that way too. And Cora
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by eschaton 5y ago
Opinions and jurisdictions differ. The problem is that some jurisdiction might define “software engineering” such that an individual without a license (and not under supervision of someone with one) could get in trouble for doing software
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by eschaton 5y ago
Are you a lawyer? If not, then you have no standing to interpret the law, and perhaps you should be charged with a crime for doing so. Does it make sense now how your reasoning is a bit circular?
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by eschaton 5y ago
So if a restaurant worker in California happens to do a poor job of washing their hands and a diner gets sick, does that mean America is to blame? There should absolutely be as deep as possible an investigation into the origins of the virus
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by eschaton 5y ago
Her opposition to trans rights is enough to term her despicable, her blatant and repeated use of racial, ethnic, and cultural stereotypes in her body if work is also rather bad.
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by eschaton 5y ago
You can file bugs using the Feedback Assistant app in /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications, and you can ask questions on the Developer Forums at < https://developer.apple.com/forums/ >. Bot
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by eschaton 5y ago
Has he show any remorse for ordering hits on people yet?
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by eschaton 5y ago
Why?
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by eschaton 5y ago
People wondering why I say this need to read “The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism” by David Golumbia and “Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain” by David Gerard. This stuff is based on crackpot economics so it’s inherently
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by eschaton 5y ago
How is this news? They were cryptocurrencies, of course they were scams.
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by eschaton 5y ago
Advertising is cancer and it’s a good thing when less money is spent on it and less of it is thrown in peoples’ faces. The ideal system is one where people pay for services and see no ads on the services they pay for and nobody can monetize
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by eschaton 5y ago
“Even more unacceptable…” It’s not more unacceptable for an exploit to exist than it is for the exploit to be used. One is a risk, the other is actively attempting to do harm.
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by eschaton 5y ago
At least some 6502 operating systems used calling conventions to work around this. For example by putting a parameter “inline” after the JSR to a dispatcher, with the dispatcher fixing up the return address to skip the parameter on return.
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by eschaton 5y ago
And hopefully getting the help they need to be a reasonable member of society after release.
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by eschaton 5y ago
Not everyone in prison has harmed or threatened to harm others. As an example, it was only 2003 when the US Supreme Court struck down a Texas sodomy law—and if they hadn’t, the victims of the law would probably have been imprisoned. How man
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by eschaton 5y ago
No, it’s not.
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by eschaton 5y ago
It sounds like web designers need to adjust their expectations. When they’re designing web pages, they don’t get complete control over rendering or OS controls, and just need to deal with that. The idea that a web page should be able to o
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by eschaton 5y ago
This or its tape equivalent has been pretty much how UNIX installation has been done since time immemorial: 1. Your bootstrap ROM boots the system from a file on floppy, tape, or file server. 2. That file is either a second-stage bootstrap
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by eschaton 5y ago
The best thing for users would be for the kernel and graphics subsystem to provide a well-defined API that maintains binary compatibility. Then people who care about open source drivers can have them, and everyone else who wants drivers tha
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by eschaton 5y ago
Indeed, it’s worth discussing because it was used as a blueprint by some of the despots of the twentieth century; it’s not just something that was figured out after the fact. These despots were even very open about their plans and methodo

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