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by guenthert 8mo ago
Yeah, he might have wanted to use Xing. Of course, he'd be pretty lonely there.
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by guenthert 8mo ago
What about assertions that are meant to detect bad hardware? I'd think that's not too uncommon, particularly in shops building their own hardware. Noise on the bus, improper termination, ESD, dirty clock signal, etc. -- there ar
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by guenthert 8mo ago
I was green with envy, when I saw how fast and smooth a C64 scrolled some text (iirc it was some machine code monitor). My Amstrad CPC464 had no text mode and the Z80A CPU was clearly overwhelmed with shifting the whopping 16KiB RAM of t
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by guenthert 8mo ago
> It's up to the compiler to decide how many registers it needs to preserve at a call. But the compiler is bound by the ABI, isn't it? (at least for externally visible entrance points / calls to sub routines external to th
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by guenthert 8mo ago
Er, what? The article describes a compiler for a not-quite-C programming language which fits entirely in 512B. Your project, if I see this correctly, can optionally produce code meant to execute as boot sector. Both interesting projects,
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by guenthert 9mo ago
Iirc (it's been a while), Interactive Unix (full?) install required some 40 (forty!) 5 1/4" floppies (I believe 1.2MiB) anno 1992 or so. Linux (SLS) install was (a little later) so much smaller, even with X11 and TeX, as i
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by guenthert 9mo ago
Sensitivity peak for humans is in cyan (~510nm) only for low-light conditions (night vision / rod cells). In daylight (cone cells) it's green-yellow (555nm). https://www.giangrandi.ch/optics/eye/eye.shtm
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by guenthert 9mo ago
I didn't notice overheating, but there are a quite a few different products on the market. The modest speed (~50MBps at my place) was then ok-ish, but the (variable!) latency of a couple of ms was annoying (it tended to break pacemaker
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by guenthert 9mo ago
That would have been then already some kind of anachronism. 8MiB RAM was workable (but only barely so with X11) in the early nineties. Late nineties 64MiB or more were common.
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by guenthert 9mo ago
Not all functionality is perfectly replicated, so the user experience depends on the application being used. I use it semi-regularly for quite a number of years and (consequently) various versions of Wine to run (a near current version of)
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by guenthert 9mo ago
Should they though? If the answer to a question^Wprompt happens to be in the training set, wouldn't it be disingenuous to not provide that?
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by guenthert 9mo ago
Complain and use a different site. There are only few websites which offer a truly unique service. If enough complain and walk away, something might finally change.
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by guenthert 9mo ago
> if AI (or humans) have mistranslated a natural language statement to a formal statement, we should not rely on AI to correctly translate the formal statement back into natural language. Perhaps we must not rely on it and find a way to
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Why Rust solves a problem we no longer have(rochuskeller.substack.com)
4 points by guenthert 9mo ago|4 comments
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by guenthert 10mo ago
Are you perhaps confusing the Raspberry Pi Foundation with the Raspberry Pi Holdings?
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by guenthert 10mo ago
Render me surprised as there is no Na in DDT.
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by guenthert 10mo ago
I too was waiting for the 'grand together' announcement.
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by guenthert 10mo ago
Ubuntu using atomic clocks would surprise me. Sure they could, but it's not obvious to me why they would spend $$$$ on such. More plausible to me seems that they would be using GPSDO as reference clocks (in this context, about as goo
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by guenthert 10mo ago
> CCL, as far as I can tell, is abandonware Last release was August 14 2024. For a 30+ year old project, that's quite recent methinks. It clearly doesn't move as fast as SBCL, but I wouldn't call it abandoned either. otot
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by guenthert 10mo ago
Well, it does list the names of the founders ...
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by guenthert 10mo ago
Is it him or is it you? I'd think within the Mozilla organization is a data trove of telemetry which renders a fairly good picture of how many users actually are using ad blockers.
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by guenthert 10mo ago
Hard disagree. There are times when nobody, really nobody, cares about a given type. See the example of std::chrono::steady_clock::now over at cppreference.com. There you have const auto start = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
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by guenthert 10mo ago
Indeed. Keysight's top-of-the-line long-scale DMM, the 3458A, was redesigned (chiefly for RoHS compliance) in 2019 and the GPIB bus remains the only means to remote control that instrument.
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by guenthert 10mo ago
> Since repaired, but was told at the time original installer didn't correctly do the aluminum grease on the exposed wire parts. I know nothing about grease, but it's pretty obvious that a fuse was missing. You might want to c
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by guenthert 11mo ago
That was the topic of T.H.E.M. by G.C. Edmonson (or so I remember -- I read the translation "Die A.N.D.E.R.E.N." many years ago). Made for a good story, reality is a bit more complex methinks. There's after all a lot of mone
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by guenthert 1y ago
Spinning rust drives tend to be much faster on the outer than the inner tracks.
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by guenthert 1y ago
I'm pretty sure that there were such drives more than twenty years ago (not popular though). I have to ask, what's the point today? The average latency goes down at most linearly with the number of actuators. One would need thous
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by guenthert 1y ago
Dunno. I worked (fortunately only) very briefly on one (Octane I _think_). Still remember the trashcan were flames shot out, when one was dragging a file on it. Cute the first three times. Other than that, I remember the bad flicker (in
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by guenthert 1y ago
Not only a small screen by modern standards, but the hardware lacked the needed resolution. The marketing brochure claims a 10x10 dot matrix. That will be for the 80 column mode. That works out to respectable 800 pixel horizontally, barely
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by guenthert 1y ago
Obviously 100 is the right choice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_length#cite_note-dykip-8

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