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by ibiza 6y ago
> It Was Rock-Solid Stable, Unlike Windows Me. Under Windows NT, each process runs w/ its own LDT (Local Descriptor Table). Process memory bounds are enforced by the processor MMU. Windows 95, 98, Me, used a single shared LDT, for b
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by ibiza 6y ago
Each link in this lineage is tenuous. Objective-C took Smalltalk's call syntax, its class def (in a sense?), and its late fn binding, but little else. It certainly didn't take what made Smalltalk, Smalltalk. Full disclosure: I rea
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by ibiza 6y ago
I use a function "ev" that wraps bc. It's crude, but handy: $ ev() { echo "scale=3; $*" | bc -l; } $ ev 22/7 3.142
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by ibiza 6y ago
Note, Heng Li[0] is a significant figure in Bioinformatics software. Most notably, he is the author of BWA[1] (Burrows-Wheeler Alignment). BWA performs a large percent of all sequence alignments worldwide. [0] http://www.liheng.o
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by ibiza 6y ago
The problem is using `white` on black instead of `gray` on black. The latter provides plenty of contrast while still being easy to read.
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by ibiza 6y ago
Happy to see Borges in this list. His stories are short, but nonetheless can delight and occasionally provide a new basis vector for the mind.
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by ibiza 6y ago
> Buying tools: Start by buying the absolute cheapest tools you can find. Upgrade... Strong "no" on this one. Always buy quality tools. These are priced at a premium, but unlike "inexpensive" tools will: • Do the job
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by ibiza 7y ago
You do remember one of the original Windows NT subsystems was OS/2 1.x, right? http://www.os2museum.com/wp/nt-and-os2/ And look how that turned out :)
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by ibiza 8y ago
Prof Linares for EE. Excellent content presented in a kind, clear manner. https://m.youtube.com/user/rolinychupetin
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by ibiza 8y ago
For some reason "Frasier Crane" preferred the 3B2, and had one in his sound booth for many years. This seems a rather contrarian choice given his locale. https://goo.gl/images/niRdtU
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by ibiza 8y ago
It gives you correct answers to simple questions like this: > console.log(0.1 * 0.1) 0.010000000000000002
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by ibiza 8y ago
It would be a nice surprise to come across an article on COBOL that has anything nice to say, much less informative, about the language. One could start with that it's one of a tiny minority of languages based on decimal arithmetic as
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by ibiza 9y ago
I suppose dropping x86 support makes for one less architecture for Rosetta II to support.
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by ibiza 9y ago
Count me among the believers in running w/ swap. Here's all it takes to provide Linux with a little swap space: fallocate -l 8G /swapfile chmod 0600 /swapfile mkswap /swapfile swapon /swapfile Add
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by ibiza 9y ago
The previous generation MacBook Pros are still sold new on the Apple Store. Scroll down a bit: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro/15-inch
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by ibiza 9y ago
Funny, but the shell's namesake is pretty badass himself https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_R._Bourne
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by ibiza 10y ago
I would like to see how Octave or Matlab would do in these results. Before clicking on the link, I thought it would be Python, R, or Octave.
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by ibiza 10y ago
Icon fonts can flash on page refresh. GitHub's approach of embedding individual SVG icons eliminates this: https://github.com/blog/2112-delivering-octicons-with-svg
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by ibiza 10y ago
You can reduce the lag of using <Esc> with: set timeout timeoutlen=1000 ttimeoutlen=10
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by ibiza 10y ago
I disagree. The Airport Utility was aggressively bad. Unless you had a setup that exactly matched their paint-by-numbers GUI, it presented a series of vague riddles to accomplish your task. What exactly were the UI metaphors it presented? 3
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by ibiza 10y ago
Somewhat related, Jeff & Casey take down another MS API: How to draw a rectangle with Direct2D. http://braid-game.com/news/2009/01/the-jeff-and-casey-show-o...
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by ibiza 11y ago
Missed an opportunity to demonstrate that since make already knows how to make quite a lot of things, you can start w/ no Makefile at all, e.g.: $ echo 'int main() {}' >foo.c $ make foo