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by jcranmer 1y ago
> That is, the language is fully designed for being the glue between multiple languages to allow for migration in the future. I think it would probably end up being C. Unfortunately, C is woefully insufficient for such a language. At a m
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> After many hours of back and forth with the reporter, luckily a Mozilla employee as well, I ended up buying the exact same laptop, same color, in a desperate attempt to reproduce the issue. Glad to know that networking still produces i
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by jcranmer 1y ago
I can see that DOS applications might require Virtual 8086 mode, but from what I can tell, almost no Win16 applications require it nor require hardware task management (I'm not even sure I'm aware of any application that uses hard
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by jcranmer 1y ago
The king can reach any of 64 tiles. Rooks, queens, and knights can also do so, but they can also be captured, so 65 states for those 5 pieces. Bishops can only reach half of those tiles, so those two pieces get 33 states each. Pawns are int
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by jcranmer 1y ago
I'm successfully running code that was written 10 years before x86-64 was invented on Linux x86-64. You can, too--just find some Win16 software online somewhere and run it under wine, and confirm that it's running without any hard
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by jcranmer 1y ago
Some of the examples: * Itanium has register windows. * Itanium has register rotations, so that you can modulo-schedule a loop. * Itanium has so many registers that a context switch is going to involve spilling several KB of memory. * The m
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> segmented memory is out in Protected Mode (nearly the totality of remaining 16-bit code). No, segmented memory is exactly what you can get working. You set up the segments via the LDT, which is still supported even in 64-bit mode; this
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by jcranmer 1y ago
I acquired a copy of the Itanium manuals, and in flicking through it, you can barely get through a page before going "you did WHAT?" over some feature.
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by jcranmer 1y ago
I've written code to call 16-bit code from 64-bit code that works on Linux (because that's the only OS where I know the syscall to modify the LDT). It's actually no harder to call 16-bit code from 64-bit code than it is to ca
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by jcranmer 1y ago
The story I heard (which I can't corroborate) was that it was Microsoft that nixed Intel's alternative 64-bit x86 ISA, instead telling it to implement AMD's version instead.
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by jcranmer 1y ago
A large share of the illegibility of Fortran code is actually just the aversion of numerics code to having meaningful variable names.
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by jcranmer 1y ago
No, this was the Uber that ran over the homeless women in Arizona.
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by jcranmer 1y ago
> There is no credible indication that AI in general is a bubble, even if not all investments will make sense in retrospect. If you add up all of the contracts that OpenAI is signing, it's buying something like $1 trillion/year
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by jcranmer 1y ago
They need to take lessons from the Morgantown PRT, which designed the system they want 50 years ago and whose capabilities they have yet to match.
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by jcranmer 1y ago
I'm dubious of this explanation because C itself largely postdates punched cards as a major medium of data storage, and some quick searches doesn't produce any evidence of people using punch cards with C or Unix.
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by jcranmer 1y ago
A long time ago, I did a project where I downloaded a year's worth of nightly builds for Thunderbird so that I could collect nightly code coverage information. Over the course of doing so, I discovered that there was one dependency (pa
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by jcranmer 1y ago
They've only built out the system at the Las Vegas Convention Center, and every other project seems to have fallen through.
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by jcranmer 1y ago
When the self-driving car killed a pedestrian several years ago, the initial sentiment on this site for the first few hours was essentially "those dastardly pedestrians, darting into traffic at the last second, how are you supposed to
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by jcranmer 1y ago
I think firing Musk would do wonders for Tesla as going concern but would be a disaster for the stock price. I suspect a significant proportion of Tesla's stock price comes from people who are using it as a proxy for his other companie
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by jcranmer 1y ago
I skimmed the papers, because I have not the time to read them in detail. But let me tell you this: even as a non-expert, comparing the pictures of the claimed phenomenon with various pictures of petroglyphs it's pretty clear that the
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by jcranmer 1y ago
skims the articles quickly Um, no. Archaeoastronomy is a field that is borderline fringe science, in large part because it is really easy to overinterpret the data and find spurious correlations because there's just so many variables
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by jcranmer 1y ago
I love SimTower to death, but unfortunately being a Win16-based game, it's kind of hard to get working on modern computers. For some reason, trying to run it in Wine works for a couple of minutes before it causes my window manager to s
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by jcranmer 1y ago
Trump's single greatest political achievement is to make everybody forget who was president in 2020.
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by jcranmer 1y ago
There are actually quite a few Republicans, such as Karl Rove, who are irate at the current administration for its attacks on free speech. But broadly speaking, and this truly transcends partisan divisions, there are very many people whose
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by jcranmer 1y ago
If you go down the road a bit so that you don't have the shrubs screening the view, it clearly still exists: https://maps.app.goo.gl/Et9kyrQ3DFSto6ap7
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by jcranmer 1y ago
The problem with reviewing AI-written code is that AI makes mistakes in very different ways from the way humans make mistakes, so you essentially have to retrain yourself to watch for the kinds of mistakes that AI makes.
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by jcranmer 1y ago
The Phony War was the phase between the fall of Poland (took ~1 month) and the invasion of France, where the dominant phase of the war was actually taking place in Norway.
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by jcranmer 1y ago
A 1:6 ratio for civilian deaths is not a good civilian casualty ratio by the standards of modern warfare. Russia in Ukraine is currently achieving a rate of about 1:3, and that's a country that's currently considered rather brut
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by jcranmer 1y ago
When it comes to strategic bombing, honestly, yes. It boggles my mind that militaries keep attempting despite decades of experience showing that damn near every single time it's been attempted, it's been an abject failure in its a
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by jcranmer 1y ago
I'd have to check, but I think Israel has killed more children in the past two years than Hamas killed Israelis on October 7. Israel has killed something like 30-40x the number of civilians in the same timeframe. Hamas is a bunch of ev

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