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by jsrcout 7mo ago
Same, this is something I would use often. Sort of like #pragma once, but for initialization.
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by jsrcout 7mo ago
Just realized they tag the releases with great names in math/computing. Very cool.
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by jsrcout 7mo ago
Edit is unironically one of my favorite text editors these days. It opens incredibly fast compared to everything else I use, it's easy to use, works fine on Linux. It's not going to replace emacs or VS Code, but it's incredib
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by jsrcout 7mo ago
I've been trying to track down "What's New" for a long long time. If memory serves, there was a daily email titled "What's New on the World Wide Web" - very possibly the source for this monthly summary. It
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by jsrcout 8mo ago
Tried to answer this question years back for just the "basic" x86 registers. Quickly realized there was never going to be any single answer until I had mastered the entire ISA. Oh well.
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by jsrcout 8mo ago
ENOPE.
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by jsrcout 8mo ago
Art, photography, acting, music - none of them are good career choices. You'll either be one of the fortunate few, or you'll struggle to make a living. Sucks but that's how it is.
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by jsrcout 8mo ago
Plenty of places, actually. Maybe not so much in the companies people here tend to be familiar with. It happens all the time where I work (smaller company far from the Bay area).
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by jsrcout 8mo ago
From valued professional to surplus inventory just like that. Where does this process end? Because right now it's only accelerating.
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by jsrcout 8mo ago
"We" might be such an industry, but I'm not. My focus has always been on creating new capabilities, particularly for specialists in whatever field. I want to make individuals more powerful, not turn them into surplus.
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by jsrcout 8mo ago
Have seen this time and time again during my career. Most of the time, it's something you could never conceivably figure out without having been there at the time. But after 10 seconds on the phone or a brief email from someone who was
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by jsrcout 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure we've achieved that already, centuries ahead of schedule :-)
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by jsrcout 8mo ago
At my first job circa 1990, our codebase was constrained to 6-character function names in the core libraries, which had to run on many platforms including mainframes. If I recall correctly, you could have longer names, but only the first 6
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by jsrcout 8mo ago
The Apple II Reference Manual includes assembly listings (with full comments!) for the Monitor ROM and Autostart ROM, the mini-assembler, floating point routines, and a very nice 16-bit "pseudo machine interpreter" called SWEET 16
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by jsrcout 9mo ago
> It's even similar in Kiev, when you walk down the streets you see people living their lives. Gyms, bars, cafes, clubs are full and lively. People don't stop living and enjoying their daily lives just because there's shel
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by jsrcout 9mo ago
My first job was on a large-ish software product that ran on several completely incompatible platforms - various Unixes, early Windows, IBM mainframes, etc - and window systems. At first, making all of them happy seemed like annoying busy-w
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by jsrcout 9mo ago
Thanks, didn't know about this one.
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by jsrcout 9mo ago
I've been using less for years, still learned a few things from the article and comments. I used less + PCRE (for pattern highlighting) for many years for detailed code analysis. It was a great way to get "down in the weeds"
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by jsrcout 9mo ago
As a budding young computer geek and mildly OCD person I always hated the non-square pixels. As far as I recall, square pixels just didn't exist at the time. Maybe at Xerox PARC or somewhere. They never quite looked right, and making
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by jsrcout 9mo ago
And not only that, our sensors can return spurious data, or even purposely constructed fake data, created with good or evil intent. I've had this in mind at times in recent years due to $DAYJOB. We use simulation heavily to provide fak
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by jsrcout 10mo ago
Wow, tried this in a VM and absolutely love it. Besides the nostalgia factor, there's just a concreteness and visibility to the UI elements that feels like it's been lacking in Linux desktop environments for a long time. Thinking
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by jsrcout 10mo ago
Late to the party but OMG this is possibly the greatest tech news discussion page of all time. Not just hilarious and impressive, but so many fantastic ideas / weirdly believable news items from the future! As an old fart software de
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by jsrcout 10mo ago
Finally, a use case for AI that we can all get behind :-)
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by jsrcout 10mo ago
Yep. The Curse of Knowledge is a real thing.
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by jsrcout 11mo ago
Reading (someone else's) code is a whole lot harder than writing it. Which is unfortunate because I do an awful lot of it at work.
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by jsrcout 11mo ago
But will the smell be in 3D?
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by jsrcout 11mo ago
I know someone whose sense of taste was ruined by a small stroke. He said basically everything tastes like old gym socks now. That would suck so bad.
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by jsrcout 11mo ago
Now, either (except, of course, to himself).
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by jsrcout 11mo ago
Getting a "not available in your state" page, does anyone have an archive? I've only recently tried out fil-c and hope to use it in some work projects.

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