khedoros

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by khedoros 10y ago
> Many instructions of machine code can be written as one C statement. I'm quite aware =) Nested loops, some pointer calculations (dealing with real mode pointers), conditionals with more than one condition, and multi-step math stat
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by khedoros 10y ago
Don't most of those end up JIT'd into native binary code, anyhow? The compiler would output code into a W page, then flip it to an X page and jump in. If it's just an interpreter, then the "sort-of executable" is ju
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by khedoros 10y ago
Well, if they're going to arrest someone, they'd have a belief that they're a criminal. If there's evidence that they have a gun (e.g. entry in the gun registry under their name), then they'd have to consider it an
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by khedoros 10y ago
The game that I mentioned elsewhere in this thread seems to be a mix of C and assembly (as one would expect from an early-90s game), so I'd be curious about the same thing.
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by khedoros 10y ago
They certainly don't have a process where you can just "add to cart" on their website and hand them a couple thousand dollars. I'm not sure what extra checks they do through their sales team; maybe they're just tryi
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by khedoros 10y ago
How close is the SNES 65C816(-ish) code to NES 6502(-ish) code supported in the demo version of the program? I understand that they're from the same family, but I'd expect some incompatible extensions in the more-advanced chip, at
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by khedoros 10y ago
I have a few technical questions, as well as a few about your intentions with the software. How does it handle interrupt calls to the OS? It's not an issue for Windows (because it's all done through library calls, right?) But DOS
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by khedoros 10y ago
> We had SGIs, so who cared about PCs? Who's "we"? If you mean that they existed, then OK, I can't argue that. I've never known anyone that had one, but hundreds who had PC-level hardware. >And we're stil
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by khedoros 10y ago
I've known developers who went to management. Some of them went because they liked the idea, some went because they were asked to step up to fill a vacated role. Some have stayed in management, but a lot end up going back to dev eventu
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by khedoros 10y ago
"POLA" would be for "astonishment", instead of "surprise". Based on the Wikipedia citations, POLA looks like the older form of the phrase.
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by khedoros 10y ago
What, exactly, is confusing about it? It's just how it works, and there are good reasons for it. Screen allows you to do some cool things like keep your session running when you log off, so that you can log back in later and pick up wh
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by khedoros 10y ago
> No, the browser is a very necessary layer Effective security isolation is a necessary layer. Browsers are one option to provide that, but there are others. They also provide ways to fetch, run, and interface with cross-platform, highly
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by khedoros 10y ago
> We had OpenGL in the old days too. Pretty much straight from the beginning of the GPUs. Someone missed out on the early PC days ;-) An example of what I'm thinking: Standardized-ish PC hardware (CGA, EGA, VGA, et al) might be abst
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by khedoros 10y ago
Repetitive? No. Low-level? Yes, it certainly can be. Engineering a working application by shuttling data between a bunch of pre-written libraries can produce a satisfying result, and it's usually the smart way to design something. Pers
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by khedoros 10y ago
Your wife performs (or, can perform) arbitrary experiments on classic microprocessors to see if popular data analysis methods from neuroscience can elucidate the way they process information?
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by khedoros 10y ago
I've got it disabled on my phone, and you couldn't pay me to have something like an Echo at home. I feel like it would be another underused tech device I'd have to find an outlet for, and I don't ever want to feel relian
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by khedoros 10y ago
Some devices are always listening for "OK, Google", if you turn that feature on (Nexus 6, Nexus 9, and Samsung Note 4, according to a Google help page [0]). I vaguely remember reading something about a subprocessor in those devi
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by khedoros 10y ago
Java was the first OOP language that I learned. We started with some unexplained boilerplate "class Blah, public static void main", and learned the basic syntax of the language by building functions. OO concepts were introduced af
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by khedoros 10y ago
Goto should be used in the (admittedly rare) cases where it makes program flow cleaner. The original complaint was that people weren't moving to structured programming constructs as they became available. That really isn't a pro
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by khedoros 10y ago
As I understand it, the clipper chip was a combined encryption accelerator and key escrow device, with the escrow basically working as a government backdoor. The Intel Management Engine is another computer in your computer, running its own
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by khedoros 10y ago
I took the other option to be web-based services. There are a lot of developers putting forward the narrative that almost everything that could be done as a traditional on-device application would be at least as well suited to being built a
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by khedoros 10y ago
> Visio has plenty of web-based competitors. If there's a market for desktop users that would buy that over a subscription to a web-based system, then it could still be a valid space to try to develop in.
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I'm 5 years older. I started in Qbasic and moved to VB4 or 5 pretty soon after that. I've left them behind, but I've got a similar feeling about those languages. These days, I guess I'd do some TK thing in Python if I wa
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VB6 is/was certainly "real programming". I took that line in the post to be kind of mocking to people that would say that it wasn't.
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> They're not the rights holders. I understand it, and I'm not sure why you felt the need to state it. > My reading of his argument is that it's a conspiracy between Netflix, Hulu, etc, to make more money for themselves
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by khedoros 10y ago
> No, "pay TV" means TV you have to pay extra (outside the cost of a basic cable package) to access. "Pay TV" is in contrast to "broadcast TV". A basic cable package would be included in "pay TV".
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by khedoros 10y ago
We opted out of the sports tv package on DirecTv. Their page says that it's a $13.99/month set of channels.
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by khedoros 10y ago
>> If everyone has [list of services] then large rights holders extract more money. > It's the content creators driving this. You're agreeing with the post you replied to.
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First of all, you need to understand so many other CS concepts to understand a compiler, so we can take the reverse statement: If you understand how compilers work, then you've got to have a pretty good grasp of how computers work in g
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by khedoros 10y ago
I learned some degree of linear algebra sometime during high school (in optional math classes that a lot of my schoolmates never reached), but mostly as a set of rote-learned operations without a connection to anything useful. As a conseque

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