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3121.
by kps 14y ago
There's a Boost header with macros that provide this for C and C++. int i = BOOST_BINARY( 1 0010 0010 0000 1000 );
3122.
by kps 14y ago
So, the question is — if you take a zeppelin-sized chunk of aerographite, seal the outside, and evacuate the air, will it hold up to the pressure?
3123.
by kps 14y ago
The word ‘persian’ there is a little misleading. The European satellite providers stopped carrying the Iranian government's channels, not Persian-language channels in general.
3124.
by kps 14y ago
Two of those four do, more or less, via the Coalition for Patent Fairness — http://www.patentfairness.org/learn/who/supporters/ (Disclaimer: my employer is also a member, and I approve, but play no part.)
3125.
by kps 14y ago
I use a standing desk at home. I find my feet hurt if I stand still for long, but not if I walk. For me, running the treadmill at about 2km/h is ideal.
3126.
by kps 14y ago
Neat. Kind of like what Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad did in 1963.
3127.
by kps 14y ago
From The Elements of Programming Style by Kernighan and Plauger: “Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?”
3128.
by kps 14y ago
Non-intuitive? ASCII ^H is Backspace, which moves left, and ^J is line feed, which moves down. How much more intuitive can you GET?!?
3129.
by kps 14y ago
The stock V6 UNIX kernel is 28,684 bytes, and /bin/sh is 5888.
3130.
by kps 14y ago
At home, I've been standing or walking on a treadmill for about a year. I find walking actually easier on the feet. My current 'desk' is a prototype of 2×4s and plywood, which I plan to replace with something nicer (with a matched 'skin' fo
3131.
by kps 14y ago
Some information about computers from the early '50s is still classified — http://www.governmentattic.org/4docs/NSAgenSpecComputers_198... . That plus http://www.governmentattic.org/3docs/NSA-HGPEDC_1964.pdf are interesting reads for an
3132.
by kps 14y ago
"standard nine-pin serial port" Them's fightin' words, boy. DEC had a DE9 serial port connector whose pinout is not the same as the later IBM PC DE9 serial ports.
3133.
by kps 14y ago
Often when TTY settings are messed up by a full-screen program, you need to type «Control-J stty sane Control-J». It's necessary to use Control-J (i.e. newline) explicitly instead of pressing Return or Enter, because those generally send CR
3134.
by kps 14y ago
You're better off finding an existing ASCII teletype. Then all you need is a USB-to-RS232 interface (FTDI and PL2303 ones work on OS X) and, depending on the machine, an RS232 to 20ma current loop interface, or a modem. Then simply edit /et
3135.
by kps 14y ago
The version from Nature does not suffer from this typographical mess. http://www.nature.com/news/proof-claimed-for-deep-connection...
3136.
by kps 14y ago
Switching base every digit is fun. Before Britain made their currency dull, some LEO and ICT (later ICL) computers did £sd arithmetic in hardware.
3137.
by kps 14y ago
Then the question can be rephrased, for the US anyway, as “Should that part of the DMCA be enforced?”
3138.
by kps 14y ago
Supporting KILL and especially WERASE would be nice; I usually use one of those rather when I've made a string of errors, rather than watching and counting backspaces. And I agree with previous comments that it's hard to follow just how man