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by lokedhs 3y ago
It does make a difference on some operating systems. Specifically DOS (and by extension, Windows, at least sometimes. As usual with Microsoft it gets complicated). When enabling text mode transfers in these systems, newlines gets translated
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by lokedhs 3y ago
Many array languages do have this issue. To be precise, the issue is that the simple straightforward approach tends to compute a lot more than necessary. It's of course possible to do it in a different way to deal with that issues but
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by lokedhs 3y ago
There is no need to have a specific keyboard. The actual solution depends on what APL you're using, but the principle is the same. The various symbols are available on the regular keys, and you use some way to indicate that you want th
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by lokedhs 3y ago
While I am the author of one of those one-man projects, I would like to point your attention towards BQN. It started as a one-man project, but isn't anymore. As much as I would like people to look at my implementation, if you want to p
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by lokedhs 3y ago
Join an instance, it really doesn't matter that much which one, as long as it's not one on the "freeze peach" side (I'd explain why, but I think you'll know them when you see them). If you pick one with a theme
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by lokedhs 4y ago
Probably because the idea of the standards group was that you already had REMOVE and COMPLEMENT, so there was no need for it. These days the function is usually called filter, but I'm not sure it was a commonly used term then.
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by lokedhs 4y ago
I loved summer of code and participated every year. Then one year they changed the system and all of a sudden it was no longer possible to submit in any language. Like everything else by Google they had become boring. The best part of summe
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by lokedhs 4y ago
Have they ever accepted any redemption?
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by lokedhs 4y ago
I'm on mobile now right now and can't really test, but one thing that a lot of versions of this game gets wrong is that they omit the feature to be able to dig without moving. On the C64 this is done by pressing the button while m
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by lokedhs 4y ago
They tried that with their Singapore office and the landlord just walked the staff out of the building. Apparently that caused them to pay up pretty quickly. https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-employees-escorted-singapore-...
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by lokedhs 4y ago
My notation is based on APL2, and includes some extensions from Dyalog. On top of that is new syntax to support first class functions and some other things. The syntax for defining functions is also a bit different, but better in my opinion
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by lokedhs 4y ago
That happened to me back when I bought my T490. Later they released a firmware update that fixed it. So the only case where I saw such issue, Lenovo fixed it quickly.
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by lokedhs 4y ago
As someone who has spent quite some time developing a new APL dialect (with plenty of features that are not normally found in APL dialects), I'd love to hear more about what you'd like to see improved.
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by lokedhs 4y ago
36 bits is very neat, and used by several machines including the PDP-10. The smallest unit doesn't have to be a single character.
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by lokedhs 4y ago
Unless things have changed lately, it's still very annoying to get your Gnu COBOL program interacting with the test of your system. Something as simple as reading a file is a lot harder than you'd expect. And opening a TCP connect
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by lokedhs 4y ago
I do almost exactly that, but I replace the stars with plus. I don't think empty name or domain parts are legal?
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by lokedhs 4y ago
It took many years until MP3 decoding on a stock Falcon was possible. While the machine was generally available, there was no MP3 implementation, and the belief was that it was impossible.
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by lokedhs 4y ago
Wait, was that popular? Now, I was mostly into the C64 and later Atari ST, with some insight into other platforms, but I don't think I've ever heard about an external MP3 decoder. On what's platform was this available? The cl
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by lokedhs 4y ago
I've never used these commercial blogging platforms, so the answer to this question may be obvious. Do these platforms provide something useful compared to something like write.as which is based on an open source solution? Is their too
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by lokedhs 4y ago
In Sweden, I've pronounced it "dess", which works really well.
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by lokedhs 4y ago
Hiding? At least in Sweden it's used all the time. Unless they stopped doing that in the 17 years since I left.
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by lokedhs 4y ago
I could have sworn I originally heard of this OS in the context of it running on the C64. Searching for it confirms this with information from the C64 wiki, but it only links to the main site which seems to to have removed any reference to
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by lokedhs 4y ago
There was no FPU for the 68000. This was supported by the 68010, which was not present in any Atari computers. Are you sure he didn't add it for the Falcon, which did have a slot for an FPU.
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by lokedhs 4y ago
I thought you must have been exaggerating, but then I clicked the the link and oh wow, that contrast. Completely unreadable.
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by lokedhs 4y ago
I translated part of the email in this post l: https://functional.cafe/@loke/109748562675456516 > For the last two years we have undertaken proactive initiatives to scale efficiently, "We've reduced hiring
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by lokedhs 4y ago
Is it? Or is is mainly US? My impression is that Canada is a much more like Europe in this respect, and Mexico doesn't seem aligned with this either?
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by lokedhs 4y ago
And then what? Can they provide you with 10 B of real money?
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by lokedhs 4y ago
If it's the goal, you'd expect ads to be actually be more relevant and useful to users. They don't, which has been shown in studies. What has been shown is that showing the same things people already bought give people regret
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by lokedhs 4y ago
Ostensibly it's so that the user can get more relevant ads. In practice, it's not of course, but that's the answer you'd get if you ask them.
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by lokedhs 4y ago
That just the decimal representation of the code point, isn't it?

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