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by mark-r 4y ago
You could remove one branch by doing add 0 with carry instead of the increment.
332.
by mark-r 4y ago
You can format the source so any editor can handle it. But a 32-bit table is clearly going to be huge. Better to break it into two 16-bit or four 8-bit pieces and add the counts together.
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by mark-r 4y ago
Table lookups aren't fast if the table isn't in cache. A modern processor can do a lot of instructions in the time it takes to do a cold memory access.
334.
by mark-r 4y ago
Of all the creatures on this earth to be feared, I'd put Disney lawyers at the top of the list. There's no way this will end well for Florida.
335.
by mark-r 4y ago
I was surprised by that too, along with the low standing of Avenir. Those are the most beautiful sans serifs. P.S. I don't think screen resolution is high enough yet to do justice to a Didone.
336.
by mark-r 4y ago
Tahoma is almost identical to Verdana, just narrower and with tighter spacing. Makes it less clunky.
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by mark-r 4y ago
So which reflects worse on Russia's military? If it was sunk by an accidental fire on board, or if it was sunk by a Ukrainian missile attack? Either way it seems like a huge loss for them.
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by mark-r 5y ago
I've done many, but I'll highlight two today. The first is a background program to monitor my kids time on the PC. As their limit approaches it pops up a window with a timer countdown. When the countdown reaches zero, they're
339.
by mark-r 5y ago
I have a pixels-per-inch calculator too, but mine is an Excel spreadsheet. Lets me see all the displays I've been interested in or own, even things like phones.
340.
by mark-r 5y ago
You're just looking in the wrong places. Check this out: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4438556
341.
by mark-r 5y ago
I think there are an almost infinite number of technologies that this could be based on.
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by mark-r 5y ago
To be clear, I'm not arguing that Notepad++ or NotepadNext isn't superior to Notepad. I'm simply pointing out that the original Notepad had useful properties that have been lost. I didn't think that would be controvers
343.
by mark-r 5y ago
That is correct, I'm going back to the inspiration behind the inspiration. Notepad++ lacks the same properties compared to the original
344.
by mark-r 5y ago
There are two aspects of the original Notepad that will never be duplicated. First, all the heavy lifting was done by built-in Windows components, it was just a simple wrapper. You could probably write your own replacement in an afternoon
345.
by mark-r 5y ago
I wouldn't count on those batteries being any cheaper for a long time. There's a reason they applied for so many patents - they intend to capture all the savings through licensing fees I'm sure.
346.
by mark-r 5y ago
... which would stop working if the computer went down.
347.
by mark-r 5y ago
But they make it impossible to run short trains...
348.
by mark-r 5y ago
Is that just Intel CPUs or did AMD copy it too?
349.
by mark-r 5y ago
I had the same kind of accidental introduction to depth illusions as a kid. The family station wagon had a patterned finish that was just repeated squares. On long trips my eyes would relax and suddenly the pattern jumped off the surface.
350.
by mark-r 5y ago
>> 1. Self discipline. Plastic (debit or credit) lets you spend more than you should. Cash doesn't. > Never understood this idea. If you have a wad of cash and you're bad at tracking your spending, don't you just go
351.
by mark-r 5y ago
If they are aware but still do wrong anyway, I'd argue it's NOT effective.
352.
by mark-r 5y ago
Wow, I don't think I've ever seen so many 5 1/4" floppy drives at a time.
353.
by mark-r 5y ago
The transcript of that was totally unreadable, and did NOT motivate me to watch the video.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Part of the problem is that 80 bit operations were never designed to be a visible data type, you were expected to round to a 64 bit type at the end of a series of operations. There was never a good way of indicating to your compiler where
355.
by mark-r 5y ago
I knew that, but I wanted to give the whole progression.
356.
by mark-r 5y ago
The funny thing is that converting changes in temperature is even easier than converting actual temperature. There's no offset to apply, which has the nice side effect that the signs are never different.
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by mark-r 5y ago
Nobody uses the x87 instructions any more, they've been superseded by MMX/SSE/SSE2 which can't do 80-bit operations. And it's not clear whether 80 bits would be enough of an improvement over 64 to fix the problem.
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by mark-r 5y ago
The best part was they blamed it on government regulations.
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by mark-r 5y ago
And here's another discussion from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17587684 Has the patent situation changed any since then? I wouldn't expect so.
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by mark-r 5y ago
You forgot my favorite - JSLinux, Linux running in your browser .

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