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by microtherion 10mo ago
> A factory is a factory. Yes, but what about factory factories? https://factoryfactoryfactory.net
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by microtherion 10mo ago
It could make some sense to use strchr, because in idiomatic UNIX tools, single character command line options can be clustered. But that also means that subsequent code should not be tested for a specific position. And if you ever find y
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by microtherion 10mo ago
That 80/82 bit format turned out to be problematic, as it was only used internally, and stored as 64 bits in memory. This meant that the same calculation could give different results based on whether an intermediate value had spilled t
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by microtherion 10mo ago
Wirth also wrote an extremely accessible book on Compiler Construction, using exactly the hand written recursive descent parsing approach discussed by OP. The initial edition was published in 1976, in German, but the latest version is avail
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by microtherion 10mo ago
It also can initiate phone calls and play music. And those are really the core use cases for AirPods, HomePods, and CarPlay, the contexts where a hands-free eyes-free interface is most useful.
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by microtherion 10mo ago
Theoretically, yes, but in practice almost everybody would just run their Ubuntu Fridge in a stock configuration.
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by microtherion 10mo ago
cf The Harvard Law: "Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases."
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by microtherion 11mo ago
Unfortunately for the English majors, the poetry described seems to be old fashioned formal poetry, not contemporary free form poetry, which probably is too close to prose to be effective. It sort of makes sense that villains would employ v
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by microtherion 11mo ago
Try adding a French or Spanish accent for extra effectiveness.
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by microtherion 11mo ago
Theoretically, there's a mechanism in Unicode allowing you to aim left and right: https://unicode.org/reports/tr51/#Direction But I don't think it's implemented widely, if anywhere.
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by microtherion 11mo ago
SVG is XML based.
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by microtherion 11mo ago
It's PowerPC assembler. I assume GP's point was that assembly language literacy was a pointless skill nowadays. I found it quite useful, precisely because it's no longer an ubiquitous skill, so you can shine with your experti
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by microtherion 11mo ago
Was going to mention that point: http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/en/knowledge/geothermal-energy-ear... The worst earthquake that was induced that way was 3.5, but given that one of the quakes happened in an area that ha
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by microtherion 11mo ago
I'm not super comfortable with my body, but I occasionally frequent saunas, and in my experience, there is very little "staring" going on in the mainstream ones (obviously, there are saunas intended for orgies, pickups, etc,
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by microtherion 11mo ago
In many European countries, it's not at all controversial to have nude mixed-gender saunas (and concerns about homosexuals recede once it's possible to be ogled heterosexually in such spaces).
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by microtherion 11mo ago
Yes, but Apple tends to lock in their supply with long term contracts and prepayments, so they often are protected from supply shocks.
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by microtherion 11mo ago
My understanding is that refurbished GPUs from e.g. crypto mining are something people are warned away from, because they've often been run into the ground. Are AI usage practices different?
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by microtherion 11mo ago
Yes, I agree that ads in maps would be a bad customer experience. But "The customer experience was all-important" is a bit reductionist. The hockey puck mouse stuck around for years after it became clear it was a poor customer exp
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by microtherion 11mo ago
I took several car mechanic classes from De Anza college. Great instructor, and I did do some hands on stuff. But my primary takeaway was that this is hard & dirty work, and there are numerous ways in which you can make mistakes that ru
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by microtherion 1y ago
Surely Linux should be developed Google style, with a Web Scale perspective. uucp, tar, yacc, roff removed (with a 30 day notice, of course!), all the uses of "creat" amended to add the final "e", etc. And systemd alread
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by microtherion 1y ago
I've seen the land that my ancestors left to become factory workers. There simply wasn't enough of it to feed everyone. In fact, the last pre-factory ancestor worked as an itinerant tailor because there was no land for him to cult
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by microtherion 1y ago
> Zero employers today would even briefly consider paying people any amount at all to not be at work while also paying for the thing keeping them away from work. Apple definitely had programs to pay all or part of relevant educational pr
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by microtherion 1y ago
> “Free software” does not mean “noncommercial.” On the contrary, a free program must be available for commercial use, commercial development, and commercial distribution. This policy is of fundamental importance—without this, free softw
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by microtherion 1y ago
Another, NSFW, problem with $1 coins is that their universal adoption would lead to a lot of bruised strippers.
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by microtherion 1y ago
Woz was one of many people who designed microprocessor based computers in the 1970s (I recently started reading back issues of Dr. Dobb's Journal https://archive.org/details/dr_dobbs_journal_vol_01_201710 , and the
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by microtherion 1y ago
Maybe Boucher's Blonde Odalisque.
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by microtherion 1y ago
You could argue that Steve Jobs was a product of very Californian circumstances: Born to parents of very different cultural backgrounds, raised in a hotbed of electronics development (and new age spirituality), started a company in an area
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by microtherion 1y ago
I seem to recall from past reading of the AppKit source code that one solution to (1) was to have version specific workarounds that worked for e.g. RecklessApp 39, but would no longer work for RecklessApp 40. I assume that the developers in
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by microtherion 1y ago
Same thing happened to me with this drive: Lost the data on a RAID because two drives failed at the same time.
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by microtherion 1y ago
I agree. The tokenizer in the article completely misses the point of how Forth works: the tokenization is supposed to be driven by the words themselves, i.e. ." is looking for a " delimiter, ( is looking for a ). Not to mention th

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