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by mmphosis 4y ago
I can only dream of a day when dedicated video cards become just as redundant.
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A Google engineer says AI has become sentient. What does that mean?(cbc.ca)
2 points by mmphosis 4y ago|2 comments
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Actually Portable Awk(justine.lol)
5 points by mmphosis 4y ago|0 comments
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M5: On board the largest single-masted sailing yacht in the world (2020)(boatinternational.com)
3 points by mmphosis 4y ago|0 comments
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Art && CODE Symposium: Hackety Hack, why the lucky stiff [video] (2009)(vimeo.com)
1 points by mmphosis 4y ago|0 comments
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Stop drinking, keep reading, look after your hearing: a neurologist’s tips(theguardian.com)
19 points by mmphosis 4y ago|7 comments
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Review: Das Keyboard's New 'MacTigr' Is a Mechanical Keyboard for Mac Users(macrumors.com)
1 points by mmphosis 4y ago|0 comments
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by mmphosis 4y ago
We do. Maybe too many alternatives. USB with some non Bluetooth radio connection, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Fiber, and more. I was setting up a shared connection recently, and there was the option to use FireWire.
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The open source paradox (2020)(antirez.com)
88 points by mmphosis 4y ago|87 comments
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by mmphosis 4y ago
Unfortunately, I do need a lot of these redundant keys. I had the entire Numpad set up as hotkeys in AutoKey. So yes, I don't need Numpad, and I don't need NumLock, scroll lock, insert, function keys, function key, Super key, dedi
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by mmphosis 4y ago
I read so many articles. I don't know what makes something "the best", but this week, this particular article seemed to stand out for me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32424228
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Switcher (2004)(folklore.org)
162 points by mmphosis 4y ago|30 comments
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by mmphosis 4y ago
It depends who you are creating the language for. If the language is for the computer so that it can compile in a single pass then maybe forward declarations are a way. When I write code, I don't want it cluttered with boilerplate and
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by mmphosis 4y ago
I would hand those off to an auto reply bot. Simple repetitive questions get simple repetitive answers.
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by mmphosis 4y ago
Sailing knots. Knots that I can make in a hurry. Bow line. Reef knot. Figure 8.
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by mmphosis 4y ago
Kindness, regardless of who “these people” might be. Patience and generosity — thank you for asking, what a great question, I wish could have thought of asking those questions. Yesterday, by the time I had looked up in the manual, the techn
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by mmphosis 4y ago
I am in my late 50s, and don’t take things quite as seriously as I once did. But seriously, I would like to release some games!
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by mmphosis 4y ago
Not really true. At the time, there was lots of software for the Apple II. There was no spreadsheet software because VisiCalc was one of the first to be released. Most software was created by 3rd parties. “A software” didn’t need to be appr
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by mmphosis 4y ago
No. The PC keyboard is stuck in the 1980s. The only innovation being the upside down T arrangement of the arrow keys. A few years ago when I started using windows, I was told that I would quickly get used to the keyboard arrangement, but I
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Write 8-bit code in the browser(8bitworkshop.com)
1 points by mmphosis 4y ago|0 comments
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by mmphosis 4y ago
I take screenshots of the Windows update with an iPhone. A spinner shows with the words Working on updates. 100% complete. Don't turn off your computer Windows 11 is ready—and it's free! Get the latest version of Windows with a
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by mmphosis 4y ago
It happens in all sorts of other domains too - the tendency to believe that things, by default, are the way they are for good and just reasons is strong in most people. For example, that’s why there are still ashtrays in new airplanes by
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by mmphosis 4y ago
There are currently 3 major browser engines: Google Chromium, Apple WebKit, and Mozilla Firefox. There are lots of derivatives of Chromium that claim to be secure and remove Google web service dependencies. WebKit is mostly iOS and macos wh
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by mmphosis 4y ago
Be conservative in what you send; be liberal in what you accept. Can the text {one hundred and twenty-three million, four hundred and fifty-six thousand, seven hundred and eighty-nine} in any language be dragged into the input field? Can I
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by mmphosis 4y ago
2 cycles per byte! It takes 4 cycles for PHA to push the 16-bit Accumulator, two bytes, onto the stack. There's also 16-bit PHD, PHX and PHY.
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by mmphosis 4y ago
You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.
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by mmphosis 4y ago
This also misses a lot of other tricks: self-modifying unrolled code, keeping track of blocks of memory that don't need to be updated, or blocks of memory that have the same value. Memory moves may not be the fastest way. 0 HIMEM:
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Things I hate about Git (2012)(stevebennett.me)
1 points by mmphosis 4y ago|0 comments
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by mmphosis 4y ago
That’s how I arrange things. I have enough screen space to visibly see all of the windows. I avoid tabs, mdi, workspaces, containers and other such groupings and stick to separate windows.
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by mmphosis 4y ago
I used FreeBSD decades ago at a dot com company. I keep PowerPC Macs going if Darwin counts as a bsd.

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