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by msla 3y ago
> Sorry about being pedantic, but is no such thing as fake content, there is only more content. This isn't pedantic, it's ignoring context: In context, "Fake" clearly means that the so-called review wasn't writte
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by msla 4y ago
I'm sure it's "well-designed" from a theoretical perspective, and unimpeachable from the perspective of Professional UI/UX Development, but it's so inflexible and non-extensible it comes off as something betwee
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by msla 4y ago
Ah, yes, the Anti-Me Interface: The kind of interface most likely to make me not use something. I'm sure it's "well-designed" from a theoretical perspective, and unimpeachable from the perspective of Professional UI&#x2F
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by msla 4y ago
> Basically, instead of applications, the user would focus on documents (kind of like the "spaces" in this). It reminds me a bit of the Apple Lisa. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Lisa > With Lisa,
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by msla 4y ago
> The addressing mode did not define RISC, it was a method to reach the goal. And the goal was pipelineability, not having fewer instructions. > That link has a lot of wrong information about RISC. The guy who helped design one of the
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by msla 4y ago
You obviously didn't read anything in the link I posted. Therefore, you have nothing to say.
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by msla 4y ago
> TMux itself contains a terminal emulator, and not everything works correctly in TMux Which is why we invented terminfo and ncurses.
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by msla 4y ago
Compare with Project Xanadu, particularly micropayments: https://dubinko.info/blog/2009/11/how-xanadu-works/ > All documents have a specific owner, are royalty-bearing, and work through a micropayment
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by msla 4y ago
> Also I bucket "free" into "data harvesting", "actually gratis", or "libre". Yes, and beware of the people who want you to ignore the second two categories. "If you aren't the customer,
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by msla 4y ago
That still doesn't make the 80486 a RISC in any sense.
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by msla 4y ago
> Modern ARM RISC processors have multitudes more instructions than that of prior generation CISC processors. That isn't and wasn't the thing that RISC processors reduced. What was reduced was the complexity of the instructions
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by msla 4y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/29/the-crowd-we... Because they'll imprison you if you say it isn't.
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by msla 4y ago
Not that it matters: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/29/the-crowd-we... > Hill is a Christian, historian, pacifist, teacher, writer, activist and republican. At the start of the ceremony,
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by msla 4y ago
> So maybe key() and value() would be good, more descriptive names for them then. My point is that they can be used in many different ways, and are, such that any mnemonic name would be misleading in some contexts.
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by msla 4y ago
> Now CAR and CDR don't convey a lot of meaning I agree. But that's just a matter of poor naming. They should (in my opinion) be called 'first' and 'rest', or something similarly meaningful and descriptive.
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by msla 4y ago
There's a reason it was called "Grave Robbers From Outer Space" for a while, which is the title The Amazing Criswell uses in the intro.
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by msla 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35614190 > Microsoft plugging more ads into Windows 11 Start Menu I mean, come on.
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by msla 4y ago
The Parking Lot Is Full: http://j.aufbix.org/plif/
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by msla 4y ago
So it's valueless when the original author wants it to have value and valuable when OpenAI wants it to have value? I am all for training AIs, but at least exhibit some self-consistency in your arguments!
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by msla 4y ago
The more proximal referent is Plan 9 from Bell Labs: https://9p.io/plan9/ > Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a research system developed at Bell Labs starting in the late 1980s. Its original designers and authors were Ken T
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by msla 4y ago
> and select the output you want based on conditionals. I thought you said it would be branchless.
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by msla 4y ago
https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/cmov.html
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by msla 4y ago
https://yarchive.net/comp/linux/cmov.html
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by msla 4y ago
> There's no better reminder that only a thimbleful of useful human knowledge is actually found on the internet. Or in books, for that matter.
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by msla 4y ago
A few chips, in fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AY-3-8500 http://www.pong-story.com/gi.htm It was an interesting era in chip design.
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by msla 4y ago
Yeah, anyone shocked by this is confused by the nature of both humans and linear time. This is why it's impossible for me to take seriously anyone who claims that a given medium is only for kids. Kids grow up, and adults who love a med
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by msla 4y ago
Counterpoint: https://wiki.osdev.org/System_V_ABI The System V ABI is closer to being a standard than some official standards are. C++ gets odd with name mangling, but the platform's C ABI is typically the tune every o
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by msla 4y ago
An example from the software world: Back in the misty days of Not Too Long Ago, there was a Jira add-on called nFeed. It allowed you to hook external databases to Jira using SQL queries and display the query results for users. Note I said
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by msla 4y ago
> A contra-narrative to your point is that there exist a minority of people who hold very specific and very dogmatic views about gender. Yes. They're the ones who try to enforce their views at gunpoint. > These people are pushing
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by msla 4y ago
> Drag shows involve violating social norms as a form of voluntary self expression. Such rejection of social norms should not be granted state sanction by hosting such events in public libraries. Mere assertion. Not an argument. The supp

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