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by musicale 8mo ago
> Programming languages are natural and ambiguous too Programming languages work because they are artificial (small, constrained, often based on algebraic and arithmetic expressions, boolean logic, etc.) and have generally well-define
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by musicale 8mo ago
Is Mario really harmful? You may also be surprised that some people consider the fixed-function design of game consoles to be a positive thing.
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by musicale 8mo ago
DisplayPort supposedly can work via an 8K@60Hz DisplayPort 1.4 to USB C cable.
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by musicale 8mo ago
It sounds like you don't like Sony's (and Nintendo's etc.) business model, which involves charging licensing fees to amortize R&D expenses and make money generally. Sony has had this business model since the original Play
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by musicale 8mo ago
Most appliances have fairly general-purpose microcontrollers inside them, but expose a fixed-function interface. Hopefully things like safety interlocks for microwave oven doors are implemented in hardware rather than software. > Soon th
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by musicale 8mo ago
They shut it down due to (likely valid) concerns that it could potentially be leveraged to jailbreak the regular PS3 OS and/or run unlicensed commercial games.
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by musicale 8mo ago
> current-generation AI agents are too unreliable, too untrustworthy, and too unsafe for real-world use ...a completely unsurprising result, but it's nice to see published experiments. Any agent system using current LLMs is likely t
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by musicale 8mo ago
I still prefer LXC to docker. Improving libvirt and making virtualization a first-class OS feature with a library interface - vs. relying on an external tool and company interested in monetization - was and is the right approach.
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by musicale 8mo ago
I was fine playing Splatoon and Borderlands (and some other FPS and TPS) but somehow Overwatch made me ill for weeks.
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by musicale 8mo ago
> For decades ISP have throttled upload speeds This seems to be changing somewhat; even cable ISPs are adopting full duplex via DOCSIS 3.1 (now rebranded as 4.0?) and later.
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by musicale 8mo ago
We may never know why ChatGPT usage mysteriously drops during summer vacation... > By categorizing the 100 most popular searches containing the character string “chatgpt” he found that the top usage was for job applications, characterize
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by musicale 8mo ago
I'm running macOS because it runs desktop applications, and the macOS desktop itself, fairly well. But I wouldn't mind if macOS (a BSD-flavored Unix) added support for linuxlator, and jails, pledge, and various other BSD-flavored
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by musicale 8mo ago
*practitioners - too late to fix typo
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by musicale 8mo ago
I tend to agree with Knuth - technical history is extremely valuable to both practitioners and researchers in computing, and there isn't enough of it. While it is understandable that computing practitioners and researchers want to look
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by musicale 8mo ago
Here is my TL;DR and interpretation: 1. Knuth laments the lack of technical ("internal") history of computing, which traces the evolution of technology and ideas, and should be of great interest and benefit to practitioners. 2. Hi
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by musicale 8mo ago
360 also benefited from PS3 issues (unusual architecture that was hard to program effectively, high price ). GamePass is great, and the Xbox hardware is good, but PS4 and PS5 had stronger timed exclusives while Switch had an appealing combi
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by musicale 8mo ago
It seems like Sony and Nintendo had more high-quality exclusives (though mostly timed exclusives for Sony), which are system sellers, while most Xbox games were also available on Windows. But the Xbox hardware is good, franchises like Halo
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He actually understood games, but somehow Xbox always seemed mismanaged.
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At least Phil Spencer knew something about games.
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by musicale 8mo ago
Indeed. I still want it.
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Bounded strings turned out to be a fairly good idea as well.
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by musicale 8mo ago
As I and others noted below, it is included in Apple's clang version, which is what you get when you install the command line tools for Xcode. Try something like: clang -g -Xclang -fbounds-safety program.c Bounds check failure
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by musicale 8mo ago
I'm aware of Pizlix - it's a good project/idea that needs to go mainstream; as you mention, memory safety is currently limited to userland (still a huge improvement over traditional unsafe userland.) Note also that it uses fi
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by musicale 8mo ago
I want an OS distro where all C code is compiled this way. OpenBSD maybe? or a fork of CheriBSD? macOS clang has supported -fbounds-safety for a while, but I"m not sure how extensively it is used.
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by musicale 8mo ago
It's too bad that cities are so unlivable due to noise pollution (constant aircraft noise, road noise, loud rumbling that travels for miles, 24/7 emergency vehicle sirens, etc.)
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by musicale 8mo ago
I concur - research can include both scientific and engineering research. I note MIT (like many universities) has a department of Electrical Engineering and Computer "Science".
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by musicale 8mo ago
Fortunately computer science is often in the school of engineering.
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by musicale 8mo ago
> In all of the material (two textbooks and numerous handouts) there was no mention of the obvious similarities to Ada Really? That's kind of the point of VHDL, isn't it? (vs. Verilog's unholy combination of C-like syntax
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by musicale 8mo ago
Technical history or "internal history" is great. Regular historians writing "external history" of computing tend to focus on certain topics, such as business and economic issues, politics, personalities, or occasionally
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by musicale 9mo ago
This seems like another sad indicator that Microsoft has deteriorated from the company it used to be. Though Steve Jobs infamously closed the Apple Library (which had existed since 1981) after he returned in 1997: > “Who uses all of this

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