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by mwcremer 4y ago
I was able to view the content without logging in ... ?
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by mwcremer 4y ago
They do, it's called "COBOL."
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by mwcremer 4y ago
Obligatory: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by mwcremer 4y ago
Cross-development tools here: https://github.com/autc04/Retro68 And a setup walkthrough: https://henlin.net/2021/12/03/a-simplified-guide-to-developm...
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by mwcremer 4y ago
Your right, its definately a loosing battle.
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by mwcremer 4y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1105/
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Atari Email Archive(atariemailarchive.org)
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by mwcremer 4y ago
Almost: The Runaway Pumpkin by Kevin Lewis and S. D. Schindler https://www.amazon.com/dp/0439565448
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by mwcremer 4y ago
The cost of shipping items by ocean, or the number of items shipped by ocean? Ah, English...
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How much housing do we need?(jabberwocking.com)
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by mwcremer 4y ago
From the previously-posted IEEE article: 68-GB solid-state drive [...] by the end of JWST’s 10-year mission life, they expect to be down to about 60 GB because of deep-space radiation and wear and tear. https://news.ycombinator
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by mwcremer 4y ago
Probably because there was no web to surf...
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by mwcremer 4y ago
tl;dr page-based linear addressing induces performance loss with complicated access policies, e.g. multilevel page tables. Mr. Kamp would prefer an object model of memory access and protection. Also, CHERI ( https://dl.acm.org&#x2
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by mwcremer 4y ago
Apparently they tried that at CalTech in the 70's, and then re-instated the dining halls at the behest of parents after a significant percentage of the undergraduates showed symptoms of malnutrition.
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by mwcremer 4y ago
@dang something curious happening here. I commented yesterday, but now it looks like I commented just an hour ago?
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by mwcremer 4y ago
It feels to me like there is no way to "improve" short of blindly guessing synonyms. The space feels like concentric circles, where two words with similar word2vec scores move along the circumference rather than normal or even tan
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by mwcremer 4y ago
Not quite paid programming, but Scientific Atlanta had a Broadcast File System that would send data to set top boxes over coax QAM channels used for digital TV. It would loop through all the content on the "carousel" repeatedly so
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by mwcremer 4y ago
Is that a Wizard of Oz reference I see? Well, that’s a horse of a different color.
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by mwcremer 4y ago
Which raises an interesting question: what fraction of Bitcoin, for example, is effectively lost forever? I assume minuscule, but like entropy it never decreases?
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by mwcremer 4y ago
Ah, the title is truncated non-electronic computers that work when you color them according to a simple set of rules.
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by mwcremer 4y ago
Probably lots of other people have suggested this, but in case not: have you considered a “meta-page” that coalesces multiple submissions into one?
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by mwcremer 5y ago
The novelty being that someone knew how to use a plural possessive correctly.
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by mwcremer 5y ago
ADC Analog to Digital Converter DNL Differential Non-Linearity NIH Not Invented Here NRE Non Recurring Engineering
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by mwcremer 5y ago
no child labor laws where you live?
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by mwcremer 5y ago
Feynman Lectures on Physics, I assume.
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by mwcremer 5y ago
> Most threads are waiting for something – this is not the ideal activity for a thread. A thread should run (useful) code. Seems like that is an ideal activity for a thread, and in fact why most people use them? Combining all those w
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by mwcremer 5y ago
And if you read that report, you see: "Gamescience dice are more consistent than the X-Wing dice", with some analysis regarding the flashing from the mold suggesting that sanding it smooth will increase the consistency.
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by mwcremer 5y ago
Its definately a loosing battle.
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by mwcremer 5y ago
Especially in like circumstances; that is, with regard to their own children.
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by mwcremer 5y ago
Seems to me the original SQLite database storage format was text, more or less CSV, or am I mis-remembering?

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