mwcremer

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   by mwcremer 6y ago

   C.f. https://github.com/v7unix/v7unix/blob/master/v7/usr/src/cmd/...
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   by mwcremer 6y ago

   Effective 9/1/2015 the JREF has made major changes including converting to a grant making foundation and no longer accepting applications for the Million Dollar Prize from the general public. https://web.randi.org&#x2
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   by mwcremer 6y ago

   Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. --B.Pascal (I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.)
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   by mwcremer 6y ago

   Shielding your folks is important, but so is nurturing them. I really like Rands in Repose ( https://randsinrepose.com ) because he talks about both.
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   by mwcremer 6y ago

   the cute factor I think PowerPC's EIEIO wins on cute.
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   by mwcremer 6y ago

   I really liked Rodnay Zaks' reference: http://www.z80.info/zaks.html
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   by mwcremer 6y ago

   See my comment below; Apple helped create it.
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   by mwcremer 6y ago

   I was about to comment on how Chicago just refuses to die, but then I noticed: The Last Resort glyphs were drawn by Apple Inc. and Michael Everson of Evertype.
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   by mwcremer 6y ago

   Tedious indeed, but for a long time it was the only game in town. https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...
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    by mwcremer 6y ago

    There is a tipping point where my flexibility becomes your complexity. As you say, it’s hard to get right. It’s also hard to know when you got it wrong, since customers overwhelmed by the complexity will choose another product, while power-
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    by mwcremer 6y ago

    I'm not sure that it does? From the c2 example, the goal is to have all Shapes respond to area() and perimeter(), but in the example you linked to, only Musicians will respond to entertainMe(), not all Performers.
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    by mwcremer 6y ago

    I'm guessing https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving
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    by mwcremer 6y ago

    Media reports: https://www.insider.com/marijuana-use-in-pregnancy-linked-to... https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-08-cannabis-pregnancy-li... https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-h
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    Maternal cannabis use in pregnancy and child neurodevelopmental outcomes(nature.com)

    1 points by mwcremer 6y ago|2 comments
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    by mwcremer 7y ago

    in 2011. (They may still be crap, but nine years is a long time.)
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    by mwcremer 7y ago

    I think she is wearing a kind of veil, as are several other women.
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    by mwcremer 7y ago

    Amiga was an independent company funded by Atari before being acquired by Commodore.
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    by mwcremer 7y ago

    I.e., use a double parameter that specifies seconds, instead of an uint32_t that specifies milliseconds. This can have surprising and sometimes unpleasant consequences; see https://0.30000000000000004.com
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    by mwcremer 7y ago

    The "1st-party Mac game" in question is Through the Looking Glass -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Through_the_Looking_Glass_(vid...
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    by mwcremer 7y ago

    FYI Voyager 1 is about 20 light hours away.
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    by mwcremer 7y ago

    P--- ( https://www.geekcode.xyz/geek.html )
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    by mwcremer 7y ago

    > most programs aren’t prepared for partial success But read() and write() return the number of bytes actually read or written. So actually they are, or should be...
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    by mwcremer 8y ago

    Seems like this is pretty similar to pumping your own gas. It would be interesting to compare, say, Oregon and California, both for employees and employers.
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    by mwcremer 8y ago

    Because they sell PDF creation tools: https://acrobat.adobe.com/us/en/acrobat.html?promoid=C12Y324...
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    by mwcremer 8y ago

    Beatles, "Two of Us", Let It Be
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    by mwcremer 8y ago

    So, what is a good way to evaluate performance?
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    by mwcremer 8y ago

    Fallacies of Distributed Computing 1. The network is reliable. 2. Latency is zero. 3. Bandwidth is infinite. 4. The network is secure. 5. Topology doesn't change. 6. There is one administrator. 7. Transport cost is zero
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    by mwcremer 9y ago

    Actually, they do become standards: https://www.rfc-editor.org/standards#IS
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    by mwcremer 9y ago

    Hence columns 73-80 being used for a sequence number.
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    by mwcremer 9y ago

    I do. Heck, I was responsible for the first crashing bug found in System 7.0. It was found about six hours after GM images were released to manufacturing. It was a crashing bug. It was remotely exploitable. It was one freakin' regist