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by ndiddy 1y ago
Those are all disassemblies, not the original code (although the original code for 6809 BASIC was recently found, see https://github.com/davidlinsley/DragonBasic ). Similarly, the blog post links a version of 6502 BASIC
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by ndiddy 1y ago
The Microsoft BASIC language is similar to DEC BASIC, but the actual implementation is completely different. For example, DEC BASIC compiles the BASIC source code into bytecode as it's entered for faster execution, while Microsoft BASI
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by ndiddy 1y ago
I agree with most of the post, but I think making it hard to enable web push notifications is a good thing. The most common way I’ve seen web notifications used is websites tricking old people into clicking “enable notifications” and then c
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by ndiddy 1y ago
NEC made an enhanced clone of the 8086 called the V30 that had built-in 8080 support. It could be switched in and out of 8080 mode on the fly. This made it fairly simple to write a program that allowed CP/M programs to run natively on
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Right, and the vast majority of software developers aren't writing software intended to run on PowerPC industrial control boards.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Big endian will stay around as long as IBM continues to put in the resources to provide first-class Linux support on s390x. Of course if you don’t expect your software to ever be run on s390x you can just assume little-endian, but that’s al
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Yeah Microsoft stopped fixing all non-security bugs in Windows 10 after 11 came out. Of course they also find it vitally important to use Windows Update to install ads pushing their new and exciting AI services.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Welcome to Hacker News! I'm glad my comment encouraged you to join the site. I didn't write the article, I was just commenting because other users seemed to miss information that was written in it. The picture with the thermal pas
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by ndiddy 1y ago
You may have missed the part in the article that says that they only switched to offset mounting after their first Ryzen 9950X died when the cooler was mounted centered. > But note that the 1st failure happened with a more centred heat s
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by ndiddy 1y ago
This is per design. On AM5 processors, there's a hotspot on the lower half of the processor where the dies that contain the CPU cores are located. Noctua recommends that AM5 users mount their coolers shifted towards the lower side of t
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Gayfemboy Malware Campaign(broadcom.com)
3 points by ndiddy 1y ago|0 comments
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Apple officially supported C for Macintosh application development even back when they were still making devs do all their work on Lisas (see http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/apple/lisa/workshop_3.0/Lisa_Wo..
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by ndiddy 1y ago
It lasted for a few years as a first-class supported language, but by the early 90s they shifted most of their focus to C++ so the system API being in Pascal became more of a legacy annoyance than anything. You got to deal with Str255 types
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Have you tried WinForms? It’s a similar workflow to Delphi except I find C# a lot nicer to work with than Pascal. WPF is also good if you need a program that’s more flexible with being resized, but you have to do your layout in XML rather t
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Alyssa's post mentions how lots of the work she's done has at least started as side projects while she's working on something else (Panfrost while at high school, M1 drivers while at Collabora). Obviously I'm not her so
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Here's a great video by Smarter Every Day that came out a few months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY . It's about his experience with the atrophying US industrial skillset while he tries to make a
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by ndiddy 1y ago
I think it was a combination of the two. The Apollo program was never popular. It took up an enormous portion of the federal budget, which the Republicans argued was fiscally unwise and the Democrats argued that the money should have been u
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> But around the year 2020 we registered the first mention of 3D printing as a strategic industry by the Chinese government. We know that now, after a few years of research. We first realized something is off when the price of the parts
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> That alone is one of the biggest ways they can contribute. The actual code contribution will come naturally if they do that. The article claims that this is not happening: > Procurement practices often make the problem worse. Contra
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Of course they get many times more applicants than they hire. They have 1,200 employees but over 20,000 job postings on LinkedIn. I'm more curious about whether the people they end up hiring are their top choices. Because people need
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by ndiddy 1y ago
It still is, but at this point I'm not sure why anyone would pick it over Linux for something new. All the killer Solaris features (ZFS, dtrace, zones, SMF) have good enough Linux equivalents (OpenZFS, eBPF, containers, systemd) and I&
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New York City Companies All but Stopped Hiring in First Half of the Year(nytimes.com)
6 points by ndiddy 1y ago|1 comments
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by ndiddy 1y ago
The Apple 1 registry site says that it was likely a marketing stunt by the e-waste facility ( https://www.apple1registry.com/en/theapple1.html ): > The story of an almost-destroyed Apple-1 found in a recycling center
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Kinesis makes a keyboard that's basically the Microsoft ergo layout but mechanical and you can remap the keys. I have one and like it. https://kinesis-ergo.com/keyboards/mwave/
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by ndiddy 1y ago
They've been rewriting more and more of the site in React as time's gone on, and all new development has been in React. This means we get fun stuff like diffs being slow to load and failing to load at all when they're too lar
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Mainframes are still holding on in use cases where a single server having continuous uptime is vital. They're designed to have uptime measured in decades, so even components like the processors and main memory have hot spares available
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by ndiddy 1y ago
You would have to look at the feature flags that your pool uses and see whether they match the flags that illumos supports. OpenZFS's feature flags are a superset of illumos's, so you'd be able to use a pool created on illumo
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by ndiddy 1y ago
ZFS on Linux has effectively taken over as the standard version of ZFS. It got renamed to OpenZFS a few years ago after the FreeBSD project chose to start using it for their ZFS support rather than upstream illumos ZFS due to how much more
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Personally I don't see the point in being so combative. People's food preferences depend on where they're from and what they've grown up eating. For example, someone from Hungary might think that raw onions on bread is a
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by ndiddy 1y ago
This is largely untrue. MS-DOS and PC DOS were both built out of the same codebase for most of the time MS-DOS was on the market. They didn't diverge until some point after DOS 5 (1991). If you look at the MS-DOS source code, you'

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