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by pacaro 5y ago
I have a copy of that issue of Micro User gathering dust somewhere! But I remembered that they called it "redcode"
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by pacaro 5y ago
A former coworker used to recommend getting a job in a local bar, it's definitely something that you can do alongside a developer job, and you'll meet a very different set of people. YMMV
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by pacaro 5y ago
Historically I would have agreed with this position, but debuggers have gotten a lot better, so it's typically possible to break wherever you need to. The intermediate variables still have value, just not as much as they used to, and t
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I understand not wanting to ship large tables, but then why not ship the scripts to generate the tables from the publicly available source of truth?
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RISC-V Powered Mango Pi Takes on Raspberry Pi Zero at Its Own Game(tomshardware.com)
7 points by pacaro 5y ago|1 comments
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by pacaro 5y ago
I worked on a project in the mid 90s where our customer (an electric utility) wanted to issue rugged laptops to field engineers. The relevant comment from a manger at the utility was "you have to realize, these are guys who can break a
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by pacaro 5y ago
I'm sceptical about the slate roof too. Houses with slate roofs routinely lose slates in high winds which is dangerous. I narrowly missed being decapitated waking around Brighton in a big storm in '90. I assume that this is a main
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by pacaro 5y ago
Currently everything is interpreted, which means everything is possible, WebAssembly has similar restrictions to the JVM if my understanding of JVM internals are correct (I haven't looked at the JVM in detail in 20 years or so), It&#x2
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by pacaro 5y ago
No. I use continuation passing and a trampoline in my eval core. This allows all sorts of manipulation of what would be the stack in a recursive model, call/cc exception-with-handler dynamic-wind they're all operations on continua
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Thank you! That's an interesting question. godbolt supports webassembly as a target, so it is easy to check out what would be generated for given C or C++ The big difference that I'm aware of is that I don't need to worry abo
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by pacaro 5y ago
I've definitely evolved my "style" as I've worked on it, the earliest code I was thinking in C and writing in WAT (hence the comment style), As I got more familiar I changed how I wrote it (adding the macro layer helped
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by pacaro 5y ago
Almost the opposite probably, the webassembly text (WAT) format isn't really designed to be used as a human generated language, its almost actively hostile. That being said there is definitely a benefit to writing in any assembly langu
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by pacaro 5y ago
When I say implemented in WebAssembly, I mean that I wrote it in WebAssembly Text format, not in another language and compiled to WebAssembly. Because the text format is extremely unfriendly, I did need to write a simple macro language on t
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Show HN: A an R7RS Scheme Implementation in WebAssembly(github.com)
84 points by pacaro 5y ago|11 comments
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by pacaro 5y ago
Yeah win16 had AllocCStoDS and AllocDStoCS, one was documented the other wasn't. They also had the fabulously named PrestoChangoSelector which toggled the code/data bit in the descriptor table
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by pacaro 5y ago
In 1995 I had my workstation audited by the IT department. A couple of days later I'm called into a managers office and told that I'd broken policy by installing unlicensed software and that I'm in serious trouble (I was a su
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by pacaro 5y ago
For sure. Typescript definitely gets you away from the worst of these, the typing mitigates most of the craziness about the two exact issues that you mention. But nonetheless, when the rubber hits the road, it's still JavaScript that i
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by pacaro 5y ago
I have no idea which craziness they were referring to, but one thing that TS doesn't provide (for probably obvious reasons) that could be considered craziness, is an integer type. You're still stuck with the JS number.
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by pacaro 5y ago
The article is light on the actual function of the mattresses, but my reading is that they served to prevent erosion, and would prevent dykes and other structures from being undercut
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Slo-mo footage of running engine with acrylic cylinder(uk.motor1.com)
4 points by pacaro 5y ago|1 comments
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A lot of this also depends on what "room-temperature" is in your environment. My parents house has a pantry which is on the northern wall of the house and is ventilated, for most of the year the temperature in there is significant
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by pacaro 5y ago
Yes. And to a certain extent a **-swinging contest between DevDiv and the base team
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I couldn't tell you how much of Singularity remained in Midori, but to give some context, this was a team that was not afraid to rewrite, often significantly, there was essentially a closed environment, so you could make what would be
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by pacaro 5y ago
Maybe, but my recollection from the time (as related to me by Bryan Willman) was that a group of base team architects did an analysis of the .Net runtime and created a list of technical concerns that they felt precluded it's use in any
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by pacaro 5y ago
At least in Midori, there was an escape hatch that, IIRC, was only used for the JavaScript engine, but that allowed some of the constraints to be broken.
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To my understanding, Midori evolved out of Singularity
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by pacaro 5y ago
Jungle fowl (from which we get chickens) can't fly long distances, they can only fly in bursts to escape predators, get to a roosting site etc. A jungle is a good example for this, a larger, ground based animal that can boost jump (for
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by pacaro 5y ago
Fwiw, while we're being pedantic, do and due are only homophones in some English dialects
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by pacaro 5y ago
It's a shame that TFA has no mention of Indenture, which for all of it's associations with indentured servitude, was a very pragmatic solution for document authentication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentur
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