pacman128

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   by pacman128 10y ago

   Totally agree. When I taught x86 assembly in college (in the 90's), the goal of the class was to give the student a better idea of how things worked under the hood to improve their C programming, not to be an assembly programming. Just
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   by pacman128 10y ago

   Do they really say this? They assume this just as Newtonian mechanics does. And like Newtonian mechanics give reasonable answers in the domains they describe. How would they change if there was a cutoff at some infinitesimal scale?
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   by pacman128 10y ago

   Your description of how things would work with no traffic lights would scare me to death. One errant car (mechanical failure, software bug or hacked) could cause multiple fatalities. Systems need to be resistant to disaster from perturbatio
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   by pacman128 10y ago

   For professors, there is no "University time". They don't clock in and out. The only times they are required to be on campus is for classes, office hours and meetings. Otherwise they are free to do what they want, so forbiddi
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   by pacman128 14y ago

   Tried it out on Windows. Was liking it, but then discovered that it is converting my files to UNIX format when saving them on Windows!
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   by pacman128 14y ago

   I used to teach Assembly and I spend a lot of time talking about how it connected with C since assembly is almost always used in conjunction with C. I have a free text on the web that was used in the class. It only covers 32-bit x86 since t