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by pdw 8y ago
In short, it does, and Google is currently fighting a $7.4 billion EU fine for these shenanigans: "In their Statement of Objections, the European Commission accused Google of the breach of EU antitrust rules in three ways: - by requiri
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by pdw 8y ago
I encourage everybody to check out sqlite's ext/misc directory. There are lots of interesting extensions there, and most people don't know about it.
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by pdw 8y ago
The Wikipedia article on this case is much more informative: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_vs._Google > In their Statement of Objections, the European Commission accused Google of the breach of EU ant
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by pdw 9y ago
It's the "Here is how it works" section of the ad. The wording is very close to the standard "enter your personal details on a shady website to get free stuff" scam. I think that's also the reason so many comme
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by pdw 9y ago
Here's a photo of the disk: https://twitter.com/herrprofdr/status/959186835929878528
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by pdw 9y ago
Is this it? It looks pretty nice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/370_Model_168#/medi...
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by pdw 9y ago
man-db is not a GNU utility. Their URL http://man-db.nongnu.org/ should be a clue :)
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by pdw 9y ago
I think you might be confusing CPU schedulers and IO schedulers. Linux never had switchable CPU schedulers.
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by pdw 9y ago
Some brief notes from the Linux developers POV: https://lwn.net/Articles/734039/ (section "Multi-core scheduling")
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by pdw 9y ago
Early Guile releases shipped with something called "ctax", but I can't find any example of what it looked like.
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by pdw 9y ago
Would it really be necessary to rebuild all daemons? It seems to me that it would be sufficient to drop in a custom libssl that doesn't disable the old protocols.
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by pdw 9y ago
Not just with LOOP, RETURN works with every standard iteration construct.
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by pdw 9y ago
This case was only about Froogle/Google Product Search/Google Shopping. Separate cases about Android and AdSense are still ongoing.
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by pdw 10y ago
O(n^2) algorithms are insidious in that they will work fine on test data, but will ruin performance when there's an unusually large input in production. They're landmines in your code.
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by pdw 10y ago
Yes. Despite all their tests, they still have monthly bugfix releases, often fixing years-old bugs.
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by pdw 10y ago
He claims there's no migration guide, but when I google on the phrase he used, "Migration from Python 2 to 3 Guide", or any variation of that phrase, the first hit is https://docs.python.org/3/howto/
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by pdw 10y ago
Which app do you use? I'm using KeePassDroid, which seems to be the most popular, and as far as I can tell it only supports the clipboard method.
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by pdw 10y ago
I can't read MACLISP, but these two Common Lisp macros match the behavior that's described in the big comment: (defmacro defsmac (name params expr) `(defmacro ,name ,params (sublis (mapcar 'cons ',pa
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by pdw 10y ago
You need an add-on for that: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compat... That's not enough though. In about:addons all my add-ons are listed as compatible, but about:support still say
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by pdw 10y ago
Right. There might be an obvious mapping for any C construct, but there's absolutely no guarantee that a C compiler will do the obvious thing. The C standard leaves much behavior undefined (wolfgke listed some of the more notorious ite
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by pdw 10y ago
Though that's the source code of the incomplete port. On twenex.org you can play what seems to be the full game (only preserved in binary form.) There's supposed to be more info on http://wiki.twenex.org/tutorials:
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by pdw 10y ago
http://www.righto.com/2016/10/simulating-xerox-alto-with-con...
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by pdw 10y ago
But still, Linux syscalls are different on each architecture.
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by pdw 10y ago
Note that "powerpc" is the 32-bit PowerPC, if I'm not mistaken. ppc64el (64-bit little-endian PowerPC) is listed as a release architecture.
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by pdw 10y ago
There was TUNIS in the early 80s, an operating system binary compatible with V7 Unix and implemented in a Pascal-like language. I've been meaning to find more information on it, but there's almost nothing online. It might be the o
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by pdw 10y ago
The x86 architecture has a large number of optional instruction sets. One of these, AES-NI, provides accelerated AES instructions. Another one, AVX, is a collection of general-purpose vector instructions. These were announced at the same ti
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by pdw 10y ago
According to Wikipedia, most Celerons and Pentiums lack AVX but have the AES instructions.
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by pdw 10y ago
The "3 significant figures" calculator was the Sinclair Scientific. It re-used a chip intended for simple four-function calculators. Some brilliant reverse-engineering: http://files.righto.com/calculator/sincl
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by pdw 10y ago
The attribute approach seems a lot more convenient: const unsigned char add[] __attribute__((section("text"))) = { 0x48, 0x89, 0xf8, /* mov %rdi,%rax */ 0x48, 0x01, 0xf0, /* add %rsi,%rax *&#x2
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by pdw 10y ago
What's wrong with Twitter's search page? To me it seems to do everything one might want. https://twitter.com/search-advanced

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