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by pedrow 5y ago
For those who weren't around in the 80s(!) and are wondering what this is about, you can play Head over Heels online[1] and there's also a Retrospec remake for PC and Mac by Tomaz Kac[2] [1]: https://archive.org/de
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by pedrow 5y ago
It doesn't always work in situations where 'require' can't be statically evaluated at run-time (webpack would work in this situation) - for example I filed a bug recently[0] Even though the bug was closed I was impressed
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by pedrow 5y ago
In the old days you had to sing the corporate song yourself, e.g. Ever Onward I.B.M.[0] [0]: https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/multimedia/everonward_trans....
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by pedrow 5y ago
I had an 8256. I read some code in a magazine showing how to draw fractals recursively (they were Koch snowflakes actually) and I had a lot of fun making more complex fractals using that basic recipe. The PCWs had a monochrome screen that w
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EarthEnable – Low Cost Flooring Solutions in Rwanda(earthenable.org)
2 points by pedrow 5y ago|0 comments
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The Itanium processor, part 1: Warming up(devblogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by pedrow 5y ago|0 comments
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by pedrow 5y ago
What does the word "emergent" mean in this context, e.g. "one emergent Samoan fig literally saved the trees"?
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by pedrow 5y ago
SQL Server has an option to used Fibers[0] though, reading the docs, they don't recommend it in general. [0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/configu...
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by pedrow 5y ago
It's on page 4 of this article: "I immediately went home myself and wrote a simulation of Alan’s interpreter in Basic (the only language to which I had easy access at home), as a proof of concept." (referring to Smalltalk-72)
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by pedrow 5y ago
This has been posted a few times and never attracted more than a couple of comments, I don't know why. I found it a fascinating account and amazingly full of detail considering the start of the story was well over 40 years ago. Check o
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by pedrow 5y ago
In the proposal text, what's the meaning of the '?' and '!' - for example in "Let O be ? ToObject(this value)"
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by pedrow 5y ago
Python also uses negative indexes in this way, see https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#common-seque...
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by pedrow 5y ago
I remember one about "The Seventh Seal" where a character is looking for his pet seal and counting. I don't imagine many of the target audience would get the Ingmar Bergman reference but respect to the show's creators fo
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by pedrow 5y ago
Just yesterday I came across an old card with "Events from 1971" on it, one of which was "Sesame Street banned by the BBC". It seems that, in the UK, the BBC really didn't like it to a surprising degree - see https
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by pedrow 5y ago
Also around that era was a game-programming system called White Lightning for ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64. It was very clever but I found it quite hard to use because of the block-based editor. It was not a great fit for computers using ca
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Early colour photography – and how to get the ‘look’ with a few mouse clicks(amateurphotographer.co.uk)
2 points by pedrow 6y ago|0 comments
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by pedrow 6y ago
I enjoyed this article and was impressed with how far the author got in each day's exploration. I always thought Plan9 should have had a comeback as part of the "Internet of Things" given its deep support for networking and i
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by pedrow 6y ago
Good point as the keyboard doesn't otherwise have any arrow keys ... though the later Symbolics keyboard, which lacks these emoji keys, doesn't have arrow keys either.
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by pedrow 6y ago
I was fascinated by purpose of those 'emojis' (thumb up etc) on the right of the keyboard. But Xah Lee says they are "not documented in manual. Not used by default" [0] [0]: http://xahlee.info/kbd/spa
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Graphics for JVM(tonsky.me)
13 points by pedrow 6y ago|0 comments
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by pedrow 6y ago
I loved it too. But also interesting to watch the McKee documentary[0] if you can find it available. [0]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0996623/
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by pedrow 6y ago
When my friends' parents started getting microwave ovens (late seventies, early eighties I suppose) the received wisdom was to leave a cup of cold water in there when the oven wasn't being used. Does anyone else remember this?
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by pedrow 6y ago
.NET has a Global Assembly Cache[0] which I think (please correct if I'm wrong) is used to pre-compile the system frameworks and so makes startup faster. [0]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework&
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by pedrow 6y ago
This is interesting stuff. Could you comment about optimization? LLVM has put a lot of effort into optimizing code at various levels, including the LTO stuff. Will Zig match all this by itself, or will a 'Release mode' still use L
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C++ API Design – Dont_deduce(artificial-mind.net)
1 points by pedrow 6y ago|0 comments
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by pedrow 6y ago
I suspect it is difficult to get the 'raw' output from a cell-phone camera so you are dependent on the phone's processing (contrast enhancement etc), which might vary between models. Not impossible (e.g. having control lines)
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by pedrow 6y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to also use it as the electrolyte in a cell, and generate enough current to run the test
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Let function (new in MS Excel beta)(support.microsoft.com)
1 points by pedrow 6y ago|0 comments
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by pedrow 6y ago
'units' was new to me too. The version I have on my Mac wouldn't accept 'millilightseconds' but it would take 'milli-c-seconds' - presumably the units.lib database is a little different from one in the ori
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by pedrow 6y ago
Also interesting to see the hardware which this compiler was designed for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_KDF9

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