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by pedrow 7y ago
With alloys, the formula given is akin to the 'empirical formula' for molecules, i.e. the simplest integer ratio. For the mass fraction, the relative masses of atoms of iron:neodymium:boron are approx 56:144:11, so Nd2 Fe14 B shou
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Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform Engineering Team(sifive.com)
264 points by pedrow 7y ago|182 comments
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by pedrow 7y ago
It's not as cool as running on vintage hardware but for anyone interested in seeing what NeXTstep was like, it can be run in a VM. I followed the instructions here[0] for VirtualBox. [0]: http://stuffjasondoes.com/2018&
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by pedrow 7y ago
I recently saw an announcement[0] of a Z-machine in Postscript. The Z-machine is a runtime for text adventure games. Also posted on HN[1] but no comments were made. [0]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.int
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by pedrow 7y ago
Does anyone know the origin of the name "Contoso"? I bet Raymond Chen does!
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by pedrow 7y ago
Also related, this reminiscence by Alan Garner, the author. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/11/alan-turing-my...
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by pedrow 7y ago
Maybe not everyone will know this but Typestate was one of the original 'headline features' of Rust when Graydon Hoare started it. It was based on the Strom/Yemeni paper[0] for the NIL language. There's a mention of in t
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by pedrow 7y ago
qalb and I think it means 'heart' or 'core'
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by pedrow 7y ago
That wasn't a great leap from Windows 3.0, either ( https://guidebookgallery.org/pics/gui/interface/dialogs/colo... )
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by pedrow 7y ago
Fascinating article , thanks. > Some bands got clever ... by rewinding, you would reveal a hidden "track 0" of audio. Anyone know any discs that have this?
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by pedrow 7y ago
For those interested, here are some of the bugs which their tool has found: https://github.com/google/ktsan/wiki/KTSAN-Found-Bugs
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Closing the gap: cross-language LTO between Rust and C/C++(blog.llvm.org)
267 points by pedrow 7y ago|66 comments
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by pedrow 7y ago
Also don't forget Rob Mensching[0] in 2004. [0]: http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2004/4/5/windows-installe...
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Loch Ness Monster may be a giant eel, say scientists(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by pedrow 7y ago|0 comments
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by pedrow 7y ago
I hadn't really thought about that aspect before, but it is maybe not a coincidence that OPEC was founded in 1960 which would be around when Herbert was thinking about / researching Dune. I recently started re-reading it and IMO i
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by pedrow 7y ago
There's a a difference between 'first to file' and 'first to invent' in patents. Most (all?) territories use the former, but the US only changed in 2013. Not sure how that applies retrospectively. More detail in ht
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by pedrow 7y ago
I'd be interested to hear from those who have used both - how does it compare to Algol? Looking at wikipedia it seems similar in its syntax and also in the intention of the design. Also: I think I first heard of PL/I in the 1980s
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by pedrow 7y ago
I remember that - for a while (in 2011) I was desperate for an HP Veer
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by pedrow 7y ago
We've got a cotoneaster, which attracts so many bees you can hear the buzzing from inside the house (see http://www.conwybeekeepers.org.uk/new-beekeepers/planting-a-... ). Cotoneaster is very easy to grow.
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The Zerynth Platform(blog.nordicsemi.com)
6 points by pedrow 8y ago|0 comments
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by pedrow 8y ago
The 2009 version is available from archive.org[0]. Quite a lot of detail has been added in my opinion. $ wc 2009.txt 2018.txt 1930 15805 105631 2009.txt 3231 27439 182068 2018.txt [0]: https://web.archive.or
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by pedrow 8y ago
You can install side-by-side (I have 1.8 and 11 both installed) and switch using java_home, see https://alvinalexander.com/macos/how-to-set-mac-osx-java-ver...
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by pedrow 8y ago
I also was confused - but it's simpler than you think! I followed the instructions here: https://www.selikoff.net/2018/05/13/how-to-install-open-jdk-... sudo mv jdk-11.jdk /Library/Java&#x
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by pedrow 8y ago
Wikipedia[1] says there are more words in the German dictionary - but I suppose this depends how you count compound words, and what you take as contemporary words, too. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dictio
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by pedrow 8y ago
I am finding it a bit hard to follow the Twitter thread, so for the sake of avoiding confusion - does this mean that the version of Word running on my Windows 10 laptop will soon be written in JavaScript?
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by pedrow 9y ago
As a matter of interest do we know when this was written? The PDF has a date of 2007 but the latest reference is Wirth's book, published in 1996.
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by pedrow 9y ago
I wonder how many polygons make up a level of Wolfenstein in total - i.e. if you just asked a modern GPU to render every single wall in a level and relied on it to do the z-order sorting, culling, etc., what frame rate would you get?
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by pedrow 9y ago
Interesting that it passes/returns structs by value quite a lot which is not usual in C (in my experience.) I assume there's a reason for this? e.g. static Hero spin(Hero hero, const uint8_t* key) https://github.com&#x2
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Find your errors here(errco.de)
1 points by pedrow 9y ago|0 comments
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by pedrow 9y ago
I believe it's "First Customer Shipment" and it's similar to what Microsoft call RTM "Release To Manufacture". You can see it mentioned in passing at the bottom of this page : https://blogs.oracle.co

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