ratboy666

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by ratboy666 4y ago
I expect that, if given the title Director, the candidate has a P&L and makes a significant part of her income through making the P&L. Director should be "Manager of Managers" -- close to "Vice President"
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by ratboy666 4y ago
Memory constraints. BASIC will run in 4 to 8 Kbyte (4000 to 8000) ROM. That budget was for editor, SAVE/LOAD,interpreter and overhead functions. The goal is to make the interpreter fast! And, these were pre-IBM PC systems. (apple, radi
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by ratboy666 4y ago
Thank you! At those prices, it begins to make sense. Man, the prices have fallen!
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by ratboy666 4y ago
The elephant in the room -- unfortunately, there cannot be enough batteries made to support this. That is why I invested in Tesla -- don't care about EVs, but the battery play is good! Backup power for personal/family use? I use a
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by ratboy666 4y ago
Does this run kill-the-bit? (IOW, does anyone know if this is a cycle-accurate emulation?). Happy enough with my Altair-Duino, which is (pretty much) cycle accurate -- maybe a bit faster than the real thing... (2.5Mhz, perhaps). O
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by ratboy666 4y ago
In old-school Pascal, type alfa is packed array [1..10] of char On the CDC 6600, word-size was 60 bits, and a character size of 6 bits -- so 10 characters in a 60 bit word. Then, compares become simple. The PDP-10 used 36 bit words and 6 bi
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by ratboy666 4y ago
Please do not store the password... store a hash.
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by ratboy666 4y ago
All I need to do is provide a heroin user fentanyl. We have tried heroin from the government, but the users want fentanyl. And, of course, the "black market" will not limit the amount the user gets. Now, if you provide a "saf
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by ratboy666 4y ago
Oh, really? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_dung_fuel https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/climate/sweden-garbage-us...
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by ratboy666 4y ago
But... Bash (sh) is not meant to parse text! Bash (sh) is glue. awk can parse text. As can SNOBOL4 if you REALLY want to go crazy. Or sed. Math is done by expr, dc and bc.
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by ratboy666 4y ago
This... yq eats yaml. And this is all I need to know (really). I don't know yaml. I don't WANT to know yaml. Two letter command which I can remember, in the same way that I know jq. And, as a short-form jo. I would not use jo to e
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by ratboy666 4y ago
No, the serious scientists did not tell everybody in the world. I would challenge that assertion. As to "time for a change in strategy". Sure, why not. Turn off the lights and go home. Remember the quote from the attempted Sunflow
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by ratboy666 4y ago
Oh, really - Phytoplankton bloom with 700000 cells per liter density is visible to the naked eye. This gives the colour (red, green, or brown) on the sea surface. This means that the satellite maps showing visible blooms may directly repudi
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by ratboy666 4y ago
CP/M does not use forward slash as the CLI modifier. Examples - from the standard CP/M utilities (CP/M 2.2) ASM FILE.ABC .ABC encodes options. Source file for ASM is always .ASM STAT uses $ - STAT FILE $R/O sets file to
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by ratboy666 4y ago
Godwin's law prevails.
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by ratboy666 4y ago
Malicious compliance. I imagine that Teksavvy, et. al. would not do it, but the point of the exploit is that the lists are dynamic, supplied by the NHL/ESPN/whoever. Get the provider to make a list that blocks everything. Could be
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by ratboy666 4y ago
I use TekSavvy as an Internet Provider (in Canada). Bell (the phone provider) REALLY wants me to "go optical". For speed... But - Bell (the phone provider) is forced to share the copper. They do NOT share the optical! If I "g
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by ratboy666 4y ago
It was published, comments and all. Copyright.
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by ratboy666 4y ago
Remember that this IS Musk; not very predictable. But I'm going to try... Since Musk has stated that this was NOT to make money, I imagine that triggering the poison pill, and THEN dumping the shares would tank the stock. Musk did say
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by ratboy666 5y ago
Microsoft FORTRAN-80 is an implementation of FORTRAN 66. The "shortcomings" are: - No COMPLEX type - Specification statements must be ordered FUNCTION/type/COMMON/EQUIVALENCE/DATA/statement functions - dif
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by ratboy666 5y ago
But, back in the day, if you wanted to add functions to MATLAB, you would add them in FORTRAN 66, and rebuild the MATLAB interpreter. Microsoft BASIC-80 (around the same time) was written in assembler. You also don't write in assembler
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by ratboy666 5y ago
But, this is TCC's strength. It IS a simple one-shot, one-pass compiler that does not advance regalloc or optimization! With a single-file code generator that has already been ported. Goes straight from C source to executable binary in
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by ratboy666 5y ago
Sure -- the compiler is small enough to include -- and fast enough. Bellard did an experiment where TCC was used to compile the Linux kernel on boot. Remarkable. Yes, the source may be verbose. But, the API exposed would be C, and most syst
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by ratboy666 5y ago
But... Matlab was originally written in FORTRAN ("easy access to... LINPACK and EISPACK..."). Written by Cleve Moler, distributed by Jim Kweeder. May 25, 1982. 7852 lines of FORTRAN 66 (for the version I have). "With proper u
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by ratboy666 5y ago
Removing the "cross application snooping" is X11 is.. difficult. In a sense, that is equivalent to removing piping and redirection from shell -- "for security". Now, many people don't mind, but I certainly mind. Tha
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by ratboy666 5y ago
C descriptions of the OS interface API... Ok - I get that. But, there is a system call interface. int 0x80, syscall. Now, these can be wrapped, and the result exposed in a completely different way. But that is the definition. If its &quot
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by ratboy666 5y ago
"Reason" about it -- typography is art. There are many issues that started around when GUI word processing started. For example -- the "spring space" is simply gone. As is the "set indent to current (horizontal and
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by ratboy666 5y ago
So... what I say... if you want to use Linux, go ahead. But, know WHAT and WHY you are doing this. If you simply say "it's not Windows" -- not good enough. Yes, Linux is not Windows. It is ALSO not a Mac OS/X. So, why ar
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by ratboy666 5y ago
You want to predict my future behaviour? In other words, read my mind? So, I cannot fly because you, without any other knowledge, are afraid of me. That is why I requested being put on the list. I encourage others to do the same. Let Delta
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by ratboy666 5y ago
It is interesting that Delta should want this. I want to be put on the 'no-fly' list. Delta should create a portal for this. I want on, and I can nominate many others. Indeed, I think that Delta's business should be tanked. O

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