ratboy666

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by ratboy666 5y ago
War of 1812. The Acadians. The Irish.
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by ratboy666 5y ago
Ok -- first, let me quote the article: "Three-hundred and twenty nozzles spewed a cloud of nano-sized droplets engineered to brighten clouds and block sunlight — providing a bit of cooling shade for the coral colonies below." How
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by ratboy666 5y ago
I like your cartoon. The difference with the dividend flow is that the payment was made... not for a good or service (which all the other flows have in common) but tax on a repayment. Not a fixed, negotiated payment either... A repayment th
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by ratboy666 5y ago
What about the snow in Miami then? (Jan 19, 1977)
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by ratboy666 5y ago
Ah ha! Thank you the detail. The philosophy is that Gnome is NOT configurable, really, just does a VERY limited and consistent desktop thing. It doesn't even have icons on the desktop (by default). I find that it is "easy" fo
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by ratboy666 5y ago
Javascript for desktop extensions. Makes sense -- doesn't matter what processor you are running! Sure, depends on the version of the desktop environment - and each extension declares what version(s) it is operable for. The major proble
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by ratboy666 5y ago
1 - I have already paid tax on the money. 2 - In making the investment, I stand to lose (or gain) 3 - The lost money is not an expense Given all of this, I expect that the capital gain rate is specified as lower to encourage me to invest. I
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by ratboy666 5y ago
Um... PL/M is not safe, and does not have "safe strings and arrays". It doesn't have strings... It has bytes and addresses. I hope /s means "sarcastic".
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by ratboy666 5y ago
And... for reference. In my Microsoft F80 github string repository: https://github.com/ratboy666/string (Microsoft F80 was a FORTRAN 66, slightly subset compiler -- no COMPLEX that Microsoft sold from the late 70s to e
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by ratboy666 5y ago
In FORTRAN IV, multiple return labels could be passed to a subroutine. This was carried into PL/I. In FORTRAN 66, this was not supported. But, FORTRAN IV and 66 both support assigned go to, which can be used to replace this -- WATFIV s
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by ratboy666 5y ago
But where I live, it would be difficult. Yes, there is a "CO2 tax" here. Twenty years ago I converted my wood-burning fireplace to natural gas. That was being, in my opinion, environmentally friendly (I prefer burning wood -- more
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by ratboy666 5y ago
CO2 is combined with sunlight by plants to produce wood (carbon) and O2. We take in the O2, combine it with carbon, and produce CO2. Its a cycle https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/carbon-cycle.html https://
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by ratboy666 5y ago
"Carbon footprint". Ok -- Empty out the North. http://www.mappedplanet.com/karten/klima/januar_temp-na.png How about it? I get to move to Memphis, where I no longer need to heat my dwelling in the Winter
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by ratboy666 5y ago
Reminds me of: https://dilbert.com/strip/2019-02-12
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by ratboy666 6y ago
Being old... I read the article quickly, and had the same thought. Yes, C pushes arguments in reverse order... and we never cared if arguments were "under specified". Or over. Just needed to know where the first argument was, and
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by ratboy666 6y ago
tin foil -- not just for hats anymore
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by ratboy666 6y ago
Yes, very good programmers can make mistakes. To meet your challenge, think about the problem. How about this? file size + 1 => s allocate char buffer b[s] read file to b (all data must be in memory, or merge sort. if on linux an
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by ratboy666 6y ago
You are correct. It is all about how you think about things. "ls" lists files. Sure. Simple interactive command. But, thinking about this, "echo " also lists files. "ls" provides information about files. Sure.
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by ratboy666 7y ago
Depends on what you mean. For example, my editor (which I use for work like this) MODE-'COBOL' 72.b -.a -.t -.h 8.h 12.h .r Roughly: for COBOL - ring alarm bell if I type past column 72. Do not autoindent. Do not us
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by ratboy666 7y ago
It makes no sense to me... JCL, DB2, VSAM -- ok. SDLC? If it referred to SNA, it should be SNA/SDLC. Not referencing that (or VTAM) means Software Development Life Cycle.
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by ratboy666 7y ago
: fred@tara ~ $; cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 31 (Thirty One) : fred@tara ~ $; make -p | grep FEAT make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. .FEATURES := target-specific order-only sec
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by ratboy666 7y ago
No. You have to define how a country can be rich. And what "basic healthcare" is. And what "for all" means. A country cannot be rich. Its people can be. If you have a definition that differs, we can discuss. I am going t
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by ratboy666 7y ago
I like this. Hacked together a quick implementation in javascript (using quickjs as the interpreter): https://github.com/ratboy666/qjs-3word
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by ratboy666 7y ago
I think the story isn't nuanced. The program runs once, the missile explodes, garbage collection is done! No need for garbage collection, no need for "memory management". Not shoddy work. An expression of "YAGNI". T
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by ratboy666 7y ago
Email me at fred(underscore)weigel(at)hotmail(dot)com I interfaced CEF to Java in 2000 lines of C++ Simple, easy API. I run CEF in a separate process, and use the Window manager (Linux and Windows) to cause the Chrome windows to overlay the
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by ratboy666 7y ago
Text is structured: character, word, line, possibly field. Even "bytes" (octets) have some structure. On top of text, I usually layer, these days, usually JSON. Bytes? usually sqlite3 Yes, creating a parser with grep isn't us
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by ratboy666 7y ago
I would disagree. Take /etc/passwd. It does have a query language. getpwent(), login, passwd It has data types -- again getpwent() (man getpwent) needs pwd.h It has "parallel writes". Multiple users can use passwd at the
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by ratboy666 7y ago
Pascal has neither generics nor exception handling. At least, with reference to ISO Pascal.
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by ratboy666 7y ago
And, for those who have been contemplating parameter widening: on the 68000, insert s += 3. For "portable" C89 code, declare the parameter an int (not char) -- then introduce char c2 = c and s = &c2 instead. This transformatio
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by ratboy666 7y ago
As part of "C lore", the answer is yes. In C89: int main() { func('a'); } func(c) char c; { char * s = &c; printf("%c\n", * s); } is, um, dangerous. c is an int, not a char. So on a big endian machine, s ma

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