robinsonb5

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by robinsonb5 4y ago
Indeed. Also "compliment" should be "complement" if one wanted to be really picky.
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
The cold hard truth here is that curating information is actually a very difficult problem - but paper records will survive longer than digital records if no-one's actively looking after them.
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
Have you tried to read a 5 volt smartmedia card recently? I came across a few 2 megabyte 5v cards when going through my Dad's stuff a few years back. I stuck them on EBay because it was better than just throwing them away, and was ast
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
Digital data doesn't wear out, but it also doesn't degrade gracefully. Usually if a printed page starts to degrade there is at least the opportunity for someone to notice and take corrective action before the content is lost comp
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
While on a practical level I think you're 100% correct, the irony is that there does seem to be a growing appetite for simpler OS projects, which go hand-in-hand with a growing sense of frustration and disappointment with what Linux ha
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
Speed and responsiveness are two very different things, and the latter is, I think, by far the more important where desktop computing is concerned. My complaint with modern systems (by which I basically mean anything less than 30 years old)
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
I can see where your friend's coming from - but I'd disagree up to a point. It's about which aspects you want to be in a state of flow. If you've used a computer for any length of time, then when you type you're no
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
Oh they definitely went horribly wrong somewhere. And I suspect that shared sense is the reason so many alternative, niche, minimalist and retro projects are springing up. Personally I'm keeping a close eye on Haiku and SerenityOS as
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
I may be that rare exception - a hobbyist developer who does design work as part of $dayjob.
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
Yes, that's a perfectly viable workaround, but it's still a band-aid that requires expending resources that wouldn't need to be spent if the markup method had been better chosen for readability. (To be specific, I believe th
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
The fatal flaw of HTML (and XML for that matter) is that the tags have the same visual weight as the text they're delimiting, which makes for a sense of clutter even in your minimal example. Markdown really scores here, by having a ple
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
The ToS do give GitHub an indemnity against the consequences of that scenario - so if the actual copyright holder complains about copilot spitting out their code without proper attribution and license, they could indeed transfer to the liab
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
I still have two of the PCI G4 model at work, mothballed but not yet evicted in case I ever need the data on them! (I also have a G3 which did many years' service as an imagesetter RIP!) I never particularly liked the aesthetics of th
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
To be fair, bundling a Java Runtime Environment will give you a decent head start... Having to ship instructional assets in multiple (human) languages is a fair point, and one I hadn't considered - though in this particular case there
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
Minimalism isn't always about eliminating or avoiding complexity - though sometimes it is; sometimes it's about having the discipline to avoid wastefulness. External constraints can be the driving force here - I have a project whi
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
Every few years I re-watch the Running Man - and it gets scarier every time. Last time I watched it we only nearly had the video forgery technology from the movie (in civilian hands, at least). Now it actually exists.
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
I'd probably go with "anachronistic" - RS232 predates TTL logic! Interesting that the bit-level protocol is still very widely used today, even if the signalling is now more likely to be 5v or 3v3 TTL signalling bridged to USB
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
Yes indeed, the lustre makes a huge difference with some colours - sometimes even affecting the perceived hue, not just the vibrance - Pantone 136C vs 136U for example. Same ink, different paper.
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
Yes, I also found the idea of tangling with GCC (or even llvm) less than appealing. It's not the initial work that puts me off, but the ongoing maintenance cost. For my own project (EightThirtyTwo) I ended up writing a backend for th
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
That is very, cool. I'm particularly interested in the compressed-first approach because I have some projects where minimising BRAM usage is paramount so code density really matters. The use of microcode to emulate 32-bit instruction
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
Have you seen the OPC series of CPUs? (One Page Computing - the challenge being to keep the code small enough to be printed onto a single sheet of line printer paper!)
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by robinsonb5 4y ago
Those two lines are just the VHDL equivalent of #include <stdio.h> - i.e. boilerplate that you'll see in almost every source file. But it's true that you don't have to describe the ALU down to the bit level - thanks to