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by rootbear 8y ago
This line cracked me up: "An STM32F411 might be capable of handling all the I/O and computing on a single buttcheek..."
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by rootbear 8y ago
I first heard that in the 80s from SF writer James Hogan, who substituted "Brits" for "Europeans". I've been quoting it ever since.
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by rootbear 8y ago
Nice! Thanks!
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by rootbear 8y ago
Very cool. My version of base64 wants -d, not -D, though.
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by rootbear 8y ago
I have the previous model, the 9360, and my only real complaint is the touch pad. Palm rejection is just terrible, so much so that I've considered just turning off the touch pad and using a mouse. One nice feature of the touch pad is t
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by rootbear 8y ago
The web site is a bit of a mess. And it seems that, just since this morning, my entire Wish List has vanished. Foolish me for not having a backup...
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by rootbear 8y ago
At least one NASA supercomputer runs Suse. A review of the TOP500 list would probably reveal quite a few Suse HPC systems.
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by rootbear 8y ago
I have several of their keyboards and love them. For a while, they were using Chinese copies of Cherry keys and those weren't as good, so I always make sure I get a model with Cherry keys. My reason for preferring mechanical keyboards
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by rootbear 8y ago
Using a unified memory allowed for self modifying code. That's not something we do now, but those early machines had extremely limited memory and every trick was needed just to get anything done.
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by rootbear 8y ago
I just got back from a trip to Scotland and England and I had a chance to visit Bletchley Park and The National Museum of Computing. I had a discussion about computing firsts with the man demonstrating the Colossus code breaking computer. I
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by rootbear 8y ago
More specifically, it stored the program in the same memory as the data. I don't think the Z3 did that, but I might be wrong.
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by rootbear 8y ago
I've been to Tangier and the accent there is truly strange. It has a very archaic sound, for sure. And it's not just the accent, there are grammatical differences as well. One branch of my family is from the Great Smoky Mountains
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by rootbear 8y ago
I agree that you want as few UBs as possible. I found the text below from the Rationale useful for understanding these issues. An important feature of UB is that it doesn't require the compiler to catch certain things that can be very
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by rootbear 8y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that there are no 1s-compliment systems still around. The comment I was replying to suggested it was a mistake to support 1s-compliment architectures because that was the source of some of the Undefined Be
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by rootbear 8y ago
All ANSI standards are required to be maintained and updated periodically, or they lapse. That can be as simple as rubber stamping the last standard, but in practice, there are usually a few tweaks needed.
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by rootbear 8y ago
As someone who was on X3J11 at the time C89 was ratified, I can tell you that supporting 1s-compliment architectures was necessary. The standard would not have been approved if 2s-compliment had been mandated. Standards are all about compro
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by rootbear 8y ago
The dd syntax is meant to mirror that of the IBM JCL command dd, and it may have been meant as a joke. Old versions of sort used a + to begin some options. So yes, there has been a lot of variation over time, but I see no reason to gratuito
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by rootbear 8y ago
It's not stagnation if the majority system (Linux) makes an effort to reach consensus with the minority systems (*BSD) on changes and improvements. It is unclear to me that that happens to any meaningful degree.
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by rootbear 8y ago
This is ridiculous. I would love to know their justification for using single dash for long options. When did that become the "old way"?? Very old X11 commands and many Solaris commands use a single dash, but nearly all modern com
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by rootbear 8y ago
On my CentOS 7 system, there is no iproute2 package, but there is an iproute package. Neither 'man iproute' nor 'man iproute2' produce any man pages. The iproute package provides the contents of /etc/iproute2,
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by rootbear 8y ago
The author of the original article does appear to be male, and I also found his use of "mansplaining" off-putting. I think he should have used a term like "nerdsplaining" which doesn't gratuitously bring gender into
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by rootbear 8y ago
I have a slightly earlier MBP and I'll keep it till it dies. I have some neuropathy in my fingers, a souvenir of neck surgery, and I mostly type on mechanical keyboards (all hail Cherry MX Blue!). I have tried the new MBPs in the Apple
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by rootbear 8y ago
As I recall, it's about a suitcase. Every word begins with K, which is a common letter in Hungarian. The second link you give has images of many translations, including the Hungarian one. I'll see if I can get my friend to send me
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by rootbear 8y ago
I use that story as an example of how hard it is to automate translation of poetry. I don't have an original Polish copy, but my friend and I have compared his Hungarian translation to my English one. The poems are very different, but
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by rootbear 8y ago
The name tar comes from Tape ARchive. Lots of padding makes sense when you know that tar was originally used to write files to magnetic tape, which is highly block oriented. The use of tar today as a bundling and distribution format is some
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by rootbear 8y ago
Thanks! I watched that when it was show on PBS (Nova?) back in 2003 and I've been meaning to see if it was online.
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by rootbear 8y ago
Parts of the DC Metro were built with cut and cover. We moved to the Maryland suburbs of DC during construction, and it was a nightmare. There were no accurate maps of DC. Maps would show a street as one way East, but Metro construction had
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by rootbear 9y ago
These days, I suppose we could add the Unicode character for := ≔ U+2254 COLON EQUALS and there is also ⩵ U+2A75 TWO CONSECUTIVE EQUALS SIGNS if you find typing two = characters fatiguing...
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by rootbear 9y ago
During the public comment period for the original ANSI C standard, we had at least one request to add ":=" as an alternate assignment operator. We declined, but I personally would have supported that. The use of = and == is one of
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by rootbear 9y ago
Boy, can I relate. This happens to me all the time, especially when reading science fiction and the author drops some really interesting new idea in my head. I've had to reread a whole page because I kept reading on inertia while my mi

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