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by rootbear 12y ago
I have read before that drinking coffee before a short nap is a good combination. It's nice to read that someone has actually tested it. I can't always do it at work but I have used this method at home and it works well. One oth
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by rootbear 12y ago
Not taking a position on this, and it's been a long while, but I seem to remember that the discussion in X3J11 on the issue of integer promotions, which mostly occurred before I joined, were long and heated.
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by rootbear 12y ago
Is this a replacement for RenderMan? Interesting...
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by rootbear 12y ago
It's interesting to me that spelling reform almost always seem to assume that the pronunciation of the word is definitive and it's the spelling that should change. But there are words in English where the British pronunciation ma
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by rootbear 12y ago
Agreed. I'm a fan of spelling reform, but the rules they propose are seriously flawed.
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by rootbear 12y ago
The WaPo article may be better in terms of the depth of coverage but the writing is awful. Really awful. Misspellings, bad grammar, clumsy phrasing. I suppose the Post thinks that's okay because it's just a blog post and not a
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by rootbear 12y ago
I'll have to see how this actually works, but it's not clear that the news itself will be tailored to the listener. For example, I might pick "Science News" and "Arts News" but not "Sports News" and
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by rootbear 12y ago
It makes me think of Larry Niven's hyperspace "blind spot", which the human brain has so much trouble perceiving that it can cause madness.
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by rootbear 12y ago
I had that idea ages ago and I'm glad someone actually used it.
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by rootbear 12y ago
I'm not old enough to have used a vacuum tube (or valve, the lovely British word for them) computer, but I've developed an interest in these early systems. I hope these circuit diagrams are scanned and become available some day.
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by rootbear 12y ago
Yes, exactly. The same could be said for computer graphics, where we traffic in vectors and matricies all day. I want a language in which those are base types, will all of the proper operators already defined, so I don't need operato
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by rootbear 12y ago
Interesting.. the name, kubernetes, is Greek for helmsman or pilot. It is the root of the English word governor, but also of the word cybernetics. This puts the whole Cyborg-Governor-Schwarzenegger-Terminator thing in a whole new light...
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by rootbear 12y ago
There is also the Renderman compatible Aqsis, although the last time I looked, development on that had slowed considerably as they work on version 2.0. I got the mailing from Pixar about the pricing changes and new version yesterday. I&#x
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by rootbear 12y ago
Good point. Opening a file has non-trivial cost, so perhaps the added cost of burdening the compiler with avoiding needless includes is worth it. As a long time C hacker I hate to say this, but I guess the whole include mechanism is a bad
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by rootbear 12y ago
It seems to me that all this fuss over multiple includes and include guards would be solved by something like a #stop directive: #ifdef STDIO_H #stop #endif #define STDIO_H which would cause the preprocessor to skip the rest of
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by rootbear 12y ago
Little-Endian mode for MIPS processors was sometimes called SPIM, so I guess little-endian POWER is REWOP. I never heard little-endian SPARC referred to as CRAPS, which is too bad as I thought that was pretty funny.
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by rootbear 12y ago
Pretty much my story as well. A teacher at my High School in 1972 had an account on a local time sharing service. He sponsored a computer club, probably unusual for the time in a High School. We dialed up the service with an acoustic mod
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by rootbear 12y ago
Agreed, but there are still times when I end up having several arguments of the same type, and I see no virtue in having to repeat the type for each formal parameter.
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by rootbear 12y ago
I use that style all the time. I like having the function name start in column 1, it can make searching easier. I do wish that in C1x (for x > 1), they could find a way to let us declare multiple formal arguments of the same type withou
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by rootbear 12y ago
I agree about consistency but I don't find that style more readable. It wastes vertical space to little benefit.
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by rootbear 12y ago
They require that pointers be declared as int32* p; and not int32 *p; and I know that is the convention in C++, but it still makes my eyes bleed. It's a gross violation of the Law of Least Astonishment, since, of cou
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by rootbear 13y ago
Thanks for posting those! I came across the leapsecond site years ago and enjoyed it but haven't been back in a while. If I wasn't already so over-hobbied I'd probably be a time nut. My father is a ham radio operator and a
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by rootbear 13y ago
Did you have to get Verizon to switch the ONT to Ethernet instead of coax? My understanding is that only one of those was live at any given time. I've been thinking about replacing my Actiontec with something better (I have the older
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by rootbear 13y ago
The story I heard is that Mossorgsky wrote it that way because he walked with a limp. He wrote his limp into the time signature. This is probably an urban myth, as I can't seem to find any verification of it on line in a quick search
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by rootbear 13y ago
I guess I'm too much of a pedant, but I don't consider the ARPAnet to have been the Internet in any significant way. The whole point of the "inter-" in Internet is that it's a network of networks. It also uses a d
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by rootbear 13y ago
As a former Southerner, who grew up with "y'all", and a fan of Shakespearean English, I have to say that I've always been sorry that English lost its distinct second person singular pronouns. We've had to come up wi
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by rootbear 13y ago
I think it might have to do with formatting the displayed output. There are nine columns in the display and the loop at line 45 puts nine values into L$. But why the GOSUB only occurs when I is 9 or 16 isn't clear.
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by rootbear 13y ago
I hope this will make it easier for me to use CentOS at NASA. They only want us to use Linux distributions that are actively supported with security fixes and for some reason they don't think CentOS qualifies, since it's not a &q
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by rootbear 13y ago
Over the years, my work style on Unix style systems had come to depend on focus following the mouse, but also, importantly, the focused window NOT coming to the front. Combined with the ability to "push" a window to the bottom of
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by rootbear 13y ago
I'm glad it's not just me! I saw the same thing, and yes, it was very distracting.

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