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by rpiguy 8y ago
The Atari had: An inferior sound chip Bigger pallets but with fewer colors per cell Tiny sprites If anything the custom chips of the C64 and the Atari 8-bit line are about equal, each taking different trade offs.
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by rpiguy 8y ago
The primary factor holding back the 65C816 was the required RAM speed. The 65XX processors required RAM almost twice as fast as the same clocked X86 or 68K. An 8Mhz 65C816 requires 70ns RAM, whereas an 8Mhz 286 or 68K can use 140ns RAM with
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by rpiguy 8y ago
Trump and the Republican congress doubled fusion funding in the May omnibus bill, literally saving ITER from having to delay again. Republicans have always been solidly for nuclear power and its derivatives because the only companies with t
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by rpiguy 8y ago
The internet bust of 2000 damaged Yahoo for years to come and from which they never recovered. The primary damage was psychological. Investors lost faith in technology so after 2000 tech companies scrambled to reinvent themselves as "n
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by rpiguy 8y ago
Politicians aren't falling for anything. They are buying political points to help their next election and keep money in their donors' pockets. It is a shell game. They will bail out another group in the future, rinse and repeat. I
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by rpiguy 8y ago
Amazon, Microsoft, Google. Now that RedHat has to compete against all three, perhaps it felt that now was the time to cash out.
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by rpiguy 8y ago
Why did you link to archive.org when the original article is still live on Ars Technica.
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by rpiguy 8y ago
This is an interesting option to be sure, but what I find laughable about this article is an expressed fear that the new court will force decisions not supported by the “majority.” The expansion of liberalism was largely driven by courts fo
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by rpiguy 8y ago
Could this be a trick to use the top of stack like another register and use all of the one byte stack instructions on it? If it is using the top of stack as a register, where then would be the real stack?
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by rpiguy 8y ago
Yes but if the primary argument is based around the idea that everyone must have access to these “public channels” because their first amendment rights guarantee them a right to the information from the President and to be part of the conve
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by rpiguy 8y ago
The judiciary acting against Trump in this case may ultimately work against them. This judge just invented the concept of free speech rights on the internet, even on a private platform like Twitter. I fully understand that legally this is v
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by rpiguy 8y ago
Wait, I thought the left hated giant corporations controlling their news? Guess its cool if you agree with what is being censored...
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by rpiguy 8y ago
Google in particular is vulnerable because of their monopoly-level status on search traffic and search revenue. Facebook less so, and Twitter even less so. Access to information is vital, access to your cousin's birthday photos and the
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by rpiguy 8y ago
Great example of inversion right there. What McCain did to his first wife was sleazy, reminding people of it is not sleazy. This is the #metoo era, we are all moral absolutists now, particularly in the treatment of women. Of course I am not
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by rpiguy 8y ago
I agree self-learning/armchair is not the same, it’s not necessarily inferior, but it is very different and you don’t engage in the kind of ancillary activities you would in a program. And yes the TA/Adjunct professor situation in
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by rpiguy 8y ago
I think this is untrue and perhaps alarmist. The people doing this work in the humanities will continue to do this work, shrinking enrollment in humanities is not a precursor to an age of ignorance. What percent of undergrads going for thei
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by rpiguy 8y ago
Yes the closing or shrinking of humanities departments will be part of the realignment, but again it is hard to say what the natural or optimal number of available programs is. More isn’t always better, but too few isn’t good either. If the
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by rpiguy 8y ago
Yes he waited long enough to ensure a divorce wouldn’t sink his political career, which it could have back in those days...
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by rpiguy 8y ago
The article sites the financial crisis and post-crisis job market as the catalyst for students taking a more pragmatic approach to choosing a major; however, it was a realignment that was probably overdue. For decades in the US we have larg
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by rpiguy 8y ago
You are right. “Human Too” would have been better than saying “complicated.” I thought it was relevant to this thread because every other comment has the word “honorable” in it, but in fact he was no better or worse than any of us.
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by rpiguy 8y ago
Agree Hacker News really isn’t an appropriate name for this forum anymore, but that is a topic that deserves its own thread. On topic, loss is sad when anyone dies, even if they hold views you find abhorent. They leave behind friends and fa
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by rpiguy 8y ago
John McCain’s first wife was a model who had a car accident that left her crippled and eroded her good looks. John McCain then cheated on her and then left her, eventually remarrying a younger, very attractive, very heiress. By most biograp
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by rpiguy 8y ago
This is news of the day not a hacker news topic. Someone please flag this.
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by rpiguy 8y ago
A large portion of the electorate does not believe in global warming or believe it is man made. This is a debate for another thread, let's not go there, it is just how it is for a number of reasons. Therefore, why not burn more fuel? I
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by rpiguy 8y ago
It does not, but in the past the calculations to derive these numbers take into account what happens when a small light car impacts a larger, heavier car as well as the probability of this kind of crash happening. Numbers like this are easi
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by rpiguy 8y ago
It is great news for the US car industry, as all of the big three are highly dependent upon the sale of trucks, SUVs, and larger cars. Glad to see this the 2012 rules were ridiculously stringent and burdensome and could ultimately put large
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by rpiguy 8y ago
I have no idea how FORTH stacks up (haha) to other languages on modern machines insofar as speed is concerned. Modern FORTH is compiled so the difference may be quite less than the 3x you are proposing. On older machines, you will find publ
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by rpiguy 8y ago
Sony is not a Keiretsu. They are fair game.
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by rpiguy 8y ago
What I find interesting is that PC-DOS (MS-DOS) was also a mostly clean room copy of CP/M. The guy who wrote it before Microsoft acquired it literally went through a CP/M programming manual and recreated the system calls for x86,
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by rpiguy 8y ago
The last version of AmigaOS 3.1 for classic hardware came out in 2016.

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