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721.
by rvense 6y ago
I learned a lot from these articles. He also has a description of a nice 6809-based multiprocessing system. Good reading if you're into that sort of thing.
722.
by rvense 6y ago
I don't think anyone could credibly claim that Bitcoin is what it set out to be. The original paper calls it "electronic cash" and in its introduction describes private people using it for small transactions, replacing trust
723.
by rvense 6y ago
> I understand your point and sympathise, but Handling cash isn't free. Neither are roads, railways, wastewater treatment, communication lines or electricity. Money is infrastructure, and it makes sense for government to control and
724.
by rvense 6y ago
It's also just a control thing. When private enterprises control (and create) money, they will do so based on their own interests. These might not align with the best interests of society at large.
725.
by rvense 6y ago
Money is infrastructure, and the digitization of money has resulted in the privatization of that infrastructure. I don't think that was ever part of the plan, really, as far as the government goes.
726.
by rvense 6y ago
I think someone managed to stick a 220 keyboard onto a 230
727.
by rvense 6y ago
This was my thinking as well. But actually, looking at Wikipedia, it appears there was work on a Hypercard 3.0, which added a bunch of features and turned Hypercard stacks into a special kind of Quicktime movie. It was demoed as alpha quali
728.
by rvense 6y ago
I don't think Hypercard saw many significant updates in its lifetime after version 2 came out in 1989. It barely supported color, was never PPC native, etc. Maybe its codebase wasn't fit to be updated (it was a very early Mac app
729.
by rvense 6y ago
The USB functionality came fairly late in the MD's life, I think. For the vast majority of MD devices, you could only get data in or out via audio connectors, which, even if digital, is incredibly slow and unwieldy - there's no tr
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by rvense 6y ago
Is this the kind of mines that produce phosphate for fertilizer?
731.
by rvense 6y ago
What about "const auto static" to declare a variable that gets persisted to disk between programme invocations? Did that make it in?
732.
by rvense 6y ago
I think there's a simpler, better solution than Gemini, that is Markdown over HTTP. Accept: text/markdown,text/plain;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.1 I would love to see support for this in blogging engines. (Inspired by https:
733.
by rvense 6y ago
No company I've worked for would be able to exist without free software. Literally everything I've ever done professionally has been Linux, nginx, Postgres, frameworks, etc. On several occasions, I've found a bug and suggeste
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by rvense 6y ago
I can probably give the impression of a passionate developer because I'm self-taught and one of the things I like to do in my free time is write code. Still clock out at 5, though, and you can be sure I'm not going to put work Sla
735.
by rvense 6y ago
Daughter board is the wrong term, really. It's called a carrier.
736.
by rvense 6y ago
Ah, date formats. The normal way to write dates in my country is DD/MM/YY. Nerds hate it, of course. Like I've met several people (well, programmers) who'd get red-faced shouty about how illogical and dumb it is. And sur
737.
by rvense 6y ago
The first Mac filesystem didn't even have folders! So either every little thing would be visible to the user, or they'd have to hide files somehow. But really you wanted to just have one thing that you could copy around, double cl
738.
by rvense 6y ago
Maybe, but Mac APIs don't use them, so you can't mod your games with ResEdit anymore. NTFS also has multiple forks, and also has many of the same fancy attributes capabilities that made the BeOS filesystem (in)famous, but they&#x2
739.
by rvense 6y ago
> ten pushups I'm guessing you don't teach computer science
740.
by rvense 6y ago
In Scheme, (define (foo bar) ...) is equivalent to (define foo (lambda (bar) ...))
741.
by rvense 6y ago
The highest estimate for number of natural languages I've seen is about 7,000 living. But I think you'd have to have a very, very restrictive definition of programming language for it to be lower than that.
742.
by rvense 6y ago
In my very first developer job, I was creating a backend for a social media-type phone app. This was sort of a skunk works project that the founder and "Chief Innovation Officer" of a successful company wanted to do on the side, b
743.
by rvense 6y ago
Having more keys is a workaround for not having extra layers :)
744.
by rvense 6y ago
I think the longest version that exists is just over one hour with some narration in between. I've watched it recently on Youtube, but I didn't save the link.
745.
by rvense 6y ago
This is mistaken, actually: philosophers do use bins, they just don't put their own writings in them.
746.
by rvense 6y ago
I didn't read the linked article yet, but to me, Foucault really is one of the most interesting intellectuals of the 20th century (or longer) - if only because of how differently people perceive him. There's that old debate betwee
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by rvense 6y ago
> To give you an idea how tight that is, 64KB (code in ROM) is just 12 paper pages (60 lines of 80 columns) of text To be fair, this is machine code, so it's what, 4-10 bytes for an instruction and two or three of these per line of
748.
by rvense 6y ago
Not sure where you're from, but round here taxes are used for the infrastructure that private business need to have a market - schools, roads, health care and sometimes even direct investments in private businesses. The two start-ups I
749.
by rvense 6y ago
I found a StarMax in the bin behind a local university department a few months ago. I thought those days were long over, but there are still strokes of luck, apparently. These PPC Macs are a bit overlooked, in my mind, but of course this is
750.
by rvense 6y ago
I heard that the two main problems in computer science is that we have only one joke and it's not very funny.

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