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Show HN: A Source File Viewer(github.com)
3 points by rwallace 1y ago|0 comments
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by rwallace 1y ago
Eh. I mean, I don't have a piano, but I think a world in which no one ever does anything that can't be done on a laptop computer, would not be a better place.
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by rwallace 2y ago
I think it's an interesting approach. With, yes, caveats as people have pointed out, but there are caveats to everything, and this approach removes a huge barrier to 'try them and see'. If you want to talk specifics, contact
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Why was hardware diversification an asset for the IBM PC ecosystem?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
1 points by rwallace 2y ago|0 comments
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Who's Lying? (2022)(longform.asmartbear.com)
1 points by rwallace 2y ago|0 comments
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How does Explorer calculate the "Date" of a file?(devblogs.microsoft.com)
3 points by rwallace 2y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: CD to nearest recent matching dir(github.com)
1 points by rwallace 2y ago|0 comments
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by rwallace 2y ago
A small side project I wrote for my own use: https://github.com/russellw/chatgpt-unpack ChatGPT allows you to download an archive of all the conversations you have had with it, so you can do things like search for past
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What were the major things that caused TCP/IP to become the standard protocol?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
2 points by rwallace 2y ago|0 comments
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Did any processor implement an integer square root instruction?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
251 points by rwallace 3y ago|72 comments
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AI for Niche Languages(lumagraph.ie)
2 points by rwallace 3y ago|0 comments
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by rwallace 3y ago
I do actually sympathize with that! I tried to keep a level tone, and maximize the ratio of useful information to flame-war ammunition, but that ratio unfortunately has an upper bound well short of infinity.
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by rwallace 3y ago
Right. To be clear, the purpose of the article is not 'zounds, C and C++ have footguns!' but 'C and C++ have footguns – yeah, this is not exactly breaking news – but here is a hopefully helpful summary of where they are, why
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Undefined Behavior in C and C++(lumagraph.ie)
28 points by rwallace 3y ago|82 comments
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by rwallace 3y ago
Not the first discussion of this topic, by any means. In this case, I've tried to boil it down to the essential points a practical programmer needs to know, but the article still ended up longer than I initially aimed for.
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by rwallace 3y ago
Be careful what you hope for. For all we know, the answer might be, "Sorry, human, I'd love to chat, but I need to get your dish cleaned and racked up to dry before they close the lab for the eon. Now, how do you get the childproo
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by rwallace 3y ago
I'm curious, what exactly would you redesign? Seems to me that it's intrinsically necessary to have DNS to translate between human-readable names and machine-efficient addresses. What am I missing?
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by rwallace 4y ago
This is the first time I've ever posted an XKCD link here, but I think the occasion calls for it. https://xkcd.com/810/
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by rwallace 4y ago
I'm curious; I know the Sun workstations were generally well-regarded, but what was it about the Sun-3 specifically, that made it such an important quantum jump?1
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by rwallace 4y ago
In general of course you're right, and this is a very good point. > Even doing work agilely with review every two weeks and the client only paying once they've reviewed and approved the work in that two week period, and approve
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by rwallace 4y ago
Yes, and it's not just a binary. As a general rule – this has been verified in any number of cases – the more people are paying for something, the more respectful they are to the providers thereof, and the higher the perceived pay and
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by rwallace 4y ago
Sounds to me like a programming dream. The usual way of things these days is 'don't waste your employer's time trying to optimize; everything that can profitably be done has already been done by other people; you just have to
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by rwallace 4y ago
Now I'm curious, 'Near 100% RH and temperatures in the 100s' should as the article says, be theoretically lethal; what are the precautions by which you avoid heatstroke, without air conditioning? (The one I thought of, if you
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by rwallace 4y ago
Wasn't VB5 backward-compatible? I thought VB.net was the first version that wasn't; what am I missing?
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by rwallace 4y ago
> The first benchmarks indicated the plain Archimedes had higher FP throughput than a 16MHz 386 with a 387. I could imagine a plain Archimedes being competitive with a 386 in integer throughput, but an integer-only machine outdoing an FP
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by rwallace 4y ago
I'm curious, what problems did you have with JavaScript math? I had the impression it was bog standard IEEE 754 same as every other language nowadays, but I have never tried doing any serious calculation in that language.
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by rwallace 4y ago
Thanks! Right, so the successful version was the one written in Lisp. Okay, that's actually understandable. At that time, managed languages were not widely used, and C is really not a good choice for that kind of project. If those are
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by rwallace 4y ago
That sounds interesting! Google doesn't find any mention of that, only https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Analysis_and_Replannin... that says DART, far from failing hard, was a huge success. Do you have a link
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by rwallace 5y ago
Are you saying regular expressions were inspired by biology? How?
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by rwallace 5y ago
Thankfully, you can turn off cursor blinking on Windows (by turning the blink rate down to zero).

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