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by rzzzwilson 8y ago
Sqlite [0] seems to have quite a complete test suite. [0] https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
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by rzzzwilson 8y ago
I've been using *nix for the last 40 years, and I really don't want to go anywhere near Windows. I'll install Win7 if I want to play a game, but that's it.
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by rzzzwilson 8y ago
For python take a look at the learning resources in the /r/learnpython subreddit wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/wiki/index
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by rzzzwilson 8y ago
A bash file that does a backup of selected directories to an external disk. It's about 340 lines of shell that manages saving to dated target directories using rsync and using links to unchanged files Also performs a target filesyste
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by rzzzwilson 9y ago
That depends on your level as a programmer. A real beginner shouldn't spend a long time on it as s/he will just be wasting time and becoming frustrated. Someone with more experience might spend more time on it because they have
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by rzzzwilson 9y ago
There is a book "The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles"[0] that is often called "From NAND to Tetris". This has you building a computer simulator from the ground up (NAND to
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by rzzzwilson 9y ago
For me, it was a TRS-80 clone, a System-80, sold in Australia. I discovered assembly language and desperately wanted a C compiler. I bought the source code for an assembler from somebody, wrote an interpreter for the 8080 mnemonics using
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by rzzzwilson 9y ago
I'd like to cancel my account, but due to being an old semi-curmudgeon, I've never had a FaceBook account. People kept telling me that I was missing something, and now I see what they meant, I think.
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by rzzzwilson 9y ago
It was 1949: The first jet powered airplane flew Maybe the first civilian passenger aeroplane. The first jet aeroplane is considered to have flown in 1939. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_aircraft
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by rzzzwilson 9y ago
They had to put the N back. Makes it hard to refer to the DFL Xi Ji(n)pi(n)g otherwise.
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by rzzzwilson 9y ago
Wanted to try it but got an error: ------------------- Sorry, your browser doesn't support audio recording, which is required by our site. Why not try again using Chrome, Firefox, or Edge? Note that iOS only supports in-browser audio f
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by rzzzwilson 9y ago
Charlemagne is one of a handful of kings who gets awarded the post-nominal accolade “the Great.” His early life remains mysterious and the stories are assembled from various sources, but it seems he was born around 742 B.
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by rzzzwilson 9y ago
I have a small desk, about 1.6m by 0.6m. At the moment, it has my laptop and mouse, five USB external drives, notepads, pens, pencils, etc. On the other half of the desk is a Rigol DS1054Z oscilloscope, 24v power supply, power controller
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by rzzzwilson 9y ago
It's "Red Dwarf"[0] returning, I tell you. After an unfortunate close pass to a black hole that stretched it a bit. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Dwarf
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by rzzzwilson 9y ago
I read this What happens if we have the number 256 in an 8-bit unsigned integer (1111 1111 in binary) and we add 1? The answer (257) needs a 9th bit (1 0000 0000). and I didn't read any further. I don't think many int
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by rzzzwilson 9y ago
I remember reading comments by a U-2 pilot that turns had to be very shallow at height due to the possibility of the inside wing stalling and/or the outside wing entering mach buffet. !
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by rzzzwilson 9y ago
Is it just me being in my dotage, or does anyone else feel that websites that override my "open in new tab" action to force their tab to the top of my view plus tout their app should be taken out behind the shed and shot?
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by rzzzwilson 9y ago
Nice music. I'm a sucker for Bach. The website though, ... Won't let me view anything until I use Landscape mode on a mobile device. It's MY device and I'll use it the way I want. I guess I'll watch it on YouTube
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by rzzzwilson 9y ago
"a force of 800 miles per hour" It's Newsweek, but still...
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by rzzzwilson 10y ago
Maybe it works on the track, but for normal road use it's a really bad idea. Turn your head to one side at speed and the rotating disk gets ripped right off, if you're lucky!
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by rzzzwilson 15y ago
Ah, 1969, FORTRAN II on an IBM 1620A. Then BASIC and FORTRAN on a PDP-10 in 1971. Happy times. And get of my lawn!
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by rzzzwilson 15y ago
Due to the apparent age of the testing and changes to Python string library code since then, this should be ignored until you rerun the tests using the Python version you are using for your application. In particular, the old assumption th