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by sedachv 10y ago
American Express SimplyCash Business Platinum has the standard one statement month-long interest deferral, 3% cash back on telecom bills and 3% cash back in a category you choose (shipping expenses, advertising, travel, some other ones I fo
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by sedachv 10y ago
Capital One Spark Business Visa currently has 2% unlimited cash back and a $59 annual fee. When I signed up it was 1.5% cash back, no annual fee, and no minimum cash back rewards redemption amount.
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by sedachv 10y ago
For an example of how this system switchover looks like, First Bank in the United States just did a whole-system switchover in March, at least for their business customers. They handle my wife's business' banking, which means I do
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by sedachv 10y ago
Until version 12, the Opera web browser had a menu with a big list of CSS override styles that worked like Firefox's Reader View. Some were for page development/debugging, some emulated small screen devices, and a lot were there t
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Why care whether the driver is open source? I can't believe I am reading garbage like this on a forum called "Hacker News." Richard Stallman literally started the Free Software movement because the driver to the Xerox 97
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by sedachv 10y ago
If you are interested in helping out in ending the drug prohibition in the United States I recommend donating or getting involved with the Drug Policy Alliance: http://www.drugpolicy.org/
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by sedachv 10y ago
The Mormon refugees did not find a desert, they found Native Americans living in the Utah Great Basin and proceeded to steal their land and natural resources: http://www.onlinenevada.org/articles/mormons-and-native-amer
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by sedachv 10y ago
I am actually on the lookout for Coherent 2 or earlier sources. It would be very interesting to see how it worked on the 8088.
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by sedachv 10y ago
If you want to talk about post-1993, saying that Linux won because there weren't any commercial x86 Unices makes even less sense. Xenix did not stop being updated, it became SCO UNIX. SCO bought and continued to sell UnixWare from Nove
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by sedachv 10y ago
> The biggest thing Linux had going for it in terms of winning market share was running on commodity x86 parts in a time period when the commercial Unices weren't touching it From the 1980s to 1993 there were: v7 ports: Micros
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by sedachv 10y ago
Does anyone know what “fixed-point” in “fixed-point x86_64 assembly code sequence” in the article means? I can think of three things (function combinator, fixed point of a real-valued function, fixed point arithmetic), none of which make se
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by sedachv 10y ago
This is extending Massalin's idea of superoptimization ( https://www2.cs.arizona.edu/~collberg/Teaching/553/2011/Reso... ), which is a practical application of Gregory Chaitin's work on applying
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by sedachv 10y ago
Don't apply to universities. Come up with a strong proposal for a research project, think about professors at the less popular research universities that you would want to work with, and see if any of them would be interested in having
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by sedachv 10y ago
> In various subjects, particularly abstract mathematics, I had to grind heavily in order to keep up with the class. I attended every office hours and pattern matched heavily, studying into the wee hours. (I had tried your method and fai
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by sedachv 10y ago
A lot of work was supported by the photographic artists union (Союз фотохудожников СССР) which received government grants and income from journal subscriptions, photo book sales, and sales from international gallery shows. Antanas Sutkus ta
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by sedachv 10y ago
I think there was a kind of collective blog exhaustion people went through around 2010-2013. My final tally was several dozen, it was hard to keep up, so I read less and less. I used Opera as my RSS reader, and when I switched from Opera 12
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Why hasn't anyone made a more eye-frendly version of the Common Lisp Hyper Spec I mostly access the HyperSpec using Erik Naggum's hyperspec.el while programming in Emacs, configured to bring up Lynx. A lot of other people p
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by sedachv 10y ago
Great summary. I recommend uMatrix ( https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix ) which has really good controls for toggling not just JavaScript but also cookies, XHR, frames, etc for origin and 3rd party/cross-domain requ
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by sedachv 10y ago
Broadcom released documentation and driver source code for VideoCore in 2014 so it should be easier to port things to the RPi now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_graphics_... AFAIK Linux distributio
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by sedachv 10y ago
> It's logically impossible for me to prove that these apps wouldn't exist without inefficient abstraction layers. The literally millions of applications not written on top of the specific crapware you list are an existence pro
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by sedachv 10y ago
Note that the Mathematical Atlas was supposed to have been moved to http://www.math-atlas.org/ in 2016, but that has not happened yet. Latest snapshot from the Wayback Machine is from April 2015: https://web-beta
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by sedachv 10y ago
> But if the additionally abstraction layers allow there to be greater diversity of applications and more tools for more niche cases because development is easier and/or faster Please try to find a single example where this is true.
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There is something wrong with your system.
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Abstraction is about coming up with general designs from many specific implementations. You can layer abstractions but layering is not fundamental to abstractions. Just because a design introduces extra indirection into a system does not me
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> What's the problem with fuse? 1. Only available on Android when rooted. 2. Support varies between OSes. For example OpenBSD's FUSE does not have the default_permissions / allow_other flags, which makes for example encf
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by sedachv 10y ago
> What I would like to see is a APFS/exFAT crossover with COW and data checksums without all the volume mgmt with ports for all possible operating systems so everyone can use it for their SDcards, usb-sticks and external drives with
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by sedachv 10y ago
That's what arrays are for. You can also do structure packing using implementation-specific tricks. SBCL's SB-ALIEN package has a nice interface for doing this: http://www.sbcl.org/manual/#Foreign-Types A r
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A lot of early research into parallel algorithms and exploiting associativity for parallelism started at Thinking Machines, a Lisp supercomputer company. Hillis and Steele's 1986 paper in CACM is still one of the best introductions to
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Please quit trolling. Allegro CL 10.0 released on 2015-10-05 ABCL 1.4.0 released on 2016-10-08 CCL 1.11 released on 2015-11-06 ECL 16.1.3 released on 2016-12-19 Lispworks 7.0 released on 2015-05-05 MKCL 1.1.10 rele
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Which was a backward-compatible extension of a 48-bit address space system built out of 1970s chips: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/system38/IBM_Syst...

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