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by sedachv 10y ago
> Back in 1970, no language had a 64-bit integer type. It would be more accurate to say that "no language had a two-word integer type." 1960s CDC 6000-series machines had 60-bit words, and Maclisp got bignums sometime in late 1
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by sedachv 10y ago
You can buy new PDP-11 and VAX hardware to run Unibus/Q-bus based industrial control systems today: http://logical-co.com/
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by sedachv 10y ago
Most backup cameras already work via the center entertainment console LCD and the trend is for climate control to move there too.
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by sedachv 10y ago
That is actually how Common Lisp represents time: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/hyperspec/HyperSpec/Bo... When you look up "integer": https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups&
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by sedachv 10y ago
Pretty much everything in your post is wrong. IBM mainframes are heavily virtualized and have very good support for moving to larger address spaces. VM and MVS moved from 24-bit to 31-bit to 64-bit address spaces. You can run the old 24-bit
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by sedachv 10y ago
> They won't tell you which deductions you are supposed to take. They will for the most basic personal deductions. I have gotten a correction on a 1040EZ where my deduction was corrected upwards and the refund increased. It is impos
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Nobody I've called is aware of me owing anything on my plate, though, and I've never got anything in the mail. Check that your mailing address on file with the DMV is up to date.
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by sedachv 10y ago
> I disagree, the advantage of Docker is that you can slap an image together by doing essentially what you were doing - running a couple of apt install commands, pip install -r requirements.txt, copy a few files and it's done. IMO t
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by sedachv 10y ago
I actually did not realize freshmeat was gone until seeing this post. Apparently freshmeat became freecode.com sometime in 2011 with a terrible new layout. Then subdomains like palm.freecode.com disappeared entirely in 2013, after Dice Hold
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by sedachv 10y ago
I started using EXWM, the Emacs X Window Manager, a few weeks ago, and it is by far my favorite window manager yet. It is the ultimate anti-desktop: all windows just become Emacs buffers. Since terminal windows are just Emacs buffers, manag
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by sedachv 10y ago
If you use Gmail via webmail at https://mail.google.com or have a MUA like smtpmail.el in Emacs connect to smtp.gmail.com, Gmail is still sending your mail.
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by sedachv 10y ago
Peter Thiel is a racist, misogynist oligarch. Some quotes: But since a multicultural rape charge may indicate nothing more than belated regret, a woman might ‘realize’ that she had been ‘raped’ the next day or even many days later. ----
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by sedachv 10y ago
My actual point is you are a troll engaging in Sea lioning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_lioning
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by sedachv 10y ago
All of your replies in this topic have been logical fallacies: 1. "Someone else would have done it." 2. False dichotomy. And now piling on: 3. Moral relativism. 4. Finish the Job. (#49 in http://utminers.utep.edu/o
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by sedachv 10y ago
> My MUA would not be rejected by the destination host if the recipient uses the same host as me. Your MUA would be rejected if it acted as an MTA and connected on port 25 without authenticating. "Using the same host as me" is
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by sedachv 10y ago
> I'm saying worry about ICE's conduct, worrying about Palantir is unproductive. How so? Exposing and holding people and companies accountable for wrong behavior does not stop anyone from trying to change the government policie
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by sedachv 10y ago
> but when I use Mail.app to send an email, I am the one doing the emailing, not the Google SMTP server acting as a mail transfer agent (MTA) You seem to be confusing the MSA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_submi
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by sedachv 10y ago
It was a feature introduced in 2011 and discontinued in 2013: https://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-discontinue...
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by sedachv 10y ago
Google provides a Chrome extension to block sites from Google Search results: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist... 3rd party addon for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org&#x2F
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by sedachv 10y ago
I read Badiou's Number and Numbers . The first half was a good introduction to the history of attempts to axiomatize various kinds of numbers. The second half was a so-so introduction to surreal numbers. The book seems like some notes
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by sedachv 10y ago
The houses in Vancouver are so crappy someone even made a joke quiz about it, in 2010, when the prices were a lot lower: http://www.crackshackormansion.com/
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by sedachv 10y ago
Why do people think that Emacs is impossible for non-programmers to use? "He wrote a version of Emacs in Multics MacLisp, and he wrote his commands in MacLisp in a straightforward fashion. The editor itself was written entirely in Lis
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by sedachv 10y ago
That is a really funny question. I started using Emacs a relative short time ago on what I still consider a fast machine - 2001 on a dual-processor Pentium Pro at 200MHz with 192MiB of RAM. My phone is one of the lowest-end Android models a
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by sedachv 10y ago
You need to set up a hook for the notification you prefer: https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/3844/good-methods-... Tons of options: shell scripts, dbus.el (since 23)/notifications.el (since 24), write
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by sedachv 10y ago
One thing the article does not mention is Chouinard's 1% For The Planet association (member companies pledge to donate 1% of gross annual sales to specific environmental organizations). Chouinard's approach to environmental lobbyi
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by sedachv 10y ago
For some reason LF's latest available 990 return is from 2014. Relevant numbers for 2014: LF assets $20,915,947 total revenue $31,452,792 FSF assets $1,009,228 total revenue $1,110,148 https://projects.propublica.org/no
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by sedachv 10y ago
Why should anyone accept planned obsolescence?
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by sedachv 10y ago
> One thing is to keep supporting something that costs hundreds of dollars (like an iPhone), but there is very little sense IMHO to spend a lot of effort and—potentially—make everyone's experience worse just because some users won&#
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by sedachv 10y ago
No. NodeJS (V8) is slower than Racket in many benchmarks: https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/measurements.p... https://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/measurements.p... Note that
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by sedachv 10y ago
> I suppose you could characterize that as JIT compilation, but the optimizer does not make use of any runtime profiling information. That is JIT compilation. AFAIK James Gosling started using the phrase in the 1990s to pretend that it w

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