shadowofneptune

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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Has anything changed since about David Bowie playing a piano?
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
The article raises a good point about object files and binary compatibility being neglected in more recent languages.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
The more 'objectively' is used here, the less meaning it seems to have. If people have trouble using the notation, it's a subjective issue that cuts into the utility of the language. Even after getting used to it myself, I so
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Ah, this is what I was thinking of when I said other Vi's. Did not realize it's a fork of Vim.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
This was not my experience with Emacs, oddly enough. I started using it because it was the only editor that both supported a terminal and had a top bar. Like a windows program, pressing F10 gets you a File, Options, etc. menu that helped me
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
That's what I meant by keeping a list, didn't expand on that much. It's something that needs to be configured per-program, which is an issue.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
With the Emacs shell, this goes a step further. Emacs functions and /bin/ commands are put in the same namespace. '+' is now a command that can be run at the command line, while 'grep' can have its output redir
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
For civil purposes, I feel the second still makes more sense as 1/86400 of a solar day. Unless you have an atomic clock, you cannot accurately keep to the SI unit over weeks or months anyway, let alone the time between leap seconds.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Of the features to selectively take from Lua, the syntax is one I like. Pascal-style syntax does not have the statement separation issues a more expression-rich language like JavaScript has. It not only does not have statement separators, i
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
The potential population for that footgun is compiler writers, who should safely fall into 'know what they are doing' territory.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
This might be the finest criticism I've seen of attempts to extend the Christian epoch forward or backwards.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
LEA only got more powerful in later models as the restraints on registers were removed and more addressing modes got added. Now it can do several additions and a multiplication in a single operation. Reusing that memory hardware/instru
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Micheal Abrash's book covers this. May just be better to swap out the segment registers at that point though.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Have address calculations been covered yet? Those are pretty complex on the '86. Alternatively, the 'rep' prefix would be interesting.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
I have to admit you're right there, now thinking about how I would explain games I play, approaches to tasks, etc.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
The mind itself, perhaps. The person in possession of it though usually does have a conscious strategy to play a game once they are proficient, and can happily explain it to you.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Yeah, the literal meaning sounds absolutely disastrous and I'd love/dread to see it.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Yes, it is a loophole, but just in one law, not in the constitution. Congress delegated to the Treasury the right to mint coins of any denomination, even if the intent was different. I must admit that the separation of powers issue had not
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Hardly. It's just a particular mechanism to print more money that got created inadvertently . A really silly and dumb route to that, but no different in effect. That it's no different from printing more money to pay the debt is pa
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
> If an object that has automatic storage duration is not initialized explicitly, its value is indeterminate. If an object that has static storage duration is not initialized explicitly, then: • if it has pointer type, it is initialized
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
There's also the X Bitmap format: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_BitMap GIMP outputs it, which means you can make much any image embeddable into a C source.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
The most famous book title I know with that format is Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus . It's so old a style that I find it funmy that it could be seen as a fad.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Bill Joy, maker of Vi, was rather impressed by Emacs's input model in fact: > I think one of the interesting things is that vi is really a mode-based editor. I think as mode-based editors go, it pretty good. One of the good things a
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
It at one point was an illustration of how large and ponderous operating systems felt back then compared to most other programs. https://pbgalvin.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/scan0001.jpg A nice touch that got drop
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
The issue is that the one-dollar bill is still being printed. Decades of inflation has made dollar bills much more common, which means they come out of pockets more, which means they wear faster. I expect once the penny finally goes out of
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Official Intel program to detect the current processor (starts on page 16): http://kib.kiev.ua/x86docs/Intel/AppNote485/241618-005-mn.pd...
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
I'm looking at it myself from the other end: one of the most interesting ideas from Smalltalk, Oberon, Plan9, etc. was having text be executable as programs in a text editor. It's to a visual editor as a command line shell is to a
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
That is accurate, yes. Borland C++ and Delphi share the same component library and are interoperable.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Object Pascal has two magic types, dynamic arrays and AnsiStrings. These are automatically reference counted. Objects and classes have to be managed by hand, yes. In general, expect a lot more compiler magic out of Pascal, a lot of concept
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Enough with this 'emulating a PDP-11' cliche (never seen it quoted as the PDP-7 before). Explicit instruction-level parallelism has its own issues that make it difficult to use effectively, precisely because it must do staticall

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