shadowofneptune

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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Even being able to use that assembly source as listed is not a guarantee. There's no standard macro language, even if two assemblers share most of their syntax. As other posts have said, binary compatibility is more important.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Cycle-counting is useless on modern workstations, since different processor are used in each. I don't see how the choice of language is significant either, as long as it meets your goals for responsiveness. Goal could be instead to lim
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
The IBM PC would have had a slower start—having an easy path for CP/M devs to become DOS devs meant there were robust offerings early in the 5150's life. The move to out-of-order 68000 CPUs was harder than for x86. 68k is self-con
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Clavicord was definitely the virtuoso instrument of the period. It allowed for a lot of control, more than a modern piano. Its biggest issue, lack of sound, made it great for students like the ones Bach addressed in Clavier .
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Certainly gives another meaning to 'the power company.'
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/979/ I swore that this one was about the finding only person who had the same issue but who then had posted 'fixed it' soon after. That's even worse, it's like being stuck on the is
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Nvidia drivers, signed kernel modules, and Nvidia signed kernel modules are my own most common sources of 'Linux evenings.' SecureBoot is quite possible on Linux until you need to reach for these, then it becomes a headache.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Commenting on all of the Trilogy will be quite a task. By the end of Blue Mars it wasn't just the characters who needed a memory refresh, it was me too. The books do have quite a bit to say, especially in the later sections when they b
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Using it as slide text isn't so bad. Placing parts of code, like as[i] in it, is pretty silly though. My personal preference for a typeface that gives off the feeling of handwriting is an italic one. Palatino's italic bold is quit
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
If we're being nitpicky, did TUIs even exist on V7? IIRC, support for terminals that did more than scroll downwards was lacking in Unix at the time, only really starting on BSD.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
At least now you don't need to plug in a quarter (nearly a dollar in today's money) to keep practicing.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
OK, that makes a lot more sense.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
> The first coast-to-coast telephone call was made August 17, 1951, using the Long Lines — sometimes known as the “Skyway” or “Telephone Skyway” — network. It's odd to think about how a long-distance phone call was limited before t
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
To me, the nested format of comments is the issue. In a flat format like a forum, people are forced to stay on a main line of conversation, with occasional tangents using quotes or new threads. In the HN style, everyone peels away into thei
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
This gives the same feeling as AssemblyScript: it says it is one language, up to the point it isn't. That may make it easier for some people, but feels so uncertain. Both have a very slim set of articles in place of a proper manual; th
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Or you could write an email? I don't see how that works at all, you'd still be sitting in silence for minutes while the response loops around.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Not quite the point. The rest of the book's text has that same fever-dream inventiveness, and you can't just have the book narrated to an audience. All of the book's style is lost or altered in the new medium.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Oops! Less memorable than I thought. Its concept is, at least: it's close to being the villain of the story, Case its hapless pawn, yet it's also a captive. There are some parts of the plot I do like, even if it's not a draw
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
A film adaptation of Neuromancer loses my favorite part of it, the writing. The most famous part of the book is its opening line: 'The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.' It feels more like re
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
That's the average ? There's no way to measure it, but that's around five times the US median household income, at a percentile of 97%. It could not be close to the median for HN just by probability, and it's a rich man
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
The article already states why this is such an issue: The results could be correct or incorrect (the model has no idea either way), but are delivered in the style of a well-researched answer. They can also be automated, so there's tons
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
It's the physical bits of page space in reader's hands, in this case. The usage is pretty common for print ads.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
This behavior has been called 'confabulation,' and I think the name fits well. Other people call it 'hallucination.' Confabulation in people occurs after brain damage or dementia. They make stuff up while being convinced
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
The week being Babylonian is uncertain. Their monthly feast days were roughly seven days apart, yes, but their months were lunar months, not even multiples of seven ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_calendar )
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
I see also that you've written on your website about why there's no 'tip jar.' Thank you.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
What is the best way to compensate you for this wonderful book I stumbled upon here? I do not know how much authors actually get for books after the initial printings.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
I'm reminded of these error messages from an Apple C compiler: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/personal/humor/compile.html - "String literal too long (I let you have 512 characters, that's 3 mor
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
The part about it being all software surprised me. All the Dragon workstations I've seen have these remote controls attached: https://www.speechrecsolutions.com/mic_guide_handheld.html Turns out they're third part
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
Terms which were coined in Norman feudalism will need some stretching to adapt to different cultures and political systems. The judges in the Book of Judges aren't anything like a judge in our sense, for example.
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by shadowofneptune 4y ago
'Aside from the staffing changes' could be like asking why Germany lost WWII, 'aside from the Allied armies.' Any company is bound to struggle and forget how to run itself when the staffing cuts are that deep and unhappy

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