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61.
by shrubble 5mo ago
The Raspberry Pi and probably other versions of Dyalog APL has all the characters visible across the window and is interactive with a REPL.
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by shrubble 5mo ago
I’m kind of confused, in that Israel is not that big in terms of population, about 10 million people; how much data and cloud do they need? The state of Pennsylvania is 13 million; would MSFT losing PA do them serious financial damage?
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by shrubble 5mo ago
It depends on how you want to treat the internal (not seen by user or compiler) decoding that both AMD and Intel are doing; some would argue that these CPUs are RISC chips that decode x86 and x64 instructions into their own RISC implementat
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by shrubble 5mo ago
A shabby NYC apartment in the 1940s could be rented for $30/month. So producing just 1 bill a day would be enough to meet the rent.
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by shrubble 5mo ago
Not mentioned is that Gemini does a pretty good job of writing Go in my experience of using it to generate utility scripts, and a friend’s use of generating an internal website for using a corporate API.
66.
by shrubble 5mo ago
This is a poorly supported take, once you factor in the productive parts of the economy. If you have a lot of farmland in a red state and the profits are reported in a blue state, then counting the reported profits on the corporate balance
67.
by shrubble 5mo ago
Note as well that a screenful of user-entered checked/constrained text, meant for some form of database query or insert, meant just one interrupt to the mainframe CPU; and all the info was there in an easy to parse format. Very low
68.
by shrubble 5mo ago
Mardi Gras actually originated in Mobile, Alabama; and it is celebrated with big parades and "krewes" all along the Gulf Coast, at least as far as Pensacola, Florida.
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by shrubble 5mo ago
I have an Acer Chromebook with Celeron N3060 CPU and it runs the SIMH VAX emulator with 64MB for the VAX at the same speed as a Vaxstation 4000/60 and likely the disk is much faster. I like OpenVMS and am slowly learning more about it;
70.
by shrubble 5mo ago
He famously doesn’t believe in God, but he believes in Claude?
71.
by shrubble 5mo ago
Have you seen an increase in usage of the L1 and is that being scrutinized by USCIS more than before?
72.
by shrubble 5mo ago
I wonder if EWD would have had the same opinion if he were alive today, with every Unicode font having the APL characters immediately available on the screen. Did he feel the language design was bad, or would having TTF fonts being able to
73.
by shrubble 5mo ago
From what I have seen, not too much, though vehicles might have a higher rate due to impounded cars etc.
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by shrubble 5mo ago
They are trying to make a moat where no possibility of creating a moat exists. It’s a huge mistake at the level of IBM trying to reestablish dominance over PCs by making MicroChannel the new standard; this failed horribly and cost IBM its m
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by shrubble 5mo ago
Even before ATI was acquired by AMD they had driver support problems. When I was working for a Unix commercial graphics software company, the CTO told me how bad the information he received under ATI’s NDA was: different revisions of the sa
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by shrubble 5mo ago
Killdall viewed it as a serious question, at the least. More accurately, “the assembly language programmer Tim Paterson has always claimed that he did not look at the implementation”. That Kildall later decided that turnabout is fair play,
77.
by shrubble 5mo ago
Now the debate over whether Gary Kildall’s claim of CP/M code being included in the first version of DOS can be examined in full; since the assembler code is available for scrutiny.
78.
by shrubble 5mo ago
The setting is there, somewhere, I agree; but no one can tell you how to change it or what the implications might be. So unless I want to dig into their YAML files that are not documented…
79.
by shrubble 5mo ago
I can tell you how vendors deliver a software solution that runs on Kubernetes: very poorly. The needed tweaks, the ability to customize things, basically goes to zero because the support staff is technical about the software, but NOT abou
80.
by shrubble 5mo ago
I reject the idea outright because I have no desire to negotiate with crocodiles over my being eaten last :-)
81.
by shrubble 5mo ago
It is not trustworthy full stop. A simple amendment passed the next year can change it.
82.
by shrubble 6mo ago
A friend is an organic farmer in Saskatchewan who has been buying specifically older mechanical only tractors; after a heart attack that will require him to sell off his farm, he’s finding lots of potential buyers.
83.
by shrubble 6mo ago
If you didn’t inform people ahead of time, it’s probably not “scheduled”…
84.
by shrubble 6mo ago
I saw a video where someone took banana bar code stickers wrapped around a bunch of bananas and put them on the TVs in their shopping cart and then checked out via self checkout. I predict that self checkout will only remain in the more tru
85.
by shrubble 6mo ago
I learned recently about “Vin Mariani” a wine from the 1860s that was fortified with coca leaves and contained 6mg per liquid ounce of the wine; except for the bottles sold in USA where it was 7.2mg per ounce, because there were other paten
86.
by shrubble 6mo ago
What did they shut down? Aperture comes to mind, anything else?
87.
by shrubble 6mo ago
I’m blaming DNS, unless proven otherwise
88.
by shrubble 6mo ago
Adobe lost me when I got a deal on Lightroom, installed it, and edited an image. Then I went to look at the image on my drive, and it wasn't there. LR had uploaded it and deleted it from my hard drive! They broke faith with me with th
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by shrubble 6mo ago
After Anthropic wholesale pirated millions of books, and got only a slap on the wrist and no jail time, and Meta did almost the same, I've decided that "Anna's" plus used physical books plus printed new books are the rig
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by shrubble 6mo ago
I'll be generous and assume you don't read British news and are unaware of the existence of Rotherham. There was just a big debate in Parliament over an inquiry into the subjects raised.

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