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by spc476 6y ago
Yes, Lua 5.1 was a very good version. Lua 5.2 made some significant changes in how global variables work, which lead to a split between Lua and LuaJIT [1][2]. Lua 5.3, with true integer support [3] and some UTF-8 support made for a compel
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by spc476 6y ago
Lua has had true integers (and binary operators) since version 5.3, released in January of 2015.
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by spc476 6y ago
I'm only aware of versions 1 through 5. Where is v6 defined?
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by spc476 6y ago
Interesting. I found Planetfall moderately difficult, but the Lurking Horror was easy (I almost finished it first time I played it---I think it took me two sessions). A friend of mine played HHG2TG (I never did) and almost gave up on it.
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by spc476 6y ago
Byte Magazine had an article in 1986 that drew the US based on distances between cities. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1986-08/page/n103/...
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by spc476 6y ago
The Oligarchic Phone Companies already have a system like this in place, to lookup names based on phone numbers, and it's based on DNS. On the downside, each Oligarchic Phone company charges for each lookup ( everything on the Oligar
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by spc476 6y ago
I suspect it has to do with roaming. I have a phone in country X with company Y. If I travel to country A with company B and make a call, is it spoofed?
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by spc476 6y ago
My blogging engine [1] allows tagging of each post, and after twenty years of entries, I have: * over 5,000 entries * over 3,000 tags And I still have issues finding posts I've known I made via the tags. [1] https://github
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by spc476 6y ago
Yeah, the last time the US states had that level of autonomy was 1860 [1]. After 1865, the Federal government consolidated power, and more so after the 1940s [2]. It's just that in the US, most calls for more decentralization (aka &q
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by spc476 6y ago
The difference is that direct democracy doesn't scale. Switzerland has a population of 8 million; the US has a population of 330 million. Also, I'm willing to bet that Switzerland is more homogeneous than the US. And size wise,
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by spc476 6y ago
I post links to my blog entries to my LinkedIn timeline. I figured why not? I'm already doing that on Facebook, and hey, it's probably different enough from the regular content to be refreshing.
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by spc476 6y ago
Starting back around 2009, I started marking bug fixes in git with the first line containing "Bug fix---description". For example (from my gopher server [1]): a12c3fd Bug fix---sample forgot POST method. 0b1bce2 Bug fix
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by spc476 6y ago
I have a gopher server [1] that kept getting requests from some webbot. So I extended the gopher server to respond to any HTTP style request with "418 I'm a teapot". Sure enough, the webbot stopped making requests shortly t
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by spc476 6y ago
Some of us have been going even longer (I'm been blogging for 20 years now [1]). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21768264
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by spc476 6y ago
Thanks. I'm using the latest Firefox, and for some reason, this Javascriptless site isn't working at all because I can't see anything.
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by spc476 6y ago
It depends upon the office. Where I work, we rent space in a building, and the restrooms are shared by multiple tenants on the floor (each floor has a set of bathrooms), so I (and my fellow coworkers) have to badge out and in to use them.
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by spc476 6y ago
The about page [1] has a bunch of other Garfield variations. [1] https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/about.php
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by spc476 6y ago
He also said he had said what he wanted with Calvin and Hobbes, and all that was left was variations on a theme, over and over again. Might as well end on a high note and be remembered, rather than just fade into the background, like Peanu
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by spc476 6y ago
NULL is required to be stored as all zeros on POSIX systems.
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by spc476 6y ago
Look into doing greylisting. I do that for my own setup, and I've found it easily cuts down on the spam by at least 50% and that's without even looking at the email.
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by spc476 6y ago
That was 1994. 1993 was when AOL let its members access the Internet.
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by spc476 6y ago
Became clear to you after November of 2010? Harumph I say, harumph! It became clear to me in September of 1993! Kids these days! Get off my lawn!
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by spc476 6y ago
I've found a direct correlation between the chance of a content farm and the number of ads on the blog. With 0 ads, the likelyhook of a content farm is 0%.
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by spc476 6y ago
And clients that want to test against the Gemini Client Torture Test [1] MUST use TLS 1.2 as the server there only supports up to TLS 1.2 (due to said library limitation). [1] gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/torture&#x2F
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by spc476 6y ago
At the time that Google entered the market, there were at least 16 other search engines in existence [1] and all Google did was search. They had the smallest front page of any of the search engines at the time. It was very refreshing, a
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by spc476 6y ago
You could possibly log in as a guest (or "browse as a guest" at it says on the login screen) but there isn't much you can do by browse the web as a guest. Go figure.
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by spc476 6y ago
So what operating system do you use? Unix is 50. Windows is 35. Linux (even if it is Unix) is 30. I can't think of any commercially viable operating system that has been released in the past 20 years.
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by spc476 6y ago
He goes into that statement in a later post: https://prog21.dadgum.com/52.html
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by spc476 6y ago
Florida has no state income tax, but it does have sales taxes that are largely paid by tourists visiting the state.
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by spc476 6y ago
I know of two: * https://millionshort.com/ * https://wiby.me/

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