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by spc476 8y ago
The iPhone 8 was good enough for Steven Soderbergh to make a feature length movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzVAdUIBBSk
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by spc476 8y ago
There's also gopher://hngopher.com/
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by spc476 8y ago
As mentioned, Lynx still supports the protocol. It's an easy protocol to implement [1] such that you could possibly write on in shell using little more than `nc`, `less` and possibly some `awk` (or similar) to format the index pages (
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by spc476 8y ago
Interesting. For a factual reply (college from 1987 to 1994) there seems to be quite the hate ...
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by spc476 8y ago
Java wasn't a thing at all when I was in college. C++ was just a few years old at the time. Assembly language was still heavily used, with C becoming popular for game development.
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by spc476 8y ago
I don't think acting, directing, scoring, or cinematography have changed all that much with the advent of computers. But the computer industry? There are several languages very popular today that didn't exist when I was in col
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by spc476 8y ago
You were probably tracked via IP address. Even without a static IP address, it probably doesn't change that much. With so many Facebook "like" icons everywhere, it doesn't really matter what browser you use, or if you
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by spc476 8y ago
My preference is actual office (which I currently have and share with one coworker), cubical (the higher the walls, the better), open space (no, just no). Different people have different preferences.
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by spc476 8y ago
Yeah, it really sucks that the developers of TCP didn't foresee these issues in 1981 when they first designed it. I can't believe they were so short-sighted. Okay, enough with the sarcasm. Is it too much to ask for historical pe
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by spc476 8y ago
Supporting a new protocol on top of IP using raw sockets can be supported by endpoints that are running your software. Except, of course, if you go through NAT or any of these "middleware boxes" that litter the Internet.
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by spc476 8y ago
I just now realized that the telephony mindset has won---the "dumb network" (slung packets to an intelligent edge) that was the Internet back in 1992 is now dead a buried. All hail the "smart network!"
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by spc476 8y ago
The Corporate Overlords hired a company to send us fake phishing emails to test us peons. I found out that this company will set a header saying it's a fake phishing email, probably to get it past our spam firewall.
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by spc476 8y ago
I work at a company whose customer is the Phone Company. As I complained to my manager, "We may have a two-week sprint, but the Phone Company has a two-year sprint."
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by spc476 8y ago
A crude, TL;DR is that QUIC is just TCP over UDP.
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by spc476 8y ago
McDonald's is offering a 99₵ burger as part of a nation wide promotion. Where I live (Florida) it's $1.06 with tax. In Oregon, it would be 99₵ (no sales tax). In North Carolina, it's $1.03 except Ashville, North Carolina h
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by spc476 8y ago
There's a form the employee fills out detailing how much to withhold during the year. Most people use the default, which is to withhold the most, thus those that get a refund are overpaying their taxes over the year. Prior to WW-II, e
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by spc476 8y ago
That's fine for a local store, but what about a regional chain? Or even a national chain? What price to they advertise? Or do they need to do different advertising per tax district? (which could be city, county and/or state)
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by spc476 8y ago
`strcpy()` and `strncpy()` were defined at the same time, but to understand `strncpy()` you have to understand the original Unix file system. Directories are special files that map names to inodes [1]. Back then, each entry in a directory
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by spc476 8y ago
The post was based up the book The Standard C Library by P. J. Plauger. It's an excellent reference (if a bit dated as it only covers C89) that not only prints the relevant bits from the C Standard, but goes into the history behind
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by spc476 8y ago
Yes. JWZ posted a story about a repair in one such cable: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/ And in this case, when the cable broke, it was hideously expensive to fix (downtime
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by spc476 8y ago
I did years of assembly, then C, and now Lua. I've yet to find the 1-based indexing to be an issue, and that's even having written a few C modules to manipulate Lua arrays. What is it about the 1-based arrays that is so off-putt
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by spc476 8y ago
Perhaps for CP/M. Loading an MS-DOS .EXE file (not a .COM file) you'll need to do some fixups to adjust for the actual address the program is loaded into [1][2]. [1] https://github.com/spc476/NaNoGenMo-2015&#
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by spc476 8y ago
It's too noisy just by itself. First time I tried it, it complained about padding added to structures. When I packed them, it complained about packed structures.
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by spc476 8y ago
We got a green light for a complete rewrite, but only because of licensing issues with the original code. I'm just hoping we don't fall for the second-system syndrome.
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by spc476 8y ago
I think compiling the provided code and running it against the provided data set does do something---you know the code reports on the data. If you get a different result with the provided code and data, then there's something differen
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by spc476 8y ago
The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner. It was the scariest book I ever read.
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by spc476 8y ago
It depends upon the platform, the language and the toolsets. For instance, for C, a trick I've used is to (if I can) use different C compilers and crank the warnings/errors to 11 and fix every complaint (or try to---it can be dau
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by spc476 8y ago
The Google Street view [1] shows it needs at least new doors and windows. Maybe even a new outer wall on the second floor (or the very least the ivy removed before it does more damage). [1] https://goo.gl/maps/XmmdxPm4
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by spc476 8y ago
While C may not mandate zero-initialized pointer is NULL, POSIX does.
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by spc476 8y ago
I just finished reading the book. In it, he doesn't state that it happened at once everywhere. There was one passage that implied that the Aztecs were still mostly bicameral (or were in the immediate period after the bicameral breakd

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