tengwar2

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by tengwar2 1y ago
Unfortunately I don't remember. This was back in the late 80's, so getting on for 40 years back, and while I do have the source code, it's on 5¼" floppy. I just checked eBay, but the only USB floppy drives seem to be in
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by tengwar2 1y ago
But you could access the hardware directly. I don't remember the details, but I build a hardware clock running at 10ms cycle time and was able to poll it. Also my build relied fundamentally on reading from a couple of external DAC conv
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by tengwar2 1y ago
One general's occupation is another's hostage situation.
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Coming from a background of programming bank-switched Z80 code for memory-mapped displays with an 8080 assembler, 80386 code with a full-screen debugger was a dream.
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by tengwar2 1y ago
You could write your own GUI rather than using a text screen. I had to do that as I was working under OS/2 1.0, which didn't have the Presentation Manager. it did mean providing your own character set (ripped from VGA on DOS in my
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by tengwar2 1y ago
I think it goes back to Jerome K Jerome, at least.
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Partly home-made. Arm Holdings is British-based, but owned by Softbank Group (Japanese).
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Possibly, but start with prosecuting humans (company staff and directors) as accessories to the crime.
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by tengwar2 1y ago
There was an sf short story based on someone implementing a worm (as in Morris Worm) which deleted all data on a planet. They fix it by flying FTL and intercepting some critical information being send at radio speed. I think it was said to
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by tengwar2 1y ago
No-one thinks the NHS is perfect. People are rationally defensive of it because the most likely alternative is not something like the German system (which is better, but has major problems) but a sale of the NHS to an American company suc
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by tengwar2 1y ago
School Mathematics Project covered secondary school, and was very much part of the New Maths project. And yes, we did cover set theory in primary school.
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by tengwar2 1y ago
I may be misremembering, but I think we had simple topology, linear programming (mainly just 2D, but I remember a 5D problem at the end of the section), matrices with eigenvalues and eigenvectors, set theory, and a bit of group theory. No p
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Also if they did have identical sizes and there was a need to measure those sizes, we would expect a lot of much simpler devices to measure them - say a flat piece of metal with differently sized holes. Fancy versions like the dodecahedron
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by tengwar2 1y ago
And on the number of the pegs. And five pegs would be far too few for practical purposes.
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Coming up with a possible use is a very long way from being able to declare this "solved". There are many such claims. For the idea you discuss, a problem is that the projections were balls - not the easiest of things to dislodge
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by tengwar2 1y ago
You don't need 12 holes of varying sizes to hold a candle, and these would have been disproportionately expensive to make for that role. The problem is that one can poke similar holes in other proposals. Personally I favour the "p
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by tengwar2 1y ago
RPL (Reverse Polish Lisp, a high level language for HP calculators) possibly drew on it a bit, though the main antecedents are RPN and Lisp, and possibly Poplog (a Poplog guru was at HP at the time, but I don't know if he contributed).
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Chief Dexitroboper.
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by tengwar2 1y ago
The other thing I would hope for is wildcard certificates. I stopped using S/MIME because I usually create a new email (based on the same domain) for each vendor that I deal with. I would find it useful to be able to get a single certi
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by tengwar2 1y ago
OTP via SMS: depends on the country. These days it's not very common in the UK. They often ask for an email address, but my experience is that most of the time they don't check it for validity.
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Not for Mac. MacOS is an open garden: there is an app store; or you can install signed apps (requires Apple cooperation); or you can install unsigned applications. MacOS gives you a nudge to the app store (which has genuine advantages) and
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by tengwar2 1y ago
It's a reasonable solution, but let's not forget that simply walking is often at least as good a solution in many countries.
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Satie is fascinating, and I don't know of any composer who had so much variety in what he attempted. The Gymnopedies and Gnossiennes are by far his best known pieces, but once you get away from that it gets strange and wonderful. He th
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by tengwar2 1y ago
How so? If you attribute it to an earlier universe, you are just pushing the problem further back. It doesn't seem to be a proof or even a mild indication.
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by tengwar2 1y ago
OS/2: seems an odd thing to say. I used to write in C and MASM, and there were no particular barriers.
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Even with a traditional diesel, you can get a good ride. I took the sleeper train from Istanbul to Pamukalle (Laodicea), and even over the single track sections it was smooth. It might be down to the driver planning ahead - this one was def
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Up to a point, but there are other parables which make death explicit, e.g. the rich farmer who tore down his barns to build bigger ones, and was told he would die that night. This parable doesn't link this to having limited time, it&#
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Well, a rope is not braided! I don't see this as an issue. There are only so many images to use in a subsistence agriculture society, hence sheep and grain coming up over and over. Sometimes similar images will be used to make differen
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Yes.
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by tengwar2 1y ago
Sorry, I don't know which web site you are referring to. However this is a primarily a matter of linguistics. Checking in to it, it wasn't Aramaic that was the issue, but Greek: κάμηλον (kamēlon, “camel”) versus κάμιλον (kamilon,

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