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by tom_ 2y ago
They know what gets clicks!
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by tom_ 2y ago
And 91 year olds are unfortunately known for dying simply because they fell asleep. I hope to be 91 myself one day - nevertheless, I remain suspicious.
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by tom_ 2y ago
Emacs 30.0.50 wraps charwise for me when invoked with emacs -Q. (The manual describes this as continuation lines: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Co... ) Word wrap is availa
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by tom_ 2y ago
The worst case interrupt latency on the original 68000 is pretty terrible? The instructions take ages and the interrupt handling mechanism adds additional delays. I'm sure the 68020 was better.
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by tom_ 2y ago
"High speed block transfer instructions: 625 bytes/second" - phew, crikey, I hope they actually meant KBytes!
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by tom_ 2y ago
The task bar is still a bit limited - you can't dock it to the side of the screen, nor can you make it taller, nor (if only shown on one display) can you move it off the primary display.
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by tom_ 2y ago
You just need to find out how much an Arabian horse weighs, and divide the area of the thing they're standing on by 4, and the calculations are pretty straightforward.
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by tom_ 2y ago
Seems to be US specific. Can't see manuals for the last 3 cars I've had: 2001 BMW 330d, 2010 BMW 330i, 2011 Ford C-Max petrol. Renault stops in 1987, Peugeot stops in 1993, and there's nothing for Citroen, Vauxhall or Rover&#
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by tom_ 2y ago
Meet the new midlife crisis, same as the old midlife crisis.
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by tom_ 2y ago
You could definitely define pixel shaders on the Xbox using a combiner type struct. See the D3DPIXELSHADERDEF struct in the docs, from memory the equivalent of one of the NV register combiner extensions from OpenGL with additional access to
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by tom_ 2y ago
Oh, I see, it's from the article - right, got it.
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by tom_ 2y ago
It's pretty much best practice on the 6502. Loading code from disk or tape is basically the sane thing too.
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by tom_ 2y ago
Did they edit their post? The > syntax indicates a verbatim quote here.
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by tom_ 2y ago
I assumed OP is well aware that the question is why these people took the big tech job in the first place, because it is obvious that it would be like this. Is this rocket science? I say no.
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by tom_ 2y ago
Don't care about the grateful dead? Me neither. What you might like instead (as I certainly did) is this one-sided collection of endless forum posts from Stanley about his all meat diet: https://justmeat.co/archives&#x2
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by tom_ 2y ago
A previous bit of discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37796610
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by tom_ 2y ago
The reporter does not want his wife, children or other family members to commit suicide or fall ill and die.
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by tom_ 2y ago
See, perhaps, explorer/villagers/town planners: https://blog.gardeviance.org/2023/12/how-to-organise-yoursel... Clearly this basic idea crops up in numerous forms. Part of the point of this specific sche
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by tom_ 2y ago
I'm a bit surprised anybody with DevOps in their name would be unclear about the benefits of having specific roles devoted to what might seem to the uninitiated like just some tiny corner of the development process. Past a certain scal
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by tom_ 2y ago
Perhaps this release is not for historical research purposes.
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by tom_ 2y ago
If you disagree, see the first amendment! If you still disagree, see the second amendment!
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by tom_ 2y ago
The discussion topic was cases where the js output includes a bunch of extra junk, so this is just intended as an example of that! Mostly the output looks pretty much like the input. (The compile target in my case is ES2017, as configured i
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by tom_ 2y ago
I've had it generate some verbose stuff when using .?, along these lines: (_c = this.log) === null || _c === void 0 ? void 0 : _c.withIndent(' ', () => { var _a; // (pointless ?. silence
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by tom_ 2y ago
You need a getout clause sometimes, and it's useful to have one. (You should prefer "unknown", though, which requires you to cast the value on each use, over "any", which treats the value as being of all possible ty
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by tom_ 3y ago
It's referred to as the system tray in the Windows 11 UI.
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by tom_ 3y ago
"Some time" does have pretty much that implication. The exact amount of time is unspecified, but I'm unsure that 6 months is enough to count. Maybe this is an American vs British English thing? You dan't have to trust me
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by tom_ 3y ago
How did you know who he is? I'm slightly curious. I remember Bocock from 20-odd years ago when we were on a couple of the same mailing lists. EDIT: I assume this'll be the same person. The name is not exactly common. And one of th
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by tom_ 3y ago
The original less-than check was deemed incorrect, and was replaced entirely. For good or for ill, it seems the author deems it valid to pass in a value smaller than sizeof *hwrpb, and that many bytes will be dutifully copied. This might fo
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by tom_ 3y ago
I wonder how many people drive far enough to regularly need the range extender before they have a chance to plug it in. The fuel economy of this thing is not great if you drive it far enough that it runs out of petrol and you need to fill i
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by tom_ 3y ago
The theory, as I understand it, is that the much-vaunted game engine was not as good as claimed, and the game was also not actually fun, and the man was deploying his IQ more in the service of drumming up publicity for his project than in a

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