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by tom_ 3y ago
You could also have shorter cycles times by just doing it and assuming it'll be fine. Acorn's Master Turbo uses 4864-2 DRAMs, which have a 150 ns access time/270 ns cycle time, for, I think, a max throughput of 1e9/270=3
692.
by tom_ 3y ago
I assume the link was supposed to be to this specific answer, as that's where the quote in the title comes from: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118/1618406
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by tom_ 3y ago
My GPL ones seems to be excluded. I've got a couple that are intended to be GPL, but you wouldn't know unless you go to the GitHub issues to find the issue I raised about the licence file not being in the repo. They are included.
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by tom_ 3y ago
The comment specifically excludes London, as it works differently from the rest of the UK.
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by tom_ 3y ago
That's a good idea too. For my smaller-scale personal projects I rely on the git status, but if you use some other version control system then you don't always get early warning of this sort of thing. (My work stuff typically uses
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by tom_ 3y ago
> Say you add a new source file. Wouldn’t it be great if your build system just picked it up? I have never enjoyed the experience of working with tools that did this. How does it know which files I actually want, and which files are ther
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by tom_ 3y ago
I guess they edited their post, because your quote no longer applies?
698.
by tom_ 3y ago
The Atari ST had a 6x6 font (5x5 for most glyphs, 5x6 including descenders) that took surprisingly few liberties with the lower case chars. I'm going by memory, but this looks like an accurate rendition: https://fontstruct.c
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by tom_ 3y ago
And overriding Ctrl+K without even being so good as to give way when you type it a second time. Assholes.
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by tom_ 3y ago
I'm pretty sure the phrase can be intepreted as describing a fully completed action?
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by tom_ 3y ago
It's bait. Are you sure you want to take it?
702.
by tom_ 3y ago
What does RAG stand for?
703.
by tom_ 3y ago
My 1995 Renault Clio had it as a button on the indicator stalk. Worked very well, in my view. Much easier than pressing the centre of the steering wheel. There's often no need to even move your hand!
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by tom_ 3y ago
https://www.mazda.co.uk/cars/mazda-mx-30-all-electric/mazda-... might be one example - series hybrid with Wankel engine. The fuel economy does not actually sound very good, but presumably it's intended for us
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by tom_ 3y ago
No, definitely Syndicate! On an Amiga 500, it felt much too slow compared to the PC version. Compared to the 68000, a 1970s design, the higher clock speeds and much better architecture of the 386 and better really helped. (No, you don'
706.
by tom_ 3y ago
Any time somebody tells you how simple C is by comparison, point them at https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html#6.2.4p5 : > An object whose identifier is declared with no linkage and without the storage-c
707.
by tom_ 3y ago
In my view it is entirely about the hardware. By the time the Amiga 1200 came out, PC makers could sell you a 33 MHz 486 with <10 cycle multiply, and VESA graphics card with convenient 1 byte/pixel graphics memory arrangement. Again
708.
by tom_ 3y ago
How many gaming consoles have a keyboard and a mouse and (as was much commented upon at the time) a multitasking GUI OS?
709.
by tom_ 3y ago
Stop paying for it, and use something else.
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by tom_ 3y ago
And yet the standard explicitly states that undefined behaviour can behave in some documented manner characteristic of the environment. As a simple question of quality of implementation, we should surely be able to demand that nothing confu
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by tom_ 3y ago
Worth your time, and not - I don't think - unrelated: https://www.ftrain.com/wwic
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by tom_ 3y ago
Also useful if you want to add logging, or capture some metrics, or set a breakpoint.
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by tom_ 3y ago
Feels like QWERTY users will save a useful amount of wear and tear on their left hand. I don't want their life to be any worse than it already is.
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by tom_ 3y ago
This is the best thing about it for me as well. You can experiment with M-: or the scratch buffer to figure out what exact bit of elisp needs to be invoked; then use defun in the scratch buffer to make an interactive function of it; then us
715.
by tom_ 3y ago
Hmm, while we're counting, what about BRIEF? At one point, widely enough used that Visual Studio even had BRIEF emulation! (When I was starting out in software development, almost all of my colleagues used this. Now just a footnote.)
716.
by tom_ 3y ago
I suppose TextMate was a bit more niche, being OS X only, but at one point it seemed to be everywhere .
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by tom_ 3y ago
And Atom, as well.
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by tom_ 3y ago
Acorn did figure this out eventually and used the 177x from about 1984.
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by tom_ 3y ago
I used to do it as well, but I'm not sure why either? (I learned C in the early 90s.) The reference material was never great back in those days, so maybe I just started doing it by extending the rules for if(), while(), for() and funct
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by tom_ 3y ago
This does seem like a very ineffective way to defend yourself against the other teams in the training exercise, who will presumably be firing live ammo.

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