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by tom_ 3y ago
I suspect you'd just disagree or fail to understand if it were explained. Safest to just trust the implied advice in this instance!
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by tom_ 3y ago
But it obviously is - just not so much that it's worth switching over, given how much of a standard QWERTY is and how much hassle it is to retrain. Most people just don't type enough for the issues with it to become apparent, and
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by tom_ 3y ago
I'm a programmer, not a professional folder contents lister. Anyway, I'll typically use my 4th finger for l, because my hands are a slightly weird shape perhaps - and if I know I'm going to type ls -la, I'll put my 3rd f
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by tom_ 3y ago
Rather agree. I'm sure there'll be a bit in it in terms of efficiency and comfort, since Colemak is more recent, but Dvorak is available on Windows out of the box. I switched to Dvorak over 20 years ago and I've been quite
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by tom_ 3y ago
Games companies have traditionally proven perfectly capable of going out of business without needing any VC investment.
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by tom_ 3y ago
Ask yourself why you paid it!
937.
by tom_ 3y ago
$50,000 is more like £40,000.
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by tom_ 3y ago
The same goes for C programmers with a chip on their shoulder! There is a downvote button.
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by tom_ 3y ago
Some discussion here: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/quotes.html
940.
by tom_ 3y ago
I've got a tvi910+. It looks cool. Check it out: https://deskthority.net/wiki/TeleVideo_910 (that's a 910, but the 910+ looks exactly the same) I switched it on in 2019. Probably its first run since the late
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by tom_ 3y ago
You could definitely access bytes? You couldn't do word or long accesses on odd addresses however. The 68000 doesn't have a pin for bit 0 of the address. (Byte accesses presumably fetch the word of interest and discard the 8 unwan
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by tom_ 3y ago
The 68000 has a 16 bit data bus. (I always assumed it's 16 bit internally as well? Longword unary register operations take slightly longer than their word equivalents, even though the instruction is the same size in both cases.)
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by tom_ 3y ago
You can't do [n+100000] - the displacement field for the equivalent addressing mode is 16 bits. I also wouldn't hold my breath while waiting for the 68000 to do anything ... all the instructions are enormous, and they take ages t
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by tom_ 3y ago
"May"
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by tom_ 3y ago
The man eats his own toenails. C'mon bro.
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by tom_ 3y ago
size_t is for object sizes. It might not be 64 bits.
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by tom_ 3y ago
Indeed. The weird navigation keys are weird, as they're in funny places and half of them are missing. And I might have some suggestions about better places to put the arrow keys. But there's a numeric keypad, and there's a
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by tom_ 3y ago
My ~2000-era MS Natural keyboard has the following. (I keep it in a drawer, as an emergency spare for when I run out of MS Natural 4000s.) - Full navigation cluster - Arrow keys away from the main area - Ctrl+Shift in line on both sides - R
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by tom_ 4y ago
I've used some kitchen equipment (fortunately, not ovens...) that think the buttons are pressed if you spill liquid on them. You have to stop and clean the thing before you can continue.
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by tom_ 4y ago
Here's something I've found a useful upgrade to asprintf, as it frees the passed-in buffer after expanding the format string. You can just pass the same char ** repeatedly (and also pass it as one of the string arguments correspon
951.
by tom_ 4y ago
Maybe this is for town driving? My diesel 3 series (2.9 litre, late 90s design) would get 8.83 L/100 km (32 mpg UK, 26 mpg US) driving round town, stopping at traffic lights and averaging <20 mph and never getting past 3rd gear. Thi
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by tom_ 4y ago
We already pretty much did it for measuring time, and very helpful it has proven too. So why not other dimensions as well? There'll be plenty of diversity left, trust me.
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by tom_ 4y ago
I have all my emacs stuff in a git repo called .emacs.d. Wherever I am, I clone it into my home folder, and Emacs picks it up when I run it. Then it ends up looking the same as it always is. "But what if you end up somewhere where you
954.
by tom_ 4y ago
clang and VC++ for x64 warn about this out of the box, but gcc seems to need -Wall.
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by tom_ 4y ago
* consumes an int, not a size_t: https://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html#7.21.6.1p5
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by tom_ 4y ago
A much better description of strcmp's behaviour: https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/string/byte/strcmp
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by tom_ 4y ago
It's worse than this for the 6502! DEY takes 2 cycles, and BNE (when taken) takes 3. LDA abs,Y takes 4-5 cycles (the extra one happens if a page boundary is crossed when performing the address calculation - in practice you'd try t
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by tom_ 4y ago
There's a specific process: https://www.gov.uk/redundancy-your-rights/consultation - plenty of opportunities for disputes to arise. We can trust the union will want to make a fuss, and Google will want the opposit
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by tom_ 4y ago
At a guess, the garage is wider than its door.
960.
by tom_ 4y ago
Yes. This language looks like it might be a bit more convenient to use in some respects, though.

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