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by tralarpa 3y ago
How does that manifest itself? I'm asking because I'm pretty sure that no washing machine in my extended family (parents, siblings, etc.) has broken down because of this in the last 45 years. All but one have made it well over 12
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by tralarpa 3y ago
What kind of maintenance do they need? Maybe I'm doing something wrong :)
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by tralarpa 3y ago
This is a little bit weird: https://www.fourmilab.ch/evilempire/noEU/
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by tralarpa 3y ago
> which doesn't necessarily have to come from a mutation My comment referred to OP's association of evolution with errors in genetic encoding and expression, hence my quote.
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by tralarpa 3y ago
> whereas it would be very bad if basic operations in a CPU had similar level of error rates Evolution is about mutations when the executable file is copied.
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by tralarpa 3y ago
I was expecting that at the end it would turn out that the records of the lost civilization are full of symbols of a certain religion, let's say the "Om" sign or whatever, and that the priest would then realize: "Oh shit
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by tralarpa 3y ago
I couldn't edit my above post in time because the server was unreachable. What I wanted to add: I think I misunderstood the blog author's question. He wasn't asking about the ENTER statement with a non-zero argument, but abou
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by tralarpa 3y ago
The answers in this discussion https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26323215/do-any-language... mention some old compilers using the ENTER instruction with non-zero second argument.
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by tralarpa 3y ago
[Serious] Can you not just connect a physical numpad to your phone and use the phone screen as display?
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by tralarpa 3y ago
I remember that I didn't like the Dragon Book when I was a student. But I don't remember anymore why :) (I think I found it poorly structured, and with too many details for some topics and not enough details for others). If you al
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by tralarpa 3y ago
It's very impressive what simultaneous interpreters can do. They don't wait for the end of the sentence.
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by tralarpa 3y ago
With gcc, the option -Wcast-align=strict is useful. Edit: And if the buffer to convert is very large, one could first check the alignment of the pointer (with alignof(T)) in C++
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by tralarpa 3y ago
Remote start could be very useful if you want to maximize self-consumption for your solar panels. Do they support that?
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by tralarpa 3y ago
Thanks. But I was looking for something like the flash tool shown on the website, or like the default color scheme of Morphic. "Crazy" colored GUI elements etc., not just the background. Edit: never mind. The link by pavlov has mo
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by tralarpa 3y ago
> The reason why so many early 1990s UIs have this kind of color scheme Do you have any examples? Because from the early 1990s I only remember Windows pre-XP (mostly black and white and blue), AmigaOS (mostly gray, including the newer fr
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by tralarpa 3y ago
Strange, I understood it completely differently (that plaguna is happy to read that people from different backgrounds can live together peacefully)
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by tralarpa 3y ago
What about the rest of the statement? Or is that too much facts for you?
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by tralarpa 3y ago
What facts?
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by tralarpa 3y ago
The comments here (not yours, dicytea) are really confusing. There are three comments about Japanese although the article clearly states that they live in the Amazon rainforest. Are those AI bots?
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by tralarpa 3y ago
Looks more like old-school C to me, although the variable names are a bit too long for a real C programmer :) (but I don't know whether C already had the "const" keyword at that time)
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by tralarpa 3y ago
Couldn't you run Windows 95 or 98 on DOSBox on your phone just for fun? (never tried myself, maybe there is something better than DOSBox for that)
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by tralarpa 3y ago
Javascript/WASM evolution: designed for applications running in a browser -> writing desktop and server applications -> writing an OS or kernel I can't put my finger on it, but somehow this looks familiar (hint: it starts wi
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by tralarpa 3y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised if numbers and physics go hand in hand, in the sense that we can only observe these, and not the more irregular patterns that make up the total chaos that we might exist in. I am curious to see how far we c
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by tralarpa 3y ago
> the generalized "for" of C was a mistake, because it complicates the frequent use cases in order to simplify seldom encountered use cases The worst offender is the quasi-obligatory "break" statement in "case&q
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by tralarpa 3y ago
> I think it’s supposed to be more like 6000 years ago There is also the Urfa man, dated 9000 BC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urfa_Man
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by tralarpa 3y ago
The Heart Sutra, an extremely condensed version of core Buddhist teaching. But, in my opinion, such texts are useless without explanations. Bernie Glassman explains it in the book "Infinite Circle: Teachings in Zen".
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by tralarpa 3y ago
> I am nearly certain that no machine will ever be able to accurately translate between languages with significant linguistic distance (e.g. Japanese and Swedish). Is that really the reason? Or rather the fact that there is much less tra
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by tralarpa 3y ago
Do I see there an A1200 with a case that doesn't close properly because you put a 3.5" HD in it instead of the more expensive (and less capacity) 2.5" HD? :) Edit: Ah, no. I just read the article. It's the accelerator, I
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by tralarpa 3y ago
I agree that many books were bad simply because the authors could not write well and had no idea about pedagogy. I think the number of people who knew something about a particular subject was just smaller and that's why it wasn't
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by tralarpa 3y ago
> which page is accessible at a certain time Sounds like a context switch to me :) (at least for the MMU registers)

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