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by tralarpa 4y ago
On the other hand, you can discuss with your friends whether Makita or Bosch is the better language^H^H^H^H brand.
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by tralarpa 4y ago
And also three-digit color codes, such as #BAD. And for non-hex colors, we have this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318911/why-does-html-th...
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by tralarpa 4y ago
As usual, deepl doesn't disappoint.
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by tralarpa 4y ago
> you have diminishing output as panels age The degradation seems to be quite slow in practice. Below 0.5% per year, i.e. less than 15% after 25 years. > on average 850kw per year (again, looked it up online, if you have better figur
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by tralarpa 4y ago
> typing non-stop for 24 hours at something like 100 characters per minute Not only that. It would be typing at that speed without testing anything. In assembly. Haha. In reality what would happen is that you would type 24 hours (not i
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by tralarpa 5y ago
Are you sure you remember that period correctly? (the general situation, not your personal situation at home). Windows 3.1 was everywhere at that time. And the 386dx that I mentioned cost 1200 euro (calculated with an inflation calculator).
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by tralarpa 5y ago
Majority? World wide maybe, but not in the US or Western Europe. I'm looking at some old ads here from end 1993, and even their cheapest computer (a 386DX-40) came with WfW 3.11.
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by tralarpa 5y ago
Do you also feel that you are on the wrong side of history? Not on the side of the active evil, but on the side of the passive spectator?
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> biology and bio-chemistry This article completely captivated me last week: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3331698/ (probably old stuff for experts in that domain, but I was absolutely fasci
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by tralarpa 5y ago
I agree. Build process with Kotlin feels slower. And the many features in Kotlin tempt me to write "syntactically clever" code that is harder to read later than plain stupid Java. Still love some of them :) although Java is catchi
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> Nothing else seems to come close, they have a Community version, nowadays Eclipse and NetBeans both feel slow After not using Eclipse for 10 years, I had to use it again last month for a very large existing project. I was pleasantly su
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by tralarpa 5y ago
People claim that the JVM is able to auto-vectorize simple loops: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59725341/java-auto-vecto... That said, I tried the matrix-multiplication example from section 1.2 on different
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by tralarpa 5y ago
I just discovered that the original source code of Space Trader as well as Java and C# ports are available on github.
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> if anyone has come across the sources for the OS Wouldn't that be this one? http://www.phkimpel.us/B5500/webSite/SoftwareRequest.html
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> I also assume that the people (like me) who did play these games are older and busy with other things in life? I did play these games when they were released. And I still find the time to reverse-engineer them :)
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by tralarpa 5y ago
Some months ago I had to learn React for a project. I was struggling a lot. The documentation was so poor. And everything looked so inconsistent (it still does...) and the "solutions" on stackoverflow looked so arbitrary. Until I
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> 1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. Conclusions I know this is what students are told, but I rarely manage to understand the topic of a paper by reading the introduction and conclusion. Too many buzzwords. I usually look for the "big p
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by tralarpa 5y ago
Maybe I am missing some context here, but are we talking about AMIX or AmigaOS? I am asking because the latter never looked particularly UNIX-like to me. But maybe that's because I never worked with MS-DOS, so, being only familiar with
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> But no theory needs to exist. You can hack a half assed solution and that's really all that's needed I don't understand your reasoning. You say that it's possible to "hack a half assed solution" that someh
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by tralarpa 5y ago
That's funny because something similar happened to a friend of mine. He was the only biochemist in a class that was mandatory for med students. It was about drugs and their (side) effects. The professor was so happy that there was at l
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> This model is only a few orders of magnitude away from that I think you can add several orders of magnitude to that since nerve cells are more like microcontrollers (with memory, adaptation etc.) than simple nodes. I remember a scienti
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> $10M (i.e. ~3 people for 3 years) Where can I apply?
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by tralarpa 5y ago
I think for many people this problem would be partially solved if employers provided the possibility to charge your car at work (some do already). Many companies are located in industrial zones where the connection to the grid is better. A
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by tralarpa 5y ago
TIL that the German "Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund", and I guess the Norwegian version, too (?), is a translation from Latin "Aurora habet aurum in ore". Apparently, this was, at least partially, meant literally (Aurora w
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by tralarpa 5y ago
The article linked in the footnotes is well written. Also the comment of the editor on page 31. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6367944
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> Another hunch that I have is that as you get older you tend to have less unique experiences I have read that explanation several times on different websites, but I don't agree. Had a lot of new and unique things happening to me in
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> It is also used in let/let*/letrec bindings in Racket I suppose this is just a personal choice of the author of the manual, right? Please correct me if I am wrong but I thought Racket doesn't care whether you use bracket
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by tralarpa 5y ago
Thank you for your interest. I don't have a public blog or vlog. When I reverse engineer a game, I sometimes post my findings in forums dedicated to the specific platform the game was runninng on. But I don't want to link those he
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by tralarpa 5y ago
How to learn reverse engineering... Good question. First of all, nowadays, free interactive tools like Ghidra drastically accelerate the reverse engineer process. Ghidra's decompiler is able to produce actually reasonable C-like source
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by tralarpa 5y ago
I reverse engineer/decompile games (and sometimes applications) from the 80s/early 90s for fun. The more complex the program, the more fun it is. As an extra challenge, I try to avoid runtime monitoring (i.e. in an emulator) and t

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