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by tralarpa 5y ago
I am not OP but I have noticed in several European countries that many companies see software engineering (and IT in general) as a "necessary evil". Even in SMEs selling automation solutions, the perception is that the "real&
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Fun fact: the words "quick" and "zoo" have the same indo-european root.
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I am laughing because something very similar happened to me. I visited a friend in one of those "smaller" cities in China (3M; not even in the top 30). He told me that his parents had moved to a nearby "village" after re
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> 14 kWh 16S LFP pack which costed me $1400 Wow, that's amazing. But why are home battery systems still so expensive? I see system prices in the range of $700 to $1200 per kWh. Even on aliexpress, it's minimum $550/kWh. Is
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It has been shown that the input that small children receive is much much larger than originally thought by the proponents of that theory. How parents stress certain words, how they make small pauses, how they look and point at things when
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I would have preferred some evidence, but I guess the downvote can be also seen as an answer to my question :) Still looking for those facts, are we?
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> How do you imagine language could develop (both evolutionarily and within each child that learns it)if there were no predetermined laws that restricted the set of possible word combinations? Why should there be a predetermined law? I h
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> It booted into its own customized version of an operating system that ran what it needed to run to make its game work well and be performant and reliable Most bootdisk-based games did not have any kind of "customized version of an
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by tralarpa 5y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Very nice project. I guess self-modifying code does not work with this technique, does it? (I don't know much about DOS games and how common self-modifying code was on PCs). Concerning access to video memory
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Probably depends on your definition of a decompiler. For me, a decompiler reverses to some extend the operation of a compiler. Variables instead of registers, function call arguments instead of stack pushs, etc. Of course, you could also sa
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> flat buttons style, which I really wanted to adopt my apps Everybody wanted them :) 2000 or 2001, right? It was TBSTYLE_FLAT.
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I got very excited when I saw the description of the video "Conversion of game into C++ with cicoparser and IDA disassembler". I thought "neat, a new decompiler". But then I understood what CicoParser is doing: it transl
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by tralarpa 6y ago
> $100 fines Where I live, that's what you pay when you drive 10mph too fast.
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> One wonders if it is some fundamental assumption One could even go further... Russell once compared the movement of the planets around the sun with people carrying torchs and walking around a mountain during the night. Because it is da
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In what sense were they groundbreaking? I think Word was a little bit special among DOS programs because it used the mouse. What else?
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> 1. If I scribble some one time code .... and here is another entry for Walter's list of bad ideas: 4. "It's okay. I will use this code only once"
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For whom was she spying?
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> From what I’ve seen, it’s in realty mostly due to less wars and pandemics, as well as decreased child mortality. Take those away, and people 5 centuries ago lived roughly as long as today. What are your sources? And how do you remove t
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by tralarpa 6y ago
The number of robots and their speed are really impressive. But the concept is not so new. I saw robots driving around with parts at a car manufacturer in 1991 or 1992.
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"Have you tried to quantify the QoE?"
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You can attack them even if you have no idea what they are doing. Just look at the plots in the report and mumble something about "missing confidence intervals", "unrealistic workload", and "it's not even heavy
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> Every single method of food production seems unsustainable to me I don't agree. Look at the statistics on food waste, resource consumption of meat production, energy consumption in developed countries in general,... We are using f
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Wait, we can also do that kind of discussion in the opposite direction: <dont_take_this_too_serious> I think that most C programmers are just programming monkeys. People who enjoy solving sudokus^H^H^H^H^H^H^H pointer arithmetics and
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> I’d probably say “Yes, Alf, you’ve done pretty well these last few years. Keep it up.” That might work in a company but not in the academic world. Many countries limit the amount of time a PhD student or Postdoc researcher can stay at
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by tralarpa 6y ago
> they should show a bottle of pills In that case, advertisements for meat should also show the bottle of "supplements" that livestocks get (including B12, btw). In that sense, vegans just cut out the middlemen (or better: midd
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> Most of the Chomsky-inspired research boils down to fitting carefully selected data into an artificial formal machine and manipulating the said machine into accepting more and more data, until the machinery ends up being turing complet
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Very interesting when you think about it. A language created in 2009 (Go) owes its syntax to a language from 1969 (B), and the latter looks like it does because it was designed during a short transition period between offline editing (1960s
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Was it different for the designers of ALGOL/SIMULA/Pascal?
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Frame retransmissions exist in CSMA for IEEE 802.15.4.
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And the same thing happens in Europe too, on a smaller geographic scale of course. Danish and Dutch farmers send their animals to Germany for slaughter because it's cheaper there. Why? Well, if you followed the COVID news last year you

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