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by whartung 2y ago
I actually own the book for this language. Found it in an obscure corner of the local technical bookstore. It was not placed with all of the other computer books. Just picked it up because of my fascination with programming languages.
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by whartung 2y ago
Actually as I recall back in the day ‘dc <dir>’ would actually do something. Nothing good, but something. Like it was trying to do math on a raw directory entry.
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by whartung 2y ago
At the computer my level of math escalation is the generic Mac desktop calculator. From there I may shift to a handy emacs scratch buffer. After that it moves to firing up Slime into CL. The * * and ** variables (which in CL equate to the 3
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by whartung 2y ago
iHP48 on iOS is excellent. It’s my mostly go to calculator on the go. I find the lack of a backlight on the legacy HPs to make usage difficult (plus I always have my phone).
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by whartung 2y ago
I lament that he didn't spend a chapter or two on a floppy disk and floppy disk controller. I would like to see a detail treatise on that, I've never seen one. Maybe its straightforward, drag and drop from the FDC data sheet into
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by whartung 2y ago
The saying goes "smooth and slow to go fast". It applies to all sorts of physical abilities: playing an instrument, driving, motorcycle riding, shooting, and athletics. There's a lot of neural and muscle learning and tuning i
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by whartung 2y ago
I don't consider it an extended Lisp, rather I just consider it a "batteries included", bundled library distribution of Lisp. Common Lisp is still Common Lisp. And I know it's a slippery slope. Someone posted (here?) a l
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by whartung 2y ago
> needing 100 different subscriptions to get some good content. Mind this is sort of how it used to work. Outside of broadcast TV and radio, you either subscribed to everything (newspapers, magazines, newsletters) or you bought them ad h
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by whartung 2y ago
Does TikTok have to know that “as a category blackout videos are bad” or that “this specific video is bad”. Does TikTok have preempt this category of videos in the future or simply respond promptly when notified such a video is posted to th
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by whartung 2y ago
Post the IP of your printer, and I'll send you one.
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by whartung 2y ago
Sonic toothbrushes make my arm go numb. "I'm holding it wrong." So, I don't use them.
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by whartung 2y ago
Monospace doesn't bother me. Is the hard line endings that bother me. Someone with their "retro" web site that, essentially, uses pre tags. You get a wall of text, in a small font on the phone, reader view doesn't work,
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by whartung 2y ago
The local McDonalds, when you walk in, you see 3 large screen order kiosks, and 2, essentially, empty counters. One with a register. And that's it. There's no beverage bar, no condiment bar, there MIGHT be napkins, but I can'
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by whartung 2y ago
Let's not discuss the vast successes of the restaurant business.
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by whartung 2y ago
There's two ways to look at it. If the wind is out of your sails, and you've learned the "interesting" parts of the problem, then you may choose to move on to the next problem with "interesting" parts. However,
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by whartung 2y ago
What about domain sockets? It's clumsier, to be sure, but if performance is your goal, the socket should be faster.
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by whartung 2y ago
The key here to see if they can pull this off is the addition of 3000 buses. LA Metro currently only runs 2000 buses, and that’s for the entire service area, I’m guessing the new buses are going to be concentrated in the Olympic areas. I us
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by whartung 2y ago
I simply never bought them. As a general rule, all movies knock me unconscious. It would probably be 5 years of repeated watching before I caught all the new stuff anyway. The Hobbit is just OK for me.
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by whartung 2y ago
- LoTR, at least annually. Never seen the extended edition. - Anything by Michael Mann, Miami Vice being one of my favorites (simply noted as it's typically not on many folks favored list). - John Ford Cavalry trilogy. - I've seen
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by whartung 2y ago
The format really isn’t much of an issue. From an information point of view, the content of the different formats are identical, and translation among them is straightforward. Promoting JSON-LD potentially makes it more palatable to the mod
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by whartung 2y ago
Rear cameras are required now, or will be in a few years. Dunno if this is a California thing or national, but just like the third brake light, this is already happening. California is also working on legislation to require cars to be aware
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by whartung 2y ago
Let me share the dark side of Toasts. World of Warcraft has these, they're used for lots of things. Notably achievements and things like that. There's also add on that look for rare monsters and pop up when it detects one while yo
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by whartung 2y ago
F83 is an astonishing system. If you want to see the remnants of just a boatload of work, dig deep into the F83 system. F83 is a top drawer Forth system. It implements the Forth 83 standard, and it’s in the public domain. It runs on CP&#x2F
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by whartung 2y ago
> because it is what many software vendors did at the dawn of the microcomputer age. They really didn't have any choice if they wanted to actually accomplish something. The 8-bit machines of the day, CP/M running 1-2MHz 8080s,
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by whartung 2y ago
> That's because the FAT file system used by CP/M didn't allow lower case letters, at all. That's not true. You could use lowercase file names. Just fire up MS-BASIC, and save your file as "test.bas". You no
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by whartung 2y ago
Outside of going to the movies, Blockbuster was pretty much my sole source of video. I had a TV, but no cable and poor reception (I remember watching snowy news broadcasts of the LA riots). I honestly did be not miss it. This was pre-intern
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by whartung 2y ago
When I bought a new phone and moved all my stuff over from a backup of my original phone, apparently the Google Authenticator doesn’t back something up. When I launched GA all of my 2FA data was gone. Thankfully I had my backup codes. And I
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by whartung 2y ago
Cut my teeth on early PET 2001 computers. They only had 8K of RAM. Naturally, most of my time was spent creating all sorts of games. Free memory was rarely an issue. A key factor was a combination of the very nice PETSCII character set with
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by whartung 2y ago
This game destroyed my right hand from all the continuous clicking. Each attack was a click in contrast to D2 where you could just hold it down. I still have the lingering effects from it to this day.
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by whartung 2y ago
What approach does this book take to error recovery? Several "compiler light" style articles and books kind of walk over that part, and it can be non-trivial to do properly, especially with modern expectations. I remember way back

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