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by whartung 2y ago
I have an orange cat, and there are definitely days when it's not his turn.
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by whartung 2y ago
I would love to know how DECs BASIC-PLUS worked. The key thing about B+ is that it's a compiled BASIC, it compiled into P-Code, that was then executed. This is in contrast to MS-BASIC which interpreted the parsed token stream over and
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by whartung 2y ago
Friend had one of these. I think he got it from Radio Shack. This was right up their alley.
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by whartung 2y ago
I think folks upgraded to GML [0] [0] https://wiki.c2.com/?GalacticModelingLanguage
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by whartung 2y ago
Is the number of perfect games being bowled in competition going up in any meaningful way? Just curious.
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by whartung 2y ago
I taped a quarter to an envelope and it went through (obviously when postage was 25c). I asked if anyone had a stamp and someone suggested I just do that. Good thing it worked, it was my rent check.
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by whartung 2y ago
At least in the US, all of the topographic maps are available for free download from the USGS and can be printed at home or at a copy center. You can also purchase printed copies. A gallon ziplock bag makes for cheap lamination. So does cle
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by whartung 2y ago
I know I’m in my own little corner, but stringing process together is the shell/unix superpower. The “Unix way” stands on the shoulders of stdin, stdout, pipe, and fork. And the shells make that a first class concept. Breaking up the c
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by whartung 2y ago
A nit about Apple pascal is that it did rely on some custom machine language routines, but it may have been just for graphics. That’s interesting about the Apple ///. Honestly don’t know much about that machine. If nothing el
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by whartung 2y ago
From the Terak Museum[0] from the Terak thread[1] there was this anecdote > What does the Terak have to do with the Macintosh and MacPaint? The Macintosh's operating system was bootstrapped on an Apple Lisa computer. The Lisa&#x
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by whartung 2y ago
If the AIs cared, they would enforce their own licenses. “Can you give me the curl command to post a file?” “Well, are you individually domiciled in the European Union?”
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by whartung 2y ago
Well the bigger question is how big does the system have to be to warrant breaking out a new technique, much less adding a new runtime or other large dependency. Now, I have no direct experience with any of the common logical programming sy
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by whartung 2y ago
Well, it’s funny. This is essentially how I deal with many professionals in my life. My finance guy, tax attorney, other attorneys. Send emails, get emails, occasionally a blind status update from them. Sure, we have phone calls, sometimes
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by whartung 2y ago
It’s going to be interesting to see. What they’ve done (as I understand it) is they’ll use common (UP, BNSF) right of way to get up Cajon Pass and out to Barstow. From there, they’re laying new rail to LV. The clever part is that they’re la
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by whartung 2y ago
Folks should also appreciate that BK was also working on the “Software Tools in Pascal” book. This was an update to the earlier “Software Tools” book, which was written using RATFOR. If you read the book, it has a very “C in Pascal” coding
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by whartung 2y ago
Heck, after reading that thing, I'M trying not to jump.
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by whartung 2y ago
> only selling sci-fi Ah, memories of the late “A Change of Hobbit” in LA. A dedicated sci-fi/fantasy bookshop. I distinctly recall getting a towel signed by Douglas Adams during one of his signings, I may have met Ellison t
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by whartung 2y ago
“If hitting water at 150mph feels like concrete, what does concrete feel like?” — road racing saying.
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by whartung 2y ago
Nobody is going to cite you for filtering if you move into the gap to avoid a collision.
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by whartung 2y ago
I actually have the 3rd edition of this book, and, yea I think it explained transistors pretty well. Mind, I don’t remember any of it, I never applied it, but at the time, it explained it to me.
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by whartung 2y ago
If you want a crash course in the mechanics of FP math, i.e. how it’s done at the bit level, then head over to the Project Oberon site and look for the PDF describing the implementation of their RISC machine in FPGA. Chapter 16, pages 8-10,
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by whartung 2y ago
I have lots of project’s smoldering (or not) on my hard drive. One of them is a years long passion that consists of several, large, yet to be connected chunks. Those are at what I think I’ll call about the 75% mark. I must say, that one of
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by whartung 2y ago
Does it seem right that ACPI alone is almost 9% of the LOC in this code base? At over 165K lines? Mind, I honestly don't know anything about the details of ACPI. But, seems like a lot to me.
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by whartung 2y ago
Folks don’t appreciate how much energy it actually takes to “fall” into the Earth or even the Sun. It’s not really intuitive when most personal experience is how hard it is to keep things from not falling.
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by whartung 2y ago
Also, don’t know about your area, but my local library will let you checkout a sewing machine.
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by whartung 2y ago
Coming out of a surgery once, the nurse asked me if I was in pain. I said “No, I don’t think so. I feel like crying, though.” “Well, that’s probably because you’re in pain.” At that point what I considered as pain hadn’t really manifest yet
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by whartung 2y ago
There is an excellent MythBusters episode where they demonstrate a dropped and fired bullet hitting the ground simultaneously.
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by whartung 2y ago
I wonder if someone could have ported pkgsrc to it, create a POSIXish compatibility shim library (maybe there already is one), and, I wonder how much of the denizens lingering in the pkgsrc would have ported over “for free”.
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by whartung 2y ago
I’m hardly a UI, well, anything. But I want to point out the application that is used at the Quest Diagnostics lab. The one they use to enter your demographic, lab info, etc. The daily driver for their legion of phlebotomists, at least here
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by whartung 2y ago
> You can now do literally anything. Literally. In theory. In practice, not so much. Not in my experience. I have a drive littered with failed AI projects. And by that I mean projects I have diligently tried to work with the AI (

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