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by wk_end 3y ago
Yes, exactly. Were I hand-writing the assembly for the 6502, I'd make all sorts of decisions that the C code doesn't - and that a compiler can't - to make it more efficient. Instead of passing in a pointer to two separate fun
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by wk_end 3y ago
Sure. Here's a couple of functions to iterate over an array of "Ball" objects, as you might do in a Breakout-style game that has a multi-ball powerup. I didn't do anything to make it particularly 6502-amenable; it's
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by wk_end 3y ago
The 6502 is a notoriously poor target for C compilation, especially C that hasn't been written with the 6502's limitations in mind. I'll bet if you wrote a RISC-V emulator in native 6502 you could get Linux booting on a real
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by wk_end 3y ago
It's a known issue with HM type systems in the presence of mutation with known remedies (linked in that ticket), so I don't think it's insurmountable. It's maybe a little concerning that it hasn't been addressed in
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by wk_end 3y ago
Like I said, I'm not a lawyer, but: yes, I would claim that Apple has a trademark on the word "hello", entirely in lowercase cursive, in that very particular cursive typeface, with a animation that shows it being written out
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by wk_end 3y ago
It's true that trademark is what's at play here, although either way - giving something a BSD license doesn't mean you can use it to violate others' copyright OR trademarks.
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by wk_end 3y ago
Releasing something for free, whether as in beer or as in freedom, doesn't give you carte blanche to violate trademark law. For just one example (well...hundreds), look at the multitude of fangames Nintendo has shut down [0]. [0] http
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by wk_end 3y ago
> The following is a non-exhaustive list of Apple’s trademarks and service marks. [...] The absence of a product or service name or logo from this list does not constitute a waiver of Apple’s trademark or other intellectual property righ
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by wk_end 3y ago
Do you think Apple BSD licensed the iconic Macintosh "hello" image or something? https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/01/24/apple-launched-ma...
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by wk_end 3y ago
I'm not a lawyer but if this gets any traction Apple's gonna get big mad about the branding, aren't they? They're basically swiping original Mac advertising campaign wholesale.
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by wk_end 3y ago
Naughty Dog used Racket as part of the development of The Last of Us. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSmqbnhHp1c
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by wk_end 3y ago
I saw a tweet once that went something like, "Mankind strayed from god when we invented the IC", and some days I feel that. Economies of scale crush everything, including our nerdy fondness for particularly elegant ISAs.
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by wk_end 3y ago
It's only "Epcot Center for the plebes" if it's sanitized the way Epcot Center is, if it's actually for the plebes. As a specific (ironic) example: the Chinese restaurants in your average Western American small town
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by wk_end 3y ago
Thanks for the pointers...I'm not interested in defending American Jingoism by any means, and am very interested in learning more about the decision to drop the bomb. That said, I do want to dispute this: > The reason those cities w
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by wk_end 3y ago
I have no defence for the Canadian government's treatment of Indigenous people - either in this case or in a thousand others - but describing the Manhattan Project as "an American mission to kill as many people as they could in Ja
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by wk_end 3y ago
How antidepressants work doesn't seem especially germane to a discussion of antipsychotics?
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by wk_end 3y ago
Right, runtime type checks do...and JavaScript has to do them pervasively. Hence OP's question - could these type annotations eliminate the need for type checks at real time by making type assertions static (the answer is no, but that
858.
by wk_end 3y ago
Windows 95 didn't even have proper memory protection. Nein danke. Now Windows NT, on the other hand...
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by wk_end 3y ago
I agree that we should still temper expectations (always, forever), but you seem to have missed the other half of the headline: it also seems to work in animal models with no discernible side-effects. Can't say that for arsenic.
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by wk_end 3y ago
What do you mean by "credibility"? By the definition as I understand it, "believability"...I don't see how the current war situation would affect that. If the US had destroyed many cities already, why wouldn't
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by wk_end 3y ago
I'm not sure what in my comment you're specifically referring to, but...sure, I'll bite. Let's split hairs. The Tokyo firebombings killed, per Wikipedia, 80K-130K civilians, depending on your estimate. Again per Wikipedi
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by wk_end 3y ago
The brutality of the Japanese military didn't mean innocent Japanese civilians deserved to suffer or die. I don't know what nationality you are, but I have no doubt that members of your country's military - very possibly with
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by wk_end 3y ago
You're misunderstanding a few things about those leaflets (which isn't entirely your fault, that page is very poorly written). My understanding is that the "LeMay leaflets" were dropped on Hiroshima - and many other citi
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by wk_end 3y ago
As I suggested already: whether the Japanese believed them or took it seriously is moot. Giving them the opportunity to surrender in response to the bomb helps shift moral blame onto them. Whether the Allies cared much or not is also moot i
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by wk_end 3y ago
My feeling is that dropping the bomb was overall better than a land invasion, but I find the arguments against at least giving the Japanese a demonstration of the bomb - even just the footage of the Trinty test - beforehand fairly weak. Yes
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by wk_end 3y ago
The problem of course is that it's not strictly about one's own body, in this case. "Bodily autonomy" doesn't cover the petty crimes addicts often commit to get money to buy drugs - the impossibility of biking anywh
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by wk_end 3y ago
I don't think you're wrong about the optics or political viability, unfortunately, but there's a million urban designs in between Kowloon Walled City and "I have to drive twenty minutes through a wasteland of lawns and d
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by wk_end 3y ago
Nicer to type on is subjective - for me the Model M is about as good as it gets, in terms of feel. To be honest (hot take) I even prefer it to the Model F. That said: yes, they're extraordinarily loud. OP you're barking up the wro
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by wk_end 3y ago
I grew up with Windows (and to a lesser extent - at my dad's office, or in the school computer lab, Macs), but I remembered hearing about how incredible and ahead-of-its-time the Amiga was. Given that reputation, when I finally got Win
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by wk_end 3y ago
...except that the original ML uses the same syntax, and it's Scottish.

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