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601.
by wott 9y ago
I'd love to have small, low power, easy to setup, x86 chips or modules-with-BIOS, in the 40-200 MHz range, with 486DX/DX4/early Pentiums instructions and similar or better performance; possibly with a few basic SoC functions
602.
by wott 9y ago
I don't think so. There was a huge raise in prices when the market opened.
603.
by wott 9y ago
> CDNs are becoming a cheap commodity. And then all sites are centralised again at Cloudflare and a handful of others.
604.
by wott 9y ago
Phone books were not eliminated. Minitel gave you access to the phone numbers in the whole country, whereas phone books were limited to your department (for foreigners: France is divided in about 100 departments).
605.
by wott 9y ago
Boxing does not make headlines any more nowadays. I have absolutely no idea who current champions and challengers are.
606.
by wott 9y ago
Yes, you can finally punch in the face the one guy you hated at school, and who didn't get any better 20 years later. That how class reunions usually end, do they not?
607.
by wott 9y ago
Indeed. And so went the media coverage. I remember Sevilla '92 was a big thing, lots of coverage before and during it. But then... first time I heard of Milano 2015 was when it closed, I had no idea there was a World Expo and it was th
608.
by wott 9y ago
French business owners have earned that reputation of fraudsters. To the point that salary-men, who cannot cheat much, used to have a tax reduction to compensate for that inability to cheat compared to business owners who were "expecte
609.
by wott 9y ago
Yes, the only reason to use spaces is because you are forced to because you work in an organisation that had to force this rule because it employs too many morons who cannot make the difference between indentation and alignment. * Large org
610.
by wott 9y ago
So you would fail that interview again :-)
611.
by wott 9y ago
There are a gazillion reasons not to. You should _never_ use specific sizes, unless forced otherwise.
612.
by wott 9y ago
Yes, it puzzles me that my government sponsors people who fancy changing their car for an EV up to 10000 € (!) per EV (and considering the prices of EVs, they have to be rather wealthy to afford them even with the sponsoring), while cutting
613.
by wott 9y ago
Which "next hot thing" touristic towns are there in USA and Canada?
614.
by wott 9y ago
You'd better update your knowledge. Suburbs now spread for miles around towns and even former villages, for ten or twenty miles around major cities. And small towns and villages lost their railways and stations 40 to 80 years ago.
615.
by wott 9y ago
At best, you can opt to not visit them again . And then you forget, or you really need to access them, etc.
616.
by wott 9y ago
Hey, Imzy is the first one of those startups you are talking about, that I did know before reading its "incredible journey" message :-) It's also one of the very few the purpose of which I understood. Granted, I didn't t
617.
by wott 9y ago
> This is true, but the real elegant solution is to build everything closer together by an order of magnitude, thereby raising the number of destinations in an N minute walking radius and eliminating the need for tunnels. [...] We shoul
618.
by wott 10y ago
Perhaps he counts his years as a kid? When stuff seems magical, mystical or at least very very fuzzy.
619.
by wott 10y ago
> But none of them are close enough to the benefit of being able to use the tone of experience from the Web UI into the desktop. Web UI is a gazillion shades of shit, please don't dump that rubbish on the desktop. Thank you. Serious
620.
by wott 10y ago
> The vast majority of users (like >99%) don't have a clue why their computer isn't performing up to par. They literally have no idea how any of it works. Same thing for Web developers.
621.
by wott 10y ago
> This is C obviously No, that's C++.
622.
by wott 10y ago
> - on ARM, the "y" operand is evaluated mod 32 > - on x86, if y is greater than 31, the result is 0 You mixed them up, didn't you ? AFAIK, ARM does set all bits to 0 if the shift if greater than 31, but it only use
623.
by wott 10y ago
Unfortunately (because I agree with you), that's the common meaning of the word nowadays. I guess we have to deal with it, and speak of oldschool troll for the original meaning from now on.
624.
by wott 10y ago
Most programmers who attack C at the moment are frontend web javascripter kids and rust/functional language snobs, who both never used C and keep repeating the same stuff. You just have to witness the number of "OMG, you did that
625.
by wott 10y ago
Most of those safety mechanisms are actually implemented in C. Just saying :-)
626.
by wott 10y ago
> Unclean power plants are still vastly more efficient than the most efficient internal combustion engines. I don't think so. > That's why trains are electric wherever possible. 1. Thing is, you don't have to refuel ele
627.
by wott 10y ago
> Look at SF, every company competes in that market for software engineers because that's where the talent is. No, they bring the "talent" (God, I hate this word and what it carries) from everywhere across the country and
628.
by wott 10y ago
Seems like the folks here go to conferences not to learn something, but to be part of a network and get a job; they go to programming/hacking/toying events or clubs not because they are interested in that hobby but to be part of a
629.
by wott 10y ago
Contacting will probably not get him to know what happened. He will most likely get whatever standard bullshit excuse comes across the mind of his respondent at the time. Anyway, it might revive his application a bit or at least get him a f
630.
by wott 10y ago
Yes, and sometimes you can tell from a reference number that includes figures looking suspiciously like a year, that the "job offer" has been lying there for 3 or 4 years. You can see the dust layers on it.

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