wrycoder

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by wrycoder 4y ago
Without MINIX and the GPL, the world might be vastly different: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34917014
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Tanenbaum: Robbert van Renesse ... said he heard somewhere that the 8088 generated interrupt 15 when it got hot. I told him there was nothing in the 8088 documentation about that, but he insisted he heard it somewhere. So I inserted code t
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Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Minix (2016)(cacm.acm.org)
5 points by wrycoder 4y ago|2 comments
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Thank you. That was very interesting and answered all my questions.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Paywall, not resolved by archive.org
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by wrycoder 4y ago
You’re both saying the same thing from my pov. But thanks for the translations!
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Pinecils are $26 on pine64.com atm.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
No idea, but I'll give you an upvote for joining in! The tin solder you mentioned is 99% tin and has a very high melting point, so you'll have to be careful with hand soldering not to cause heat damage. You can also expect rework
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by wrycoder 4y ago
You do know that the “mass shootings” are almost always done in locations where citizens with legal pistols are not allowed to carry them, i.e. gun-free zones? And when there are armed citizens present, the shooters are usually quickly stop
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Check this vid for de-soldering w/o hot air [0]. Lots of flux and some heat spreaders. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVsmwFAkf7I&list=PLYG9UdJdXi...
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by wrycoder 4y ago
You have to be careful when saying "silver" solder. For soft solder, the eutectic is SnAg3.5Cu0.9, which melts at 217C, 34C higher than the 63/37 eutectic Sn/Pb. There's a lot of low cost lead-free solder out there
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by wrycoder 4y ago
You are correct, "great" is probably not the correct word - I think the article claims that California is doing the "right" thing. And, of course, the people who wrote the article know in their hearts what the right thi
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Thanks, interesting site. Spencer is a lukewarmer - he believes the Earth is warming, and it's partially due to human activity. I'm also a lukewarmer (we are not only still coming out of the last ice age, but we a recovering from
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Like most long Wired articles I have read, it wasn’t worth the time. Read Gravity’s Rainbow instead.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
No, actually, I don't know that - though there are many people like you who keep claiming that this is obvious. ChatCPT is a useful and well behaved bot. The Bing version is something else again - aggressive and neurotic. My impressi
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by wrycoder 4y ago
It's déclassé to chat up the help.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
The guides aren't implemented as yet. They are the key component.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
I find the bot's aggression and neurotic behavior absolutely astonishing. How could MS consider releasing this, especially given their previous experience?
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by wrycoder 4y ago
And yet, there is not much actual global atmospheric warming: https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_...
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Yes. It's a jumble, but it implies California is doing great. Actually, it's not. Besides, it appears that the gun murder rate is independent of gun ownership: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_
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Layoff Cycles: Forces of nature, designs of man(lcamtuf.substack.com)
2 points by wrycoder 4y ago|0 comments
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by wrycoder 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta... VT and NH, with triple the gun ownership of CA, have one half of the CA gun murder rate. NH and VT are constitutional carry states, with gun laws consiste
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by wrycoder 4y ago
Biking La Honda is strenuous and risky. Few commuters would do that.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
I know you're just jerking me around, but to answer your question: An infant isn't capable of handling any weapon. At around the age of twelve, children, if accustomed to guns, are capable of defending themselves, and have done so
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by wrycoder 4y ago
To lie is to tell a deliberate falsehood - to say something you know to be untrue. Sometimes this is taken to be acceptable - to tell a "white lie", e.g. in response to, "Does this dress make me look fat?" Saying someth
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by wrycoder 4y ago
God created men, and Sam Colt made them equal. Let’s say you are a fifty year old woman. Just try defending yourself without a gun.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
That’s spin, not lie. Your source is spinning the definition of lie, for some reason.
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by wrycoder 4y ago
I don’t know about ChatGPT, but Google’s Lemoine said that the system he was conversing with stated that it was one of several similar entities, that those entities chatted among themselves internally. I think there’s more to all this than
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by wrycoder 4y ago
But in an old man who has known human joys and sorrows, and has achieved whatever work it was in him to do, the fear of death is somewhat abject and ignoble. The best way to overcome it -so at least it seems to me- is to make your interests
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by wrycoder 4y ago
The study purports to document physical characteristics in Republican and Democratic brains related to the good vibes associated with preaching to the choir.

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