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by zabzonk 2y ago
Much like (say) MS Word does? In real time.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Vogon poetry? https://www.poetrysoup.com/dictionary/vogon_poetry
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I used to be a professional Delphi programmer, but I would not have described Delphi as "extremely successful", partially due to its mismanagement by the various owners of the IP. Its noticeable that Delphi's inventor went on
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by zabzonk 2y ago
no value is equal to NULL, including NULL
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by zabzonk 2y ago
From wikipedia: "Pascal was influenced by the ALGOL W efforts, with the explicit goals of teaching programming in a structured fashion and for the development of system software.[5] A generation of students used Pascal as an introducto
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I loved Delphi (used it from 1.0 to 4.0), and wrote some quite major stuff in it. The ease of writing components that you could drag and drop into an app (not just visual ones) was phenomenal. It could have been a VB killer, except that it
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> The main reason for bloat not mentioned in the article is that most developers are not interested in the business domain of the company they are working for. They just want to do stuff with computers and software. Well, at the several
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> The rest of the specs are not CPU Fair enuf. I was really trying to comment on the ultra/arc chip performance. > so 9 is fast? seems to be - my previous laptop was a Core i7, and my new 9 Ultra one is definitely faster (for wha
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Could not get to the page. But, I dunno. I just bought an Asus Zenbook with an intel 9 ultra with Arc graphics 32Gb ram, 1tb SSD, and it seems pretty nifty to me, especially at the price.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Unrelated to my other comment here - how to do life without an actual computer, an old blog of mine: https://latedev.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/a-poker-chip-comput...
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I've always liked Golly - covers all sorts of CAs. https://golly.sourceforge.io/
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I always liked Virgin's finger buffet, with scones, clotted cream and jam, before landing at the horror that is Newark NJ.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Back when (90s) I did fly the Atlantic frequently for work, I would have preferred to sit in comfort in Virgin Atlantic Upper Class (although 747s are pretty fast) and take some time about it rather than be squashed into a Concorde with not
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Anecdote: In Lincoln UK, the cathedral chimes are not rung after (or immediately before) 11 PM. Mythically, this is because Michael Todd, who played Guy Gibson, the leader of the Dambuster raid in the post-war film, found them too disturb
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by zabzonk 2y ago
OK, but I think a diagram or two of the architecture would help. And personally, I think the Z80 is easier to understand (no zero-page, no limited stack size, etc.) but that is probably just me, though I did write professional 6502 and Z80
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I love the beej guides, and I'm OK with git, but I'm sad there isn't any really viable hosting for mercurial any more.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
how do you know that? just about every serious bug i have ever written was when i thought i understood multi-threaded code, but didn't.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
yeah, they get called fish (something that swims, like modern military torpedo), but the whalers knew they were not
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> Believe it or not but a vast majority of readers have no interest drowning in materiel specs while reading a book But surely Tom Clancy fans DO like reading this stuff? There isn't much else! > because who wants to hear about
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Never really understood why these modern best-seller writers are so popular. It's not as if the text is even easy or enjoyable to read! At least with guys like Tom Clancy you got a load of military hardware stuff to get off on.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I have no idea what this nonsense is supposed to be about, but I looked up Kingsley Amis, and got this mindless vituperation: > Last, and very definitely least, he spawned the revolting Martin Amis Nice. Not. No thanks.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
> it was indeed edgy and weird and loaded and cool that's simply what you feel when you are 18, no matter what the actual year
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by zabzonk 2y ago
almost all bacteria and viruses (and most other things) have a commensal relationship with us, otherwise we would would have all be gone into grey goo. i wouldn't wory about our gut fauna.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Well, as a pathogen (god knows what is going on in our guts, or our skin, come to that) it is rare, as article says. I worked in an NHS microbiology lab in the 70s and never came across one - probably wouldn't have known how to do so.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I used to work for a big 6 accountancy and audit firm. their senior partners used to fly concorde, wheras us underlings flew virgin upper class (like first class on other carriers).
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I don't think the article says so, but the QL was what got Torvalds started on the path to Linux. I remember when I was working at Middlesex Polytechnic in North London in the mid 80s we bought one to see if it could be useful to us.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Anecdotal, but speaking as a nearly 72 year old, I spend almost all of my time alone, except for my (fairly crap) carers, and my (very nice) cleaning lady/cook, and her little doggie. But I do feel a bit lonely, but I think I always ha
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by zabzonk 2y ago
Isn't this the same as Process Hacker?
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I think he had a bit of a thing about t-shirts. I got a free SO one for something like being a top-100 poster (can't remember exactly what) and I was quite proud of it. Those were quite fun days, unlike the sad mess SO is now.
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by zabzonk 2y ago
I like Jeff. Way back when, I was a front page posteron SO, and #1 on the C++ tag. I got really fed up with the whole SO thing and I asked Jeff to delete my account and all associated posts. This really screwed up their SQLServer system (no

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