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by zh3 5y ago
Let's not forget Myanmar.
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by zh3 5y ago
One has to tread very carefully when mentioning Israel in any context. That said, I couldn't follow the logic of that; how exactly is it that Ben and Jerry's deciding not to sell ice cream in the occupied palestinian territories a
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by zh3 5y ago
My mistake then, I guess I never hit that despite using Windows way more than IOS (Windows has a lot better at backward compatibility, at least in my experience). Personal experience with trying to switch to Mac has been...well, both exp
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by zh3 5y ago
Oh and if you have an older Mac Mini, you need to upgrade the OS to run a newer Safari? (that's the first platform I've ever seen that needed an OS update to install the OS's own browser). So the kids are now using Brave.
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by zh3 5y ago
Touche. But more seriously, an imile is orthognal to the traditional one and as a result there is zero space between the s's.
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by zh3 5y ago
I remember a teacher who cycled to work every day, along a coastal route. Because he saw the same people so often, he set himself a goal to smile at all he recognised so they'd smile back. Last time we spoke, he was still battling one
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by zh3 5y ago
Simply pointing out that 6 deaths is atypical (it's going to go well above 50, it's that today alone [0]). [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51768274
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by zh3 5y ago
6 deaths today because UK numbers are always low on a Monday; it's been around 30 a day for the past week and the trend isn't pretty (given deaths lag hospitalisations by around 2 to 3 weeks, and the daily infections were consider
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by zh3 5y ago
Pretty easy to generate the WWVB signal, I've written various MSF simulators that look like they'd be easy to tweak to generate WWVB. For reasonably accurate time though you'd want to have something running NTP to drive the s
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by zh3 5y ago
For graphics mode, certainly - but for plain text/framebuffer CPU is much less of a factor and I've never found anything faster that a 7600GT.
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by zh3 5y ago
That's interesting, how did you do I/O? Bypassing the OS was a lot easier back then :)
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by zh3 5y ago
I didn't know that; having RT-11 at work and running CP/M at home, there was a 'sort of' similiarity there but not like the same kind of underlying structure between CP/M and DOS (hence the reason I was asking). Tha
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by zh3 5y ago
As a 60+ year old programmer who's pretty familiar with writing code for PDP-11s (down to device driver level) I'm interested in the link from PDPs to CP/M, which (as with MSDOS) I've also written for at a low level. Whi
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by zh3 5y ago
Interesting the figure 1 shows productivity per hour worked (rather than absolute productivty). So in the UK the line is flat, so the more hours worked the more "production" there is. So just work the workers harder. In Iceland by
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by zh3 5y ago
386 was the first x86 linux would run on (because the 286 memory management was...interesting). We did plenty of custom systems on linux 0.99/1.01, typically with 386/16's and 4Mb RAM (seeing off quite a few SCO-based setups
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by zh3 5y ago
As a keeper of pretty much every computer I've ever owned, I think the Nascom-1 from 1979 (2MHz Z80, 768 bytes of RAM, no, that's not a misprint) is out even if it does have a video display and full-size keyboard. Maybe a PDP-11&#
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by zh3 5y ago
Depends what sort of work you're doing, but it's really not that hard and personally I find it great for focus (maybe it's like old school writers banging out a novel on a Remington). I've got at least half a dozen 386&#
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by zh3 5y ago
> ...leap seconds and other time strangeness would prevent physical clocks from being totally reliable That's why we have TAI[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time
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by zh3 5y ago
Yes, but what does the synchronisation? That's the essence of these algorithms - how to effectively create a single clock that is (acceptably) synchronised between nodes. Here's some lecture notes on the problem (and solutions):-
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by zh3 5y ago
That sounds pretty sweet compared to the zero-hours contracts in the UK [0] - no obligation to provide any work at all to the employee, hence 'zero-hours'. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-hour_contract
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by zh3 5y ago
Well, if Fortran is going to borrow from C, to repay the favour I trust we'll get computed GOTOs in C31.
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by zh3 5y ago
Unfortunately it's being killed by the obnoxious advertising, which is growing far faster than the value of the content (it's already past my personal tipping point). At some point we can hope that hosting is cheap enough we can a
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by zh3 5y ago
I once had a similiar situation, where we were going to be sued if we didn't pay up. I sent back a letter asking them to explicitly identify the infringing item; never heard back.
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by zh3 5y ago
Bit of a stretch to claim MIMD/vector processing covers that particular product [0]; maybe they're going after that because it's got a Mali 400 GPU (in which case I'd just refer them to ARM's lawyers). [0] http:&#x
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by zh3 5y ago
Try moving the clock to face a different direction. Also the reception varies a lot throughout the day (bad near sunset and sunrise); most radio clocks rely on gettings the occasional good reception and running in the conventional way the r
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by zh3 5y ago
Valves [0] [0] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/oct/09/bbc-radio4-lon...
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by zh3 5y ago
Because of the long wavelength and high powers, the radio waves can be picked up pretty well by small ferrite aerials ('loopsticks'). In most cases, all the receiver has to do is detect the presence/absence of a signal; the t
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by zh3 5y ago
I've been hacking LW time signal receivers for at least a couple of decades, always liked DCF77 because of the additional 512 count sequence (both it and MSF are great intro's to RF hacking in the UK/EU). I'd still got
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by zh3 5y ago
After the Grenfell tower fire in the UK [0], residents in many tower blocks have been hit with huge bills for fire safety, e.g. £100k for apartments that cost less than that a decade ago [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by zh3 5y ago
Ever worked on systems where you're on the hook for the guarantee that you can keep it running? We had 3 major breakages due to systemd, which is why we went back to something pretty much anyone who knows a bit of bash scripting can fi

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