3chelon

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by 3chelon 8y ago
I used to always put the full-stop (period) inside the quotes because I was brought up using that rule, but in modern writing it's considered more a matter of stylistic choice, because yes, sometimes it just looks, well, "wrong.&q
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by 3chelon 8y ago
When I was a graduate dev I worked for a company whose primary product was a APL interpreter. So it was an interpreted language, but it may well be possible that it can be compiled or JIT these days. The interpreter was written in 68K asse
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Fair enough. It's a common mistake for people from an English background, too, but these days we have tools to eliminate typos like that.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Spelling.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Buy one now. After the Solar Flare Apocalypse, those of us rocking mechanical computers will be control the world!
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by 3chelon 8y ago
I'd have thought a mask ROM would be incredibly easy to build. And the whole system would be nonvolatile anyway, so storage of mutable data would be straightforward. Ultimately the code would compile down to binary; getting it into the
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Yes, he's often described as an early Pop artist, but unlike the more famous Warhol & co., who used and embraced industrial processes, there's a definite "craftsy", home-made quality to Johns' work. He used enca
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Thanks everyone for the corrections, obviously my understanding was flawed there!
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by 3chelon 8y ago
I read some linked articles on this. It seems she did it simply to hide the evidence. Unbelievable, it's estimated she destroyed $1bn worth.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
> it's more of a tiny ray tracer It's a ray caster, where the rays are sent out from the camera to intersect the map. With ray tracers, the rays are sent out from the light source, IIRC. Your point on OpenGL is valid, but that
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Wow, this reminds me of writing a very similar engine in the mid 90s after learning about ray-casting (and playing Doom of course). There was a very good book which covered the whole process called "Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus
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by 3chelon 8y ago
+1 for nostalgia!
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Getting Started with Lattice IceStick FPGA Using Open Source Tools on MacOS(appcodelabs.com)
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by 3chelon 8y ago
This is news to me. I didn't realise Dawkins' theory had been so thoroughly refuted. What's the evidence for this?
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Seconded. I actually read "The Blind Watchmaker" first and that had just as big an impact on me. As someone else said, no going back after reading it. It also gave me the confidence to realise I was actually an atheist, not an apo
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by 3chelon 8y ago
It's such a weird twist of irony that someone like Dawkins invented a term that has been so abused and deformed beyond all recognition. As expected, he hates what it's become; but it has truly evolved, beyond his control, so there
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by 3chelon 8y ago
My current address has no street name, just a house name and village name. Technically, there is a street name, but no-one uses it because it's the main street through the village. I really don't see it as a problem: the local p
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by 3chelon 8y ago
I always hesitate before posting travel updates on social media, and make sure it's only visible to friends. Probably paranoid, but it makes me feel better to not live with the added risk of entire the world being able to know my house
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by 3chelon 8y ago
That is a very good point.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
The timing of this is superb - I literally just ordered an IceStick FPGA with the intention of recreating an 8-bit gaming platform, and I was wondering if I could somehow start playing in a virtual environment first! Can't wait to try
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by 3chelon 8y ago
It seems Apple have been trying to occupy the moral high ground on privacy for quite a long time now. It's relatively easy for them to differentiate themselves from the other big tech companies, because Apple's products cost so mu
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Indeed, since the days of the Gutenberg press. All new tech heralds the end of times.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
The article specifically points out that Intel/AMD took on board all the lessons from RISC as they evolved the x86 series and now it's pretty much a RISC architecture too.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Yes, but they sit right on transatlantic fibre-optic trunk cables. Presumably leased lines? It's a totally different proposition to a public mobile internet.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Yes I find this shocking too. My kids are teenagers and their high school makes them check their phones into a special locker room during school hours. I hadn't imagined it any other way until other relatives said their kids were actua
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by 3chelon 8y ago
I do wonder how easy it would be to complete automate eye tests. It seems to me a robot could do the job very easily.
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Me too. Even though my eyesight continues to deteriorate, a pair of old prescription glasses is many times better than no glasses at all in an emergency!
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Of course not, it's an insane argument. To end up with a decent retirement fund, say $1.5m, you'd need to buy 50k units and store them for years. Whether you could even get hold of such a large quantity would be questionable, but
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Interesting, but so much left out. This quote:- >Through some digital gymnastics that would take entirely too long to explain, suddenly my wife’s phone shoots a 279-byte information packet containing “I love you” at the speed of light in
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by 3chelon 8y ago
Sudden disconcerting sound warning!

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