billforsternz

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by billforsternz 4d ago
You can just break them into two roughly equal halves and use your teeth to scoop out the flesh. No need for either a knife, a spoon or any kind of preprocessing. I've been eating them that way for decades.
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by billforsternz 8d ago
I see 10 9s so I suppose the claim is 9,999,999,999 people out of 10,000,000,000 won't notice so with 8,000,000,000 people on Earth I think it's 0.8 people not 80.
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by billforsternz 20d ago
Understood. No doubt I would be similarly inclined if I'd gone down that path in life. My beef is that I feel this is a trope that gets rolled out without question, and it doesn't even bother paying lip service to the diversity of
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by billforsternz 21d ago
Good post but the whole "buy time to see your child graduate, get married or give birth" trope is quite frankly very annoying. Older people have more going on, and more reasons to live, than whatever the next generations are up to
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by billforsternz 26d ago
I like to program in a C++ subset that's basically C plus a sprinkling of ergonomic quality of life C++ features eg references and generic containers. I think of it as C+. (Edit: No disrespect meant. I just thought such completely diff
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by billforsternz 1mo ago
What is it about a country that makes it "irrelevant" in your opinion?
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by billforsternz 2mo ago
Lots of people call it that. The Australian national team are called the Socceroos. The best, most authoritative magazine about the sport is called "World Soccer", published in the UK, where the name soccer originated. Even if the
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by billforsternz 2mo ago
Soccer is a legitimate name for the sport. Football is properly the name of a whole group of sports OR in a local context the locally most popular type of football. It's very weird for one type of football to try to claim the name al
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by billforsternz 2mo ago
My problem is I don't want to be first to recline, if the person behind me reclines, fine.
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by billforsternz 2mo ago
(Not the person you're asking, but...) I don't want to adversely affect the person behind me, but I also accept the right of the person in front of me to recline if they want to. It's not easy being me.
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by billforsternz 3mo ago
Stuck it out to the end against my better judgement. Got 89/100 due to difficulties at the "Grandmaster" stage (12/20). I thought it was going to be tougher because the very first word on my run was "Yield" and
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by billforsternz 4mo ago
The Z80 does have a DAA (decimal adjust arithmetic) instruction to facilitate BCD arithmetic. I don't think I ever used it in my Z80 years and I'm not familiar with the details. Sadly I have much less experience with the 6502, I d
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by billforsternz 4mo ago
The wording is very unambiguous, it means something very specific in chess. In every legal chess position either White is checkmated or Black is checkmated or (by far the most common except in film and TV!) neither side is checkmated. So th
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by billforsternz 5mo ago
I is tab ('\x09' or '\t') and J is new line ('\x0a' or '\n'). These Ctrl combinations follow a predictable linear mapping to the control character section of the ASCII table. Basically Ctrl subtracts
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by billforsternz 5mo ago
Thanks for clarifying. I think this is an ARM and a break from a history of Z80 and Z80 adjacent CPUs. I do get the impression TI have done a good (financial) job milking these products whilst under investing in real product innovation.
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by billforsternz 5mo ago
Surprisingly high or surprisingly low?
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by billforsternz 5mo ago
Yes. And in the second one he has return c; when he meant return b; Homer nods.
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by billforsternz 5mo ago
We're both seeing rudeness. We both dislike rudeness. I think it's rude to rain on someone's parade. You think it's rude to assume someone hadn't thought through their comment (I basically agree) and to address the
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by billforsternz 5mo ago
I wasn't really appealing to authority. I was just suspecting a familiar pattern that I always find a little distasteful. Person A describes a brilliant idea they're obviously proud of. Person B casually dismisses it and just clai
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by billforsternz 5mo ago
How long did you think about this before making this declaration? How long did Walter Bright think about this before making his decision when designing his language? Not saying you're wrong, just something to think about perhaps.
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by billforsternz 5mo ago
Sir Edmund Hillary and his team drove early Massey-Fergussons to the South Pole in 1958 (much to the annoyance of Sir Vivian Fuchs who Hillary beat to the pole even though Hillary was supposed to be a support player only :). The tractors we
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by billforsternz 5mo ago
Back in the early 1980s I leveled up my self taught Z80 assembly skills by reading a book that attempted to disassemble and explain the Sinclair Spectrum ROM. I remember the very first ROM instruction was XOR A and this was already a revela
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by billforsternz 5mo ago
I would prefer avoiding the infinite loop and printing a message to help the user understand what went wrong. I'm sure you could do that with an extra 100 bytes or so. Just my opinion of course.
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by billforsternz 6mo ago
I remember Joel of Joel on Software publicly working through the process of creating a remote desktop for normals type product called Copilot back in the day. If I remember correctly he had to pay quite a pretty penny to acquire copilot.com
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by billforsternz 6mo ago
We should probably be grateful Microsoft didn't name it .NET
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by billforsternz 6mo ago
By convention if it was 13.600 they would present it as 13.600 not 13.6. If I remember correctly Everest was first surveyed as 29000 feet tall and they changed it arbitrarily to 29002 to avoid the apparent imprecision!
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by billforsternz 6mo ago
386 grams, the extra 0.2 grams is not only irrelevant it's non existent because the process of converting from one measurement standard to another never increases the precision of the measurement. Using 3 digits of precision also avoid
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by billforsternz 6mo ago
C dev wasn't a problem with MSDOS and 640K either. With CP/M and 64K it was a challenge I think. Struggling to remember the details on that and too lazy to research it right now.
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by billforsternz 6mo ago
The almost regretful "I'm not Norwegian" clarification here is charming.
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by billforsternz 6mo ago
I thought my Z80 project ( https://github.com/billforsternz/retro-sargon ) was close to the whimsical end of the practical to just for fun spectrum but this takes things to a whole new level, kudos.

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