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by kjander79 16d ago
I feel the title editorializes a bit too much. The thread only confirms the bug, not a specific cause yet. As sibling comments indicate, the effect on GrapheneOS users is undetermined.
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by kjander79 5mo ago
I just wish many of the software projects the code in the book depends on had been maintained. Portable Aserve and the Shoutcast server are two examples that come to mind off the top of my head, and of course the Lisp in a Box environment i
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by kjander79 1y ago
It's just an event loop, watching for status changes in a memory location. Talking to the hardware just occurs when the keyboard changes the values in memory.
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by kjander79 1y ago
The iMuse system really is remarkable. Games like X-Wing took great advantage of the features, when a Star Destroyer jumps into the game the music would seamlessly transition to the imperial March and it felt just like being in the movies.
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by kjander79 1y ago
I really enjoyed having the kids introduce it
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by kjander79 1y ago
This is the Logic Theorist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Theorist I love Simon's anecdote of using his wife and children as the stack as he developed IPS. This eventually was replaced by GPS, which has a go
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by kjander79 3y ago
This really is a beautiful book, applicable to breaking down problems into manageable parts, whatever language you are using. Highly recommend.
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by kjander79 3y ago
Actually that's an interesting point, since the images are already in use in the article this one is responding to. It seems likely.
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by kjander79 3y ago
> but how much actual understanding does it have? That's always the question, isn't it? The article does a pretty convincing job of showing that at least in the given examples, it has pretty good "understanding" of w
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by kjander79 3y ago
I'm editing this because I'm wrong but leaving original comment below. On second thought, this research wouldn't be looking at genes that would be highly variable among human populations, that DNA tests would profile to ident
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by kjander79 3y ago
Sounds to me they are saying this is a significant reduction in the Neanderthal genes that survive today, down to 4303 that can't be attributed to other human variants. This would make more sense to me, as the usual statement of up to
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by kjander79 4y ago
In theory I agree, but in practice... The exploit given here works on any device with the given driver, regardless of OS. Android is just the primary example since it is the 800lb gorilla. And as the article mentions, just 2 hardware stacks
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by kjander79 4y ago
This write up highlights a depressing fact we all know: the mobile security situation is bleak, to the point of being untenable. I checked my own device, and despite owning it just about a year, security updates have likely already stopped
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by kjander79 4y ago
Chaotic systems, at least, were not known to Einstein. They weren't described until after his death, from Lorenz' computer simulations. Earlier hints of the theory were there, but no one took them seriously. Ian Malcolm, though, i
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by kjander79 4y ago
Lisp is the Planet Express Ship... "Tubes!? You're older than you said!"
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by kjander79 5y ago
One thing to note: The reason why SICP uses Scheme is not that the resulting programs are simpler. But instead, the mental model of what is happening under the hood is simpler, and easy to refine as you go along. This makes it possible to c
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by kjander79 5y ago
The chapters describing the simplification performed by Maxima requires some basic calculus understanding, such as differentiation and integration. But the focus is on the programming techniques, not on math, so it doesn't get too deep
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by kjander79 5y ago
Awesome resources, thank you!
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by kjander79 5y ago
I have to ask, how far along is this project? Is it good enough to run all of the examples in the books? I have run into the issue where the provided compiled version of scmutils from GJS' website doesn't run on recent versions of
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by kjander79 5y ago
At the risk of this comment being equivalent to many other "this doesn't belong on HN" comments: This is almost to the level of doxxing. Please consider removing, or at least changing the headline (nothing intrinsically wrong
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by kjander79 5y ago
I'm reminded of MenuetOS http://menuetos.net/
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by kjander79 5y ago
Can someone explain to me why the brickwork in the picture in this example is just separated columns, using the cap to hold them together, rather than interlocking the bricks? I'm sure that's not the reason the structure collapsed
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by kjander79 5y ago
Thank you for pointing me to these.
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by kjander79 5y ago
On gog.com, remakes and updates come out pretty regularly. The quality varies wildly. But there's definitely an enthusiastic market for them.
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by kjander79 5y ago
This does use the Alliance ships, which are slightly more tuned towards multiplayer than the original Tie Fighter models. Specifically, shielded fighters suffer a bit. Editing to add, I just saw your user name, and at first assumed you crea
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by kjander79 5y ago
Reproduction is likely to always be an issue with psychedelics research, since people's responses are so variable. Any research would need to have unethically large numbers of subjects. Perhaps legalisation would change that, but the l
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by kjander79 5y ago
Shamelessly replying to my own comment, there's MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries. I don't see VR support mentioned.
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by kjander79 5y ago
My first response is, I don't know. But I guess it depends on what you consider the current MechWarrior game. I know of MechWarrior online, which I don't believe does, but I suspect there's a newer MechWarrior game out, or c
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by kjander79 5y ago
If anyone on here has built a flight simulator rig, I'd love to hear about it.
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by kjander79 5y ago
I would think a cockpit VR experience would be much superior to a FP one.

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