pacaro

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by pacaro 2mo ago
The largest test case was 4kloc. There are hundreds of billions of lines of cobol in production. The IRS alone has approx 160 cobol programs, averaging 230kloc each.
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by pacaro 3mo ago
Can't help thinking of the classic series of userfriendly comics about Vigor, which at one point was implemented as a plugin for nvi
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Show HN: Browser based tool for programming ch57x macro-pads(pollrobots.com)
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by pacaro 4mo ago
The EU's "E-Evidence framework" allows authorities in any member state to compel entities doing business in any part of the EU to produce and/or preserve communications data, completely by-passing cross-border barriers.
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by pacaro 5mo ago
I'm getting a mixed reading, the most egregious flags aren't present, but there are a couple. As you identified there is a lot of parallel sentence structure. They also have a bunch of lists of 3-5 items which is a classic. It doe
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by pacaro 10mo ago
Reading this, it feels like an application on Conway's law.
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Sierpiński Triangles(pollrobots.com)
1 points by pacaro 10mo ago|0 comments
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Finding Flowers in Chaos(pollrobots.com)
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by pacaro 11mo ago
Dithering as a mechanism to reduce/remove banding can be very impressive. The color Next machines only had 12 bit displays, 4 bits per channel, but with careful use of dithering it was often indistinguishable from a 24-bit display (so
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by pacaro 1y ago
There are so many ways to produce sierpinski gaskets. It you specify n points and the pick a new point at random, then iteratively randomly select (uniformly) one of the original n points and move the next point to the mid point of the curr
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by pacaro 1y ago
FWIW, the Next color machines had 12bit (4096) color and in practice it didn't make much of a difference. I was using one fairly extensively in the late 90s (by which time 24bit was the norm -- albeit not yet ubiquitous) and for anythi
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by pacaro 1y ago
Yes! that one!. I have a paper copy, so it didn't occur to me that there would be an online version
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by pacaro 1y ago
There's even a book "Adventure in Prolog" by Dennis Merritt (ISBN 1520918917) It's a lot of fun to work through, other prolog resources can be a little dry
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by pacaro 2y ago
I've also worked with engineers who have raced LMP. It's largely pay-to-play and this is one of those professions where if you're the right person, in the right place, at the right time, you might be able to afford it.
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by pacaro 2y ago
For the title holder, in this case the Earl of Lovelace, they are often referred to ("styled") simply by the place name. So after William King-Noel was created Earl.of Lovelace he was styled "Lovelace". She would have be
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by pacaro 2y ago
From the mid 60s
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by pacaro 2y ago
Hence why it is so easy to get lost in there
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by pacaro 2y ago
The sidebar about pirate radio, while factually correct, seems to heavily imply that pirate radio started in the jungle era, but Radio Caroline was broadcasting in the 60s
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by pacaro 2y ago
Just that thinking about the "floppy drive in 1998" question. I can think of a couple of things at play The system was likely designed a long time before 1998, because of how this type of contract works Even in 1998 USB was very n
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by pacaro 2y ago
As @GistNoesis is being somewhat gnomic, I believe that they are referencing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Treatise_on_Electricity_and_... Written in 1873 by James Clerk Maxwell They also reference Genesis 1:3 "
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by pacaro 2y ago
I believe that they started writing it in 2003. It's hard to precisely age code unless you cut it down and count the number of rings
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by pacaro 2y ago
I've always thought of this as being equivalent to "work hardening" My concern with it is more about legitimately old code (android is 20ish years old, so reasonably falls into this category) which was written using standards
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by pacaro 2y ago
They are popular cars to steal because they are easy to steal. Stolen cars are used "differently" than other cars
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by pacaro 2y ago
The tech trivia related to this that springs to mind is that the DEC Alpha processor was known internally by the code name EV, which stood for "Electric Vlasic" — although the suits backfit this in to "Extended VAX". (Vl
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by pacaro 2y ago
I guess that I was taught basic mental arithmetic differently. Multiply by 8 and divide by 5, or (it's inverse) is two single instruction cycle opcodes (or whatever my brains equivalent is). Regularly needing to translate between sane
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by pacaro 2y ago
Yeah, this is basically my take too. I had a hardcopy of this sometime between 99 and 02, and read it several times At the time I was an embedded developer at Microsoft and had been a Windows programmer in the mid 90s. It was pretty clear t
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by pacaro 2y ago
.M and .P for those that use vim digraphs
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Show HN: A tool for rendering and interacting with SDFs(pollrobots.com)
2 points by pacaro 2y ago|0 comments
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by pacaro 2y ago
And in addition, and TFA alludes to this, each time a person receives a transfusion there is a chance that their immune system will generate antibodies to it. That might not impact the transfusion at the time, but can make the recipient muc
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by pacaro 2y ago
Thanks for the summary. I kinda low-key love the idea of converting floats into a fixed point representation that covers the entire range represented by the float type. I mean the accumulator is only 32 KB, which is likely to be in L1 the e

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