sedatk

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by sedatk 6d ago
Microsoft doesn’t use Visual Studio internally for many of its products such as Windows.
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by sedatk 9d ago
> pbzip2 only can do parallel decompression on archives created with pbzip2 Oh I didn’t know that.
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by sedatk 9d ago
The latest release is a year ago, the last commit is two months ago, and the build is failing. The claim “stronger than bzip2” is strange. What does it even mean? Also, comparing parallel decompression benchmarks with bzip2 instead of pbzip
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by sedatk 14d ago
lO"*",8,1
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by sedatk 1mo ago
Fascinating. But, I guess it's better to have superfluous invalid characters than missing real ones.
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by sedatk 1mo ago
It really sounds like an urban legend, but apparently, Bill Gates admits it here himself. Not sure if it was the last piece of code he wrote though: https://web.archive.org/web/20120213015238/http://www.m
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by sedatk 1mo ago
I once heard the rumor that DONKEY.BAS was the last piece of code Bill Gates wrote himself at Microsoft. I wonder if it's true.
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by sedatk 1mo ago
> it can be updated, universally, on a dime Not sure about "on a dime". AI companies are currently spending billions of dollars every year, with none making any profit. Sure, AI will get better. I even say that at the end. But,
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We're entering the human era(ssg.dev)
3 points by sedatk 1mo ago|3 comments
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Collapse OS - Bootstrap post-collapse technology(collapseos.org)
2 points by sedatk 1mo ago|0 comments
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by sedatk 1mo ago
What the article tells us isn't about a certain group of people interacting with this person, but about that person's mindset, how he sees others. I wrote about the harms of elitist social models and labels like that before: http
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by sedatk 1mo ago
A historical note: Windows XP 64-bit Edition that was mentioned in the article, was Itanium-specific. It was based on XP kernel while Windows XP x64 Edition (for AMD64 architecture) was based on Windows Server 2003 kernel. Because of that,
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by sedatk 2mo ago
(2017)
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by sedatk 2mo ago
Thanks, makes sense.
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by sedatk 2mo ago
I skimmed it, many quotable stuff[1], fascinating: "Symbiote or Parasite? The Popular Reaction to Computers Most people would concede that computers are strange new entities that have a significant impact on human life. However, I woul
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by sedatk 2mo ago
> is probably going to use LoRa why not Zigbee or Thread?
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by sedatk 2mo ago
273 people died from a 7.0 earthquake in Kumamoto in 2016.
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by sedatk 2mo ago
That's why some computer mags started introducing tools to type in programs without ambiguities. Here's a recent example I made: an Amstrad CPC program that's both valid BASIC and machine code at the same time, and running it
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by sedatk 2mo ago
Still waiting for the Windows version.
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by sedatk 2mo ago
You seem to be confusing Z80 with 6502.
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Electron apps: web browsers in a trenchcoat(ssg.dev)
3 points by sedatk 2mo ago|1 comments
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by sedatk 2mo ago
Actually, BASIC’s flat structure helped me a lot in understanding Z80 assembly when I was 12. You see, memory addresses were line numbers, registers were variables, JP was GOTO, CALL was GOSUB. CP was IF, JP, Z was THEN GOTO, and LD was LET
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by sedatk 2mo ago
> So AT is governed by a single for-profit entity A Public Benefit Corporation to be precise. So they are legally obligated to favor public benefit.
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by sedatk 2mo ago
What's missing in .NET AOT?
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by sedatk 2mo ago
When I watched Jurassic Park when it came out, I got so enamored with the computers in the movie, especially the SGI, that I adjusted the looks of our DOS GUI library[1] so it would look more like it. (I had already a liking to OSF/Mot
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by sedatk 2mo ago
I argue the opposite: there’s no better fix for this. You can write the most elegant fix, whatever it is, and prevent that from happening only on the codebase that’s fixed. That doesn’t mean that the codebase will always be the only authori
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by sedatk 2mo ago
Their fix just future-proofs it in case the same bug gets reintroduced.
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Telegram's t.me domain has been reinstated(twitter.com)
5 points by sedatk 2mo ago|1 comments
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by sedatk 2mo ago
Simple. I can operate any button without taking my attention from the road at all as long as the said button has a distinct feeling and/or location. That’s immediately an infinitely better experience. BMW iDrive buttons are an excell
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by sedatk 2mo ago
More importantly, car touchscreens are dangerous. It’s impossible to operate a touchscreen without moving your attention from the road to the touchscreen itself. That’s why I think it must be a legal requirement for any car with touchscreen

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