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by tailrecursion 2y ago
> The K-202 could conduct a million operations per second – many more than the PCs that became popular a decade later. That the K-202 was faster than the personal computers that came later is not unusual, because those later computers we
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by tailrecursion 2y ago
The CPU for this computer is microcoded and is made out of a small number of discrete logic chips, plus an EEPROM. The data and address bus are 8 bits wide but the NOR unit operates on one bit only. The microcode has to loop in order to p
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by tailrecursion 3y ago
You appear to have your heart set on toasters, and that's fine. A coffee roaster for the prosumer, however, strikes me as a more interesting product to make. I think there's still an opportunity to make a better or at least diff
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by tailrecursion 3y ago
I agree, and this is just a by-the-way comment about Smeg. I always assumed Smeg was a bargain-basement brand because of its espresso machines, which appear to be rebadged Delonghi devices. There's one model that looks like a clone o
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by tailrecursion 3y ago
4chan is world famous for hoaxing the left by cooperating with their need to find white supremacy everywhere. The black square, the OK sign, pepe, and many other symbols and memes are examples where 4chan inserted the assertion that XYZ is
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by tailrecursion 3y ago
It used to be said that piracy actually helped the copyright holder, by exposing more people to the work who sometimes might buy a copy. It's also curious for an open source advocate to complain about knock-off brands such as Ender and
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APL: An Array Oriented Programming Language (2018)(medium.com)
105 points by tailrecursion 3y ago|96 comments
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by tailrecursion 3y ago
The people who work for you, are their estimates accurate? What fraction of their time is spent on them? What have you as a manager done to improve the accuracy of the estimates?
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by tailrecursion 3y ago
Exactly. Many commenters are making up rules for software engineering and think the rules ought to apply universally.
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by tailrecursion 3y ago
Software is a vast field and we do different kinds of work. Some work is easier to estimate than others. Estimating TTC for "make a reputation system for a social network" is probably going to be harder than the same for a typica
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Excellent demo of what Forth is all about [video](youtube.com)
5 points by tailrecursion 4y ago|0 comments
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by tailrecursion 4y ago
In the case of fine grained parallelism, where named registers allow parallelism that a rigid stack evaluation doesn't -- one can decode the stack instructions using a counter, the stack pointer, assign register numbers off the counter
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by tailrecursion 4y ago
I don't think the article mentions metacompilation, which is a further cute and mind-bending feature Forth is known for. Metacompilation re-uses the live, running interpreter/compiler to compile a new system image of itself, from
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by tailrecursion 4y ago
Some other Macaulay books are: Cathedral, City, and Pyramid.
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by tailrecursion 4y ago
What gave me the most perspective on programming language design was reading Leslie Lamport's papers on TLA+. His views on the necessary differences between a P.L. and a specification language gave me a clearer idea what programming l
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by tailrecursion 4y ago
But, it is correct to say that being banned from social media severely restricts one's ability to participate. In addition, banning has a significant effect on anyone aware of the ban. It's important to learn from the mistakes of
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by tailrecursion 4y ago
It's telling to see this comment suppressed with not even a hint as to why. Feminism has changed drastically over the years. The gay movement has been taken over by toxic individuals. Occupy Wall St was taken over. Antifa shootings
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by tailrecursion 4y ago
I agree that accounts on Discord, Instagram, Whatsapp are effectively anonymous and students are not likely to stop using them. As you indicate, the police could follow the required phone number but not the school. Yes, your scenario is on
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by tailrecursion 4y ago
I'm not a Discord user but if it's not possible for a user to block all incoming anonymous messages, Discord use would be disallowed by the school. The simple idea I've given doesn't work if kids can receive messages th
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by tailrecursion 4y ago
The child's phone can be set up one way or another. In this hypothetical scheme (described above), a child complaining about anonymous abusive messages is ignored by the school. School's not responsible, because the child's
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by tailrecursion 4y ago
If it could be done technically, setting a child's phone to receive only messages that include a valid ID would discourage abuse by making abuse traceable. The school would insist that all children's phones are set up this way so
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by tailrecursion 4y ago
"Poland is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, and yet it's being sacrificed to satisfy the greed of a few corporations." Is that what's happened here?
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by tailrecursion 4y ago
I'd like to learn how to read billionaires' minds. Anyone know a good book I can read so that I can have the skills of this opinion writer?
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by tailrecursion 4y ago
One advantage of Torx head bolts over hex bolts, is that the same torque head can be smaller in Torx. This is desirable for cars where a smaller bolt and driver (e-torx socket in this case) make access possible. So they can jam even more
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APL: An Array Oriented Programming Language (2018)(medium.com)
4 points by tailrecursion 4y ago|0 comments
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by tailrecursion 4y ago
If the UV light kills 98% of microbes, what happens with the remaining 2% UV-resistant microbes, are they now the fittest?
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by tailrecursion 5y ago
Perhaps DDG could tell us what their sources of information are, that they are able to discern what is disinformation.
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by tailrecursion 5y ago
Interesting idea, and maybe we already have a step toward remote piloting in the form of Youtube videos that explain how to do various tasks: plumbing, home improvement, auto repair, hvac, and so on.
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by tailrecursion 5y ago
The message of "violence is good" also aligns with the robotic use of "mostly peaceful" throughout the media and the strange empathy TV people had for Antifa. Your interpretation is an accurate read of the sympathy the
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by tailrecursion 5y ago
Looks like I either failed to get my point across, or hit too close to home. Many who get angry at this story also enjoy seeing penalties (such as mandates and passports) for the unvaccinated. These penalties will create more pathos, whet

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