thick18cm

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by thick18cm 10y ago
I can't see how it would have been better with a 6502. The 8080 family had multiple clock cycles per instruction cycle, thus if you are hooking up a scope and watching, there is more going on to see, and if you grok what's happens
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by thick18cm 10y ago
"you have to live in a tall building to see which are the other tall buildings" -- a wise man once said this is one of those "if you have to ask, you won't understand" situations. jwz is a genius, as insightful as y
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by thick18cm 10y ago
Well, I too confuse the words Baltics and Balkans while trying to recall one or the other, but on the basis of their sound, nothing to do with geopolitics, so I can easily see confusing Macestonia and Esdonia in memory also based on sound,
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by thick18cm 10y ago
your idea has an interesting parallel in econ/finance: trading on inside information (misnomer: insider trading) has the economic effect of moving the prices of securities in the direction they're supposed to go, which is a public
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by thick18cm 10y ago
what is disreputable about the journal they were published in?
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by thick18cm 10y ago
what you are saying may be correct, but you are "overloading" the term "order of evaluation" to encompass atomicity (atomicity of operations like i++); is that kosher?
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by thick18cm 10y ago
just to clarify the wording of your essentially correct supposition, the radio signal emanated from across the street "completely external to the device", but when this signal encountered the device, the device resonated (like an
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by thick18cm 10y ago
Does anybody know, does Peter Thiel get any of the "credit" for helping this to happen, i.e. since it's the same attorney, was it part of his same funding effort? If so, it would be somewhat hilarious--"Thiel supports cl