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In fact, he loves us!

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> time is now part of the io interface [...]

Nice, didn't know that! Sounds like this could be extremely useful for some of the simulators we work on (though we mostly work in C/C++).

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> Why? Because I can.

Always the best reason.

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> 11. If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some.

That brings back some memories. Just glad I eventually learned better.

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It was amazing to read the original account in the alumni newsletter, and it was great to see the photo. The legend is real! Heh heh.

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I was... not prepared for your standup to comic README. Besides just being a cool idea, you gave me some things to think about and several new rabbit holes to explore.

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> 1948 was an interesting time for computing.

Not a commonly seen statement :-)

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Dammit, another horrifying yet entirely realistic near-future scenario to keep me up at night.

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2 mesi fadiscuss

Oh, absolutely. For instance I never thought Lysenkoism would happen again, but the conditions are ripe for it.

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2 mesi fadiscuss

Same here. The Teams meeting page layout pisses me off on a regular basis, with way too much useless space around everything, tons of unhideable icons and crap filling half the screen, and all the actual content crammed into a little box. I'm sitting here with a 4K 27" monitor and all that space and resolution is just wasted. Yeah you can work around it, but what a PITA.

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2 mesi fadiscuss

Ratarmount is so cool. Recently I wanted to look at a couple random files in a > 300G compressed tarball. It just wouldn't have been worth doing without it.

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3 mesi fadiscuss

  - Terrorist Bomb Pierces Bob Dole's Outer Hull
  - Are Your Cats Old Enough To Learn About Jesus?
  - Deadly Super Rainbow Tears Through West Coast
  - Clinton Deploys Vowels To Bosnia
  - Rescue Chip Sent In To Save Broken Tostito Submerged In 7 Layer Dip

That last one in particular was absolutely epic.

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3 mesi fadiscuss

Correct.

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3 mesi fadiscuss

Docs like this make playing space engineer so much more fun.

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4 mesi fadiscuss

Very sad to hear. As an already-addicted computer nerd when The Soul of a New Machine came out, his book put me inside an utterly fascinating alternate world, a world where brilliant people fought incomprehensible difficulties to create the hardware that made my software come to life. Better yet, he brought those people, not just their machines, to life. Still one of my favorite books.

jsrcout

4 mesi fadiscuss

Same, this is something I would use often. Sort of like #pragma once, but for initialization.

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4 mesi fadiscuss

Just realized they tag the releases with great names in math/computing. Very cool.

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4 mesi fadiscuss

Edit is unironically one of my favorite text editors these days. It opens incredibly fast compared to everything else I use, it's easy to use, works fine on Linux. It's not going to replace emacs or VS Code, but it's incredibly handy for basic editing chores.

jsrcout

5 mesi fadiscuss

I've been trying to track down "What's New" for a long long time. If memory serves, there was a daily email titled "What's New on the World Wide Web" - very possibly the source for this monthly summary.

It was a fascinating way to experience the early WWW's exponential growth. It started out small, but once it began to grow, you could see it expanding faster and faster practically in real time.

At first it only took seconds to give the daily list a good once over. Over time it started taking minutes, then 20 minutes or half an hour (if things weren't too busy at work), and eventually it morphed into almost another full time job. There was just no way to keep up. Around that time they stopped sending it out.

From a historical point of view, these daily emails and monthly summaries would be a terrific resource for those interested in the early Web. It's hard to believe now that there was once a time when you could literally check out every new Web site as they came online.

jsrcout

5 mesi fadiscuss

Tried to answer this question years back for just the "basic" x86 registers. Quickly realized there was never going to be any single answer until I had mastered the entire ISA. Oh well.

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