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·vorige maand·discuss
I don't think so. The cabinets were silk screened, but the control panels and marquees were different. The marquees, in particular, are large vinyl stickers that cover glass. Control panels were generally not silk-screened, either.

Volume was roughly similar (thousands to low tens of thousands of cabinets).

Things differed from game to game over time. My Missile Command had a silkscreened control panel, but I think they went to overlays which were more durable and could be replaced.
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·vorig jaar·discuss
Hear hear. I guess we still have Anchor.
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·vorig jaar·discuss
C++ would be bonkers even if Rust did not exist.
ts4z
·vorig jaar·discuss
This is a specialization of the general statement that C++ is bonkers.
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·vorig jaar·discuss
Go has good (enough) built-in arrays and maps. But if you want a tree, without generics, you're really limited. With generics, you can get a nice containerized type, but you don't get the nicer syntax that the builtins have.

It's not just types, either. Look at the signature for the built-in sort, which is amazingly cumbersome to use. A generic wrapper around it hides all the ugly.
ts4z
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Unfortunately, that isn't true.

https://www.wired.com/2012/07/leap-second-glitch-explained/ https://developers.google.com/time/smear
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·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Halted was an electronics surplus store. A really good one. They had old tubes, old ICs, stuff left over from Atari. They had aisles of capacitors, some with date codes in the mid '80s, and newer surface mount stuff. They had a whole wall of 1/4 W resistors at two cents a piece. They had all kinds of random parts for keeping old electronics running, and making new stuff. And they had a receipt for an oscilloscope they sold in the '60s to some kid in Palo Alto named Steve Jobs.

Unfortunately, the owner retired and sold it off for parts.
ts4z
·2 jaar geleden·discuss
Seems like it should work for arbitrary byte strings (any charset, any encoding)but obviously the performance characteristics will differ because of non-uniform distribution. But that happens even in ASCII.
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·3 jaar geleden·discuss
SASL came out as a generalization of the IMAP AUTHENTICATE mechanism. CMU wanted Kerberos to work and it had been done as something of a one-off in telnet, and initially in IMAP. There were a couple companion protocols proposed for IMAP (stuff like contacts) that the same group was working on, and they wanted to leverage the same mechanism. From there, might as well do the same thing for POP and SMTP, etc. So they started working on a library (which Cyrus IMAP didn’t use for at least a while, sorry my fault).

Kind of funny that SASL is the most durable piece of the effort.

(I doubt this is entirely accurate. I wasn’t there for a lot of it.)
ts4z
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
This is very gratifying to read. I had a lot to do with the original spec, and I'm glad you find it useful.
ts4z
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
FWIW they were not Berkley DBs. IIRC the only db was the duplicate suppression feature.

Folders (mailboxes in proper IMAP lingo) had hand-built indexes. Good stuff. Credit to jgm, the original author.
ts4z
·7 jaar geleden·discuss
Hear, hear! I used a 2018 MacBook for a little over a year; my work laptop is now a ThinkPad running Linux. My personal laptop is a 2015 MacBook. When it dies, I will not replace it with a butterfly-switch laptop.

(I also miss USB type A and MagSafe, but the keyboard was the deal breaker.)