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ts4z
·mês passado·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.
ts4z
·ano passado·discuss
Hear hear. I guess we still have Anchor.
ts4z
·ano passado·discuss
C++ would be bonkers even if Rust did not exist.
ts4z
·ano passado·discuss
This is a specialization of the general statement that C++ is bonkers.
ts4z
·ano passado·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
·há 2 anos·discuss
Unfortunately, that isn't true.

https://www.wired.com/2012/07/leap-second-glitch-explained/ https://developers.google.com/time/smear
ts4z
·há 2 anos·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
·há 2 anos·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.
ts4z
·há 7 anos·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.)