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> Well, most architectures do not use plain jumps with implicit arguments for function calls, but have explicit call/ret or branch-with-link instructions. Anyone who wants to go de…

> Languages for scientific computing like FORTRAN provided multiple floating point types such as REAL and DOUBLE PRECISION as well as INTEGER, often also in multiple sizes. This wa…

I would say less overuse of final, more underuse of interfaces. If everything takes/returns/stores values by interfaces (excluding data containers with no behavior) then you don't …

No such luck :( Both the bt1.archive.org and b2.archive.org trackers appear to be down. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:1814b8e2673e8a4547fd9c4f1a417b05860230b4&dn=MIT_Structure_of_Computer_Pr…

I seed a torrent of the SICP lectures that originally came from IA, I'll have to see if that's still up and if there's some way of getting the other torrents from the tracker. If y…

They only have Windows binaries, but it's just Python 3 with Tkinter. Should work anywhere if you have a GUI-enabled Python (eg python3-tkinter).

> and the nucleus of an atom or neutron star has a density on the order of 4x10^17...if you can build the entire ship out of pure neutrons, you're still coming up short by a factor…

Have MS managed to figure out window snapping for WSLg yet? From what I've heard (maybe this is dated) there are a bunch of limitations that come from them using a primitive compos…

> GIMP will stall for 10-15 seconds at startup looking for XSANE plugins. Apparently it's calling some external server, bad in itself, and that external server is slow. Worse, this…

Huh, my other pages don't have the same issue. I guess the search indexer must've died - I'll restart it in an hour or two. FWIW, the snapshot of c2 that this runs off of is somewh…

You might find Chess960 interesting then. The starting position is randomized, with enough variations that memorizing an opening book no longer really helps. You have to start eval…

> I think I’ve had more trouble with data loss from Evernote than those index cards, ironically… Plain text file and a text editor app, assuming rich content isn't a requirement. T…

I looked into the equivalent setup for WSL a while ago. The thing I could never solve was: how to manage the hosts windows via the virtual environment's WM? Without the integration…

In case anyone wants more detail on the internals: The initramfs is the first root filesystem a Linux system has but it resides entirely in RAM. It's initialized using an archive s…

It has to do with how long you expect a given dollar to live. Below a certain point a dollar doesn't persist very long since you're mostly living paycheck to paycheck. If you're sp…

> Maybe I'm going to piss many people off here, but vim is not an user-friendly text editor. An user friendly editor should pop some kind of prompt when I pressed the first g/G key…

I've noticed a similar pattern at $JOB - we started doing a daily "WFH status call" in early April last year. There was nothing like it previously, just a weekly report on importan…

> No way to get around it. Well...none of them are particularly easy, compared to punching holes in your local firewall. CGNAT takes you one step closer to digital serfdom (all hai…

Not PS/Office (more of a dev workflow - VS, Intellij, DB admin tools), but I've personally found that straight KVM with the default virtual hardware is good enough. The last big ad…

I personally have no desire to use it outside of Windows, but Powershell fixes all there things if you're so inclined: > flags are inconsistent At least among the core command set,…

You're thinking of /dev/dsp, which was an OSS thing before the move to ALSA. It still exists on the BSDs AFAIR but has to be emulated on modern Linux: https://unix.stackexchange.co…

I guess that's where the What If blog went, it hasn't been updated for a while now. No timestamps on the last post but wiki says he started writing this column for NYT late 2019, w…

I guess I'll be the one to make the obligatory "magit is awesome and if you use Emacs you should definitely check it out" comment. Other that being horribly slow on Windows I can't…

Seeing the ShadySIM project mentioned on that page reminded me of this DEFCON talk, which talks about some of the capabilities of the SIM OS (some of them run Java!) and what power…

> That's madness - I can't imagine why they'd do that. I think your confusion is in assuming that this is something you do rather than it being the status quo that receives no atte…