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My wife and I were talking about what lamps we had that were LED vs fluorescent vs incandescent; one of the bulbs that we have that is of the latter is in our closet, and has been …

To clarify, you don't usually see just "a" for an accumulator, as there are usually more than one accumulator-style registers in a CPU, and in many cases they are split along byte …

I used Corona around that time - and from what I recall, projects did build locally; the only exception being that if you wanted to build an iOS version, you had to do so on a Mac …

This is kinda sad to see. It's been almost a decade since I last used Corona (then, it was called Ansca Corona), and I found it fun and exciting to use. My employer at the time wan…

Gotta say thank you for this resource; I'm always using bash for one thing or another, and this will be a helpful site for the future. I've got it bookmarked for just that reason!

I probably posted to that one as well...

Years after I worked for the company I mentioned before (building an in-house VB6-based ERP system), I worked for another web applications development company who had a client I wa…

I once worked for a company that let me go because I looked bad on their bottom line and they were looking to sell the company, around 2003. So, severance package in hand, and one …

SAP is a company (and software system) that exists to buy up other company's software, business, and services and then integrate that all into SAP's "core" systems, and do so in su…

Yeah - I'm not mathematically inclined enough to understand what would be so funny about the 38x^3 denominator either? Unless it's something that would cause an error due to memory…

> The industry as a whole used to be more aligned with engineering but this has changed considerably since, say, the rise of "Agile". I'd argue that it changed once smaller busines…

Should be open now: https://www.smiffy.de/dbkda-2018/

> The biggest difference is that comment threads are the majority of how people create content on the internet now and they weren't before. Were you not around for newsgroup flame-…

> Social media such as twitter, for example, everyone now has a voice (what it gives), but with its char limit (what it takes) doesn't give critical thinking and rational debate a …

What you may or may not know is that at one time, there was a doctrine by the FCC known as the "Fairness Doctrine": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine "The fairnes…

I've put out a request to his email address for access; if I hear anything, I will post back to this thread...

> I wonder how long they will support 32x Windows 10? I noted in another comment that they have a similar problem with people wanting VB6 open sourced, because so many businesses r…

That's pretty much also why they'll never open source VB6, despite a very large number of developers wanting it. Instead, Microsoft has been virtually forced to continue to include…

I was about to post about the TI-92+ not getting any love, saw this, got happy, then saw it dead...sad again. Oh well. :)

> Because people aren't going to trust self-driving cars unless they're drastically better than humans are. I believe that people aren't ever going to trust self-driving cars, unle…

> IPv6 once widely implemented might solve the problem, since new fixed IPv4 addresses are unobtanium for non corporate networks; I'm not holding my breath though. I have this stra…

> I've thought that part of the reason that all the studies are showing that computers don't seem to help with education are just showing that computers as they are currently used …

> but if you actually pay attention to what your child is doing, screens can be a powerful tool. I related elsewhere how my parents, long since passed away, read to me from physica…

I credit much of my success in grade school and now as an adult to the fact that my mom consistently and constantly encouraged me to read. She at first did this, when I was a toddl…

What about something like this? http://strobe.audio/ I mean - that's just the first hit I found searching for open-source multi-room audio streaming for the raspberry pi. There wer…