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I just wish many of the software projects the code in the book depends on had been maintained. Portable Aserve and the Shoutcast server are two examples that come to mind off the t…

It's just an event loop, watching for status changes in a memory location. Talking to the hardware just occurs when the keyboard changes the values in memory.

The iMuse system really is remarkable. Games like X-Wing took great advantage of the features, when a Star Destroyer jumps into the game the music would seamlessly transition to th…

I really enjoyed having the kids introduce it

This is the Logic Theorist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Theorist I love Simon's anecdote of using his wife and children as the stack as he developed IPS. This eventually wa…

This really is a beautiful book, applicable to breaking down problems into manageable parts, whatever language you are using. Highly recommend.

Actually that's an interesting point, since the images are already in use in the article this one is responding to. It seems likely.

> but how much actual understanding does it have? That's always the question, isn't it? The article does a pretty convincing job of showing that at least in the given examples, it …

I'm editing this because I'm wrong but leaving original comment below. On second thought, this research wouldn't be looking at genes that would be highly variable among human popul…

Sounds to me they are saying this is a significant reduction in the Neanderthal genes that survive today, down to 4303 that can't be attributed to other human variants. This would …

In theory I agree, but in practice... The exploit given here works on any device with the given driver, regardless of OS. Android is just the primary example since it is the 800lb …

This write up highlights a depressing fact we all know: the mobile security situation is bleak, to the point of being untenable. I checked my own device, and despite owning it just…

Chaotic systems, at least, were not known to Einstein. They weren't described until after his death, from Lorenz' computer simulations. Earlier hints of the theory were there, but …

Lisp is the Planet Express Ship... "Tubes!? You're older than you said!"

One thing to note: The reason why SICP uses Scheme is not that the resulting programs are simpler. But instead, the mental model of what is happening under the hood is simpler, and…

The chapters describing the simplification performed by Maxima requires some basic calculus understanding, such as differentiation and integration. But the focus is on the programm…

Awesome resources, thank you!

I have to ask, how far along is this project? Is it good enough to run all of the examples in the books? I have run into the issue where the provided compiled version of scmutils f…

At the risk of this comment being equivalent to many other "this doesn't belong on HN" comments: This is almost to the level of doxxing. Please consider removing, or at least chang…

I'm reminded of MenuetOS http://menuetos.net/

Can someone explain to me why the brickwork in the picture in this example is just separated columns, using the cap to hold them together, rather than interlocking the bricks? I'm …

Thank you for pointing me to these.

On gog.com, remakes and updates come out pretty regularly. The quality varies wildly. But there's definitely an enthusiastic market for them.

This does use the Alliance ships, which are slightly more tuned towards multiplayer than the original Tie Fighter models. Specifically, shielded fighters suffer a bit. Editing to a…

Reproduction is likely to always be an issue with psychedelics research, since people's responses are so variable. Any research would need to have unethically large numbers of subj…