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Older hardware is often simpler and nicer to develop for. So it can also help as a stepping stone.

To get the unicode codepoint. For example, you need this when you want to render a character, or convert it to another representation.

As much as I hate Steve Jobs, I like too like this explanation very much.

A huge number of journalists is being arrested in Turkey. Turks who say bad things about Erdogan and/or Turkey on social media often get arrested.

True, but is also a public secret that people who vote against Erdogan are being threatened.

Only in America

"Does micro support Vi keybindings? No, if you want to use Vim then use Vim." Kthnksbye

The things that are priorities in the USA have always puzzled me. Students pay an absolutely insane amount of money for an education that is very mediocre. It is clear that the Ame…

That is absolutely false. Since I have my computer science/math degree my linkedin inbox has been flooded with messages from recruiters. I can guarantee you that they are not looki…

Well, this is awfully related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15343559

> PulseAudio also didn't do bugfix-only releases, you either backported or waited for the next major release and hoped it didn't break anything else. Haha, that is ridiculous!

Sometimes you just have to bicycle close to cars. Even if you take the effort to see inside parked cars (it is probably better to just watch the road), it is simply impossible to e…

I am quite surprised that PulseAudio has a bad reputation. I couldn't get ALSA working on Arch Linux, and simply installing PulseAudio resolved all my issues. From the sentiment he…

And 120, 180, 240, ... ;)

Ahh, that explains a lot. Thanks.

I'm not sure why the author included 'floating point' in the title (probably to hint that the Babylonians did not use a symbol for zero, and had the point floating in blank space).…

The Babylonians already used a composite-ish system for numbers I guess that the least confusing transcript to modern notation would be something like 7, 24 to represent 7 * 60 + 2…

Yes, composite numbers have many advantages. Working in base 60 = 2^2 * 5 * 3, has advantages of working in base 2, base 5, and base 3. In base 10, you can quickly spot multiples o…

It is very characteristic for philosophy to have a very clearly defined question, and a very long and pompous essay which does not provide an answer at first sight.

I have skimmed the paper. It seems that they assume that the writes are skewed (e.g. some parts of the memory gets written to more often). This seems to be a reasonable assumption …

I think it is also very much a chicken-and-egg problem. Without software for personal computers, there is no need for personal computers. When there are no people with personal com…

While I hate ads, I also think google has way too much power already, and this is not a healthy development.