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In the HN comment that the article discusses [0] is the conclusion that commenter a1369209993 is correct (there are as many between 0 & 1 as 1 & +INF) and llm_trw is not correct? I…

You can put an extra 'level' in, to make both options return the same 0,1...9 def loop(): for number in range(10): def outer(n): def inner(): return n return inner yield outer(numb…

Currently reading "Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire" by Judith Herrin[0] It's very interesting, a sort of missing piece of history from my point of view. At scho…

It may be different on newer MacOS but on mine you will need ping6 > ping6 ff02::1%en1 for example. I wasn't able to get it to work on Windows (I can get the command to work in WSL…

When I started my first job in 1995, the old hands were still using DEC ALL-IN-1 [0] from terminals on their desks but it was in the process of being phased out (for Microsoft Mail…

In my youth I had a ZX spectrum which had BASIC with line numbers and no renumber command. Sometimes when adding code I'd simply run out of line numbers so had to GO TO an unused b…

It's a consequence of being block-based as mentioned elsewhere, but interesting to note that cat'ing together bzip2 files gives a valid bzip2 file. That's the basis of pbzip2 [0] -…

A role reversal from the 1930's - the first Canon cameras used Nikkor lenses! https://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/htmls/...

Also Brian Anderson (brson) was/is a significant rust contributor

And could one swap between the two backends with the same VM image (.vbox +.vdi) to see which one gave the better performance?

'Go' was named because "it's short, easy to type"[0] though I assume it being part of Google was also a contributing factor? [0]: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2017/09/go-ten-…

Might depend on what kind of book it is - do you have a lot of images, tables, cross-references, ... or is it mostly plain text?

There is such a thing[0] - at one time I was using both and it made my poor head spin a bit. [0]: https://jungo.com/windriver/

I didn't know that, thanks. If this is news to anyone else - in the "What's next?" section of the article it mentions interop between Win32 and WSL using AF_UNIX sockets, which bec…

I personally would like to see it but I think there would need to be a solution for Windows too, since that is nearly 70% of desktop OS use vs. 20% for MacOS and 3% for Linux.[0] O…

Can anyone just clarify for me what these AI / Machine learning chips are? As far as I can tell they are general purpose microprocessors with some added instructions which accelera…

Bravo! Was there anyone used the 'Briefcase' back in the day? I'd forgotten about that. In fact I got so in the zone that I pressed ALT-F4 to close Win98 notepad and shut down my w…

> Popovertarget passes every choice made by the player, for example: x1-o2-x3 means X chooses the first position, O chooses the second and X chooses the third, and so on. I think t…

To quote the paper - "The reflection operator produces a reflection value from a grammatical construct (its operand)" [0] [0]: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2…

"Physics of Semiconductor Devices" was a very useful and clearly-written book I read in the 90s - I must still have my copy somewhere. I didn't know the author had made such ground…

I've been using X to view graphical applications running on the Pi from my desktop - will this still be possible?

Borland C++ is a 32-bit compiler, I believe the latest version is 5.5 and it came out in about 2000. There is a newer version from Embarcadero, 7.20 from 2016[1]. The compiler in C…

So if your revenue (not profit) exceeds $5000, you need to pay $5600 for Delphi. Surely that can't be right? [edit] I can only get the prices in GBP but for 'professional' it's £1,…

Does anyone know why they picked frequencies quite close together for the in/out tones (2525Hz/2475Hz) when the pass band for telephony was much wider?