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Aex - rhymes with "Yikes" - daughter of Helios. (.. all the good names were taken ..)

Why is Jupiter so colorful? If the variation of color are indicative of a similar variation in density, why is there so much turbulence in Jupiter, why are the upper layers not mor…

I don't think you can follow the path originally trodden (competing on asmone 68K/hw with your fellow local coders, exchanging snippets of hw reg info and source) however there's a…

I have a few of these rules Interesting, can you share some other such rules?

"No, that's SMP" - is perhaps too resolute a definition. I'd say SMP is across processes, SMT is within a process, which would put the distinction in software, not hardware archite…

For some (myself) the right shift key is the main shift key; so doing away with it would be terrible. Typically holding it down with the right pinky while typing full speed ahead, …

What a great link. At the time of writing, Goal Conversions: - Visit/blog 12800 - Signup 8 I knew anecdotally that HN doesn't convert but, oof , that's rough..

The colorful stripes are more likely the decompression routine hammering dff180 (the background color) as a "busy signal" for the user. The Amiga has "chip RAM", which on many unex…

ok, interesting. I just checked, as of right now I still very much get the message "Unsupported Browser - In order to provide the best experience we require you use a different bro…

I also use Firefox as my daily, but more and more software seems incompatible with it. For instance, AWS EC2 Global View insists I switch away from Firefox, that's just one example…

| keep in mind that picking Java over Cobol for banking software in 90s retrospectively turned out to be the right choice Is the Java written in the 90's still the same Java writte…

Can you elaborate a bit on "resisting"? Been a while since I read it, but iirc one of his examples is of fellow captives telling themselves they'll be free before the new year, the…

The tech is pretty, not sure it works as a demonstration of gameplay though. For some reason this strongly reminds me of The typing of the Dead. A "Typing of the Matrix" would fit …

* Mythical Man Month (Experience) * Rapid Development (Profession) * Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (You're not alone, we all share this.) * The War of Art (At 9am, you are alone.) …

Link to Paolo Bonzini's "Is QEMU Too Complex" talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMQtog6KUlo

What is preposterous about it? You mean why I felt it was preposterous? Well allow me to demonstrate my naivety... I would have expected 50% to be "socialist Europe" type spending,…

So I thought "gov't spending, majority of GDP" was preposterous, but then I looked at the graph at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni... Looks like it alr…

It's not all marketing for the exact reason you state, it doesn't scale with the balance but is fixed. A flat-fee would be interesting for precisely the account holders with a larg…

For Elon Musk, Jim Keller or even Steve Jobs, their value isn't in manually doing the CAD / VHDL / Code, rather, it is being the Eye of Mordor on the critical path and understandin…

Thanks. It's not that UTF-8 is not on the list, it's always been on the list, it's just not there yet. Hence I felt the need to stipulate the lack of it in the manual, because of i…

Thanks for studying this, your emphasis is noted - aside from this particular bullet from the "notable limitations," are there any other short-comings that you feel are deal breake…

Hey, thanks for taking the time. I appreciate the insights. Carburetta is designed for developer productivity and hence "least surprise"; and so combines the classical distinction …