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sedatk

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About sedatk

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    What the article tells us isn't about a certain group of people interacting with this person, but about that person's mindset, how he sees others. I wrote about the harms of elitis…

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    Comment #49162777

    A historical note: Windows XP 64-bit Edition that was mentioned in the article, was Itanium-specific. It was based on XP kernel while Windows XP x64 Edition (for AMD64 architecture…

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    Comment #49112444

    Thanks, makes sense.

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    Comment #49105885

    I skimmed it, many quotable stuff[1], fascinating: "Symbiote or Parasite? The Popular Reaction to Computers Most people would concede that computers are strange new entities that h…

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    Comment #49105768

    > is probably going to use LoRa why not Zigbee or Thread?

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    Comment #49085797

    273 people died from a 7.0 earthquake in Kumamoto in 2016.

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    Comment #49011356

    That's why some computer mags started introducing tools to type in programs without ambiguities. Here's a recent example I made: an Amstrad CPC program that's both valid BASIC and …

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    Comment #48974203

    Still waiting for the Windows version.

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    Comment #48965330

    You seem to be confusing Z80 with 6502.

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    Comment #48953025

    Actually, BASIC’s flat structure helped me a lot in understanding Z80 assembly when I was 12. You see, memory addresses were line numbers, registers were variables, JP was GOTO, CA…

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    Comment #48930335

    > So AT is governed by a single for-profit entity A Public Benefit Corporation to be precise. So they are legally obligated to favor public benefit.

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    Comment #48930024

    What's missing in .NET AOT?

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    Comment #48916777

    When I watched Jurassic Park when it came out, I got so enamored with the computers in the movie, especially the SGI, that I adjusted the looks of our DOS GUI library[1] so it woul…

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    Comment #48915611

    I argue the opposite: there’s no better fix for this. You can write the most elegant fix, whatever it is, and prevent that from happening only on the codebase that’s fixed. That do…

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    Comment #48915328

    Their fix just future-proofs it in case the same bug gets reintroduced.

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    Comment #48807623

    Simple. I can operate any button without taking my attention from the road at all as long as the said button has a distinct feeling and/or location. That’s immediately an infinitel…

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    Comment #48807062

    More importantly, car touchscreens are dangerous. It’s impossible to operate a touchscreen without moving your attention from the road to the touchscreen itself. That’s why I think…

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    > This is what Windows task manager reports Just to clarify, Windows Task Manager uses Private Working Set by default for process memory usage which does NOT include shared pages w…

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    Comment #48729478

    Snapdragon has excellent single-thread performance (unlike Ampere) if that’s what you’re asking.

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    Comment #48704501

    Putting apps in a container sounds like a great idea until you need to access your files.