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Comment · 1 year ago
I don’t think anybody thinks or thought it was.
Comment · 1 year ago
it was a lot simpler in capabilities. much of the complexity is because of feature creep.
Comment · 2 years ago
How much did the engineering time to make this optimization cost?
Comment · 2 years ago
Just looked and I'm not seeing ANY 55" 8k around right now. All the ones I'm seeing now are 65" at the smallest, and that seems way too big.

I've found a 43" 4k is about the right pixel size for me; a 49" 4k was too big on a desk. Fortunately, it died and I could get a smaller replacement.

I suspect a 49/50" 8k would be ideal, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Comment · 2 years ago
Will it translate to yaml for toolchains that want that?

I'd be delighted to have a high-level IDL that gave the same sort of thing that CORBA IDL gave us 25 years ago -- schema and stub generation for multiple languages.

Comment · 2 years ago
How is that not an API?

It’s offloaded the work to an adapter.

Comment · 2 years ago
Not diversity. Younger cheaper quotas.
Comment · 2 years ago
I was looking for the chalk v marker on whiteboard shootout, and it was conspicuous in absence.
Comment · 2 years ago
Ah, an ancestor of Typescript!
Comment · 2 years ago
So, at his site, 10+ years ago, his wind produced more frequent power than PV would have, at 3x the cost of a commercial solution.

Even then, PV would have been more cost-efficient. Now with storage probably even more so.

Small wind is a mug's game except in very specific circumstances.

Comment · 3 years ago
It doesn't have to be the NULL macro, which is correctly defined as plain 0.

The literal 0 is treated specially, so this could indeed be one of those 'turns into a weird bit pattern NULL pointers', if such a thing existed in the wild anymore.

But you're correct in that there probably haven't been any since the turn of the century or whenever the last Univac mainframes got turned off.

Comment · 4 years ago
Part of it is that by 1986, CP/M was dead for new development of anything, and Modula-2 was also on fumes.

It would have been business malpractice to spend money on CP/M products at that point.

Comment · 5 years ago
1998 was a bit early, but I could easily have imagined it any time after 2000. I'm frankly surprised it has taken this long.
Comment · 5 years ago
oof
Comment · 5 years ago
It's not Democrats, it's business owners needing that labor. The Republicans are equally bad in practice, it's their rhetoric that is tougher.

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