Comment Re:My first programming language (Score 1) 106
Back in MY day we had to program in binary. And we didn't even have a keyboard to do it with. No punch cards either. We just had to shout it at the serial port.
Back in MY day we had to program in binary. And we didn't even have a keyboard to do it with. No punch cards either. We just had to shout it at the serial port.
[...] the 8086, the Z8000, and the Motorola 68000. IBM took the least of these and released a PC.
I'm sure you know this, but it was actually the 8088 that was in the first IBM PC, not the 8086. The 8086 didn't appear in an IBM system until a couple years later—the PC/AT.
ITYM 64kB
ITYM 64 KiB
64 kB = 64,000 bytes
64 KiB = 65,536 bytes
further back you wish to tamper the more exponentially difficult it is.
Is that true? The difficulty goes up exponentially with the distance back? I would think the work increases linearly. You really mean exponentially?
For iMessage, you should have the option to choose to fall back to unencrypted SMS.
Whoops! You accidentally wrote that backwards.
For iMessage, you should not have the option to fall back to unencrypted SMS. That's the danger of it.
They may not be 100% accurate, but they are "good enough" to make reasonable predictions about things like where a ball in flight will end up, or how far away an object is.
Indeed. A classic example is the approximation of a thrown ball being modeled by a parabola, when in fact the path actually travels along an elliptical path, not a parabolic one.
POSIX ignores leap seconds.
You got a source on that?
Time is far far harder than most people realize.
Yes, but it is possible to get it right.
Anything to make it simpler is welcome.
Hell, no. Abolishing leap-seconds is not the way.
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