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rbanffy
194,606karma·63,760submissions·March 12, 2008
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Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.
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Their reasoning has de depth of an oil slick.
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This administration should be restricted to Comic Sans.
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> I would think that Times fits the US State Dept better. Any government communication should prioritise readability over “brand alignment”.
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I have a mug that says Helvetica written in Arial. Almost nobody gets it.
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> I didin't know that Hitler personnally disliked Fraktur, must have helped. This is an interesting argument for every terminal emulator to implement the Fraktur ANSI escape sequence (which I …
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It’s a bit like right-wing Christians. They have a very shallow understanding of their sacred texts, but that doesn’t stop them from acting the way they think they should act because of what they misu…
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“Reversing the polarity of the Nazi field” is some serious Star Trek-level technobabble.
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I would suggest Stack Overflow, and you’ll need to give a lot more information than this if you want a helpful answer.
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That time is long past, but I still embrace my inner dude.
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"I guess we'll need to learn how to program those quantum computers in the end"...
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They come with very fast inference in the core processors as well. Telum is a very impressive family of chips. Their cache architecture is pure madness. When you need to do fraud detection with extrem…
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They are trying. They even make quantum computers that are in a superposition state, working and not working at the same time.
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I would assume every good one would know IBM mainframes still run the world. And POWER processors are the second coolest ones (second to the mainframe ones).
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Some of it did. They are still mediocre ;-)
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> What the IBM PC provided was a standard on which competition was unleashed Entirely accidental. What really started this was the reverse engineering of the BIOS. This allowed any company to enter…
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I guess it worked out in the end.
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I am not a huge fan of the IBM PC. For one, it was a mediocre design. Most important, it caused a mass extinction in the small computer space so that, even today, the majority of desktop computers out…
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> lasting one to three days after an onset of 12 to 24 hours I’ve been to parties longer than that.
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We’ll be all watched over by machines of loving grace.
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