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“I was talking with Dvorak at the Vloggercon party this evening, and he started telling a story about how he deliberately pisses Mac users off to get flow for his stories…” – Dave Winer

http://scripting.com/2006/06/09.html#When:10:38:44PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMQv0j29WHA

By the way, it's sow. So and sow are homophones.

> Through AREXX any application could control any other application, which is something Windows and OSX still don't really do. I mean to some extent it's sort of possible now, but not as easily as it was with Amiga OS.

AppleScript was introduced in System 7.1.1 back in 1993. Maybe ARexx scripting was much better, I don't know.

(Support for scriptable Macintosh applications actually arrived in 1991, but there was no built-in scripting language for it.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript

By the way, what's marlin?

That movie was titled Office Space, not The Office.

> the first Microsoft Flight Simulator was on the Apple II?

Back then, Flight Simulator was still owned by subLOGIC. Microsoft got a license from them to make the IBM PC version.

IBM sold their personal computer business. They still make mainframes, and they design (but don't fabricate) POWER microprocessors.

You can buy Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime and Overcooked! 2 from Steam and play them on SteamOS.

My understanding is that Microsoft doesn't want to support C, and the only reason Visual Studio supports C at all is for legacy code. Also, you can use 3rd-party compilers with Visual Studio.

Really, anyone writing C nowadays should ignore Microsoft's compiler, and tell Visual Studio users to install Clang.

A multiple-level break is a good idea, but I think that Java's labeled break is a better way to do it:

    find_in_array_loop:
    for(i = 0; i < n; i++)
        for(j = 0; j < n; j++)
            if(array[i][j] == x)
                break find_in_array_loop;

What are you asking for? Do you mean that if you return a small struct from a function, the fields are placed in registers instead of memory, if they can fit? This is up to the ABI, not the standard, to define, and some ABIs already do that.

By the way, those coordinates are in the Atlantic Ocean, with no land in sight.

The actual subhead is, “Governor Cuomo is issuing an executive order letting the state seize and redistribute ventilators from hospitals and companies.” Maybe it's been changed since this was posted.

There are special copyright laws for chips. In the US, it only lasts 10 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_circuit_layout_desi...

> * Missing operations such as … simultaneous div/rem

Doesn't the div function do this?

> * There's no "bitcast" operator that changes the type of a value without affecting the value. The most common workaround involves going through memory and praying the compiler will optimize that away (while violating strict aliasing semantics to boot).

> * Missing operations such as popcount, cttz, … or rotates.

Thankfully, these are coming in C++20.

For comparison, the Apollo Lunar Module had a launch mass of 15,200 kg.

That was Maximilian Schell.

Mentioned on page 9 of the article.

This list is about two different things: what languages are allowed in the project, and what languages are supported by end-developers.

I imagine that an end-developer could write their Fuchsia program in any language they want, but if it's not on this list, Google won't provide documentation or bindings for it.

Actual title is “Candle Touch™- The First Smart, Connected, Real-Flame Candle”. Don't editorialize in the submission title.

Interactivity was added to QuickTime movies. I think this feature was called “wired actions”. I have no idea how this relates to the HyperCard integration.

Apple didn't make an authoring tool for this feature, but another company did: “LiveStage” by Totally Hip.

Title is misspelled, should be “Caucus”.

I've played two games like that: the arcade game Gravitar, and Gravity Crash on the PlayStation 3.

Why don't we put effort into identifying and diverting the asteroids?

Title is misspelled. It should be '!=', not ' ='.

It looks like Hacker News's clickbait filter messed up the title by removing the numeral “128” from the front.

I bought MoO Classic and MoO 2 on GOG.com a while ago. I just tried installing and playing them on macOS Catalina, and I can verify that they work. But the stand-alone installers aren't notarized, so you'll have to approve them manually, or use the GOG Galaxy app.

Title is misspelled: Should be “Talking”, not “Toking”.

What does the Internet not existing before the ADA have to do with it? Also, movies existed before the law did, and so did online services (for example, AOL, CompuServe).

By the way, the Internet existed, but it wasn't available to the general public.

That's weird that you couldn't find the original Crossy Road. The website says it's available from Amazon.

I've played both games on iOS, and I haven't noticed a performance difference between them. Also, the original still gets some new characters every so often, while Disney Crossy Road hasn't gotten new characters in two years.

https://www.crossyroad.com