benttoothpaste

For me it’s x2x. It’s painful to think how many useful tools Wayland is deprecating.

Now we just need a Sosumi Flatpak...

I no longer remember the numbers but the speed ups were measurable. That FPU had 24 FP registers (as compared to 8 in a regular 287). The best case would be to load a matrix to the registers and then have a bunch of vectors to multiply the stored matrix with. Then this thing could fly. Loading the matrix to the registers was slow though because 287 coprocessors used DMA to communicate with memory.

I remember using povray too. Officially it required a 386 pc but it could be recompiled for 286, which is what I did. My PC had a IIT 2c87 coprocessor that had special 4x4 matrix multiply instructions, so of course I modified povray to take advantage of that.

I found Qt (GUI) to be fairly easy to learn. It does OpenGL as well: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtgui-openglwindow-example.html

> I was ready to return the device as broken until I realized this.

Actually you probably should return such devices as broken.

Zx Spectrum was actually less confusing because it required LET before variable assignment.

What we need is CMakeCMake. A special CMake for building CMake rules with its own special meta-language.

My mom’s oven requires regular power cycle because it’s touch UI locks up so often.

It makes the logs less noisy. And with much less noisy logs it is easier to notice if something undesirable is happening. Also from my experience this 50% is more like 99%.

The most secure boot is the one that does not take place ;) So maybe there is a method in this madness?

> People you didn't invite can show up.

To be fair you can have that with remote meetings as well. There is even a name for it: zoom-bombing.

If you are on H1 then once you lose your job you'll be immediately out of status. Now being out of status is not a very big deal, but it does mean you'll need to find a new employer willing to sponsor you as soon as possible. USCIS is generally forgiving if your out of status period is not too long (they might require you to leave and then re-enter the country to get back to status though). Also living out of status is not fun - in addition to loss of income you'll have difficulty with things like renewing driver license or traveling out of country.

I've always suspected that "go fmt" is a tool of income suppression...

For regular mortals the cheapest way to get Mathematica is to get Raspberry Pi. Raspbian has Mathematica in its repo (sudo apt install wolfram-engine). The performance is not great but maybe the latest RPi 4 will help.

In South Carolina Boeing produces 787 Dreamliners. The 737 Max is produced in Washington.

Unity is still available but needs to be installed explicitly (apt install ubuntu-unity-desktop).

It used to be like that but these days it is possible to get a security clearance while retaining the second citizenship provided there is no "conflict of interest". Whether there is a conflict of interest or not will be determined by the government investigation of course.