TeX emulating an 8-bit AVR CPU
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I think Mallory and Irvine were the first. Suck it.
Ok, then.
Neither Mallory nor Irvine revealed which of them summited first, either.
Sssseeesh. Picky.
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@Intercourse said:
Not likely, considering that when it came time to prove his claim of flight he could not replicate it. Only hearsay evidence supports his claims.
Ah but there was the photo, the mysterious photo showing the 1901 flight that was known to exist in 1904 and subsequently disappeared. Mysteriously! Spooky!
Plus we know in retrospect that the Wrights, like so many turn-of-the-century inventors, were basically dicks.
I think Whitehead flew, but he was such a badass he just didn't think it was that big a deal. "What, heavier than air flight? Pfft. Every wednesday." And he was also such a classy guy he never really cared if the Wrights took the credit. I'd totally have drinks with that dude.
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Ah but there was the photo, the mysterious photo showing the 1901 flight that was known to exist in 1904 and subsequently disappeared. Mysteriously! Spooky!
Or it just never existed in the first place?
Plus we know in retrospect that the Wrights, like so many turn-of-the-century inventors, were basically dicks.
Also, most turn-of-the-century inventors were thieving bastards, which was easy to do at the time considering how slowly news spread.
I think Whitehead flew, but he was such a badass he just didn't think it was that big a deal. "What, heavier than air flight? Pfft. Every wednesday." And he was also such a classy guy he never really cared if the Wrights took the credit. I'd totally have drinks with that dude.
Possibly, but that still would not explain why he was unable to replicate the flights when he was paid to do so.
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@Intercourse said:
Possibly, but that still would not explain why he was unable to replicate the flights when he was paid to do so.
That's covered by the "classy guy" bit.
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As a person who's never used TeX in his life, can I just say that TeX looks absolutely awful from an aesthetics point of view?
All those backslashes and perl-symbols and the lack of whitespace in-between really make it look like a random character jumble.
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@created_just_to_disl said:
As a person who's never used TeX in his life, can I just say that TeX looks absolutely awful from an aesthetics point of view?All those backslashes and perl-symbols and the lack of whitespace in-between really make it look like a random character jumble.
'Baseline' TeX does look rather awful; fortunately, most authorship uses LaTeX, which is far more sane-looking; I'd say LaTeX is modestly more elegant than HTML, but there probably are no good looking markup languages out there.
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'Baseline' TeX does look rather awful; fortunately, most authorship uses LaTeX, which is far more sane-looking; I'd say LaTeX is modestly more elegant than HTML, but there probably are no good looking markup languages out there.
And it produces very reasonable documents if you pick the right fonts and margins. Alas, it can't quite compensate for the content being drivel, but that's not the software's fault.
Congratulations you wasted a thousand hours of your life. Now let's actually talk about something interesting.
Lots of CS students write turing machine simulators. It's not exactly hard (think: couple of hours after the bar closes, including both testing and finding out that writing TM programs is annoying as hell). Most of them then move on to other things.I prefer crosswords. ;-)
@Intercourse said:
leaked celebrity nudes
Someone's got nude pictures of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Linus Torvalds, Larry Ellison, Dennis Richie, Don Knuth and Richard Stallman? Pass the brain bleach, please…
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Pass the brain bleach, please…
I know I made this joke already, but don't you keep a bottle handy when on this site?
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I know I made this joke already, but don't you keep a bottle handy when on this site?
No. My bad. ;)
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Someone's got nude pictures of Bill Gates
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He looks like of like a deranged Howard from Big Bang Theory. in that picture.
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Cue story of guy (beginning of 1990's) who had some calculations to do. Annoyed that his PostScript printer was actually more powerful than his POS desktop, he rewrote his code in PostScript to do the actual calculations on the printer and print the results directly.
In fact, I believe I've heard the story twice, once from a friend who had the printer in his office and who was very proud to explain how he'd done it, and once right here on TDWTF, seen from the side of the poor guy who needed to print a bog-standard document but couldn't because the printer was busy calculating for the bad-tempered postscript coder...
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In 1988 I found on Usenet a (for then) huge ps file of the Enterprise D. I sent it to the laser printer and it tied said printer up for an hour. Admittedly this is sort of the opposite of your story.
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I had a friend who wrote PS that printed a mandelbrot set calculated from first principles on the printer. It took all weekend, but at least it was the weekend (and not the one immediately before a thesis submission deadline either). No real harm done.
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Pfft, I just googled "postscript mandelbrot" and got the same thing in minutes. Your friend needs to learn how to be more efficient.
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Pfft, I just googled "postscript mandelbrot" and got the same thing in minutes. Your friend needs to learn how to be more efficient.
Now. Yes. This was in 1993 and we were doing it adaptively to the maximum resolution of the printer. No, not just “print a GIF”…
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Of course it was. We surely weren't doing this for speed of producing an image…
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We surely weren't doing this for speed of producing an image…
The sad thing is given the timeframe it's possible you might have been.
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The sad thing is given the timeframe it's possible you might have been.
Nooo, we had some “blazing fast” (snerk) 386SX16 systems to work with. (Why do I always end up using systems that other people deny as ever having possibly existed?)
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Nooo, we had some “blazing fast” (snerk) 386SX16 systems to work with. (Why do I always end up using systems that other people deny as ever having possibly existed?)
I found 5 of those processors on eBay, so they obviously do exist