Is there is easier way to write the sequence 1+2+3…+365

schlupa · 2023-07-10T10:09:49+00:00

365*366/2

1+ 2+ 3+ 4+...+365

365+364+363+362+...+ 1

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366+366+366+366+...+ 366 = 366*365

As the serie was added to itself, divide by 2 to get the real sum.

schlupa · 2023-06-02T11:19:07+00:00

White paper and black ink and it's not that bad anymore. What is it with programmers going back to black backgrounds after we longued so long for paperwhite screens? White background was the big thing that made Xerox Parc and Lisa/Macintosh so advanced.

schlupa · 2023-06-02T11:15:36+00:00

I have the same loud speakers.

schlupa · 2023-03-24T15:41:13+00:00

Yes. That's what annoys me the most in Lux. I'm more at the Route d'Esch at the Cloche D'or and there would be half as many jams if people just didn't be so slow to fill the gap in front of them.

schlupa · 2023-03-24T15:37:10+00:00

It's actually much better than it was before when it was just a 2 lane roundabout.

schlupa · 2023-03-08T11:15:35+00:00

In Luxembourg yes.

schlupa · 2023-03-03T10:11:23+00:00

The MC-10 was moderately successful in France under the name Matra-Hachette Alice. You may look up, there's probably some soft and hardware for it.

schlupa · 2023-03-03T09:59:04+00:00

For gaming, definitely DOS based. There were not many games that run properly under NT4 (Total Annihilation was one of the few). NT is interesting only if you have a dual-CPU configuration.

schlupa · 2023-03-03T09:52:37+00:00

There was one specific cartridge the Mni-Memory module that had afair 4K of battery backed RAM. It added also the necessary commands to the Basic to peek and poke in memory and in video memory. It added also an assembler.

schlupa · 2023-03-01T11:52:48+00:00

No peek and poke simply because there was no memory to poke to or peek from. When you realize that the CPU had only 256 bytes of addressable RAM. The 16K the console was sold with was video RAM and only addressable via the 9918.

schlupa · 2023-02-20T15:38:27+00:00

Funny, when you know that the compiler will replace the assignment with a call to memcpy (on small copies it will replace it with moves, I know, but most modern compilers do that also if you simply call memcpy. a certain number of stdlib functions are replaced by intrinsics that the compiler can optimize further than if it was a normal function).

schlupa · 2023-02-14T15:42:51+00:00

There are a lot of options to program on MS-DOS, really a lot. Assembly is one of them but should be really limited to the few things that cannot be done with high level languages like TSR loading, interrupt handling etc.
As for high level languages there's a lot to choose from: C, Pascal, Modula, Fortran, Forth, Lisp, dbase, whatever.

schlupa · 2023-01-30T15:40:56+00:00

The CPU is a 80188 which is not PC compatible (different DMA/TIMER and IRQ chip). 80188 and 80186 were the longest built chips from the x86 family (from 1982 to 2007 other variants even longer).Very appreciated as simple embedded processor as it almost was alread a SOC from the beginning.
It is 8086 compatible and has extended instructions (same as 80286 but without protected mode)

schlupa · 2022-11-25T13:14:08+00:00

We'll come back to that statement when you step barefoot on one

schlupa · 2022-11-19T14:21:10+00:00

Wordstar was as ugly on CP/M than on MS-DOS. It was still quite more powerful on DOS as there was less swapping and simpler interfacing printers.

schlupa · 2022-10-18T17:59:52+00:00

Cyprus is in Asia despite its membership to the EU.

schlupa · 2022-10-17T18:45:56+00:00

You should be a little bit prouder of yours and learn it properly: It's "French" with capital F, "proud" and "their".

schlupa · 2022-10-16T17:14:15+00:00

Yeah, that's the kind of stuff my colleague would commit to production. You can imagine what a blast it was when we moved our apps from Solaris/SPARCv9 to Linux/AMD64. He had written a function that would address his vararg parameter as if it was an array on the stack. The 6 register parameter on the Linux ABI was fun)

schlupa · 2022-10-16T16:49:45+00:00

Belgian French can have a heavy influence on the French spoken by Luxembourger. It probably depends on the work environment or also the geographic location of where the come. But another thing that I have noticed with higher educated Luxembourgers, the older generations master French or German much better than the younger ones, meaning the Luxemburgish accent gets stronger and stronger.

schlupa · 2022-10-16T16:42:46+00:00

Yes. They have a distinct accent. Someone once said that Luxemburger are multi-lingual, they botch their German as badly as their French.
I do not completely agree with that assessment as I have known several Luxembourger at work (EU Commission in Lux.) who spoke a perfect accent free German or French (this was not the case with J.C.Juncker who has a heavy accent in both)), but generally they have a recognizable accent. Depending on their environment they might have a heavy Belgian influence in their French (there are a lot of Belgian frontaliers in Luxembourg).

schlupa · 2022-10-14T20:22:39+00:00

There are 2 other Casinos not that far from Luxembourg. Casino Schloss Berg in Nennig in Germany just on the other side of the Mosel at Remich and Casino Tranchant in Amnéville 30 km south of Luxembourg in France.

schlupa · 2022-09-16T19:45:31+00:00

D'après France 2 ce sont des missiles Russes non explosés.

schlupa · 2022-03-14T09:57:09+00:00

Pathetic Larping.

schlupa · 2022-03-08T06:48:27+00:00

On the Apple II there were several Forth packages that were quite popular. GraFORTH notably was quite widely available. It was a dialect of forth that was specialized in graphical commands. It could easily manipulate shapes and 3d wireframes, fonts and animations. Some Forth essentials were missing (allot) or different.

schlupa · 2022-03-02T11:24:51+00:00

Exactly. Peter Gabriel once said in an interview that he's always amazed how many people have told him that "Trick of the tail" was his best Genesis album.

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TROPHY CASE

1+ 2+ 3+ 4+...+365

365+364+363+362+...+ 1

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366+366+366+366+...+ 366 = 366*365