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That title was... slightly confusing. That said, I will always feel a sense of awe when I read about how those old, DOS-based versions of Windows worked behind
by drooopy 2y ago
That title was... slightly confusing.
That said, I will always feel a sense of awe when I read about how those old, DOS-based versions of Windows worked behind the scenes. Everything is held together by software duct tape, yet somehow it works.
- immibis 2y agoGo listen to Casey Muratori talk. We've created a giant pile of abstractions but we don't actually need them and all they is make performance worse.
- bmicraft 2y agoNow I'm interested, which talk do you mean? Edit: I might have read that wrong, but I'm interested in specific recommendations nonetheless.
- codetrotter 2y agoSee for example this playlist of videos of his with some videos from 2021 where he implements a terminal emulator. As he says himself, this project is not so much about terminals as it is about software development practices in general. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEMXAbCVnmY6zCgpCFlgggRkrp0tpWfrn https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEMXAbCVnmY6zCgpCFlgggRkr... See also this video of his: “Clean” Code, Horrible Performance https://youtu.be/tD5NrevFtbU https://youtu.be/tD5NrevFtbU
- pjmlp 2y agoWe would already be much better if folks actually bother to learn a bit about data structures, algorithms, and not shipping Electron garbage. Abstractions aren't the problem, rather how they are used nowadays, by plenty of folks that only went through JavaScript bootcamps. To note they aren't at fault, rather those that teach on those factories.
- jsheard 2y ago> That title was... slightly confusing. There's nothing in the rules that says a dog can't use Ghidra.
- donatj 2y agoI was expecting something about the dog from Microsoft Bob, like a war story from an MS veteran about making the characters work on Windows 3.1
- KMnO4 2y agoAlright; I’ll bite. Where’s the dog? I’m still confused.
- amenhotep 2y agoThe author is a furry, and the dog being referred to is himself (Do other kink subcultures do this stuff??)
- Kye 2y agoIt's not a kink subculture. There are kink subcultures within it, but the only common factor among all the subcultures inside it is an appreciation for anthropomorphism.
- qdot76367 2y agoHi fox.
- wolfgang42 2y agoFurries do tend to be more open about kink (as part of the community’s general culture of acceptance), but to describe furry as a “kink subculture” is misleadingly reductive at best.
- indrora 2y agoLess kink and more “if you’re on the internet why NOT pretend to be a walking talking dog?” See also, VTubers, manga artists (who often represent themselves as characters), and our tendency to anthropomorphize computers (“it’s gotta think”)
- userbinator 2y agoIt reminded me of the old comic with the phrase "on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog".
- vzqx 2y agoThe author has a fursona, so I think the author himself is the dog.
- throw930404 2y ago[flagged]