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by Annatar 8y ago
You mean like Croatia? They've had 1000 years of servitude and have only begun their 1000 years long dream of being their own masters. They will have to learn how to do that and it will take them a long time, but they are already on th
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by Annatar 8y ago
Silicon Valley veteran here. Europe does tech, but we Europeans are far more focused on scientific solutions, fintech and sustainability, long term solutions for our continent and the world at large than creating overvalued startups like &q
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by Annatar 8y ago
Sorry but you (plural) are moaning about a very badly thought out processor architecture for which no hardware other than tinkertoys exist, to the point where one could equal it with the Rust evangelism strike force. I’m really sorry that i
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by Annatar 8y ago
Ballet.
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It’s arcane only if you don’t know C. If you’re on a UNIX-like or a true UNIX system, not knowing C will come to haunt you with a vengeance sooner or later.
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Indeed, for that XML::Simple would be an operational nightmare to deploy and maintain (being fused into Perl’s tree), and your code would be unreadable and unmaintainable by anyone else, for such is the nature of Perl. And then there is the
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by Annatar 8y ago
Why the hell would anybody want to replace AWK? It’s super fast, extremely light on resources, doesn’t have any dependencies, does auto memory management and type inference, and is extremely powerful for large dataset processing, not to men
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by Annatar 8y ago
That would be hacking. I couldn’t build datacenters with that. I’m a professional engineer, not a hacker.
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“HiFive Unleashed is the ultimate RISC-V developer board.” A development board is light years away from a 19” rack mountable server with out-of-band management (lights out management) and everything else that goes into such a design. You kn
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by Annatar 8y ago
“Have interesting times.” Always, but that’s not for you to tell me.
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by Annatar 8y ago
Wow. One can construct something on paper without actually building it, but since you’re content to argue, I expect no less than you now arguing on the semantics of “to construct”. I’ll discard the troll implication as immature, since this
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by Annatar 8y ago
It’s difficult to say; his quatrens leave much to interpretation. I remember this from a documentary.
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by Annatar 8y ago
She most certaily does not, since she is dead. And she helped Babbage construct the first mechanical computer so I most certaily disagree with your implication, since it is wrong.
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Servers, I explicitly wrote “19” rack mountable servers”! Where can they be bought? Link please!!!
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Nostradamus predicted it would last 27 years, with the “Union of the great Trumpet” eventually emerging victorious, followed by “1000 years of peace”. As a child I tried to decipher what the “Union of the great Trumpet” is, since it corresp
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by Annatar 8y ago
“but your code will break even on a slight change of output rendered.” I see you still don’t get it. I wouldn’t as an experienced shell programmer construct a JSON/XML parser; I use libxslt for XML and I compiled jq for parsing JSON. I
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This has got to be the first processor for which the software is available before a complete computer exists; RISC-V 19” rack mountable servers remain distant science fiction.
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by Annatar 8y ago
I spent 3.5 years debugging and maintaining Perl code. For a living. I have formal education in programming applications in Perl. And I stand by what I wrote about shell + AWK, especially AWK, any day of the week. By the by, I can do unlimi
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by Annatar 8y ago
Yep, for the same reason why I program in the original Bourne shell from 1977. Runs everywhere without modifications including bash, since it doesn’t use any shell-specifics, so I don’t bother writing bash-only code.
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by Annatar 8y ago
Both Perl and Python are way more complicated than shell programming, and in all my decades of doing so on the command line, I’ve yet to find a problem which a full blown shell + AWK couldn’t solve. And that combination is still simpler to
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by Annatar 8y ago
But the name doesn’t tell me anything! It’s generic!
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Why are people trying to shove everything into frameworks? Any time you use a framework, you have to play by someone else’s rules, limited by that person’s imagination, experience and insight. If you need something that the framework doesn’
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by Annatar 8y ago
This is all great, but their Readme.md doesn’t even explain what it is — they are just assuming that the reader knows!
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What a shame. Just when I got my hopes up.
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I probably could, but vi(1) is muscle memory for me, and I use it in some very advanced ways.
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by Annatar 8y ago
Very few technologies in IT are actually mature, and of those that are, it’s exactly their documentation and tooling which makes them mature.
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by Annatar 8y ago
So it can’t even be packaged cleanly and properly into rpm’s or dpkg’s?
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C shell could have been the de facto standard had the parser not been buggy as hell and had there been proper facilities for stdin and stdout like in Bourne shells. tcsh is my default shell, but I never program in it because of “C shell con
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by Annatar 8y ago
I still use the original, AT&T vi since I grew up on UNIX and Solaris 2.5.1 was my first UNIX OS after using my Amiga. Even when I’m on a GNU/Linux variant, I run vim by calling vi, primarily because syntax highlighting enrages me
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I know this, which is why I explicitly mentioned SunOS 4.x. However remnants of MC68000 are sprinkled throughout the code. It should prove an interesting challenge to port an ultramodern OS to Amiga hardware. Vampire could make this possibl

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