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Dockers for Windows and Macs do not even use "cgroups" and "namespaces" because these technologies are not available on these stacks -- it resorts to plain old VMs. So in a sense, yes, Docker is not just chroot but on th
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Before you actually dive into coding in Emacs may I suggest to do the following: 1) Get yourself a copy of https://www.masteringemacs.org/ and read it. That gives you a very good overview on the design philosophy of Emacs a
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Why not storing them in little bash scripts e.g. in ~/bin you invoke instead?
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Pretty much overkill when doing DOS emulation, cost-wise and usability-wise. Either you use dosbox' built-in capturing facility or you just screen capture using OBS on the same machine.
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Technically, India did not do this. The people lifted themselves out of poverty because, finally, India‘s government had granted them enough freedom to pursue their happiness.
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That‘s why the Amiga OS (Exec) used linked lists as its primary data structure. It was one of the first micro computer operating systems using dynamic memory mapping (i.e. no fixed addresses for OS calls and data structures) and supported m
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But is it really compatible enough with most games? I faintly remember FS-UAE shipping with Aros ROM files and the first thing I did was to get original Kickstart ROM images to get a game working.
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WinUAE or FS-UAE (Linux). However, to run most games you’ll need kickstart ROM files (containing the Amiga’s operating system) which are still copyrighted and, hence, you have to know where to look for them. For the classic games you‘ll pro
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Working from your bed or your couch is not ideal for your back. If you exclusively do remote work, make sure you get an ergonomic chair and table and start a workout routine to strengthen your back muscle. I know several people who develope
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Get yourself a copy of „Mastering Emacs“ and jump straight in. Learning by doing. Turns out you don’t actually need to install a lot of packages these days to get started. Use js2-mode and/or web-mode (?) worked great with React projec
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Teardown and repair assessment of the new Pixel 7(youtube.com)
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Turns out you can swap all parts unlike in Apple‘s iPhone. Despite the horribly glued down battery.
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Two prehensile toes up! ;)
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> So performance was their goal, right? Well, if so, then why use a 65C02 CPU Because it makes the computer as compatible as possible with Commodore software back in its day. Ports become simpler. If you watched the video, you would have
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8-Bit Guy: The Commander X16 has finally arrived(youtube.com)
12 points by G3rn0ti 4y ago|7 comments
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The 8-Bit Guy demonstrates an all new integrated computer system being a spiritual successor of the famous Commodore 8-bit home computers of the 80s.
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After my PlayOnLinux setup stopped working a long time ago after some Origin update (and several retries afterwards), we tried running the Steam version of the game using Steam's Proton environment and we could start the game only once
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> Wine has been in development for many years and came a long way. And still my daughter can't play "Sims 4" on her Linux laptop ... not because of the game itself but because of EA's pathetic program starter "Or
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> it did happen because of things he, and his contemporaries dreamed up Well yes and no. The common root of all evil behind all the bank runs and market crashes throughout the last 100 years is monetary inflation. It is not a coincidence
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On Ubuntu there is a snap available shipping Emacs 28 including native compilation turned on: https://github.com/alexmurray/emacs-snap I am using it as a daily driver for months already without issues so far.
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That’s because central banks are very much political entities and are not rooted in rigorous science.
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Postgres supports cursors and documents them very well: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/plpgsql-cursors.html Basically, you declare a cursor like that: DECLARE cname CURSOR FOR <select statement>; Yo
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Well, except that TFA explains what DB cursors are and why they are faster than page offsets (because they skip DB entries).
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> Let Over Lambda While it is written in an adolescent confrontational style that doesn’t help the author’s cause, it is otherwise a very thorough introduction to Lisp macro programming. The last chapter is about writing a Forth compiler
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The Opposite of a MacBook(youtube.com)
1 points by G3rn0ti 4y ago|1 comments
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This whole minting and transaction issueing is done by a single (or two) mouse clicks if you use a browser plug-in like the MetaMask wallet.
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The Metaverse: What It Is, Where to Find It, and Who Will Build It (2020)(matthewball.vc)
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Free markets usually direct selfish interests of people to create overall benefits for the society as a whole (with the occasional exceptions of course). Immoral behavior and excessive egoism usually are the result of bad economic policies
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Emacs has tetris mode including highscore list: M-x tetris.
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Looks cool and seems valid if you run MacOS. On Linux you could try Emacs picture mode together with artist mode if you want to draw small diagrams for readmes and such. The first one can draw boxes around text, the second mode connects t

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