Gracana

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by Gracana 10y ago
It's definitely better for customers if you have a constant supply of products to sell, but for niche hobbyist groups (like mechanical keyboard enthusiasts), it's the only way to get some stuff made. I like it. I was able to get a
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by Gracana 10y ago
Read the porting handbook and work on updating ports of software you're interested in. That's an easy way to get your hands dirty quickly. You can learn a lot about how OpenBSD works and you can work with upstream projects to make
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by Gracana 10y ago
I don't know what the timeline for GSoC is so maybe it's too late, but Haiku (BeOS-inspired/compatible open source OS <www.haiku-os.org>) was accepted again this year and might be of interest to you.
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by Gracana 10y ago
Maybe so, but it seems like GSoC is not the path to this goal.
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by Gracana 10y ago
The email says that's the reason they tried it for two years, but it didn't work out, so they're not trying again.
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by Gracana 10y ago
Tool and die making is the height of machining skill, it takes a very good machinist, the right machine, and the right environment. This story doesn't seem unreasonable.
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by Gracana 10y ago
It's kind of sad that "the largest commitment of resources ever made by any nation in peacetime" is still only about a third of what we spend every year on war.
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by Gracana 10y ago
What do you mean by "hold up"? Continue to receive investment money? Maintain a customer base? In what way would other companies fail?
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by Gracana 10y ago
> Unfortunately devs invest in the fastest equiplent, so they don't experience how their code runs on the average end user who doesn't upgrade every couple years. As someone who doesn't spend much on computer upgrades, I n
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by Gracana 10y ago
No cache on a Plus. It was probably just updating the progress bar too frequently. The 68k in the Plus is an 8MHz 32 bit processor with 16 bit data bus, 4 clock cycles per bus access if there are no wait states, and most instructions are mo
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by Gracana 10y ago
Yep. Comcast is a big fan of this method, which is really infuriating and condescending because they pretend to understand my frustration while they fail to fix my problem and pass me off to someone else.
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by Gracana 10y ago
But there's no difference in price between going to see a silly movie or a"good" movie.
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by Gracana 10y ago
I think because they've been a member for less than a year.
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by Gracana 10y ago
If your uptime doesn't matter and you keep good backups, I don't see why you shouldn't run it 'til it won't, and then recycle it. All my shit's more than 5 years old. Some of it is nearing 20. I guess there&#
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by Gracana 10y ago
I do like those qualities in an operating system. But they're not a requirement for the label.
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by Gracana 10y ago
This is nonsense.
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by Gracana 10y ago
> probably as big as switching between BSDs No, it's not. You can go from one GNU/Linux distro to another GNU/Linux distro and you're still gonna find a GNU userland and a Linux kernel. Base userland and kernel differ
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by Gracana 10y ago
It's phrased a little oddly, but maybe 8 different emails 4 days apart with a conversational tone means actually having a conversation with the other party. But if they're not responding, how can it be conversational without being
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by Gracana 10y ago
And it only needs to be average, or approaching average, in your niche. There's a lot of truly awful enterprise software out there, and it gets sold on promises of features and support, not quality. I wish software engineering had the
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by Gracana 10y ago
That's fairly common in the US as well, especially if it's somewhere quieter like a pub or a brewery, vs somewhere with a big crowd and music.
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by Gracana 10y ago
This book was written long before Mac OS X.
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by Gracana 10y ago
UHH absolutely does not attack UNIX for being old. See "Who We Are" in the preface. The authors worked with systems they felt were superior in many ways, until industry/economic forces pushed them to UNIX. "This book is
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by Gracana 10y ago
I like the idea of flat address spaces with memory protection only. There are a variety of ARM processors that are set up that way, like the ARM940T which has 16 regions that can be configured in size, position, priority, etc. Using a large
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by Gracana 10y ago
I think Jalopnik and other Gawker media sites sacrifice too much quality for cash. Tangentially-car-related celebrity articles, clickbait galore, all their little SEO tricks. I was a long-time reader but I gave up on the site due to these t
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by Gracana 10y ago
If only they would!
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by Gracana 10y ago
It's kind of like going to the police. They don't necessarily share your interests, and they have the power to destroy you. That some or good doesn't help much if you go to the one who isn't.
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by Gracana 10y ago
That's a statement that's true for all sorts of issues, for all sorts of people, at all sorts of places. But what matters is whether their employer has made them responsible for solving those issues. What are they paid to do?
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by Gracana 10y ago
Note that some high frequency patterns cause horrible flashes and flickers when scrolling (or sometimes even when stationary) on some LCD monitors.
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by Gracana 10y ago
I think there's a sizable camp of HN members who just come here to read the various interesting tech articles, with no plans to join the cult of SV.
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by Gracana 10y ago
You might like the zeta 2 SBC. It's small and easy to build, and if you combine it with the ParPortProp board, it has all the features you mentioned. It runs CP/M, so you can run your editor, compiler, assembler, etc onboard.

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