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by JdeBP 1y ago
Go and read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031529 . The developer xyrself is in the comments talking about the choices that were made and the alternatives that were considered.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I noticed the other day that the colour picker in Microsoft Termimal now gives the Web Colour names as one moves the mouse pointer around. I don't know how long it has been doing that without my noticing. I don't change colours
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The problem is that the nomenclature and conventions differed, and this many years later people tend to conflate them. BBS networks like ILink had tearlines, optional taglines, and mandatory origin lines. FidoNet had tearlines and origin l
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Interestingly enough, the weird re-boosting to get more views thing that Hacker News sometimes does is making it seem like I said all of that 5 hours ago. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44310682 Instead of 2 days ag
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by JdeBP 1y ago
One can hope that someone will give the ISPs in my country a metaphorical hefty kick up the arse, especially as some of the more niche ones have been happily providing IPv6, and business customers can get IPv6, and of course other countrie
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Well for some value of "we" and some value of "have". (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
A version of (say) FreeDOS that was layered on top of the EFI API instead of PC98 firmware interrupts would be quite interesting. That would be a major architectural change to most of the programs, of course. But one would have provided t
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by JdeBP 1y ago
And prevents Lotus 1-2-3 from running? (-:
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by JdeBP 1y ago
As someone with a WWW site hit by Brexit where half the country voted to stop me having my domain name (and some other things) I read this with interest to consider how badly it would be caught out on the sort of false positive where a WWW
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You mis-used the word "write". Not that it makes much sense to say that Markdown "writes" anything, and the best guess for what is meant when it is said that a markup language "writes" something is that it inc
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by JdeBP 1y ago
No. It has things that aren't bullet points, and besidelines. Underlines go underneath , and asterisks are not bullet points. In its UTF-8 mode, for bullet points GNU groff uses the actual Unicode characters that are available. Unt
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by JdeBP 1y ago
On the contrary, there are uses of "boffins" for "tech" articles in U.K. tabloids such as The Sun , The Daily Star , and The Daily Mirror within the past 3 days alone. It looks like the request from 2023 fell on deaf
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Boffins bid to stop media calling them boffins [Press Gazette, 2023](pressgazette.co.uk)
6 points by JdeBP 1y ago|1 comments
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The headline is a bit more headlinese than the page title. I've used the page title.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
With more comments on duplicates at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44307057 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44252489 , and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44296711 .
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How to access DNS zone data for the different top-level domains(github.com)
3 points by JdeBP 1y ago|1 comments
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by JdeBP 1y ago
My private root content DNS servers now mirror Estonia, whose own public content DNS servers's loads are now minutely lighter as a consequence. Thank you, Estonia.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
And since I've mentioned GNU groff elsethread, here's where it today in its "ascii" mode uses a minus sign instead of the equals sign to do the very same thing as you did on your typewriter, for "Po", the macro
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The font designer in you is being influenced by computer displays and movable type. The world of typewriting had some idiosyncrasies, not even shared with (say) the world of dot-matrix printing, one of which was pressure to make the larges
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Here is one of your empty argument being thrown away instead of respected bugs: * https://github.com/spf13/cobra/blob/6dec1ae26659a130bdb4c985... I could explain the single-quote argument quoting error if you
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by JdeBP 1y ago
This article is a pile of rubbish from top to toe. Starting with the conflation of TUI with CLI, and ending with the claim that one has to extract it from an archive afresh "each time you want to use it". Microsoft hasn't de
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by JdeBP 1y ago
There have definitely been two so far. (-: * https://mastodon.social/@cks/114704709419805125
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Microsoft doesn't learn any more from the DNS lookup and HTTPS request than from you going to Bing.COM in a WWW browser on the very same machine and the Bing.COM site showing your Microsoft Account status, as it in fact does. Microsof
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by JdeBP 1y ago
In Windows NT 3, the graphics calls were stubs that sent LPC messages to the CSRSS, where the graphics drivers lived. At the time it was a very microkernel-like design, with message passing to server processes. And the criticisms were the
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by JdeBP 1y ago
Drivers are a very different kettle of fish, and don't really involve NTDLL.DLL at all. They don't have to involve a full syscall transition, for starters, and there is a whole flavour of the Native API that doesn't. (I&#x2
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The consumers of the Native API are things like the original POSIX subsystem, the Interix POSIX subsystems, the OS/2 subsystem, the fourth POSIX subsystem used in WSLv1, NTVDMs, and of course the Win32 subsystem. Some of these were fr
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by JdeBP 1y ago
This is not the Win32 API, and Raymond Chen and others at Microsoft very much did draw a line when it came to people using the Native API of Windows NT.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
I actually learned the expression when I was a child, via the Professor Branestawm books.
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It's a fairly meaningless number. Some operating systems have massive fan-in and fan-out on what is internally one single system call crossing the shell/kernel divide. Witness how much is done by sysctl() on the BSDs, for example
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by JdeBP 1y ago
This and the comments highlight how bad many ISPs in North America and Western Europe are at IPv6, still , in 2025, and the lengths to which people will go to treat that as damage and literally route around it. One of the biggest ISPs in m

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