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by JdeBP 5mo ago
One of the two was viless, although I did mention that on the FediVerse when I discussed getting around to this. I'll let you guess what the other one was.
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by JdeBP 5mo ago
MSVCRT, the Microsoft Visual C/C++ Runtime library, is also 'the runtime library'. It was the runtime library for Microsoft's C/C++ compiler. In the days when there were multiple C/C++ implementations for W
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by JdeBP 5mo ago
Don't forget the days when multiple C/C++ implementations from multiple vendors all came with their own runtime library DLLs, too.
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by JdeBP 5mo ago
I wrote a C Standard library for MS/PC/DR-DOS. Your recollection is correct.
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by JdeBP 6mo ago
It may one day be, far in the future, although that's predicted to be so far off that Sol might have become a red giant by then, making the issue moot. But only Luna is tidally locked at the moment. Terra is not, and its rotation stil
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by JdeBP 8mo ago
Then go to Midwinter, the home of The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5, and prepare to be absorbed for days.
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by JdeBP 8mo ago
And also not entirely correct. The 16-bit 1.x API was definitely x86-specific. But the 32-bit 2.x API was not, as evidenced by OS/2 for PowerPC actually existing at one point.
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by JdeBP 8mo ago
Transputers. Lots and lots and lots of transputers. (-:
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by JdeBP 9mo ago
For the record: https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/115869933538346446
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by JdeBP 9mo ago
There are no contemporary sources for that because it is, as it was called here on Hacker News some years ago, an 'ahistoric retcon'. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31338349 The 's' is for '
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by JdeBP 9mo ago
If you had been born in the 1960s, you might well have learned by dint of being alive at the time that the world underneath /usr was pretty complicated in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s; that /etc was where some of the things that we
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by JdeBP 9mo ago
The problems with what you say are that: 1. The history of /usr subdirectories is a lot more complex than that. There was a /usr/lbin once, for example. 1. /usr/local is not where third party softwares from packa
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by JdeBP 9mo ago
I really should write that "Yes, Virginia; executables once went in /etc." Frequently Given Answer. Because it was /etc (and of course the root directory) where the files for system boot and system administration went in
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Microsoft Office didn't just get renamed to Microsoft 365 Copilot(howtogeek.com)
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by JdeBP 9mo ago
To add further evidence: People actually discussed this here on Hacker News three months ago. * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45444362
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by JdeBP 11mo ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780 .
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by JdeBP 11mo ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780 for why.
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by JdeBP 11mo ago
Already noted in lengthy discussion, in amongst many other ironies, at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780 .
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by JdeBP 11mo ago
Already at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780 .
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by JdeBP 11mo ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780 for why.
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by JdeBP 11mo ago
Sadly, I can report that this has brought down 2 of the major Mastodon nodes in the United Kingdom. Happily, the small ones that I also use are still going without anyone apparently even noticing. At least, the subject has yet to reach the
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by JdeBP 11mo ago
Duplicates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963949 .
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by JdeBP 11mo ago
Also later at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963949 .
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by JdeBP 11mo ago
Duplicates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963780 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45963949 .
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by JdeBP 11mo ago
Ever since the Verisign coup in 2003, the world has had the idea of "delegation-only" and suchlike filtering on responses from superdomain servers. More recently, query minimization was invented. Both of these can militate again
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by JdeBP 11mo ago
More realistically, DNS blocking is no longer an issue unless "they" get to the registries for the top-level/second-level domains. It's easy to make yourself immune to things injected by the root content DNS servers, wi
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by JdeBP 1y ago
The problem with clickbait and entirely uninformative headlines like this is that sometimes they are so egregious that they discourage reading further, as one balks at having been so obviously lured by the bait. It's only through th
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by JdeBP 1y ago
It's not an interactive approval process, remember. It's a ruleset-matching process. There's not really a chicken-and-egg problem where one builds up from nothing by interactively approving things at device insertion time u
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by JdeBP 1y ago
You're moving your own goalposts, by now restricting this to a storage device that is fitted into an adapter to make it USB. There is no requirement to limit this to USB, however. They'll pick up the SD/TF card and put it in
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by JdeBP 1y ago
They certainly still plug those SD/TF cards into USB card readers that present themselves as USB mass storage devices.

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