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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
You're thinking of what is sometimes called "European MS-DOS 4.0" which did indeed have limited multitasking features, including shared memory and pipes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS_4.0_(multitas
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
It doesn't sound like you've ever maintained an active free software project. It's not "tutoring" to perform a code review and request additional changes to the patch. That's a standard feedback mechanism in f
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Survey: State of HTML 2023(survey.devographics.com)
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Vala offers async/yield and compiles down to native code (after being transpiled to C): https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Vala/Tutorial#Asynchronous_M... More info: https://vala.dev/
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
Her first recorded song was with The Edge on the criminally overlooked soundtrack for "Captive": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvKV4_9nV2M
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
One striking thing about pointing the finger at high tech for the death of literary fiction is that literary fiction has survived so many other technological advances. Why is this the one that topples it? While I'm sure Blythe would s
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Dt: Duct tape for your Unix pipes(dt.plumbing)
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
Previous comments from original Politico article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36527284 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519833 (includes comments from article's co-author)
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
JAL was privatized in 1987.
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
> I expect that by 1975, say, the number of high-end hardware installations was a lot more than 80. Are you sure? Wikipedia notes that for the Cray-1, released in 1975, eventually "eighty Cray-1s were sold, making it one of the mos
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
Dr. Johnson said Shakespeare's output could be obscene, shoddy, lack cohesion and moral instruction, and ignore the classical unities, but that "Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of natu
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
Reminds me of a startup I worked for in the 1990s. The C code base was organized into "units" (modules). Each unit allocated/destroyed its own data structures, but used the "ref" unit to return a reference (really
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Interactions Impacts Coincidences in First Golden Age of Computer Architecture [pdf](techviser.com)
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John Mashey offers tidbits on Unix and C early history(mstdn.social)
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What goes into making an OS to be Unix compliant certified? (Mac OS X)(quora.com)
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
> I still don’t know if all of those statements are true (is it true that PHP programs can’t have long-lived persistent TCP connections? maybe not!) They can, depending on how the PHP program is coded. PHP even supports non-blocking I&#
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Technical Debt Is Over-Used(peakd.com)
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
One of the great video games of the late 90s, Rollercoaster Tycoon, was coded in assembly. Even back then, that was considered a feat.
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
Related: "Papyrus: The World's 2nd Most Hated Font" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t1D3ebc6h0
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An interesting perspective on Cordwainer Smith can be found in Robert Silverberg's "Science Fiction: 101." He reprints Smith's "Scanners Live in Vain," offers his analysis, and reminisces on how the sci-fi com
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by SeenNotHeard 3y ago
As long as we're playing "what if," it's worth reflecting on all the hair-raising hacks and tricks Microsoft had to play to deal with the x86's quirks as they built Windows. XMS/EMS and DPMI were also incredib