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by __d 3y ago
I'm still hoping that Matt is one day able to complete this book.
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by __d 3y ago
Usenet was designed with a model of sporadic connection. Every site had a copy of items in its subscribed groups, and would refresh them from its upstream servers periodically. This is a good model if connectivity is scarce or expensive, bu
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by __d 3y ago
The slides say they're expecting to have the Chromium port complete in May 2023 (checks calendar) ... any news on this front?
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by __d 3y ago
I've been through 8mm Exabyte tape, 4mm DAT tape, Sony AIT tape, and a couple of generations of LTO. I kept a pair of drives for each format, all using SCSI, and had suitable SCSI adaptors to drive them, and formated the recorded data
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by __d 3y ago
In extremis, you need to archive the means of reading the data as well. This is more true the less standard your media is: 1600bps tape using Unix tar format is much easier to read today than some 1990's commercial backup program on so
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by __d 3y ago
In my experience, even for things of some value, this isn't true. I'd perhaps go as far as saying this (understandably) point of view is dangerously misleading. The two greatest losses I've observed have been the dismemberme
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by __d 3y ago
You're right, in most cases, it's possible. It's generally considered to be a bad idea though, and in the case mentioned above, local policy forbade it.
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by __d 3y ago
I've done the same: cattle names for the A record, pet names as a CNAME. Then you get to argue about the PTR record ...
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by __d 3y ago
There's a cattle vs pets argument here. When naming "pets", thematic names are nice: Tolkien characters, words-starting-with, deities, elements, plants, animals, etc. When naming "cattle", schemes that have fairly i
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by __d 3y ago
Provider: fastmail Client: Mail.app (macOS/iOS) I was a very happy user of mh-e (an emacs mail client) for decades, but as more and more email became HTML, and email itself became more of an official notification mechanism, it became u
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by __d 3y ago
I think the basic point is valid: rec., soc., even alt., are kinda more interesting historically than the more "proper" comp., sci., etc, hierarchies. That said, I most often find myself searching (often in vain) for old posts in
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by __d 3y ago
And yet, after 30 years of effort from various different, talented people and teams, with historical knowledge of eg, StrongTalk, and Self, and Common Lisp, and Java, and JavaScript, we've yet to see any major leaps in Python performan
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by __d 3y ago
Type annotations are defined to be completely ignored by the interpreter. So, as of today, they’re useless for optimization. That could be changed, but hasn’t been so far.
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by __d 3y ago
You can make a Python-ish language that can run fast (or at least, a lot faster) but it cannot be Python: the dynamic nature of the language means many optimizing techniques just aren't available. The unfortunate thing is that the vast
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by __d 3y ago
The weak link is the voters. We continue to elect charismatic fools (and sometimes charismatic criminals) because we're charmed, or scared, or bewildered, or just too damned tired to care. Until that stops, there's really no jus
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by __d 3y ago
Just stick to xterm. Clean, uncluttered, and fast.
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by __d 3y ago
Like ... SMTP?
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by __d 3y ago
Any pointers to a description, video, emulation, etc, of what the Symbolics Lisp machines had? Anything more approachable than OpenGenera, which is a bit of a PITA?
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by __d 3y ago
AirPods?
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by __d 3y ago
You might think it's an about-face. I suggest that it's actually just a better executed embrace.
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by __d 3y ago
If there's a choice of spending X hours on performance tuning, fix the thing which gives the biggest win. There's no sense spending time saving 3us when you could have saved 3ms. And sure, once that's done, you can keep goin
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by __d 3y ago
* Decent human beings, not asshole tech bros * A cogent vision that addresses a real customer need * Someone (senior) on the team who knows the domain * A reasonable real-currency salary * A reasonable equity share * A reasonable level of a
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by __d 4y ago
Yes, on macOS.
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by __d 4y ago
On mine, it's Jan 1 2020 (Big Sur, 11.7.4).
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by __d 4y ago
How can I like, share, or reply to this post? If federated social media is to work, it needs to be easy to perform these basic actions. What am I missing here?
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by __d 4y ago
Everything is information. It might be accurate, it might not. Personally I would not _trust_ the tornado report: maybe it was 25 people or 27? What motivations might there be to exaggerate or diminish the number? Disaster reporting ofte
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by __d 4y ago
I think you're both over-estimating the situation in the US, and under-estimating the situation in China, but you're right: there's a difference. My point is that _trusting_ news organizations is dumb. None is trustworthy.
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by __d 4y ago
Agreed. See the last line in my comment.
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by __d 4y ago
And you'd trust the news out of ... where, exactly? I think it's pretty clear from the last decade that the major journalism providers in the US (for example) are also corrupt, and that's true of every country I've exper
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by __d 4y ago
I have long wanted to build a combination of: Bandcamp, GitHub, and Steam for musicians. Basically, a platform for musicians to produce music (and associated videos, artworks, etc), managing their assets securely, sharing and collaborating;

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