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   by _krii 4y ago

   Looks like quite a lot of marketing put into this open-source project. Heavyweight glossy website with trendy TLD, emojis everywhere. Is this kind of thing typical in the JS world in particular? Seriously asking. I'm trying to figure o
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   by _krii 4y ago

   Thank you very much for coming out and saying all of this. I'm reminded of Wendell Berry's essay "Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer"[1]: > I do not see that computers are bringing us one step nearer to anything tha
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   by _krii 4y ago

   Tangent: It frustrates me that it's apparently impossible to implement cat(1) in a truly portable way. The problem is supporting unbuffered I/O (`cat -u`). Standard C simply can't do it. setvbuf(3) allows you to change the bu
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   Dr. DOS Betamax's DOS Fansite(chebucto.ns.ca)

   63 points by _krii 4y ago|66 comments
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   by _krii 4y ago

   I fell in love with FORTH recently and wrote a bare-metal "OS" (barely!) for the IBM PC based on it. Funny how people are mostly implementing Forths rather than writing programs in Forth. Why is this? I looked to see what Chuck Mo
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   by _krii 4y ago

   TL;DR: Chessable laying off 29 employees. As both a software person and a chess player, I really dislike this site. My impression of it, from maybe two hours total spent on it, is that it is slow and clunky and full of of "gamification