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by a96 5d ago
I have a few Rabbit boards stashed away that I never got around to toying with, mostly because of the obscure horror IDE. At some point I noticed that SDCC might work and there might even have been a flasher. So, now it's only a matter
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by a96 5d ago
Oh, wow, BMOW is still going. It's been quite a long time since I've read. Maybe I should catch up.
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by a96 5d ago
Yes. And with the effort in learning. Schools kind of do try to teach that by making people face confusion and failed recall and repeated effort. What they often fail to do is demonstrate how confusion is exactly the mechanism that leads to
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by a96 5d ago
I've learned some basics to four or so and a few writing systems post-30's and will keep going. Other two learned in school. The joy and motivation is night and day better when you're not in school IMO. But since that's
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by a96 5d ago
Neither of which has anything to do with learning a language! Learning a language can help with both of those things, but neither is really necessary.
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by a96 5d ago
I'd kind of argue against that. Jump right in! Just don't set yourself up for expensive or humiliating failures by putting stakes on your learning. Learn you some basics and see where that goes. If you like the language, you can k
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by a96 5d ago
While classes and band etc opportunities vary wildly depending on where you are, there's really nothing stopping you from picking up an instrument if you can afford one and have the time/space/health etc. Actually, there&#x27
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by a96 5d ago
Yes, that's the MO of fandom.com
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by a96 5d ago
Never heard of them. V looks neat in some ways, but there's still no 1.0, installation tells you to compile the compiler form source and it still uses and depends on a C compiler behind it. And defaults to GC. That's a ton of reas
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by a96 5d ago
Everything has less features than c++. There's probably no spec that's more bloated with all the (unimplemented) junk that has been piled onto it.
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by a96 5d ago
As a C veteran, Zig is interesting to me because of the compiler that still happily eats C. It has potential as a (cross!) development tool that can do a bit more than C tools alone. Which also describes Rust to some extent, but I think Rus
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by a96 5d ago
That's a shame. Though they might get bought out by someone who will keep the products in production? Sherline was one of the rare sane size manual machines that weren't just rebranded Sieg. Actually even the insane ones have larg
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by a96 5d ago
FSVO executable, yes. https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/comfy
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by a96 5d ago
Yes, having no restrictions on use is the first and most critical software freedom. The others are there more to help protect the first (IMO). GPL in particular tries to reach quite far to protect all of them. https://en.wikipedi
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by a96 5d ago
So, 3-10 million people or so for US.
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by a96 5d ago
I tried to get NetBSD on an Amiga way back as well and that was supposed to be my gateway from home computers to a real OS, but there was some problem with getting enough or working hard drive space or something that I can't recall exa
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by a96 9d ago
I think the problem ones are more likely to be film cables and their delicate connectors. They weren't really intended to be repeatedly removed. The IDC connectors and multi strand cables you get with PATA are far more robust and coars
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by a96 11d ago
True, but it's not exactly siberia because of the funny dynamics with gulf stream, scandic mountains and large water bodies. (That balance might be easily upset by climate change, though.) It's mostly relatively cool and the winte
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by a96 11d ago
Kemi would have probably loved this since their paper mill (and heating supply!) went down.
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by a96 11d ago
Yes. My thought is that the OP title is 100% opposite of the truth: Dealing with LLMs quickly teaches you to mercilessly throw work away and start from a clean slate lightly.
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by a96 11d ago
I haven't really put much thought into this, but now that I think back, in my experience also it's USB cables that are the most fragile and likely to fail over time.
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by a96 11d ago
I would say the cake box is the more useful container than spindles, though I suspect that's what you meant.
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by a96 11d ago
I remember some tape packaging having the lovely warning that "adhesive qualities may change over time". Indeed, some tape glues turn to dust, others to slippery goo or sticky goo, some become a mysterious immovable firmament that
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by a96 17d ago
One can hope.
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by a96 17d ago
Brave is a series scam company.
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by a96 17d ago
Make that 2036 or whenever there might be a feasible microkernel available outside of niche applications. Better get started on that. Again.
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by a96 17d ago
Not sufficiently. Companies aren't keen on taking on new ideas unless it pays. Buzzword matchers only match old buzzwords. People in the trenches are too busy to try new stuff and/or don't want to push new things because of m
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by a96 17d ago
That just sounds like a police state with extra steps.
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by a96 22d ago
Though much less energy efficient than a heat pump.
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by a96 22d ago
I couldn't find anything about donation on the site. Just in case I'm blind, is there one or is subscribing or getting a gift certificate the only way? I should also definitely put lwn on my "charity list".

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