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   by aa-jv 1y ago

   Ah, the age of the terminal is still very much well and truly with us. If only the teenager me, clutching my vt100 back in 1988 as it was being removed to be replaced with 'a modern computer interface', would've known not to
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   by aa-jv 1y ago

   This story is not about some dude in a lifeboat. This story is about how stories, themselves, do not always get told accurately. For me the most interesting aspect is that the original newspaper reporter altered the facts, and then some dec
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   by aa-jv 1y ago

   See also the wonderful LOAD81 from antirez: https://github.com/antirez/load81 I've fantasised about turning LOAD81 into a much more full-featured development/execution environment for years, and have done a f
4. 544.▲
   by aa-jv 1y ago

   Yay! I'm in the middle of building something like this myself, I guess I'll give it a try .. Oh, wait: >Tech stack: Built with Electron, Node.js and Angular. Price: €19.99 one-time purchase (no subscriptions) .. never mind. :
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   by aa-jv 1y ago

   This is false. On solar - China installed 93 GW in May 2025 alone - this exceeds the US' combined solar additions over the three years from 2022 to 2024. The US' total solar additions, even over 10 years (92.7 GW), would still be
6. 546.▲
   by aa-jv 1y ago

   I have a web server (not public) that runs on my M5Stack device .. https://m5stack.com And my magicShifter also serves web pages to anyone in my environment .. https://magicshifter.net/ But I guess the standard
7. 547.▲
   by aa-jv 1y ago

   Likewise! Phew! Although, the whole can of worms regarding synth/audio exploits is a pretty wild scene ..
8. 548.▲
   by aa-jv 1y ago

   Open up your Ruby or Python or whatever, stick a breakpoint on a lower C function dependency that properly handles errno, and watch the error propagate into your languages runtime/execution context. Problem? Nope. errno handling has b
9. 549.▲
   by aa-jv 1y ago

   >It sucks because people miss error codes, or they overwrite them, or misunderstand what they mean. "Pointers suck", for the same reason. In any case, its the 21st century - if you're shipping C code that hasn't been
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    I don't agree with you at all that 'it sucks'. I think it makes perfect sense and works as intended. Plus, we're talking about POSIX here. You don't have a time machine. Shall we argue about just how much POSIX s
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    Valgrind doesn't specifically (although it might catch side-effects of this bug), but Coverity would, under most conditions (such as having MISRA or CERT checkers enabled), catch it. If its important to you to find these cases, use cla
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    I don't use Berry (although its quite interesting), but I do use Lua in this context, and I find that putting a lot of embedded-application logic into a script is very productive - especially in the case where the VM is running and is
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    I agree with you, its not so peculiar as one might think. (Disclaimer: been writing software for Unix since before POSIX...) This design choice reflects the POSIX philosophy of minimizing overhead and maximizing flexibility for system prog
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    I see Gakken Electronics EX150 Denshi Block, I upvote! https://www.are.na/block/27428352 This was the first 'transparent' electronics device I ever owned, back in the 70's .. it was always quite importan
15. 555.▲
    by aa-jv 1y ago

    This is just poor language design. The reason one might find this cumbersome or problematic, is in the case of very large numbers of lines of code - sure, your example is visible and somewhat readable (arguable) in its current form - but te
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    The aborigines practiced a very sustainable agriculture, such that the first European arrivals couldn't believe their eyes and arrogantly assumed that the lands must've been tended to by a lost European tribe. 5 years after settle
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    I don't think the Australian aborigines ever overfished anything. From my experience, they managed their resources with superlative efficiency. 10,000 year old fish traps in my old home region are still in operation...
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    They're also considered a delicacy in that part of the world. Always wanted to try them myself, but probably going to be more partial to wittchety grubs ..
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    Seems to me that you might benefit from containerizing your apptainer development environment. ;) /ducks
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    Ah, right. So, no matter what container comes along to solve this problem, there's still the BOFH factor to deal with .. Curious though, how are you doing this work without admin privs?
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    Very interesting .. I was recently tasked with getting a bespoke AI/ML environment ready to ship/deploy to, what can only be considered, foreign environments .. and this has proven to be quite a hassle, because, of course: python.
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    Nice, I remember poking at that a few times but never being able to justify a license purchase to my boss, who believed that I had everything I needed in the form of the Magnum pizzabox, and why would anyone need a UI for programming, lol .
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    There were two places my Mum used to know to look for me, after school, if I wasn't home at an appropriate time: the TANDY shop, and the COMPUTER AGE shop. These two shops - the former a means of access to the TRS-80, the latter a mean
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    For most of the latter part of the 80's, I used Quarterdeck Desqview as my 'terminal', which allowed me to have 4 independent concurrent MSDOS sessions running on my 386, each of which with its own video and network connectiv
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    I wonder if anyone has ever given any druthers to porting PC-Write to linux .. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-Write I must have written a million lines of code with PC-Write in the 80's .. seems kind of odd to m
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    I'm in. Although I think this also has applications as a mechanical control mechanism, replacing expensive potentiometers with relatively cheaper 3D-printed parts. I've dreamed-up an optical/laser variant in my head a hundre
27. 567.▲
    by aa-jv 1y ago

    I didn't complain, I did however acknowledge the foreshadowing of incoming downvotes on the basis of expressing an unpopular opinion, even though I believe this aspect does indeed warrant discussion - especially in todays political cli
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    Thanks for looking at this objectively. I was expecting to be launched deep into the grey zone on this statement, and it has indeed begun - but I'd really rather talk it out than just get downvoted into oblivion. >A lot of alien lo
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    Disclaimer: this is a highly charged and controversial opinion, forged after decades of interest in the subject both laterally [0] and in terms of consumption of science-fiction (speculative fiction) - but it is my personal theory that the
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    by aa-jv 1y ago

    Hey - thank you for your interesting post today. It set me off on a personal journey which, in my mind, involved the discovery of many secret trails and camping spots, metaphorically .. One thing I have learned about al-Ghazali today, than