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by aa-jv 4mo ago
Its only necessary to point out that the British are the worlds' masters at cultural appropriation and, as well, cultural degradation ... Curry, Reggae, Tea ... Near endless supply of degraded colonies, reaped economies, ruined culture
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by aa-jv 4mo ago
Maybe whats special about them is that in spite of their lack of beauty they have nevertheless become widely adopted by a society very keyed toward symbolic representation, and in that context whether or not you find them beautiful is irrel
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by aa-jv 4mo ago
Hey, I mean this seriously: you might be a racist misanthrope.
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by aa-jv 4mo ago
This is a classic case of "open misanthropy". People can love the Japanese for their unique characteristics and they can love the Japanese for the things they appropriated from other cultures. Just like the British. Fact is thoug
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by aa-jv 4mo ago
Yggdrasil started off as an 18+ floppy distribution, but it was the first distro to allow booting a full rootfs from a CD .. and man, was that ever amazing back in 1994! Was worth the upgrades to turn my 486 into a functioning X server ..
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by aa-jv 4mo ago
I've been using "Print to PDF" as my principle bookmarks management tool, since 1998, and I have over 90,000+ such PDF's sitting on my system, easily re-read and discovered. So I don't quite get whats the point of k
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by aa-jv 4mo ago
Its more of a failure of OS vendors to provide tools for parents to properly raise their children in the digital age. OS vendors, which are now more interested in selling ad space, than actually developing operating systems - and thus hav
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by aa-jv 4mo ago
Even worse than a redundant/useless landing page, is a page with an invalid certificate. Nothing nopes me out harder than having to tell my IT-governed browser to ignore the site operators faulty administration of their domain ..
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by aa-jv 4mo ago
Not 3D printed, but laser cut: https://github.com/kallaballa/sndcut.git Works pretty well, certainly not high quality audio, though. Maybe if someone out there has a more precise laser, it'd work ..
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Yeah, I used to map my 8 megabytes of video memory through the mtd back in the day, it helped build those .. you know .. X11 drivers .. ;) Man, that brings back memories.
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
I want this, but only for one thing: email. I already use an pwnagotchi, and it works great for this - but its a bit bulky. If I can get this set up and working, it'll be my main interface to email.
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
But many aspects of its core design are also 21st-Century concepts, developed anew in a fresh era, and are still very much widely deployed and in active full development. Therefore, Linux is not retro.
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Nice trick, yeah we have had to do a fair bit of that corewars classic method in the safety-critical field .. and yeah, also a fair amount of pkill too ..
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
I have a 1netbook with the same form factor and capabilities - I absolutely love the foldable screen which turns it into a tablet device - but it is really a problem to use as a tablet device while gripping it, because naturally that grip w
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
We use this trick of writing to /proc/<pid>/mem in safety-critical programming to test all the fail cases required to get to 100% code-coverage, tested. Its quite handy to be able to inject error data directly into a p
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Linux is not in any way, a retro OS.
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Microsoft can do the same for windows - they need to address the fat bundle solution that Apple came up with, but for Windows, though ..
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
The "Borland flood fill" routine that Microsoft was trying to beat was in the very popular (at the time) "Turbo Graphics for Borland" package which had an immensely useful stack of graphics primitives, some a little more
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
It doesn't just break existing code, it breaks existing tooling for checking syntax .. (Perl is hardly a decent model.)
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
As someone who has shipped Lua as a solution to many an embedded dilemma, this is highly interesting work. I wonder if there will be motivation in the future to address energy consumption in future JIT work .. in fact I wonder whether other
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
>I've never seen any evidence that the Simple Sabotage Field Manual is actually effective as opposed to just propaganda and an effort to try something. Citroen's trucks were sabotaged in occupied France .. workers were instruct
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Yes it does: >All it needs is a little new syntax
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
It seems that the BASIC's of yesteryear still have a lot to teach us. My favourite example is the annual BASIC 10 liner competition: https://basic10liner.com/ Basically, folks compete to write the best, most interestin
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
At this point, C's #1 priority is not breaking things in existing implementations, though, Walter...
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
I have used all of this gear for years, and I have worked in product development in the pro audio industry for decades (you might even recognize some of the things I've worked on) and the thing I don't like about TE is the pretent
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Not the OP but I know the feelings about the Citroen BX - it was just such a drab design, looked like a shipping box, and was just generally a dull car to be around. Best feature was its suspension, which would lift the front end up during
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Local CI, duh. Its the only sane approach in this day and age. Handing the keys to the kingdom for someone else to build and maintain it is just nuts.
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Too many times we've been bitten by this - it has been an issue too many times to count. This is why we don't use Github Actions, kids. Seriously, its a proprietary build service that puts the keys to the kingdom in someone elses&
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
You're describing the race to the bottom which comes from an industry-wide habit of establishing low standards and sticking them to the user, and really all you are doing is justifying why its okay that software sucks - not explainin
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by aa-jv 5mo ago
Its not jealousy or any of those things - its a desire to see the audio industry improve upon itself, and not just pander to shiny-thing-obsessed hipsters. Teenage Engineering have a long history of pandering to the bespoke-coveting hipster

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