ajxs

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by ajxs 6d ago
Pardon me. I actually pronounce it heitsh , but I don't think there's a concensus among Australians about that.
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by ajxs 7d ago
I'm Australian, and I say 'A Hotel', and 'A Herb'. Until very recently, I'd never heard anyone ever say it differently.
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by ajxs 24d ago
If you think that's surprising, what about the fact that they're still maintaining ColdFusion? https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion-family.html
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by ajxs 24d ago
Around the time this page was written I was still building enormously graphic-rich websites in Adobe Flash, which was my first introduction to real programming . For whatever reason, despite most of Flash's functionality being incorpo
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by ajxs 1mo ago
It's a really good question why Casio didn't continue making synths after the 80s. It's possible that the entire CZ-line was intended to be a one-off response to Yamaha's breakaway success with the DX7. After the CZ-line
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by ajxs 1mo ago
Here's an article about this: https://www.michaelgale.dev/blog/releasing-an-album-on-flopp...
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by ajxs 3mo ago
In case you want a webring, but don't feel like setting up your own server to run it, I run a webring hosting service that you might find useful: https://webri.ng/
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by ajxs 3mo ago
Thanks for sharing! What was your role at Hyde Field?
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by ajxs 3mo ago
The Sequential Prophet X is another modern synth with a full-blown x86 PC running inside it. You can see the mainboard in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8QDCocnt0M
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by ajxs 4mo ago
Really awesome work! A simple OS for retro x86 hardware is a really cool project! I wish I still had some era-appropriate hardware I could test-drive it on.
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by ajxs 4mo ago
When the author says 'I tend to run older hardware', how old do they mean? I'm typing this message right now on my Thinkpad x220 from 2011, which is unfortunately too old to run Zed because its internal Intel HD graphics card
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by ajxs 4mo ago
One of the coolest projects I've seen in a while! Amazing work! In case anyone missed the write-up^1, it's very well-written. I really enjoyed the chapter about designing the instruction set. 1: https://baltazarstudios.
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by ajxs 5mo ago
A lot of effort goes into accurately emulating historic processors in the MAME project, as well as other vintage hardware. It's generally accurate enough that MAME is regularly used to emulate vintage hardware when reverse-engineering
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by ajxs 5mo ago
Very cool! Would you believe I was actually just listening to some of the old Ultima game soundtracks when I saw this? I wonder if they considered writing their disassembly in the 'pre-C++98 dialect of C++' used in the original, a
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by ajxs 5mo ago
Thinking about what would be going through Bill Kerman's little head as he approaches the rocket having just seen poor Jebediah Kerman vaporised on the launch pad was pretty funny. I don't think this same gallows humour extends to
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by ajxs 5mo ago
If I set a folder colour in Finder on my work MacBook, and then plug that USB drive into my personal computer which uses Thunar as a file browser on Debian, nothing would happen.
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by ajxs 5mo ago
To me it seems more sensible to store information relevant only to this OS in a specific cache somewhere within that OS. It would even make cache-like functionality such as evicting old entries super easy.
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by ajxs 5mo ago
In case anyone doesn't know, Oxyrhynchus is a major source of archaeological discoveries. Particularly ancient (Ptolemaic/Roman Egypt) papyrus fragments recovered from an ancient landfill on the outskirts of the city. Notably some
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by ajxs 5mo ago
This isn't the kind of music I'd normally listen to, but I'm enjoying your album! Very well produced. I bought a copy. Thanks for sharing!
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by ajxs 5mo ago
The SPARK subset of Ada^1 has a similar kind of move semantics for pointer types^2. 1: SPARK is a formally verifiable subset of Ada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK_(programming_language) 2: https://arxi
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by ajxs 6mo ago
> Its unlikely that another platform would be able to reach this state... Is this really true? The computer ecosystem is more open now than ever. The original PC BIOS (which PC-compatible manufacturers needed to implement) was never an
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by ajxs 6mo ago
Some of my first experiments with Ada were based on this tutorial series! Great to see it on the front-page of HN. Since this was published, it's become a lot easier to set up an ARM toolchain using Alire, Ada's package manager. A
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by ajxs 6mo ago
Somewhat related: https://pixelmoondust.neocities.org/archives/archivedtiles/b...
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by ajxs 6mo ago
Hello! I don't have a website for your webring, but I do run the webri.ng service ( https://webri.ng ), where you can host your webring! Just thought I'd mention it in case it's useful to you.
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by ajxs 6mo ago
Speaking as an Australian that works on React CRUD applications because there's nothing else in the market, I've been reading through this thread thinking the exact same thing.
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by ajxs 7mo ago
Something about these JS-heavy sites I haven't seen discussed: They don't archive well. Websites that load a big JS bundle, then use that to fetch the actual page content don't get archived properly by The Wayback Machine.
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by ajxs 7mo ago
At the risk of sounding like a language zealot, have you ever looked at Ada? It was explicitly designed to be very readable, and for use in safety-critical systems. Ada isn't perfect in all the ways Rust isn't, and it might not be
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by ajxs 7mo ago
Unfortunately the missing ingredient to recreating UO is a playerbase that can see the virtual world with innocent eyes. This HN post[1] always comes to mind. By complete coincidence, yesterday I was just looking at the website for a guild
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by ajxs 7mo ago
> Tool-wise - refactoring was a bit of a pain. Could you share what tools you were using, and what you felt was missing? I write Ada in vscode, because it's what I use in my dayjob. AdaCore's plugin has good language support^1,
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by ajxs 7mo ago
I use Ada for a lot of projects where C would otherwise be the default language of choice. I find that I spend much less time getting tied up debugging silly errors. In a lot of cases, Ada makes it difficult to do things the wrong way. When

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