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by anyfoo 2y ago
> if you want more of a challenge try a compiler compiler that can compile itself... :) Is that not what OP did?
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Or just take a few moments to learn the basics about Makefiles. The thing about Makefiles is that simples ones at least are really easy to write, and read. Much simpler and quicker than a cumbersome python script, that will most likely do
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Elaborate, why use WASM?
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I didn't say it's sufficient , but without the preservation that the Internet Archive does, we'd be completely lost. I have come across some wealth of deeply technical information by entering dead links on still live pages i
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by anyfoo 2y ago
> Who's gonna renew that hobby domain or pay that hosting bill? I've seen some really valuable online resources disappear after the author died. This is why the Internet Archive is so important.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Yes, code executes directly from a literal loop of paper tape, and more specifically, there is only one loop (the paper tape loop), and every instructions executes at every iteration. Yet it can do what any other computer can do (in ter
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Yup, having an emulator for another, more complex architecture running on the very simple architecture is common amongst projects like this. Linux on Intel 4004 does exactly this: https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=35
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I have a soft spot for FORTH. I don’t know if it makes for elegant larger programs at all, but it’s really easy and elegant to bootstrap a port of FORTH itself , and then use it to perform more and more complex system tasks. That’s probabl
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by anyfoo 2y ago
"All the time", yeah. Relatively to that, I have to write individual greek characters very rarely, as they are not part of my usual script. Almost never, compared to a greek person. The same applies to the scripts used by e.g. Chi
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I think iota is fine because it's missing the dot that an i has, but nu is terrible, yeah. In fact, in some fonts nu is exactly v: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu_(letter) But then a lot of capital greek letter
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I encounter ξ (xi), and also ζ (zeta) a lot. Honestly, when I write them out by hand, I just make a "wild squiggly line" for ξ and a "simplified squiggly line" for ζ. If I write it out by hand, it's most likely just
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by anyfoo 2y ago
That assumes you are in a position of being able to paste the character (and as unicode), which is not always the case.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Is there some circular logic in your reasoning? What is the difference between the computer program solving the conjecture, and “us” doing it?
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by anyfoo 2y ago
> So the best you can have is "Solve the halting problem for a bunch of programs, but not for a bunch of others, but that's okay because will call the latter as 'trick programs.'" The awesome and surprising thing
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Yeah, I stumbled over that too. I think they meant to say any “interesting” program would halt. Programs that don’t halt will repeat state (in your example there isn’t even any state, so it’s trivially always the same), and the article want
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by anyfoo 2y ago
The problem is with defining what a “memory safety violation” is. By the time you’ve annotated all the code with the information necessary to tell what you find undesirable up to rust’s capacity (e.g. overstepping buffers, violations of mov
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Seems great. How does this compare to Free42? https://thomasokken.com/free42/
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Yep. For the same reason my oscilloscope and spectrum analyzer are in the same isolated network as my retro stuff.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Oh yeah, I agree with your point. I really wouldn't be worried very much about the DOS machine with packet drivers being exposed to the Internet. It's easier for me to have the "retro net" just being generally isolated,
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Thanks, that was educational.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Ah, I remember installing WfW 3.11 around the same age as well! I don't even remember if we already had a home network at that time (the first one was NetWare 3.11 based), but I do remember the subtle differences that somehow made it f
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Uh, thanks for the personal attack? I am aware that cloning exists, and I very explicitly allowed for the use of such a mechanism to change the conclusion in both of my comments. My trouble was that I wasn't sure how much filesystem-cl
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Yeah, that makes sense. I think the (slight) backlash you get is from your original statement that that is what makes it the “best OS”, when in reality it arguably rather indicates some problems.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Ah, thanks for telling me that. I had absolutely no idea she had any involvement, but now it makes perfect sense.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
So the point is just “shorter list is easier to look through, and remember which processes are supposed to be there”? In Linux it was usually pretty obvious what daemon did what on a somewhat well curated system, though. No svchost.exe, and
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I’m not sure that’s true, because the hypervisor can know which blocks are related to begin with? From what I quoted above it seems that the file system instead does a lookup based on the block content to determine if a block is a dupe (I d
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Yep, that’s what I mean. Art comes from restriction, and the designers at Microsoft did really charming stuff with what they had to work with. I still vividly remember such simple but delightful things as the Excel icon, or the icon of a st
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I’m old enough to remember the release of Windows 3.0! (Before that I used Windows 2.1 and was technically around for all Windows releases, but didn’t hear about the release.) But just last month, when I installed Windows 2000 on a new-old-
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by anyfoo 2y ago
As much as I love my retro-computing, I keep it far away from open networks…
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I think that’s true. I recently installed Windows 2000, also for nostalgia, and marveled at the icons. I like the Windows 3.11 (not so much the 3.0) icons even more. They have such a charm and special style that only works through their low

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