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by anyfoo 2y ago
In some ways, the obscurity makes it even more interesting. That's of course not to say that I didn't enjoy your articles about popular chips like the Z80 or any x86 variant as well, I really do. One is interesting because you get
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by anyfoo 2y ago
One of my hobbies is writing period-correct stuff for s/370 and MVS, and, yep, bitsavers is where it's at. Weird thought that if that person didn't go through the effort, the information would be near-unobtainable.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I agree!
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by anyfoo 2y ago
You can see „git reflog“ as a sort of automatic tmp-branch creation at every step. Of course your way works as well, and I tend to do the same when I know it‘s getting hairy, but it‘s nice to just be able to do git stuff knowing you can alw
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Oh, I actually make heavy uses of detached heads. The projects I work on frequently require you to look at a „snapshot“ of how the code was at a certain time when diagnosing issues, and it‘s good to be able to „look without touch“, i.e. bei
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I didn‘t know about that. Good idea, thanks.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
For me, it‘s usually not about somehow „breaking“ my repository so that it‘s in a „weird“ state, but about messed up rebases, filter-branches (or modern equivalents), and other branch manipulations that leave my branches in a now unwanted s
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by anyfoo 2y ago
`git reflog`, which the article prominently mentions, really should be the VERY FIRST thing to teach everyone who is learning git. If you don't know about it, it is well worth checking it out now. It is your one ticket to getting to wh
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by anyfoo 2y ago
You should have seen X.500.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
iOS barely uses that. Processes commonly run as “mobile” or “root”, but it does not matter very much. POSIX users and access permissions are archaic, and, in my opinion, don’t match with how almost any device is being used nowadays. iOS imp
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by anyfoo 2y ago
> License Windows NT from Microsoft and bolt a Mac-like interface onto it. Gosh, am I glad that that didn't happen. I wonder how serious of an option that really was, it seems wildly out of place compared to the other propositions,
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I don't know anything about mazers (or fire safety), but, assuming flammable materials like wood, how do they extinguish the fire before it takes over the whole structure? I guess "professional" mazes may have sprinkler syste
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by anyfoo 2y ago
You’re formulating the problem with a lot of implicit assumptions. That is ignoring a lot about how human visual perception works. Look at a very simple maze, you will likely “intuitively” solve it immediately without performing an actual D
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by anyfoo 2y ago
That’s algorithmic complexity/“difficulty”, and somewhat assumes that we only care about computers solving the maze. Since solving mazes is however (also) something to be enjoyed by humans, it’s possible that perceived maze difficulty
555.
by anyfoo 2y ago
Static linking essentially freezes not only the ABI to the kernel, but many implementation details of the linked libraries as well. Including, for example, how library client code talks to daemons, or formats of files directly read in by th
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by anyfoo 2y ago
That is nice if you have a need for overlapping timers, but if you don’t, I wouldn’t complicate things to much. The good thing about is that it is very easy to set a timer. (A few touches on the watch, or just saying “timer for 45 minutes
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by anyfoo 2y ago
That wasn't the point. The point is that they are still more impractical than what the original comment suggested, shorter and common or not. > I really hate conversation on this site. Original commenter may feel the same about your
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by anyfoo 2y ago
My watch has a timer. Whenever I have something to do in a short to medium amount of time, whether it's for me or someone else, I just set the timer to something appropriate. Doesn't have to be exact. I don't add a note. For
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by anyfoo 2y ago
These are even more impractical, so I wonder what your point is? I can come up with an even shorter way to say 18th century, by using base26 for example, so let's denote it as "cR". What has been gained?
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I'm not sure "slow" matters that much. If (and that's a big if) there is advantage to announce yourself to other civilizations using gravity waves, instead of other means, then it probably does not matter too much if tra
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by anyfoo 2y ago
This may work for "casual" attempts, but if someone really want to exfiltrate data, they can still do so in any number of ways. For example, they can send DNS queries. To your usual DNS server, so you won't see a new address.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Serendipity, I just mentioned neko a few days ago. It's even the last comment I made before making this one now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40756670
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by anyfoo 2y ago
xneko, an X11/UNIX port of a somewhat famous cute cat chasing a mouse pointer last updated in 1993, still compiles and runs under macOS. You need Xquartz because xneko is an X11 program, but that’s it.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
The game is tiny . It does not even have any graphics. It would be an impressive feat to fit even 10 bugs in there, and still have it seem like a functioning game.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
That was an enjoyable read. I, too, when I was a child sometimes thought the same thing about my C64 “magically” being able to load some game-related images with just a few lines of code that are… just somewhere inside it? A super bizarre t
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by anyfoo 2y ago
But the stated paradigm is one thing they allow . See the Reader, Writer, and State monads.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Yeah, I meant the people who build the control system platform, not their operators!
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by anyfoo 2y ago
No, just normal VGA (and SVGA, and beyond that) monitors, up to before the first flat screens appeared. But I made a small mistake, as another commenter pointed out: VGA text mode resolution was 720x400, not 720x350.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
Oops, you are right, it’s 720x400. I mixed it up with the MDA 9x14 80x25 text mode.
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by anyfoo 2y ago
I’ve come to rely on a lot of the Terminal.app features, as well as its speed.

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