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751.
by anyfoo 3y ago
Did that client exist in the 90s? I, too, IRC'd on a 286 laptop with TCP/IP packet drivers in the 90s.
752.
by anyfoo 3y ago
A PCjr? That somehow makes this more funny than if it was a 5150 or something (but equally impressive). I remember playing around with Xircom parallel port ethernet adapters and TCP/IP packet drivers (and corresponding applications) in
753.
by anyfoo 3y ago
Serious question: How could this not be special?
754.
by anyfoo 3y ago
Why do you have to be so negative about it? The README itself says it's a "prototype/concept". It's a neat hack, certainly the best thing I've seen on this website today. You make entirely valid technical poin
755.
by anyfoo 3y ago
I think much of what you say appears to be covered in (indeed, the point of) the article?
756.
by anyfoo 3y ago
And have a 10000 lines message processing loop? Yeah. It wasn’t exactly Qt.
757.
by anyfoo 3y ago
This one is my favorite so far: https://64.media.tumblr.com/3117452ff1ccc9b9dd37f228300ea5f2... It's a bit more subtle and not so in-your-face horror, which I think works out in its favor.
758.
by anyfoo 3y ago
Once you've been told what a register, a stack, and an addressing mode is (among other details), sure. But then you do know the paradigms already. But of the languages I mentioned, assembly is certainly the one where the required conce
759.
by anyfoo 3y ago
You can't learn a programming language like that, unless it already has very similar paradigms to languages you already know. For example, try to learn APL[1] or Haskell like that (or just assembly if you haven't done any kind of
760.
by anyfoo 3y ago
Others already explained this, I just wanted to add that you make me feel old...
761.
by anyfoo 3y ago
Printer Common Language. More an alternative to PostScript than to PDF, in that it's a language that a lot of printers understand (as the name suggests).
762.
by anyfoo 3y ago
Yeah, it's the "reasonably" part that I wasn't sure of. At the end of the day, just updating the coordinates in some hardware registers to effectively move the cursor still sounds much simpler (and with more potential fo
763.
by anyfoo 3y ago
I meant the literal color, too! I guess the new website does have some reddish elements. The old one was entirely blue [1], and I'm pretty sure "reddit" is just a play on "read it". Ah, full circle, back to being us
764.
by anyfoo 3y ago
It popped up first some time in the 90s (or at least that's when I first became aware of it), long before any "3D accelerators" or similar became available. Telling a graphics card "here's a bitmap, please render it
765.
by anyfoo 3y ago
I agree, but I'm curious what the "red website" is? I thought maybe reddit or lobste.rs, but they seem more blue to me. Unless because their logos/favicons are red? Seriously not trying to be annoying, generally curious.
766.
by anyfoo 3y ago
It was fairly common to use the "trick" (not sure it really was a trick, maybe someone else remembers) where the connection/transaction was kept open. Sites displaying logs, for example, used it as well. As I recall, they use
767.
by anyfoo 3y ago
So? That statement doesn't sound exclusive to me.
768.
by anyfoo 3y ago
Is that surprising? Most of us probably relax working with what interests them (which can be hobby or work) in general, and inline assembly is obviously part of Linus Torvald's interests.
769.
by anyfoo 3y ago
Why?
770.
by anyfoo 3y ago
I clicked straight on the first example of a real website that uses it, and, surprisingly, I really like it: https://soulextract.com Normally I'm a "no nonsense" kind of guy for the web, actually preferring plain
771.
by anyfoo 3y ago
I resent your comment, it's very distasteful .
772.
by anyfoo 3y ago
It's even worse. The "thing that doesn't completely solve the problem" might have actually solved the biggest problem for classed vessels, that's why they don't see it as a problem in the first place.
773.
by anyfoo 3y ago
> Exactly, it makes it "more palpable". Typo: Palatable, obviously, not palpable. Too late to edit.
774.
by anyfoo 3y ago
I think that I truly, positively understand both the Fourier transforms I deal with (FS, FT, DFT, DTFT, as well as their subtle but very important differences), and the Laplace transform and the z-transform. I can recite them just by "
775.
by anyfoo 3y ago
In my experience, it helps to approach from both sides, and that's also part of the point I'm trying to make. If you come only from the "concrete examples and applications" side, you might not actually fully understand
776.
by anyfoo 3y ago
> Typescript is just a hack on top of Javascript. Exactly, it makes it "more palpable". > The idea that TS is great but JS sucks is silly. Just to be clear, I absolutely did not say that. Instead, I'd rather agree with
777.
by anyfoo 3y ago
I did not intend to shit on web developers, by the way. It's not their fault, they just have to live with it. I just lament the history that lead to what they ultimately have on their plate. Early "web development" went treme
778.
by anyfoo 3y ago
Indeed, adding a type system does a lot.
779.
by anyfoo 3y ago
Well put, and I like that analogy. You have to learn the vocabulary, and only then are you well equipped to discuss grammar and finer subtleties of the language. It goes hand in hand.
780.
by anyfoo 3y ago
I didn’t leave it because of the compile steps, but because the extra layers, despite all their downsides, were far from able to hide the underlying impedance mismatch. I left over a decade ago and went back to low level kernel programming.

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