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by atgreen 3y ago
This makes me sad. They funded a lot of GNU toolchain in the late 90s / early 00s, directly and indirectly, and I have a lot of good memories working with the people there.
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by atgreen 3y ago
Rust was originally created in Canada, but your point is taken.
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by atgreen 3y ago
Canada and Canadians are doing well here. You can start with Rust, PHP, and Java.
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by atgreen 3y ago
I worked on gcj (and GNU Classpath) for a number of years. gcj's origins are in the embedded systems space, where our customers valued the small memory footprint and portability across processor architectures that were unlikely to get
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by atgreen 3y ago
There was one other Cygnus-era one... libgcj, the gcj runtime library. However, Red Hat assigned copyright to the FSF in exchange for them adopting a more permissive license for the GNU Classpath project; one that was eventually selected b
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by atgreen 3y ago
Try ocicl instead of quicklisp. System tarballs are hosted in an OCI registry, and are downloaded via TLS connections (obeying proxies). Tarballs are signed and signatures are stored in the sigstore rekor transparency log for later inspec
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by atgreen 3y ago
Check out ocicl as an alternative to quicklisp!
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by atgreen 3y ago
Man-in-the-middle attacks. But equally important, many secure environments won't allow outbound http connections.
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by atgreen 3y ago
Check out ocicl as an alternative to quicklisp if you are concerned about security. Code is distributed using the OCI ecosystem (https by default, proxies work, sigstore integration, etc). https://github.com/ocicl/ocic
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by atgreen 3y ago
It works on Windows now.
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by atgreen 3y ago
Ok, it works on Windows now. Github actions CI testing will regularly test Linux and Windows going forward.
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by atgreen 3y ago
I have no doubt that it will be supported on systems other than Linux soon enough. There's nothing really special about Linux other than it's my daily driver, and testing elsewhere is not the fun part of hacking.
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by atgreen 3y ago
I'm the author. Happy to answer questions. This appeared on hackernews much earlier than I would have posted myself, as the project is still in its infancy. But I'm happy to answer questions here now.
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by atgreen 3y ago
Yes, they went from poisoning the earth to poisoning our brains. There was a golden era in the middle that I will always remember fondly.
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by atgreen 4y ago
This is unfair. I worked with Graydon years ago and he was always pleasant, helpful, and interesting. I wish I worked with more people like Graydon. Regardless, you are right to point out two of his contributions that have left an indelib
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by atgreen 4y ago
Purify was an amazing tool. I recently noticed that one of my libraries (libffi) still has an --enable-purify configure option, although it probably hasn't been exercised in.. 20 years? A Purify patent prevented work-alikes for many
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by atgreen 4y ago
For visualizations, I do two things... (1) use little scripts to generate gnuplot input, (2) convert ledger files to beancount files, and use fava. Both have their place. For forecasting, ledger has some built-in capabilities, although
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by atgreen 4y ago
I've tried almost every tool, both free and proprietary, including GnuCash, before finally landing on ledger a few years ago. Ledger, when supplemented with little scripts, was the first tool that could handle the complexities of my
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by atgreen 4y ago
Yes, this exactly. If you are doing k8s-based development, where your Lisp code is participating in k8s-hosted service communication, nothing beats the CL development experience, where you just connect Emacs to your image via SLY/SLIM
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by atgreen 5y ago
GCC isn't all that bad. I wrote this guide a while ago, but GCC hasn't changed too much since then: https://atgreen.github.io/ggx/
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by atgreen 5y ago
For my family I use ledger and a bunch of little programs I've written over the years to import data and generate reports. I've tried every other tool and system over the decades, and nothing beats PTA (and ledger, in my case).
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by atgreen 5y ago
Many vendors were at the White House meeting today. Here's Red Hat's statement: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-state...
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by atgreen 5y ago
I know somebody who worked in the arts in NYC a while back and went to a party hosted at Peter's place. Apparently he has a wild art collection.
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by atgreen 5y ago
I worked for Cygnus (acquired by Red Hat (acquired by IBM)), who was contracted for the GNU toolchain for the PS2 (and simulator). I wasn't working on the toolchain code itself, but worked with our hackers to scope the work, wrote SOW
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by atgreen 5y ago
Brings back memories. I worked on tools for the PS2, and I have vivid memories of SCEI disclosing their PS3 plans in 2000; how it would be Power-based and that IBM would be doing all of the tools work for free. Bah. In the end it worked
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by atgreen 5y ago
OS/2 was my gateway to Free Software. Eberhard Mattes' amazing emx system enabled ports of many Free Software packages to OS/2, including the GNU toolchain and TeX. My first first Free Software patch was to use OS/2 RE
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by atgreen 6y ago
It may have been 4 years! I'm pretty sure the R5900 deal was just done when I joined in December '95, and the PS2 wasn't announced until 1999.
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by atgreen 6y ago
Nice. I have a Red Hat Linux port for PS2, but haven't booted it in almost 20 years thanks to missing a sync-on-green monitor.
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by atgreen 6y ago
I guess I should monitor the libffi patch queue more carefully, as I only learned about their proposed changes by following the hacker news > phoronx > lkml rabbit hole.
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by atgreen 6y ago
He was just another dude on the Zooid BBS, which I dialed up on my 300 baud modem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooid_BBS

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