blame-troi

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by blame-troi 6mo ago
This what I call peasant metabolism.
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by blame-troi 8mo ago
I have not but I’ll look. 90% of my computer use these days is laptop on my actual lap so I don’t have a real need. But there is a definite want!
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by blame-troi 8mo ago
A couple of years on Mounjaro here. Huge QOL benefits for me. I’m on it for diabetes but enjoy the weight loss benefits. I’ve read some articles saying that these meds are like the hotel California. Once on always on. At my age this doesn’t
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by blame-troi 8mo ago
At the risk of dating myself, I’m still looking for a keyboard as good feeling as this.
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by blame-troi 8mo ago
Different platform but the simplest mainframe utility IEFBR14, a noop process to trigger JCL events started as one instruction. Then two. Then debate started about which machine instruction should be used to set the return code to zero …
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by blame-troi 1y ago
I've been struggling with this lately. My defaults are either 65 (8 1/2 wide paper, 6 1/2 text, leaves an inch either side for notes and hole punch), 72 (usable card image width), or 80 (because terminal were either 80 x 25 o
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by blame-troi 1y ago
Obvious to whom? We don’t all know everything. Also, rolling your own can be an interesting learning exercise.
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by blame-troi 1y ago
Being both inspiring and unsettling to me says he did the job well. I will remember him as the smiling Pope.
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by blame-troi 2y ago
Very cool. But so many of us paid not enough attention to the details. Only two of the people in my first shop attempted channel programming.
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by blame-troi 2y ago
So the AI trained on Stack Overflow and Reddit and learned to say “Do your own homework”. I don’t see a problem.
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by blame-troi 2y ago
Ignorant. When I learned COBOL, which would have been contemporary to many of the original systems, data types were numbers of various formats, characters, primitive fixed length strings, and bits. There was no data type for dates. It would
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by blame-troi 2y ago
Oh come on! Let my people curse! Minority Report meets New Speak…
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by blame-troi 2y ago
I find this to be a very reasonable license. Cost is low but provides an ongoing revenue source. I like free or perpetual licensing as much as the next guy, but us programmers gotta eat and pay the rent.
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by blame-troi 2y ago
I’d like to think Trek watchers are smarter than that.
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by blame-troi 2y ago
I certainly did not intend to ignite any flamewar. IMO both Emacs and (Neo)Vi(m) are fine editors. I wish more people would accept other people's right to have a personal preference. My choice of Emacs was based on what I see as a frag
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by blame-troi 2y ago
I'm familiar with Visual Studio (in my professional persona) and Code. Too many dials and knobs and displays. Telemetry is not a huge issue for me, but I understand why it bothers some people. I had been jumping back and forth between
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by blame-troi 2y ago
Bram's passing and the split into basically two code bases (Vim, Neovim) and three customization languages pushed me over to Emacs. I switched back and forth for years, as many others do, but I didn't want to deal with having to u
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by blame-troi 2y ago
We should be so lucky
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by blame-troi 2y ago
As being able to use a language to write an editor is a personal must-have in a language, your mention of kilo caught my eye. I did a quick read through of the Odin overview and FAQ and my initial impressions are positive. Bonus points to t
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by blame-troi 2y ago
I like the generator with the exception of hyphens. Many sites don’t allow them or treat them as a special character. Unfortunately there is no longer any way that I’ve found to tweak rules. There was once a way buried under a few menus bu
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by blame-troi 2y ago
Amen. If I can’t read it I’m not likely to watch a video about it.
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by blame-troi 2y ago
Performance art maybe?
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by blame-troi 2y ago
I'm using https://github.com/include-what-you-use/include-what-you-use in preference over clang-tidy.
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by blame-troi 2y ago
I suspect it's the same appeal as woodworking or hor rodding or living history reenactment.
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by blame-troi 3y ago
Sadly we still live in times where "superstition was the primary sensemaking tool for causality — an organizing principle for life".
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by blame-troi 3y ago
we had Turbo, JRT, and UCSD back at my first job out of college. All quite good in their way.
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by blame-troi 3y ago
"In fact, one thing you can count on in the United States is how few people are ever going to willingly read a book of poetry and find out what’s in there." uh yep.
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by blame-troi 3y ago
I've got one of the first run. It's back in the box, I was always more of a Tandy guy. The RC2014 is also more my speed. CPM.
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by blame-troi 4y ago
Every time I get the urge to pick up Python, I find the packaging situation so off putting that I quickly find some other rabbit hole to dive into. I find emacs and vim add on configuration easy and transparent by comparison.
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by blame-troi 4y ago
In spite of its flaws, I still enjoy watching 2010. I had the good fortune to see it in theater with many Sci fi friends.

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