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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Is Microsoft doing an IBM-like refocusing? They have no choice. Desktop systems aren't a growth market anymore and, so far, they don't own anywhere else which is .
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Speaking of vile hacks... has anyone here used Eunice, which allowed people to have a Unix (BSD-flavor) userland on VMS? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_%28software%29 Larry mentions it in the perl configuration f
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by cbd1984 11y ago
For a while, Xenix was the best-selling Unix under the sun. (But not the Sun. It ran on commodity 16-bit IBM PCs.) ((I refuse to resist puns. They just flow through me.))
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by cbd1984 11y ago
For all the Old People, replace Microsoft with IBM above and transpose this back into the 1990s. IBM went from EBCDIC and Micro Channel Architecture and SNA to "Well, they'll never actually beat Compaq and Dell in the primary gr
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by cbd1984 11y ago
That's a software patch. I meant changing the hardware to fix the bug at the source.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
One obvious question: Is there a way to fix the problem compatibly? AMD doesn't seem to be vulnerable, so you'd imagine that code couldn't rely on this behavior because then it would fail on AMD chips, but... well, once you&#
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Perhaps not Lisp in specific, but the idea of symbolic computation (that is, computers are more than Big Adding Machines) is important and should be on there.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
And if you take that idea back, it goes directly to the Jacquard loom, because Knuth Knows we can't possibly have any advances due to modern times. This Debased Era must always be in awe of our Glorious Past. Keeps the kids in line. Ke
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Interim OS is a radical new operating system with a focus on minimalism. It steals conceptually from Lisp machines (language-based kernel) These two concepts being so close together ("minimalism" and "Lisp") is prac
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Since when do you have fraud protection with credit cards?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Hopefully, the scientific mindset didn't pass you by, as that was the real point of the courses.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> MacBeth and Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet are great, timeless works Not an original plot among them, by the way; Shakespeare was a great plagiarist.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
I could say the same about your comments thus far.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Your inability to see that the pro-systemd side has actual reasons for holding its views makes you and the rest of the anti-systemd side ignorant and unable to discuss this on a sound footing without resorting to insults.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Your comment was a simple personal attack, and added nothing to the discussion. People can disagree with you without being stupid, you know, and not admitting that makes the anti-systemd side weak.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Your comment was still content-free.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Or maybe they're different from you, and writing off their perspective as "narrow and inflexible" is, itself, narrow and inflexible. Everyone has a perspective, and all perspectives are fundamentally interesting in their own
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by cbd1984 11y ago
If I knew someone was deploying from one of my repos, changing my code to make their site ALL PONIES ALL THE TIME U GUISE would honestly occur to me. It would occur to me, and I might not be strong enough to resist. PONIES!
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by cbd1984 11y ago
It's a way to keep doing all of the bad habits you learned from completely unstructured procedural code, including global state, but in a way which is marginally more encapsulated and therefore more likely to last longer than six month
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> ps: people, take a look at Emacs, it really is nice, and only needs 8MB cough As an Emacs fan, I feel obligated to, ahh, unpack this reference. EMACS: Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping. A Humorous Expansion of the name from when e
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Anyone who needed that lesson but still wants to play in infosec is likely too dumb or arrogant to learn from it.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Not enough adsense on the page. But more seriously the fact that it is a usenet post copied to reocities with probably zero inbound links hurts its ranking. Also not helping: Reocities is a website hosting the Geocities dump Jason Scot
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Is it reasonably feasible for a company like AMD to decap a processor and count?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
The 1401 wasn't a mainframe. It was a smaller computer designed to replace unit-record systems and was, in fact, sometimes used as a mainframe peripheral. The mainframe of the era was something in the 7000 or 700 series, I think.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
This comment is content-free.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Theo is basically who Poettering would be if he forked Linux (and was less whiny). These personal insults make it difficult for people to take the anti-systemd crowd seriously.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
This comment is needlessly rude. Can you rephrase it in a way that makes sense and isn't insulting to anyone?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
I never implied the comment you replied to wasn't breaking the rules.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
What insult?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
The parent of the comment you replied to is a personal attack.

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