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by cestith 4y ago
Perl6 is now of course Rakulang. https://raku.org/ The folks responsible for that are still growing and improving their own ecosystem. It's a Perl-family language but it's different enough that they stepped away f
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by cestith 4y ago
Indeed it wasn't an ancient technology, but in the 19th and 20th centuries warfare adapted at a blistering pace compared to earlier centuries. Three to five decades of advancement was everything. Rifled barrels, self-contained cartridg
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by cestith 4y ago
I've been using Keyboard.io Model 01 boards for a few years now as my daily drivers for typing, ever since they arrived from backing the Kickstarter campaign. For my broad-shouldered build, the split has been good for my shoulders, elb
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by cestith 4y ago
A chariot was more similar to a technical or an FAV. It allows one to advance quickly on fairly regular terrain, carry a slightly bigger weapon, and stock yourself with more ammunition. It's not well protected and the weapon is not as
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by cestith 4y ago
I'd guess he would have. Jobs cared about professional users, and not just in film, graphic design, and music. Many decisions these past years feel like the company has not seen the need to invest in enterprise users and especially not
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by cestith 4y ago
Solar stills can be simpler or far more complex than that, too. One design's just a milk jug and some aquarium tubing. Others are shed-sized or barn-sized construction projects. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3142
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by cestith 4y ago
Solar stills work by putting something that can be as simple as a sheet of clear plastic over a hole in the ground, and putting a bowl under the peak of the sheet. A greenhouse with a brackish pool and a way to collect the precipitation wou
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by cestith 4y ago
I've actually become somewhat interested in Hy lately. Having a Lisp that targets the Python AST may come in handy. If there was a Nim facility for full Lisp or a very Lispy syntax that could be really nice. https://github.c
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by cestith 4y ago
I'm not sure it was so much the web, which with Lynx, Links, w3m, or some others looked a lot like Gopher. I think it was that the early graphical browsers (Mosaic and Netscape for example) embedded the linked graphics into HTML docume
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by cestith 4y ago
The Python-like syntax is a minus for me. I didn't care for semantic leading whitespace in ABC. I don't care for it in Python. I therefore doubt I'd care for it in Nim. If that's your thing, an Ada with Lisp-like macros
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by cestith 4y ago
IMO MISRA C, CERT C, and CERT C Secure should be standardized together into a compiler with a different language name. I'm aware there are other tools. If the compiler itself enforced everything to do with those standards and rejected
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by cestith 4y ago
Lisp and Scheme seem to discourage this sort of thinking in a great many programmers. After all, Lisps often start as just the eval function for their S-expressions and grow from there. See also: Brainfuck, Forth, Chinese
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by cestith 4y ago
There are multiple standards for C. C23 does not replace C17, or C11, or C99, or even C89. Maybe something should replace C89, but that's another discussion. I'd vote for C99 as a minimum target and prefer C11. Just as you yours
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by cestith 4y ago
I thought "glouw" in the username here and in the username in the link was pretty obvious myself.
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by cestith 4y ago
Besides Gopher we had WAIS, Archie, and Veronica. There were also sites with multiple directories of text and binary files via (often anonymous) FTP. BBS systems with text clients or even reachable over Telnet or SSH were once popular and s
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by cestith 4y ago
That's a somewhat popular term already. It was especially useful in the days of shareware/careware and close-source freeware distributed largely on CD or dial-up BBSes. You'd buy a CD with 650 MB of content, and depending on
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by cestith 4y ago
If you really want safety, use Rust or Ada.
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by cestith 4y ago
https://www.clockworkpi.com/ has RISC-V and ARM (Raspi CM3 or a Rockchip module) models of their DevTerm slab system. The schematics are GPL v3. There's micro HDMI if you need an external screen for a while. The ARM ve
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by cestith 4y ago
If you need real, physical RS-232, rs-422, rs-485, CANbus, 2wire, or parallel ports you're not buying a mass market modern laptop either.
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by cestith 4y ago
There is a huge difference in whether one can actually reach that temperature, how quickly, and how much airflow it provides across the heating element and on target. A heat gun is a much more consistent tool for the uses for which it'
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by cestith 4y ago
Active LCD shutter glasses for 3D movies were much nicer than 3D gaming that way. Sadly, so little content came out for those setups that the fad passed.
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by cestith 4y ago
It's similar to "buzzword bingo".
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by cestith 4y ago
"Hair dryer" is such an imprecise term in a use case like this. One can find 600 watt units all the way through about 2300 watts. A typical general-purpose heat gun one might use to strip paint or shrink some heat-shrink plastic i
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by cestith 4y ago
This is yet another Teenage Engineering bauble that as an interested amateur I love to look at and at 1/4 to 1/3 the price might consider buying. I'm glad their target market can justify their prices because their stuff is re
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by cestith 4y ago
I think in the author's phrasing, you'd minimize churn by maximizing the value proposition of your offer for customers looking at renewal or cancellation. I know it's popular to think of customer acquisition and customer rete
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by cestith 4y ago
I disagree that so many things in tech need to be intentional spoonerisms. It's still "phishing" to me no matter what the medium.
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by cestith 4y ago
I probably would have said Fry was Rexx or JCL, but I like where you went with it.
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by cestith 4y ago
Ideally, yes. Yet logrotate uses zlib to compress log files and deletes the originals. That's how trusted it is.
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by cestith 4y ago
It seems PRs are welcome. The author/maintainer may accept that as optional behavior with a command-line flag.
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by cestith 4y ago
One of the problems people are having is that so much is said against Waterfall instead of just in favor of Agile or its spinoffs. People emphasize that everything to do with Waterfall is bad, and generalize from large, detailed, inflexible

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