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by dcminter 6mo ago
He's likely a good bit older than me then - I was about 9 when we got ours. I think "fancy calculator" was probably one of the best ways to use them given their limitations. Their success was largely down to their very low pr
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by dcminter 6mo ago
The ZX81 didn't have so much software around for it - what there was mostly came on tape, or was typed in¹ on the ghastly membrane keyboard, and what there was was very limited in capability (the default RAM size was one kilobyte (yes,
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by dcminter 6mo ago
Ask it for advice on learning to play the banjo... Edit: ...or was it the ukulele?
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by dcminter 6mo ago
> I'm a Noctua fan! :)
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by dcminter 6mo ago
I'm a Linux guy who doesn't really like Macs but has intermittently been required to use them. On the whole I have a grudging respect for Apple (their hardware is peerless), but seeing one screen turn to "brushed steel"
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by dcminter 6mo ago
I like opera and classical music generally. Musicals too, although only ones written up to about 1950. I was unreasonably embarrassed about this as a kid because it wasn't "cool".
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by dcminter 6mo ago
The author says: > I’d recommend you go to the show if you haven’t already, but that’s not really the point of this post. So while I agree that it is good to contemplate why you like things, that wasn't the topic of the post at al
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by dcminter 6mo ago
Yes. You should try liking things too instead of being dismissive of those who do. Kind of the author's point.
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by dcminter 6mo ago
My terminal (terminator) does (2) and the "easy" scrollback on tmux messes up the ability to scroll with the mouse, at least with default settings. I just tried it in zellij and that doesn't. Since I'm only using a multi
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by dcminter 6mo ago
If anyone's interested, there's a bit more about the intention behind this library here: https://paperstack.com/kafkaesque/
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Show HN: Kafkaesque – a wire-compatible mock Kafka(github.com)
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by dcminter 6mo ago
Perhaps you're looking for this? https://strangestloop.io/essays/things-that-arent-doing-the-...
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by dcminter 7mo ago
I think you're not appreciating how big space is. They're not going to be near any star for thousands of years - and near here is still very distant. If we're still around then, we'll probably be able to look after o
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by dcminter 7mo ago
My wife, being a genius, has a decoy keyboard. Pretty effective, it usually has a cat sitting on it.
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by dcminter 7mo ago
Even if promotional (which I doubt even if other posts are), this ticks the 'is interesting and not shallow' box for me.
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by dcminter 7mo ago
That's the third paragraph.
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by dcminter 7mo ago
Their second paragraph addresses this.
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by dcminter 7mo ago
The real challenge is to do it in a way that's intellectually stimulating. Mind you The Economist just had an article about the monkey called Punch so all things are possible...
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by dcminter 7mo ago
> people who never actually used WASM ;) Fair if you mean me - I've at most toyed with it, but the shim stuff was off-putting. I'm a backender though, I don't pretend my opinion is of any consequence here. > Personally
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by dcminter 7mo ago
It misled me too - though I'm interested in the article anyway. I've emailed the mod team so hopefully the submission here will get a less context-dependent title soon.
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by dcminter 7mo ago
Does anyone know if there's any reasonable timescale likely for this to happen? Last time I looked into the topic it seemed to be completely stalled, but I might well have been looking in the wrong places. To a very casual observer (me
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by dcminter 7mo ago
Just before I installed an SSD was the last time I owned a computer that felt slow.
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by dcminter 7mo ago
That's unusual. Maybe that's a US thing? In Europe anywhere I've had to interview people I've received at least a couple of hours of training and then usually sat in as the shadow on at least one interview. Quality varie
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by dcminter 7mo ago
I hadn't read that page, but now I do I note that it says: "The term blob was first used in database management systems to describe a collection of binary data stored as a single entity." So I guess I'm not any clearer
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by dcminter 8mo ago
One of us! :) Currently in a brief macos phase before I can be issued my Linux laptop at work. It's so clunky. A major annoyance for me right now is the lack of MST multi-screen over USB which means my nice daisy-chained home setup is
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by dcminter 8mo ago
In the database world a BLOB is a Binary Large OBject ... are you sure of your etymology? Edit: and I'm not btw - for all I know BLOB in DB land might be backronym from blob in the common usage.
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by dcminter 8mo ago
While these are all reasonable points, there is a distinction between criticising people for using ${lang} (bad) and criticising the language (neutral). Some people get their egoes attached to their choices (for or against Rust). Also
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by dcminter 8mo ago
> [Rust is] a good language [...] but also a huge pita to work with This is practically the elevator pitch of the language :) and I speak as one who likes it a lot!
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by dcminter 8mo ago
I don't think your comment deserves the downvotes (upvoted to compensate) but I do think that it's questionable if "Most errors are not type errors" is true. Rust's culture of pushing things into type checking d
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by dcminter 8mo ago
Yeah, I keep hearing about this toxic community from people who won't blink twice to use decade-out-of-date critiques of Java :)

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