eddieh

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by eddieh 5y ago
I got a panic like that on macOS too.
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by eddieh 5y ago
Is it though? After about 20 years of Emacs I have never thought it was slow regardless of anything found in etc/JOKES
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by eddieh 5y ago
If you are not already invested in WordStar and have an old DOS machine on hand, then I'd strongly suggest Emacs & Org Mode. The Emacs learning curve is pretty terrible, but once you are comfortable with Org you can do all your wri
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by eddieh 5y ago
I don't even like Homebrew, but I use it because of the network effect. Several years ago I tried a bunch of package managers in identical VMs on MacOS and noticed Nix was slower than all the others (all operations), missing packages,
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by eddieh 5y ago
That's a shame. Many of the WordStar holdouts actually like their writing machine to be some old reliable computer without modern distractions. It isn't just the software, it is the whole experience. It runs one program at a time,
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by eddieh 5y ago
Many authors use WordStar. Here is George R. R. Martin taking about WordStar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5REM-3nWHg I think, and I believe it has been suggested to Robert J. Sawyer, that Emacs keys are very similar to
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by eddieh 5y ago
Yes, the beer brewing stuff, formulae, taps, kegs, casks, and bottles stuff is annoying. I have no idea what "keg only" is supposed to mean or why I see that phrase sometimes.
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by eddieh 5y ago
Nix is probably the slowest and is missing many packages. It's Kool-Aid for the cool kids. MacPorts was good until everyone started using Homebrew. Homebrew has some weird quirks that drive me crazy, but it mostly works and is up to da
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by eddieh 5y ago
I'm not a theoretical physicist and only took a few math courses beyond which were required by my major, but it was my understanding that mainstream string theories have 10, 11, and 26 dimensions, but I recall, and could be wrong, that
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by eddieh 5y ago
Nah, they're more like elements, but they're made of quarks not nucleons (protons/neutrons). I think the modern equivalent of epicycles is string theory. Find an inconstancy? No problem, add a dimension.
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by eddieh 5y ago
I hate this name. “Libre” anything makes me think it’s some FSF/GNU project. OpenBMC was taken, I get that, but there has to be a better name for this.
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by eddieh 5y ago
On desktops this is 100% correct. On mobile it sucks to have to ship stuff statically linked (or even dynamically linked) but included in the .apk or .ipa. But mobile is a different world, it is more like the past where every resource is co
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by eddieh 5y ago
This is correct. The format was really nice during the NeXTStep era. It was an simple ASCII plist file called PB.project. It could be edited by a human. When Apple started "improving" stuff it turned into the SomeProject.pbproj&#x
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by eddieh 5y ago
Sounds a lot like syntactic sugar or a DSL for symbolic breakpoints combined with conditionals. That's certainly doable. Something like: func1(4) > func2(null) debug; Semantically: upon func1 called with arg 4 and some descending pa
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by eddieh 6y ago
This is an underappreciated approach in modern developer culture.
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by eddieh 6y ago
I went with Org-mode and KaTeX, unfortunately there's a bug with Org-mode where it doesn't insert the trailing space after inline LaTeX. I never got around to fixing it. I did try to make mine "beautiful" or at least ple
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by eddieh 6y ago
I don’t think I’ve seen BigInt in the wild Wild West of JS at all, so that’s probably true that most folks are not aware of it. I wonder if there’s some room for improvement since using GMP is pretty standard for most languages. Edit: forgo
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by eddieh 6y ago
Try BigInt in JS https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
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by eddieh 6y ago
Oh dang...you're right $ csc -optimize-level 5 fib.scm $ time ./fib real 0m5.506s user 0m5.489s sys 0m0.010s I could get a few fractions of a second better playing with the stack size (4 MB was the best
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by eddieh 6y ago
This got me curious about other Scheme implementations. Chicken compiles to C $ csc fib.scm $ time ./fib real 0m8.461s user 0m8.383s sys 0m0.061s Racket has a modern JIT $ cat fib.rkt #lang racket
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by eddieh 6y ago
So we have all of these implicit URIs: robots.txt humans.txt .well-known/security.txt favicon.ico ads.txt app-ads.txt Am I missing any? Part of me thinks that the root index.html should have link or meta ta
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by eddieh 6y ago
Hmm, I thought Linus famously didn't use project infrastructure, no project management, no bug tracker—just emails and patches. Linux hasn't suffered. I'd wager Minix suffered from its original license (not really open source
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by eddieh 6y ago
Blueprints are just as easy. Draw the first two floors, put in a gap capped with squiggly lines. Label the gap "omitted" or something, then draw the top floor and roof.
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by eddieh 6y ago
Easy "The building will consist of 4Occupied floors." Especially since at the time old-style numerals were common and the number would look more like "4o" anyway. Just put a small space between the 4 and the lowercase o—
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by eddieh 6y ago
The sealed/locked-down system gives me pause, but not in the least for the size of the updates or whatever the update does that takes forever. The things that give me pause are more in line with IPC, DYLD_FRAMEWORK_PATH, the App Sandbo
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by eddieh 6y ago
Apple has been involved in the toolchain since nearly the beginning. They hired one of the original authors and sponsor its development: https://foundation.llvm.org/docs/sponsors/ Not only have the paid for it, bu
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by eddieh 6y ago
The irony is that I always had my own task list that I kept in parallel to Jira that allowed me to break a Jira issue down into subtasks, subsubtasks, down to any depth of n(sub)-tasks. The best part was that there was no "process&quot
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by eddieh 6y ago
We have that container format. It is called: TIFF
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by eddieh 6y ago
I really like the dichotomy presented in the argument that I should change my settings so scrollbars are always visible because they're ugly and not needed.
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by eddieh 6y ago
Viasat is already available and provides 12-100 Mbps service. Viasat only uses 4 satellites. HughesNet provides up to 25 Mbps service and I think has 5 satellites. Caveat: Of course I've never used either service myself, so I can not s

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