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by endgame 2y ago
I tried to use muon once and immediately discovered that it rejects passing a dict to the project() function, does not support cross-compilation, and a few other things I consider important. I hope it continues to close the gap. But also, I
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by endgame 2y ago
This is a great list, and it's good to see a counterpoint to the autobashing that's trendy these days. One additional point: autotools are bootstrappable without going all the way up to C++ (CMake, ninja) or Python (meson). And ye
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by endgame 2y ago
The fax is a good trick, but my favourite story of this type involves a hand-written hex editor and many, many, hours of copying bytes by hand: http://www.oocities.org/zztexpert/docs/upoprgv4.html
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by endgame 2y ago
Strange, I wasn't informed.
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by endgame 2y ago
It's fun for silly stuff, but I've definitely been on enough slow links that I wouldn't put it in a serious tool. EDIT: Don't get me wrong, I think it's really cool, but I wouldn't use it as a universal hammer.
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by endgame 2y ago
I feel like this "missing middle" is common to a lot of language communities these days. Devs writing for themselves are often happy to make cool TUIs, and devs writing for "end users" are often writing webapps.
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by endgame 2y ago
It was bad enough during the Win10 upgrade cycle that these sorts of memes were going around a lot: https://img.devrant.com/devrant/rant/r_13598_vFV77.jpg It has since become even worse. Forcing users onto cloud a
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by endgame 2y ago
This literally happened with tetraethyl lead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr . > On October 30, 1924, Midgley participated in a press conference to demonstrate the apparent safety of TEL, in which he
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by endgame 2y ago
His site makes him sound happy enough with his work and where he's ended up, but sometimes I wonder whether he should've ended up as well-known as Carmack or Sweeney.
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by endgame 2y ago
C99 is a stable target for writing bootstrappable software: there are multiple mature compiler implementations, at least one of which is bootstrappable down to hex0, and the bootstrap chain is not too long.
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by endgame 2y ago
This is one of the best technical books I have ever read. Having evolving code and a running program at the end of each chapter is an incredible vision, and props to the author for pulling it off. I skimmed the tree-walking interpreter as I
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by endgame 2y ago
Linux is still here.
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by endgame 2y ago
https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/03/31/encryption-debate-i... > In 2018, the heads of Australia’s law enforcement and intelligence agencies were given broad powers by the Telecommunications and Other Leg
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by endgame 2y ago
What an absolute bloody rort by the publishers, reducing their production/transport/storage costs while jacking up the prices for the libraries and turning them into subscribers. Despicable.
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by endgame 2y ago
On top of all of that, nobody's going to revise the book out from under me while I'm reading it, or prevent me from loaning it to a friend, or even yanking it entirely from my device.
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by endgame 2y ago
Excellent hack. It makes me happy to see that the hacker spirit is still alive.
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by endgame 2y ago
CoMI felt to me like a game made by Monkey Island fans, rather than coming from an original place. I don't mean that it's a fangame, but that SoMI 1 and 2 had been out long enough that people had played them, gone into the industr
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by endgame 2y ago
I wouldn't say that, no. Especially not for people just getting started and who don't want massive surprise bills.
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by endgame 2y ago
Best you can do with AWS AIUI is set a billing alarm on your account, and hook it up to an SNS topic, and subscribe your email address to that topic.
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by endgame 2y ago
I have fond memories of using SYSLINUX + MEMDISK to make DOS bootdisks which loaded themselves into RAM. Mostly to play games in the library.
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by endgame 3y ago
Seems like a rediscovery of "pure functions" from the FP world?
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by endgame 3y ago
From a first look, signals seem to parallel event/behaviour-style functional reactive programming (FRP). Hopefully some useful ideas from the FRP world can be brought across.
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by endgame 3y ago
Because that worked so well for OpenID. If you're lucky, you have the choice of which BigTech account you can use.
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by endgame 3y ago
What increases my privacy more is paying with cash.
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by endgame 3y ago
Not surprised at all to see the author on here. Your book is marvelous. I demolished your book on a flight a few years back, thoroughly enjoyed it, and was sad that it was all over so quickly (both the book, and the phreaking era). It has a
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by endgame 3y ago
https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/high-quality-nix-conte... This sort of twenty-minute adventure?
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by endgame 3y ago
And, given what MS did to Stacker[1], competing probably would not have gone well. [1]: https://tedium.co/2018/09/04/disk-compression-stacker-double...
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by endgame 3y ago
https://codeium.com/blog/copilot-trains-on-gpl-codeium-does-...
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by endgame 3y ago
His follow-up book on Doom is also a fantastic read.
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by endgame 3y ago
Early GNU seemed to be very worried that people would go after them for copying proprietary UNIX source. The GNU Coding Standards at https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Reading-No... suggest: > If

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