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by eschaton 2y ago
And yet it would still work out for Linux if musl, glibc, et al just adopted `API_VERSION_MIN` and `API_VERSION_MAX` macros themselves, it doesn’t actually have to be handled entirely at the `-isysroot` level.
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by eschaton 2y ago
It’s entirely opt-in, Apple doesn’t force it. If you just do `cc mything.c -o mything` you get a binary whose minimum required OS is the version of the SDK you built it against, just as with any other UNIX-like OS. It’s just giving the deve
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by eschaton 2y ago
The way this was handled on Mac OS X for `off_t` and `ino_t` might provide some insight: The existing calls and structures using the types retained their behavior, new calls and types with `64` suffixes were added, and you could use a prepr
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by eschaton 2y ago
It could also mean a lot of people are misattributing their utility.
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by eschaton 2y ago
It’s certainly been my experience with the technology.
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by eschaton 2y ago
“I hope some false humility makes the attention being currently given to the awfulness of my beliefs go away, that kind of attention makes it much harder to spread them covertly.”
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Curtis Yarvin: The Philosopher Behind J. D. Vance, Part 1 (YouTube)(youtube.com)
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by eschaton 2y ago
It’s not like OS-level features and improvements aren’t in every release—Apple’s been talking about them since WWDC in developer channels . Read the release notes.
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by eschaton 2y ago
It wasn’t even to push people to the military, but literally to ensure “the wrong people” had more difficulty getting a university education—Reagan’s people came up with it as a reaction to Vietnam War protests.
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by eschaton 2y ago
They were; their main point of connection was at the OS level, as Accent on PERQ begat Mach, and Andrew originally ran atop CMU’s Mach+BSD environment (MK+UX). That let it take advantage of features such as Mach IPC and dynamic loading of s
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by eschaton 2y ago
System 6 isn’t substantially different from System 1 when it comes to type though, unless you install the Adobe Type Manager or TrueType extensions of course.
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by eschaton 2y ago
Time for them to release the source code then.
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by eschaton 2y ago
Well, he adapted Clascal & Object Pascal from Lisa & Macintosh to the DOS/Windows PC world, and added a couple features from CLOS to turn it into Delphi, and married that with Sun’s C++-syntax bytecode-compiled variant of Objec
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by eschaton 2y ago
A baseline Mac wasn’t any more expensive than the competition (IBM), it just wasn’t inexpensive like Commodore, Atari, and PC clones. Apple also had essentially the same price structure for decades, while PC clones raced to the bottom on bo
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by eschaton 2y ago
You used Apple Pascal on the Apple II, not the Mac, and it wasn’t actually free but a couple hundred dollars a seat. It was based on UCSD Pascal, as were many implementations at the time, but it was a commercial product and one used by many
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by eschaton 2y ago
If you get or do a full build of MAME they’re just in it. Try the `dn3500` system. ROMs will be wherever you get MAME ROMs and Domain/OS install tape images are on Bitsavers.
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by eschaton 2y ago
The difference is that there were 128MB quad-CPU Apollo DN10000 systems purchased, delivered, and installed at customer sites. They were used for things like VLSI design and simulation, so a US$250000 system was actually worthwhile—especi
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by eschaton 2y ago
Yes, MAME emulates the DN3500 era hardware mostly acceptably. Setup instructions are available online but reference MESS since they were written before MESS was merged back into MAME.
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by eschaton 2y ago
To a first approximation none of it is, because it’s drowned out by the absurdly massive amounts of piracy. When it comes to text-only groups there’s still some spam but a lot of it is cranks howling into the void about their insane world v
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by eschaton 2y ago
Ah, yes, I must be a C++ advocate who has never used a “modern JIT language.” I’ve actually been using them since before the term “JIT” was in common use, just like I used C++ before it had templates or exceptions. Incremental compile time
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by eschaton 2y ago
And all because they fundamentally believe that their development time and expense is worth way more than their customer’s time and expense.
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by eschaton 2y ago
UIKit is actually nearly 20 years old and AppKit is getting close to 40…
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by eschaton 2y ago
If instead of insisting on custom UI styling the author just used the system UI, they could probably build a pretty straightforward Windows application. It’s the scourge of “brand identity” that has people thinking graphical applications ar
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by eschaton 2y ago
I don’t have a philosophical problem with LLMs. I have a problem with treating LLMs as something other than what they are: Predictive text generators. There’s no understanding beneath that which informs the generation, just compression tech
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by eschaton 2y ago
I think she doesn’t care about it enough to hold it in contempt except insofar as it represents an asset of Paul’s that hasn’t been converted into money.
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by eschaton 2y ago
The topic is using an LLM to learn a codebase one doesn’t understand. Does that sound like a codebase that has names and comments from which a full description could be inferred?
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by eschaton 2y ago
Boy it sure is useful that you can trust code you don’t understand to have clear variable names and comments for the LLM to key off of.
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by eschaton 2y ago
Money and an absolute disinterest in anything Paul cared about.
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by eschaton 2y ago
What makes you think autocomplete on steroids with no internal reasoning capability or representation of knowledge would be at all useful for inferring intent? Or have you been fooled into thinking an LLM is something like Eurisko/Cyc?
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by eschaton 2y ago
“Drop by my office with a tape” probably would’ve referred to DECtape (TK50), the ancestor of DLT. That and QIC-24 were the sorts of tapes one would carry between offices in those days; TK50 was extremely common in the DEC world and QIC-2

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