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631.
by eschaton 5y ago
The poster you’re responding to may know and agree with all this as well, and that could be why they hold the position they do: They may be opposed to society changing.
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by eschaton 5y ago
This is how grocers used to work in the US too.
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by eschaton 5y ago
The people who develop macOS, iOS, et al are also users of those systems. It’s pretty awesome actually.
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by eschaton 5y ago
Why do you assume running a bunch or GNU utilities and Linux chroots (“containers”) is something developers need generally? Only developers working on specific things and working in pretty specific ways will need that. Maybe that’s a lot of
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by eschaton 5y ago
That rice and those nuts are mostly exported for profit, not needed for subsistence.
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by eschaton 5y ago
The article lost me with the claim that there’s some sort of “push to de-emphasize STEM.” As near as I can tell, they think this is something recent, but in my experience it started in the 1970s and the emphasis on increasing emphasis on
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by eschaton 5y ago
This is the reality on Darwin-based platforms: If you use an API that was introduced before a certain OS version, you can weak-link the framework or dylib that it’s in, and just not call it, and your code will load and execute just fine wit
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by eschaton 5y ago
Nah, it’s just obstinance. Providing a stable kernel driver ABI would not actually be difficult, but when you’ve dug in your heels about it for 25 years admitting just how obviously and blatantly wrong you were can be difficult.
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by eschaton 5y ago
Mezzano even demonstrates this by being a working operating system written in Common Lisp for x86-64 and arm64.
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by eschaton 5y ago
It’s the same idea—it’s just as much “Lisp all the day down” as Genera but targeting commodity hardware.
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by eschaton 6y ago
There are a lot of people who in fact do consider “research” that comes out of social media companies to be both ethically and, in many cases, procedurally tainted, and thus unusable and unpublishable as-is.
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by eschaton 6y ago
Intentional misrepresentation that causes harm is commonly referred to as “fraud.”
643.
by eschaton 6y ago
The California law banning non-compete agreements was passed in the 1800s.
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by eschaton 6y ago
It’s unfortunate that dbus is used instead of a kernel-level IPC mechanism; despite how difficult it is to work with directly, Mach IPC is one of the hidden gems of NEXTSTEP through the Darwin family of platforms.
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by eschaton 6y ago
Or the objectors understood it quite well, and their true objection is that being held accountable for bigoted or violent rhetoric might actually affect them or others they care about, or may reduce the spread of ideologies with which the a
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by eschaton 6y ago
Well, they were eventually “persecuted” in Holland the same way they were “persecuted” in England: They weren’t allowed to impose their religious rules on others. That’s the “persecution” they “fled.”
647.
by eschaton 6y ago
It’s curious that you think these norms are not widely held.
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by eschaton 6y ago
The US Supreme Court just recently struck this down in a first amendment case, where a university said “Hey, we changed the rules, you now have no standing to sue.” The Supreme Court said “There was still damage, so they still have a cause
649.
by eschaton 6y ago
Most advertising literally attempts to hack an audience’s brains, which everyone should instantly recognize as being black-hat.
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by eschaton 6y ago
What would be wrong with having the people maintaining the national communications network employed by the national government?
651.
by eschaton 6y ago
Strange, my Octane, O2, and Indigo2 don’t really feel limited by running the operating system that was developed specifically for them.
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by eschaton 6y ago
The HP-Apollo 9000-425e was in fact the last “true” Apollo in that it was the last system released that could run Domain/OS. If you still have the system, you can emulate an Apollo keyboard and mouse now using an Arduino or something,
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by eschaton 6y ago
One could always look at the Domain Engineering manuals and the data structures described therein and the rest of the APIs and docs and reimplement it. That’s basically what Comer did with Xinu, Tanenbaum did with Minix, Linus did with Linu
654.
by eschaton 6y ago
They should get together and form an organization that can negotiate with the bank on their behalf, all “unified” if you will.
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by eschaton 6y ago
How does LFortran compare to flang?
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by eschaton 6y ago
This ruling isn’t actually a ruling on a speech issue. Rather it’s a ruling on whether changing a policy is sufficient to moot a claim of harm under that policy. The majority made the common-sense ruling that simply changing a policy does
657.
by eschaton 6y ago
Did you ever wonder why your TV was only $1500?
658.
by eschaton 6y ago
Not really, the basis for the desktop metaphor came from research done at IBM, and it was very extensively revised at Apple for Lisa. (See “Inventing the Lisa User Interface” from ACM Interactions in 1995.)
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by eschaton 6y ago
VC types tend to be politically conservative? Cf. Andreesen’s “I just turned 40 so now I guess I’m a Republican now” bullshit.
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by eschaton 6y ago
Please don’t call this “Symbolics,” that name is already taken by the Lisp Machine vendor that had its own excellent CAS, Maxima, derived from the original MACSYMA at MIT.

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