exikyut

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by exikyut 5y ago
No, but there is now, "thanks" to Electron :P More specifically, HN would use less RAM than VSC would to open a .txt file. Eh, not bad. not good; we don't know what the new goalpost positions mean yet.
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by exikyut 5y ago
This is probably exactly how things would work 20 years after the Idiocracy epoch.
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by exikyut 5y ago
> I've worked on most of the advanced technologies in use today over the last few decades The "war stories for hours" is very strong with this statement, I feel. I figure that a lot of them can sadly never be told :( but
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by exikyut 5y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27880920
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by exikyut 5y ago
Potentially interesting: https://github.com/siara-cc/sqlite_micro_logger_arduino https://github.com/siara-cc/sqlite_micro_logger_arduino/blob... This is a heavily subsetted implementation of
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by exikyut 5y ago
As someone naive to Red myself, I just read through the 5 different compile methods mentioned in the parent comment, and while that's quite a bit more than other languages offer, it seems to offer an interesting set of tradeoffs that b
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by exikyut 5y ago
Wait what. So basically no more NTVDM now, forevermore? :(
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by exikyut 5y ago
[Scroll] Nothing listed there is half as long as this piano.
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by exikyut 5y ago
Hmm, maybe try figuring out what things he likes and/or can engage in without effort - whatever he can do well without thinking. And maybe track this over time. Borrowing the analogy of HDD/SSD corruption, which can impact critica
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by exikyut 5y ago
<meta name="generator" content="CMS Tool www.cms-tool.net" />
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by exikyut 5y ago
I wonder if browser engines are a strategic asset? [Gestures at IE vs Netscape] [Gestures at Chromebooks which 99% of population never run Edge or Firefox on] (Yes, "the fight" is between Google and Apple now, but still...)
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by exikyut 5y ago
Out of (probably overoptimistic :) ) curiosity, what do you see are the critical paths?
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by exikyut 5y ago
Wha... halfway down the second page (second bullet point) there's the note that > *It's MacOS, but certain APIs are no longer supported. [...] They are also dropping support for stupid things like publish and subscribe." I
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by exikyut 5y ago
A counterpoint to the "they run Windows" sentiment here: I accidentally left Xvnc open with no password while doing "a quick thing" on my VPS. Presumably an automated scan eventually found it (after a few weeks or so). I
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by exikyut 5y ago
Here's my bigger-picture explanation of why, expressed as a set of consecutive counterpoints: 1. I initially found it curious that https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13718752 ("Cloudflare proxies are dumping uni
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by exikyut 5y ago
Indeed, the vast majority of comments written here maintain an extremely high standard of grammar, and can thus be trusted as first-class news and information. </intuition>
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by exikyut 5y ago
Interesting! Thanks very much for the info. Now to find the other lifts out there with controllers from around the same time period that operate similarly... :)
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by exikyut 5y ago
Aliexpress with venture backing from /dev/urandom
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by exikyut 5y ago
I honestly wonder whether the people who make these things are having the time of their lives or in some kind of idea-sweat-factory trying to come up with things all day and burning out quickly.
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by exikyut 5y ago
[Meanwhile at Facebook] "Wait no"
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by exikyut 5y ago
It's almost that the more senior you are, the less you get to do the "poor planning on your part does not necessitate an emergency on mine" thing.
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by exikyut 5y ago
"What's this 'sek-u-rity' thing?" "I don't know. Wow what do all these words in capital letters mean?" "Oh that doesn't matter. As long as you use the same words in the deliverable repo
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by exikyut 5y ago
[ Woops, I went into GPT-3 mode. I'm really bad at rambling concisely, and fitting the result into a couple of comfortably short paragraphs. :/ ] Thing was, Alley Cat was the only (interesting) game on the machine in question.
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by exikyut 5y ago
This sounds like an awesome idea, and I immediately began musing over the idea of a world in which it was globally illegal to send mass messages anywhere in the world without an initial opt-in. Sadly, I immediately realized that if such a l
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by exikyut 5y ago
It definitely made it a real strain. In the end I closed the tab out of sheer disinterest.
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by exikyut 5y ago
So you'd hold down all 3 buttons at once, or press them in a specific sequence, or...? When you did this, did the floor indicator show anything different? And where (what country) was this?
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by exikyut 5y ago
There's a jsfiddle link to semi-interactive demo at the end of the article: https://jsfiddle.net/4urdtahx/ My eyes cannot sweep-read the result at all, and I also can't fully disambiguate enough characters in
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by exikyut 5y ago
....Facepalm. I tried the arrow keys, which didn't work.
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by exikyut 5y ago
[The entire Internet notices]
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by exikyut 5y ago
Awesome/you're welcome - and ouch. I remember removing DoubleSpace from CONFIG.SYS (didn't have enough free diskspace to upgrade to DriveSpace) and discovering an empty C: drive with just a very large DBLSPACE.BIN in it. Or..

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