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by finaard 3y ago
I still have a section on my homepage about how to create and flash custom ROMs for the Palm Vx - and somewhat surprisingly, I still now and then get emails from people asking for help with that.
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by finaard 3y ago
I was living through that era with a zoo of Unix variants to build for (including, but not limited to, AIX, HP-UX, Solaris, IRIS, Tru64 and various Linux flavours) - and I always was excited about stuff that did just have hand rolled Makefi
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by finaard 3y ago
Problem is that you have a wide range of makes with different syntax. It has gotten better nowadays where GNU make is available pretty much everywhere, but two decades ago you'd have a range of incompatible makes on different UNIX syst
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by finaard 3y ago
> Perhaps it was a good idea 30 years ago when we were actually building for dozens of 'unstable' variants of UNIX with a dozen compilers It wasn't. Back then what was typically getting in your way for porting a piece of s
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by finaard 3y ago
I recently got a m3 macbook pro (mainly because the general notebook market has been shit for a decade now, I needed to replace my more than a decade old one, and there's pretty much nothing apart from apple which is relatively small,
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by finaard 3y ago
They used to have an auto organize plugin which was doing that very well - but sadly it is no longer maintained (and no longer working on current versions). I did have quite a few things not correctly recognized with Plex which went away af
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by finaard 3y ago
A lot of the office stuff can be handled by templates that allow only editing relevant parts - there's not really a need for majority of office workers to have access (and needing to know) all the features of an Office suite. Over two
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by finaard 3y ago
We'd usually put the tests in a subpackage so it can be installed and run on devices later on.
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by finaard 3y ago
Unfortunately that's "industry standard" nowadays. I lost count how often I had that discussion over the last two decades. Just look at stuff like pip, npm or pretty much any "modern" package manager in use by devel
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by finaard 3y ago
It's pretty common to run tests on CI after building to verify your particular setup doesn't break stuff. Last time we were doing that we were preferring git upstream, though, and generated autocrap as needed - I never liked the i
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by finaard 3y ago
Friend used to run his webservers on Amigas about two decades ago, back in a time where the time of hooking up an unpatched Windows system to a 100MBit connection would have it infected before you could start updating it. "Of course th
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by finaard 3y ago
To me the article read more that PostgreSQL might have been the better choice from the beginning - but due to lack of experience in the team MongoDB was "good enough" at that point.
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by finaard 3y ago
> Cloud services are costly but in most cases you'll pay similar cost in terms of time and in some cases lot more if you pick something complex that you don't know about. Even just something like EC2 instances is costly - and a
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by finaard 3y ago
Also: No bootstrapping rustc from source. There are a bunch of projects trying to get that fixed, but currently pretty much everybody relies on binaries coming from upstream. Having a core infrastructure component like nginx rely on a compi
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by finaard 3y ago
I had my emacs setup to edit LotusScript (one of the scripting options for Lotus Notes), which is close enough to VB that it could handle the occasional file - this was a new codebase, though, so it made sense to just start with C#. That wa
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by finaard 3y ago
I've found chatgpt to be pretty good at generating passive agressive responses to emails (at least it was when I've been playing with it a year ago) - maybe just ask it (or llama, that also does it quite well) to draft a reply to
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by finaard 3y ago
I had a customer request a project that required C# due to a few fancy dependencies they had purchased back in 2008 - which was my first proper contact with .NET. I got frustrated with the Visual Studio UI after a few hours, and switched to
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by finaard 3y ago
I've found lsp-mode to troublesome to configure for what it provided, and occasionally getting in the way, so with emacs 29 I just moved to the integrated eglot. Not that I'm using it much, though - I've found it marginally u
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by finaard 3y ago
We're now at Emacs 29. I've been following the threads stuff back then out of curiosity - but never seen it as game changer, as most of the annoyances where stuff hangs could just be solved by using async methods. I just went over
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by finaard 3y ago
> Is piracy easier? Legality aside you need a seed box, membership to specific sites, and VPN. Which can add up to more than $30/month just to download pirated content. Not to mention the time investment in figuring out how to get t
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by finaard 3y ago
Almost 10 years ago - when I bought our current 50" TV - one reason was that large computer screens were unaffordable, bad to look at from angles, or both. I recently checked, and seems nowadays you'd be able to get decently large
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by finaard 3y ago
Pretty much all rumors at that time were very entertainingly wrong. I think at the time that article got published we didn't even have the intel devboards distributed (that is a screen and macroboards, way before it starts looking like
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by finaard 3y ago
Since roughly the first year of covid the supply generally has been quite bad. Yes, I can get _some_ xeon or epyc from HPE quickly, but if I care about specific specs it's also a several month long wait. For midsized servers (up to abo
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by finaard 3y ago
Not quite true - the intel projects were at a pretty early stage when Elop took over, and the whole Microsoft thing happened - and the projects got canned as part of the cleanup and moving to Windows for the phones. The CPUs were indeed hor
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by finaard 3y ago
In the late 90s I switched from metager to google as it was just significantly better at locating what you was searching for. I'm now back with metager as it nowadays is significantly better at locating what I'm searching for.
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by finaard 3y ago
Even worse - it's not uncommon to give the pasta a short rinse with cold water to make them "les sticky", and then complain the sauce isn't sticking.
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by finaard 3y ago
Would be interesting to know which applications actually have problems with v6 - the example with directly using a v4 IP is more a user error, not an application issue. I pretty much stopped submitting patches enabling v6 functionality to v
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by finaard 5y ago
At least in Germany (possibly also other European countries) a design pattern only loading Facebook/Twitter/Youtube/... content with explicit user consent is nowadays pretty common.