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by gecko 7y ago
I mean, I don't know what Glitch's story is, but it was really easy for us to get posts on the front page of HN back in 2010; I wrote Kiln blog posts in particular practically for this audience at times. I appreciate my persona
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by gecko 7y ago
We’ve seen a large upgrade due to the increasing interest in ligatured programming fonts that are optimized for Retina display. In that context, maybe: this is really the third entrant after Fira Code and Cascadia. But I doubt it.
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by gecko 7y ago
CGA colors were designed for display on composite; the issue is most people were using digital cables, which had the garish colors. https://youtu.be/niKblgZupOc has a great overview of what was possible.
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by gecko 7y ago
I can’t speak to the Christian one, but the Jewish one isn’t about what God says. Orthodox Judaism (which is what Mi Yodea is focused on) has a massive reference work called the Talmud, which is basically a hardcopy wiki that contains all o
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by gecko 7y ago
I've used Google Fi for years, and I've heard stories like these for years. Despite comments in this thread, I don't think these experiences are new; they're just more common now because more people are on Fi. I think th
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by gecko 7y ago
For all the issues with Google Fi (and I've had blissfully few, but I believe these stories and hear sadly too many of them), I have had zero issues going internationally with it. It just works, and it works better than T-Mobile's
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by gecko 7y ago
As noted below, no, but Bazel now officially does, if you'd like something similar (this is new as of a couple weeks ago): https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external
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by gecko 8y ago
Has anyone here actually built one of these? I've eyed this project for forever, but I've always been a bit reticent for whatever reason. I think I'm nervous that either things are sufficiently put-together before I get it th
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by gecko 8y ago
Haiku is a single-user system, so effectively any privilege escalation gets you root. That's enough right there for me to keep it off a server.
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by gecko 8y ago
I haven't been to Whole Foods much in the last few years, but their produce used to be at least as good as other supermarkets, and usually better. What are you comparing it to? Have you noticed the quality go down
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by gecko 8y ago
I've written about this before ( https://www.bitquabit.com/post/zombie-operating-systems-and-... ); we had to work around this on Kiln back in ~2010, because it meant that Unix users couldn't even access files
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by gecko 8y ago
> Also, the Squeak VM has (IIRC) limited ability to make use of true parallelism. The Squeak VM is single-threaded, OS-wise, so it's just green threads. I don't even honestly remember to what extent its green threads are preemp
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by gecko 8y ago
This was supposed to be a key aspect of the original idea for EPCOT, too: streets would be tri-level, cars on the lowest level, delivery trucks on the next level, and above-ground restricted to pedestrians. You can see https://en
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by gecko 8y ago
Has anything really changed, though? QuickLisp, I guess, but that feels like about it.
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by gecko 8y ago
NTFS actually has support for proper symbolic links, which are not the same as junction points. I come across this confusion fairly often and I'm not clear why. (`mklink /d` is what you're looking for, and do note that this i
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by gecko 8y ago
I might be missing something, but you're still relying on the BIOS to have the graphical representation of those letters. Right?
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by gecko 8y ago
Actually, it was as recently as this very week! Running with all the latest updates on a new Surface Book 2, I ran into a variation of this open issue: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/198
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by gecko 8y ago
Would I be correct that you tried WSL in late summer/fall last year? I'm asking because WSL got a pile of new syscalls, a couple of which (if I recall correctly) fixed the unicorn issue you hit. Likewise, there are now standard
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by gecko 8y ago
I'm not sure, to be honest, but I'm a bit dubious. Some things would definitely be impossible to translate with good performance, such as unsigned types, checked arithmetic, and value types. Forgetting CIL translation, code that n
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by gecko 8y ago
They’re honestly not quite miscible. I know that, when .NET came out, everyone responded with “haha they copied Java,” but the truth is that they make a pile of very different technical trade-offs. The CLR has explicit stack allocation, the
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by gecko 8y ago
Would you mind posting the video? That sounds great.
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by gecko 8y ago
Meh, it's nascent, but it's not so underpowered as to be genuinely useless: https://github.com/ajtoo/vscode-org-mode I've used it over Emacs for simple use cases without any real issues, and the projec
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by gecko 9y ago
So, first thing that's helpful to know in answering is that there is actually a schedule for the subway. For example, here's the one for the A line: http://web.mta.info/nyct/service/pdf/tacur.pdf At
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by gecko 9y ago
Heh, this reminds me of how I've always thought that, for many people in many situations, Plan 9's "yesterday" was probably an ideal version control system. This is obviously much richer than that interface, but I think
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by gecko 9y ago
Now they just need filesets and templates and I’ll mostly accept things.
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by gecko 9y ago
That's not quite correct (and neither is that StackOverflow answer). If you want to execute the EXE stored in a variable or whatnot, then yes, you need `&`, which I think is borrowed from Perl. But otherwise, the rules in PowerShel
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by gecko 9y ago
Tao/Intent/Elate (which I think is defunct nowadays) would also qualify, and I'd argue .NET on Windows with the GAC would, too (although there'll be a legitimate argument about whether that's "simple and closel
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by gecko 9y ago
Hah, yep, that looks exactly like it. I forgot how horrid it looked.
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by gecko 9y ago
This is genuinely just my two cents; please don't value it more than that. I was very active in the Mercurial community for a long time, and I'm still using it for personal stuff today. Mercurial solves issues 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6 in
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by gecko 9y ago
I think your critique of the usability of the tools is completely spot-on, but I wanted to note one thing you reminded me about here: > The bug tracker can be heavily customized, and get ready to do so, but it still has irritating limita

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