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by jeberle 1y ago
I think what's important is that the name matches on /ian/.
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by jeberle 1y ago
That is very cool. I had a similar boot disk w/ DOS 3.x and TurboPascal. It made any PC I could walk up to a complete developer box. Just to be clear, when you say "without the need for the GUI", more accurately that's &
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by jeberle 1y ago
Despite it being everyone's favorite shame language, COBOL's DATA DIVISION makes it uniquely well-suited for long-term stability. Common practice is to avoid binary fields. This means what you see in your program is what you see o
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by jeberle 1y ago
My experience w/ WSL2 and Docker Desktop has been roughly equivalent: both a little fussy, but work just fine. What was it about either one that led you to such a strong preference?
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by jeberle 1y ago
Bill Hall "Ginger Bill", the creator Odin, is a speaker on day 1.
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by jeberle 1y ago
If BasicAppleGuy is taking requests, I'd love (OK, hate) to see the progression of the XCode hammer icon. It tells a story unto itself. Once a legit carpenter's hammer, now something out of a Fisher-Price toy box. Likewise, simila
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by jeberle 1y ago
I'm surprised he didn't call out Picasso paintings as inspiration for the icon. You can look at the Finder smiley either as a face or as 90º profile, at least the right side. Given that dynamic, the new icon does look quite bad as
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by jeberle 1y ago
Interesting. My experience w/ HP-UX was in the 90s, but this (Integrity Virtual Machines) was released in 2005. I might call out FreeBSD Jails (2000) or Solaris Zones (2005) as an earlier and a more significant case respectively. I app
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by jeberle 1y ago
Ubuntu's move to uutils suggests Rust is not going anywhere.
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by jeberle 2y ago
This argument is an example of the Perfect Solution fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy#Perfect_soluti...
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by jeberle 2y ago
I recently learned of a mechanical watch that tracks the current week number on one of its outer rings. It's expensive. https://www.patek.com/en/collection/complications/5212A-001
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by jeberle 2y ago
Not sure if I'd call out Jekyll as a paragon of stability. The last time I touched it, I made sure to write up detailed notes. In fairness, it's the only time I interact w/ Ruby. https://jeberle.github.io/jeky
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by jeberle 2y ago
Java strings are byte[]'s if their contents contain only Latin-1 values (the first 256 codepoints of Unicode). This shipped in Java 9. JEP 254: Compact Strings https://openjdk.org/jeps/254
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by jeberle 2y ago
CPU instruction sets do account for signed vs unsigned integers. SHR vs SAR for example. It's part of the ISAs. I'm calling this out as AFAIK, the JVM has no support for unsigned ints and so that in turn makes WASM a little more c
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by jeberle 2y ago
Thx for this perspective and info. Regarding "signedness and floating point that closer matches hardware", I'm not seeing unsigned integers. Are they supported? I see only: > Two’s complement signed integers in 32 bits and
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by jeberle 3y ago
§3.1 Timely rejection is key. Ghosting a candidate as a sign of no-move-forward is beyond crass.
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by jeberle 4y ago
I'm happy to see Odin chose snake_case instead of camelCase. At one time Zig debated switching to snake case, but that ship has sailed [0], sadly. It seems like a small bike-shed level comment, but when I consider the code I have left
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by jeberle 15y ago
Writing an application that can support 1,000s of concurrent users (some malicious) connecting from any operating system and client program, that provides a rich user experience, and one that is read/write and backed by a database is compli
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by jeberle 15y ago
Jon Postel, a great man indeed. Perhaps I'm missing the significance, but is there _any_ reason to celebrate a 12 and a half year anniversary?
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by jeberle 16y ago
Why is it that "design" sites have the worst design? Yes, please be sure to destroy the page margins, and set a min width on the page so that I have to scroll horizontally to read the end of lines. Classic.
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by jeberle 16y ago
... and Simon Peyton-Jones (Haskell)
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by jeberle 16y ago
False. Einstein was an agnostic. The quote is roughly accurate, but the god is an abstraction, the maker of physical constants & such. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein%27s_religious_v...
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by jeberle 16y ago
I can only speak for myself. Give it a day or two, and it will quickly become as transparent as your editing sessions. Once you cut over, you can forget about chording and arrow keys. Just one key: <Esc>.
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by jeberle 16y ago
It's odd that his 2nd tip is "Learn Vim" and then goes on to describe all the bash/readline keystrokes in Emacs mode. $ set -o vi
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What Steve Jobs' Body Language Means for Apple Stock(minyanville.com)
6 points by jeberle 16y ago|1 comments
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by jeberle 16y ago
Looks like a trainwreck w/ K-Meleon, plus it chews major CPU cycles. Ah, the web...
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by jeberle 16y ago
You should spend some time w/ FreeBSD.
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by jeberle 16y ago
It had better boot fast. CP/M makes you reboot every time you swap a disk. Note, you could make the same case for an IBM PC with two 5.25" drives (DOS).
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by jeberle 16y ago
A former boss of mine had a simple rule: you can't complain unless you can suggest an alternative. It was a great source of ideas.
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by jeberle 16y ago
26. $ ~<Ctrl-Z> # suspend current SSH session Very useful.

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