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by jmmv 4y ago
Why? No, seriously, why do you think you have to switch if you are productive with VSCode? I used to be all in with Vim and then Emacs many years ago. I can manage pretty well with both to this day. But I moved onto VSCode a few years ago a
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by jmmv 4y ago
To each their own, but know that you are stuck with a really old version of bash if you do that, and it has some “interesting” bugs in it. See something I wrote a little while ago on this topic: https://jmmv.dev/2019/11
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by jmmv 4y ago
I think this is what Radiopaper ( https://radiopaper.com/ ) is what it’s trying to solve. Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31210680
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by jmmv 4y ago
As I read somewhere recently: At 20, you worry about what others think about yourself. At 40, you don’t care what others think about yourself. At 60, you realize that nobody was thinking about yourself anyway. Pretty liberating when you fac
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by jmmv 4y ago
Add your npm directories to the virus file exclusion lists of Windows Defender. Note that some of the directories may not be obvious (those under AppData for example). The speed improvements are massive for tools like these that touch lots
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by jmmv 4y ago
I see FreeBSD was mentioned in a different comment, but I’ll cast a vote for NetBSD. The kernel abstractions that allow for portability make the code quite easy to read. Back in the day, I was able to write a file system from scratch by jus
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by jmmv 4y ago
I have a Surface Go 2. It’s bigger than the GPD but still small and lightweight enough that I carry it everywhere “just in case”. Even if it’s not the most comfortable machine to code on due to keyboard constraints and general speed limitat
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by jmmv 4y ago
Stuff You Should Know is my favorite. I don’t think I’ve seen it mentioned here yet: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-269... Their cousin Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know is also entertaining.
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by jmmv 4y ago
My daily driver at home is a Mac Pro 2013, on which I run Windows 10 with these steps: https://jmmv.dev/2022/03/windows-10-mac-pro-2013.html It could definitely be faster, but it’s fast enough for almost everythin
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by jmmv 4y ago
This reminds me of how I was described self-driving cars at some point: yes, they are a great invention, but actually… they would not have been possible without many more other inventions happening earlier: GPS, digital maps, route mapping
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by jmmv 4y ago
I know it’s not the same, but if you are looking for a small form factor with a real OS, consider the Surface Go 3. I have the 2 and have really enjoyed it so far. Not the fastest thing in the world as you would expect, but I have even done
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by jmmv 4y ago
Interesting theory, but I don't recall this happening. As other commenters are saying, there were indeed patent-related issues around FAT and the like, and huge interoperability problems with NTFS (to name one, but that's irreleva
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by jmmv 4y ago
I ran Warp 3 on a 386DX 40Mhz with 8MB of RAM. It wasn’t the fastest thing ever, but I recall it behaving better than Windows 95. My next computer was a Pentium MMX 166 with 16? 32? MB of RAM and the thing flew there.
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by jmmv 4y ago
Is that right? I don’t remember 3.51 as being the thing that made OS/2 go away. (I don’t recall ever seeing it and NT 4.0 was also not super-common.) Sure, NT was the right technology to do so, but my recollection is that Windows 95 is
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by jmmv 4y ago
Thanks for the links! Will definitely watch :)
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Down the memory lane with OS/2 (2020)(jmmv.dev)
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by jmmv 4y ago
Agree with the premise of the article: changelogs—or rather, news files—are not the commit history. Describing the changes between releases at a high level is super important but also a skill that’s hard to acquire. I thought I had written
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by jmmv 4y ago
Oh wow, thanks for the tip! Had no idea this existed.
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by jmmv 4y ago
Hello, I’m blah blah and I’m very happy to assist you. I understand you’re having problems with copy-paste-of-what-you-wrote. I’m an expert in copy-paste so I’ll gladly explain what to do here. Have you tried turning it off and on again? It
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by jmmv 4y ago
I went through the process of de-Googling my life a few months ago after the announcement that the free tier of GAFYD was finally going away. I had been wanting to do the change for years but postponing it out of laziness, and that was the
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Windows Terminal Themes(windowsterminalthemes.dev)
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The Regolith Desktop Environment(regolith-desktop.com)
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by jmmv 4y ago
A pretty “similar” article (in spirit?) I wrote a few years back: https://jmmv.dev/2019/11/macos-sandbox-exec.html
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by jmmv 4y ago
This. I only really started using Office about a year ago (after decades of being off Windows)… and… what a mess. I remember the ribbon being touted as “the next big thing” in UI design when it came out but I just don’t see how that makes a
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by jmmv 4y ago
I remember Windows 95 getting a ton of heat for moving the graphics subsystem into the kernel and how that made the system unstable and unsafe and blah blah blah. What I don’t remember was the reception to KMS from this same group of folks
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Being native Windows and OS/2 (2017)(malsmith.net)
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https://www.endbasic.dev/about.html#retro
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Making that demo was tough but pretty rewarding in the end! I ended up featuring it in the About page of the site because it’s a great intro to what EndBASIC is supposed to be :D
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by jmmv 4y ago
I know, I know. And the Amstrad I had with Locomotive Basic only had 128k of RAM and (as I read now) 48kb of ROM -- yet it fit the whole language in there, which was more complete than what EndBASIC currently offers. But things have changed
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by jmmv 4y ago
Because at the onset of the project, I favored implementing structured programming constructs (if, while, for) and ended up with an AST evaluator for the execution engine, which makes it hard to retrofit GOTOs in it. Some form of jumping or

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