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by jsrcout 11mo ago
Firefox profiles have worked really well for me for years. I only have two complaints. (a) I like to configure my tools, and setting prefs via user.js has just never really worked - anything there is ignored. Probably it's just because
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by jsrcout 11mo ago
Absolutely.
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by jsrcout 1y ago
From my own experience, Think Pascal was fantastic for the time. MPW was serious and high-powered stuff for pro development on a late 80s/early 90s microcomputer; used it professionally for 2 or 3 years and loved it. Never tried the ot
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by jsrcout 1y ago
Same here, scroll bars are literally the one missing feature keeping me from making Ghostty my daily driver. But the release notes roadmap mentions they will add them for 1.3. Waiting with anticipation.
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by jsrcout 1y ago
I've always set controls like an airplane stick - "pull back" to look up, "push forward" to look down. And could never get the hang of the opposite mapping. It literally never occurred to me that it was like aiming
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by jsrcout 1y ago
I'm pretty similar. It's my hope that programmers as such will remain in demand long enough for the majority of people currently doing it for a living to finish out their careers. Though I may be too optimistic about that. And I e
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by jsrcout 1y ago
> it should be easy to reassemble the components in a different way An underappreciated value. I call this composability and it is one of my primary software development goals.
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by jsrcout 1y ago
> 3. The FDAI's signals are more complicated than I described above. Among > other things, the IMU's gimbal angles use a different coordinate system from > the FDAI, so an electromechanical unit called GASTA (Gim
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by jsrcout 1y ago
I love this so much.
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by jsrcout 2y ago
Depends on who wrote it. My own Perl code, and plenty I've seen, is extremely clean and readable; sadly, a lot isn't. I'm sure clean and readable C++ exists, but the stuff I have to work with - big codebases with tons of hist
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by jsrcout 2y ago
I work with a lot of embedded and embedded-adjacent software, and even I think several of these rules are too much. Having said that, Holzmann's rules are from 2006, and embedded / space qualified hardware has improved quite a bit
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by jsrcout 2y ago
I aliased ls to ls -A ages ago. While of course this doesn't solve any specific problems, it keeps one much more aware of what all's floating around in your home directory dotfiles.
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by jsrcout 2y ago
Same thing in my small WV hometown. Gorgeous building, too.
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by jsrcout 2y ago
"In the Apple II ROMs, I even stuck in my own floating point routine. It wasn't incorporated into the BASIC, but I just didn't want the world thinking I couldn't write floating point routines." -- Steve Wozniak [0]
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by jsrcout 2y ago
I worked at place in the late 90s where that was true, at least for anything Internet related. We were doing (oh so primitive by today's standards...) Web development and it happened so many times. I'd call downstairs and they&#x2
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by jsrcout 2y ago
In my experience people use it to mean "old crap that we can't get rid of (yet)".
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by jsrcout 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Immortal_Life_of_Henrietta...
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by jsrcout 2y ago
Composability is a sadly underrated concept, at least for code with a longer expected lifespan. A lot of good things fall out from keeping one eye on it while designing / developing / maintaining.
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by jsrcout 2y ago
> We had three architects who spent their time finding near future problems and making sure they didn't happen. I want this.
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by jsrcout 2y ago
What a fantastic idea. You should absolutely write this.
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by jsrcout 2y ago
I dunno, this sounds like it might actually be useful. (Haven't read the paper yet).
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by jsrcout 2y ago
Agree. "Defaults matter".
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by jsrcout 2y ago
I, too, was shocked to learn this. I only learned about it fairly recently, from my older brother who read a book from the school library on it as a child: Nine Who Survived Hiroshima & Nagasaki Hardcover – January 1, 1957 https:/
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by jsrcout 2y ago
The codebase I've been working in lately is mostly pre-77 FORTRAN, maintained as such for all this time. "Stuck in the past" is an apt description.
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by jsrcout 2y ago
What a wondrous book. So many hilarious anecdotes. Tom Quartz the mining cat. The escaped tarantulas. The retired Admiral. But it's not just the little stories. His characters, the comical exaggerations, his poking fun at his younger a
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by jsrcout 2y ago
Same here. Made the money working for my home builder dad in the summer. I still have it - need to check if it still runs.
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by jsrcout 2y ago
I'm so sorry. We were using it in the late 90s, and on a monthly basis it would be down for a day or two while the admin plunged out the database. Good times.
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by jsrcout 2y ago
This is so interesting. As a test, I wonder if you could make something out of Legos without any issues if you blocked your vision so you couldn't see them or your hands. Guessing that that you could.
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by jsrcout 2y ago
This was such a great game. Many fond memories.
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by jsrcout 2y ago
I don't know the names, but I recall there was a large Polish contribution to Allied codebreaking in WWII.

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