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by khaledh 4y ago
> WSLg is limited to Win11 though WSLg added support for Windows 10 recently. Run `wsl --update` to get the latest version.
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by khaledh 4y ago
Don't downgrade to Windows 11 (yes, it's a downgrade from my point of view). Windows 11 is very hostile to users. You can read my list of pain points with Windows 11 in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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by khaledh 4y ago
Agreed. It's the same when someone packages the Linux kernel + some user space apps and calls it a "new Operating System".
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by khaledh 4y ago
Arabic version: - Hady bady - Kromb Zabady - Shalo Hatto - Kollo Alady Literal translation: - One-er Start-er - Cabbage Yugort - They lift up, They put down - Everything on this one
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by khaledh 4y ago
If you're interested, you can find a link below to Kathleen Booth's original report from 1947 titled "Coding for A.R.C." (authored with her -later- husband Andrew Booth)[0]. It details how coding is done for that machine
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So! You want to use Multics? (1979) [pdf](bitsavers.org)
15 points by khaledh 4y ago|5 comments
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by khaledh 4y ago
I'm 47 years old, I'm a staff data engineer, and the fire in me to solve problems through programming is as strong as ever, and I expect it to last until I retire. I have zero interest in managing people, but I enjoy working with
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by khaledh 4y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. But those are distributed systems aids. What I'm looking for is something that ca be applied to any large scale system, even if it's a monolith.
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by khaledh 4y ago
Interesting when you put it this way. > people have found that having hierarchically composable uniform abstractions is a more effective approach for large-scale system design than creating specialized concepts ... Well, I can understand
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Ask HN: Are there any languages for programming-in-the-large?
9 points by khaledh 4y ago|12 comments
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It's up again, but response is slower than usual.
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by khaledh 4y ago
I've seen this one before, but never tried it. I'll give it a try. Thanks!
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For me, the zero news diet would be really hard to apply to HN. Any suggestions (in addition to noprocrast)?
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For me it's bitsavers.org. It's a treasure trove of old computer manuals and publications. I'm always fascinated by the original ideas and products that had a lasting impact on how things are done today.
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> All I really look forward to these days is getting high and playing video games or watching Seinfeld reruns each weekend. I'm not a therapist, but getting high might be interfering with your enjoyment of other things, since it inc
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by khaledh 4y ago
I use paperless-ng hosted on a small VM on DigitalOcean (with automatic backups). I pay about $8/month. - For physical documents: scan and upload manually. - For email attachments I connected paperless-ng to my gmail account such that
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by khaledh 4y ago
One reason we encourage keeping soft-deleted records at least for a while is synchronizing data across systems. We want to propagate deletions downstream. At some point when all downstream consumers have caught up, we can purge the soft-del
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> You should then be able to call “Baz::Bar::foo()” from any other file in your project structure without a “require” at all. IMO, this is a downside rather than an upside. It's optimizing for writing rather than reading. This hurts
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by khaledh 4y ago
The fact that ruby makes this possible means the community will take advantage of it, to the point of abusing it sometimes. This hurts understandability of the code base. Too many times I would open a ruby code base and spend significant am
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by khaledh 4y ago
The answer to life, the universe, and everything.
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Ok let's stay scientific. What are the odds of forming a single enzyme (necessary for life) composed of a chain of roughly 200 amino acids, each is drawn from a pool of 20 possible amino acids? 20^200, right? The estimated number of at
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by khaledh 4y ago
When I watch animations of how the cell works at a molecular level [0], I can't help but wonder how can this level of sheer complexity in dna transcription, protein production, and many other supporting functions in a single cell works
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Too bad that the adventure game genre faded after that period. Those that survived went for 3D rendering, which for adventure games just doesn't feel right. I'll always take an old 2D hand painted adventure game over a 3D one.
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I'm using Nim to build an experimental kernel, so lots of low-level systems programming [0]. Right now it can boot under UEFI, switch to graphics mode, query some hardware information, create and schedule kernel threads, and a very sim
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Original Apple-1 sold for $340k(ebay.ca)
2 points by khaledh 4y ago|0 comments
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by khaledh 4y ago
And here's the original discussion at the time of the announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30944881 ACM Opens First 50 Years Backfile 177 points by mitchbob 66 days ago | 49 comments
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by khaledh 4y ago
Thanks, that helps a bit. So I get the what: a way to make an anonymous function recursive. As for the why, it seems to me it's because "lambda calculus doesn't have named functions." So this tells me this is a programmi
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I admire how someone passionate about a subject can provide in-depth explanation of _how_ that thing works. But to me, I still have absolutely no idea _why_ or _when_ I would need to apply this (even after reading the original post[0]). A m
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Very bad at a personal level. Pray for me.
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Violence, plagues, wars, disasters, etc. are as old as humans. The only difference is that news travels at the speed of light now, and it's a huge business that fights for your attention the same as everything else nowadays. As many ha

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