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by krylon 4y ago
I've heard of the hypothesis it was a fungus infecting the wheat. I don't know what it's called in English, it's Mutterkorn in German. Concidentally (or not?) the precursor substance of LSD is produced by this fungus.
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by krylon 4y ago
Maybe it's an optical illusion? When I look closely, the planet looks pretty round to me. The rings around it or the color gradient of the planet may affect the perception of its shape.
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by krylon 4y ago
TL;DR - it's written in Java, and they are migrating their codebase from Java 11 to Java 17 as well as updating some dependencies while they are working on it. Nothing glamorous, but necessary to keep their infrastructure up and runnin
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by krylon 4y ago
That is the one thing I really miss after going back to Linux. Especially the Emacs-style keybinding in all text input were a delight.
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by krylon 4y ago
Rest in Peace. It's my favorite board game to this day.
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by krylon 4y ago
Doesn't the standard state CHAR_BIT has to be >=8? If could still be, say, 11 of course.
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by krylon 4y ago
I remember drooling over the price list of a local computer store back in the day. A dual-socket board for a Pentium Pro cost DM 2,000, and a Pentium Pro 200MHZ cost about as much, so just the board and two CPUs were DM 6,000 (roughly € 3,0
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by krylon 4y ago
Something similar might have happened with Celeron 300 CPUs, I recall they could be overclocked to 450MHz as well without trouble. I think they didn't have as much cache as the Pentium II, but the increased clock rate meant you could g
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by krylon 4y ago
I like to use ts(1) for that. http://vicerveza.homeunix.net/~viric/soft/ts/
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by krylon 4y ago
Other than historical interest or nostalgia (for those who used it on real hardware), is there something of interest to find in it? I'm not being dismissive, just curious.
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by krylon 4y ago
I haven't touched a Windows system in a few years, but when I worked as a Windows admin / programmer, SumatraPDF was my PDF viewer of choice. It does what it's supposed to do, does it well, and it doesn't get in my way w
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by krylon 4y ago
They are working on a git replacement, got (Game Of Trees): http://gameoftrees.org/ So it looks like they are going to move on from CVS eventually.
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by krylon 4y ago
AFAIU, Fortran acquired most of its bad reputation in the 60s and 70s. I think it was much more widespread than it is today. Then, as time went on, Fortran moved to the niche it was intended for originally (scientific computation) and was r
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by krylon 4y ago
There is a programming language called D ( https://dlang.org/ ), this might have caused confusion for some people. (Technically, there used to be a language called B, too, but I don't think it has been in use since befor
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by krylon 4y ago
Agreed. Hardware support has gotten good enough that it "just works" for me 99% of the time, I can watch pretty much any video format, play a lot of video games when I care to, the application I need are there. Different people ha
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by krylon 4y ago
My gut feeling is that it's fairly well known, but few people use it. Including yours truly. Then again, I have rarely run into performance issues with database engines. Either the ones I've had contact with (SQLite, MSSQL, Postgr
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by krylon 4y ago
My first attempts at using Lua did not work very well. Until I tried to use it as an embedded scripting language, and suddenly it clicked. Shocker, I know. ;-) But I had never tried anything like that before, and it was eye opening. And in
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by krylon 4y ago
I once saw a scanned copy of an invoice for a 1960s mainframe. IIRC, the CPU was about $500,000, the 768kiB of RAM were around $800,000. I know, that was a long time ago. But there is historical precedent.
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by krylon 4y ago
At work, I only rebooted my laptop for updates, otherwise I just let it sleep. On the server, especially when running in a VM, Windows can achieve impressive uptime, I've seen one NT 4.0 server with over 5 years without a reboot. These
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by krylon 4y ago
To be fair, I've seen both a Windows NT 4.0 server, and a Debian server (not sure about the exact version) with several years of uptime. But these days, with everything connected to the Internet, one usually wants to install updates re
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by krylon 4y ago
I half expected a card game made out of punched cards. Which would be a cool idea, now that I think of it.
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by krylon 4y ago
It's about conserving the source code of applications that used to be scattered across the pre-github Internet. I was a bit confused at first. ;-)
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by krylon 4y ago
My bad then. No hard feelings. :) Well, I naively assumed there were docking stations, most of the ThinkPads (most laptops by any vendor, really) I've seen in corporate settings were attached to docking stations. But I only got into IT
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by krylon 4y ago
He is great at summing up these things in a way I can understand (most of the time, not being very experienced with Windows internals) without having the feeling he is dumbing it down, just that he is explaining it very clearly.
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by krylon 4y ago
My dad had a laptop in the mid-90s that had a floppy drive, and I think a parallel port, too. The Butterfly was meant to be used with a docking station, but I never managed to get my hands on one. I just enjoy looking at it and thinking wha
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by krylon 4y ago
Hypothetically, yes. But I am not optimistic about Windows 95's ability to deal with wireless networks. Also, you end up in a situation where you need a working network interface in order to download the driver for said network interfa
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by krylon 4y ago
Kind of, but without WiFi, Bluetooth, or USB.
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by krylon 4y ago
I have one of these. It's so adorable. Unfortunately, mine has no builtin CD-ROM, floppy drive, ethernet, serial, or parallel port, so I have no way to get any data onto or off the thing. It has Windows 95 and Office 95 installed, and
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by krylon 4y ago
Without bothering to look at it first, that sounds like interesting things will come from this. Let's hope they don't share the fate of Singularity/Midori.
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by krylon 4y ago
I looked into pony a couple of years ago. The type system was gorgeous , but the library ecosystem was very spartan. I hope they get there eventually, I liked the language itself a lot. The learning curve is very steep at first, but I felt

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