lproven

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by lproven 1y ago
You mean ELisp?
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by lproven 1y ago
> Exactly, and if you used machines 20-30 years ago Bad news. We're older than we tend to remember. Windows NT 3.1 shipped 32 years ago, the year after OS/2 2.0. By 1994 NT 3.5 was out, and 30 years ago, NT 3.51 had been out fo
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by lproven 1y ago
> My Kubuntu 24.04 LTS box Bad news... only the GNOME edition is a true LTS. All the flavours are not. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NobleNumbat/ReleaseNotes/Kubuntu : Support lifespan Kubuntu 24.04 will be supported
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by lproven 1y ago
> Just false nostalgia memory. No, I don't think that's right, because: > 20 years ago things werent any better. I think you have the timeframe wrong. 20Y ago, no. 30Y ago, yes, somewhat. Win NT came out 32 years ago. 40Y ag
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by lproven 1y ago
There are several ZX Spectrum IP stacks, e.g. https://github.com/milankowww/ppp_tcpip_zxspectrum The more elegant solution is probably a Spectranet interface, which does TCP offload: https://www.bytedelight.
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by lproven 1y ago
> Slightly disappointed there's no Tasword 2 (page 3 of [0]) tiny font shenanigans to horizontally extend the visible screen space. I thought the same thing.
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by lproven 1y ago
Interesting analysis. Thanks for that. I'm well aware of ROX Desktop and have used it in the past. I've written about it: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/the_end_of_absolute_l... ROX's A
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by lproven 1y ago
Flipside: it looks like the most productive programmers are those who work alone and not in a large pool. The core point of the article is that team development is slower and less efficient. Which means management must make a choice: gettin
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by lproven 1y ago
> why copilot and AI coding is succeeding at bridging this gap. I mean, unless it proves with time that in fact it does not help at all and actually slows people down. https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-e
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by lproven 1y ago
Xfce has had experimental Wayland support since 4.20, and openSUSE Leap 16 includes a version of Xfce with the Labwc compositor. https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/opensuse_leap_16_reac...
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by lproven 1y ago
I happily defer. I've reread the trilogy 6 times now and they do all blur together a bit. You look to be right: https://www.kimstanleyrobinson.info/content/space-elevator And I'm not the only one to notice th
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by lproven 1y ago
Huh. OK then. I was not taken by it and don't really want to watch it again, or the whole thing, so I will take your word.
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by lproven 1y ago
Well, you do you, and indeed, the entire community is free to do as it wishes. What I find surprising is that there are multiple entire Amiga-themed Linux distros – for example: https://www.commodoreos.net/CommodoreOS.aspx
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by lproven 1y ago
To quote Toy Story : "That's not flying, that's just... falling with style!" Accelerate upwards fast enough, you can so to speak fall upwards for a short while before you fall back down again...
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The thing is, the same author has already done that. https://neal.fun/size-of-space/
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by lproven 1y ago
TIL: Bat != .bat != The Bat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_file https://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/thebat/ Expanded... I have 2 mental definitions of "bat" as a term in
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by lproven 1y ago
Doesn't matter. $(recurring dose of drug) ~= $(recurring income) However much you need per unit time period, compared to how much you make in that time period. The definition is independent of time.
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by lproven 1y ago
> Why is it that languages like this don't scale? Stanislav Datskovskiy addressed this rather well: https://www.loper-os.org/?p=69
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by lproven 1y ago
Certainly that is how I read it. It divides effort, spreads it too thinly among too many disparate projects with essentially the same goals, and as a result, they all advance much more slowly. Examples: how many successors to C are there no
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by lproven 1y ago
That's odd. The first episode was the only one I watched and I don't remember that bit. It might have grabbed me. A terrorist attack on a space elevator is a pivotal plot point in Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, which IMHO is
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by lproven 1y ago
> They do not assume theys "They do not assume these." What a bizarre typo. Sorry about that.
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by lproven 1y ago
Are you sure? Your earlier comments expressed uncertainty if it was WordPerfect at all. WordPerfect on the PC was a very niche app before version 4.2 which was the big hit. I knew a tiny handful of places that had copies of the older ve
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by lproven 1y ago
Try Tilde. https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde
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by lproven 1y ago
As above -- also Tilde which in my testing is much superior to either mcedit or eFTE. https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde
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by lproven 1y ago
Today there's Tilde. https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde
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by lproven 1y ago
This is just a bundle of your opinions -- to which you're entitled, even if they're totally wrong -- but downthread I see you attempt to defend them and claim they are objective fact, which is simply ridiculous. TUIs are a super
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by lproven 1y ago
https://github.com/magiblot/tvision https://github.com/cosmos72/twin https://github.com/Julien-cpsn/desktop-tui
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by lproven 1y ago
Oh, there was. WordPerfect 6 had a full GUI mode with a very vaguely Win3-like GUI implemented in DOS. Borland Quattro Pro had one too. Microsoft Word could be flipped in and out of it: in it, you got WYSIWYG bold, italic, underline etc, an
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by lproven 1y ago
> That Windows was a visually pleasing design? For a while, it was. Windows 2 was kinda ugly. https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/win203 Windows 3/3.1/3.11 were fine. https://guidebookgalle
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by lproven 1y ago
As other commenters have noted, the name for the Ctrl+Kx UI is the WordStar keystrokes.

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