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by lproven 3mo ago
Oh, thank you! I could come back to the "modernising RISC OS" piece and update, as things are now actually happening. Although I was pessimistic for its prospects, it's becoming reality. I know of 2 main efforts... * Merlin,
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by lproven 3mo ago
RISC OS is a really interesting and significant OS, one whose importance is largely missed by American readers. GUI computers conquered the mass market in the mid-to-late 1980s; by the 1990s, Microsoft caught up, and the x86 PC nearly wiped
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> I guess technically that'd be Arthur rather than RISC OS. RISC OS was Arthur version 2.0: they renamed it with a more internationally-market-friendly name.
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> Let's make a whole other finder that's completely different to the main one we use to navigate files. In my retrospective for the original Mac's 40th anniversary, I explained the technical limitations that forced this de
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by lproven 3mo ago
Many. A decade & a half ago, I put the original project team lead in touch with the London user group, which resulted in this talk: https://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/2012/PaulFellows/ A decade lat
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by lproven 3mo ago
First OS with built-in scalable font rendering as standard. First OS with full-window dragging as standard (instead of an outline). First OS with a taskbar/dock as standard.
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by lproven 3mo ago
I think the assumption is that if you're interested in the source or contributing, you already know what it looks like. There are loads of galleries and walkthroughs out there. Here's v3.11 from 1992: https://guidebookg
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by lproven 3mo ago
What about Minix 3? Probably the most widely deployed microkernel ever: it's inside every Intel CPU for the last ~20 years. Already has a mostly-working port of the NetBSD userland. It was shaping up quite well until Andy Tanenbaum ret
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by lproven 3mo ago
> the corpses are kept upright as open source projects I think you are looking at this not merely wrongly, but in reverse. Gradually the PC compatible has paved over the entirety of desktop/laptop computing. It's like a farm: r
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Not bad. I don't like its tone of approval, TBH. I much preferred the « raucous bazaar, teeming with variety. » I hate the way the PC « the IBM PC and its successors paved over all of that » I really did not like... « he strange boxes
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by lproven 3mo ago
Bring back Symbian, and bundle it with a Beeper client and subscription. I want basic phone functionality, including as a key core function, text messaging over IP with all my contacts on all messaging platforms. If it doesn't do video
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by lproven 3mo ago
> Another interesting read that addresses these themes is “Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future” by Marshal Brain As it happens, I recently read Manna , and it is excellent and a good recommendation.
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by lproven 3mo ago
No: you get downvoted for not using an ad-blocker, and then complaining about not using one.
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by lproven 3mo ago
I wrote a little about this: https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/10/lisafpg...
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I must confess, I previously hadn't read much about it as it was not from or by Wirth himself, but on consideration, perhaps that was unfair and premature.
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by lproven 3mo ago
No, it is categorically not a Gish gallop when I post single-line responses at an interval of days. You are attempting to deflect the argument based on irrelevant side-claims. I'm sure there's a term for that, but I can't be
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by lproven 3mo ago
Quibbling. If someone is in the process of intentionally turning their project into slop, replacing human written code with bot-extruded code, then they can pay to host their own... ... And they should still be held fully responsible for th
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by lproven 3mo ago
No, you're not, and I suspect you are a bot. I really wish HN had a block function.
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by lproven 3mo ago
So when someone points out that you are inconsistent with your own points, you ask after their health and wellbeing? In other words, you are questioning my sanity because I point out you contradicted yourself? That is toxic AF, you kn
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by lproven 3mo ago
No. "Most" is clear and unambiguous. It means more X than Y. The value of X is larger than the value of Y. X = bot slop ; Y = human written code In your question, 90% human written, 10% bot generated; no, it is not "most&quot
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by lproven 3mo ago
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003386
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by lproven 3mo ago
> our civilization will collapse Well, we are heading for 2º C global warming by 2040, possibly by 2030. And the IPCC and others already pointed out that 2º means the end of civilisation. So, it's coming anyway... but it's the
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by lproven 3mo ago
No, you don't. Because just upthread you said: > Within a very short period of time all code will be AI code. No it won't. But you outed yourself as a botlicker. So, off you go to somewhere that welcomes botlickers, then.
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by lproven 3mo ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48822172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003465
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by lproven 3mo ago
Good for you. Now, shall we discuss the ecological and commercial cost of that?
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With great affection. Mind you, when it launched, I was in my mid-teens and I believed the hype: I thought it really was CGI. Ah, innocence of youth...
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Because we've spent something like 2 trillion dollars on it, as we hurtle into global climate collapse and WW3.
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by lproven 3mo ago
> The real question is how useful they are No, it is not. > and the answer "not at all" increasingly requires flat-earth levels of denial. No, it does not. For me, after ~25 years in the skeptics movement, I think the parall
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by lproven 3mo ago
> nicely-done dedicated viewer The problem is the edge cases. PDF has lots. In $DAYJOB-1 we used PDFs as part of the official feedback process for technical documentation: subject-matter experts sent their comments as PDF annotations. Mo
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by lproven 3mo ago
> they don't typically include editing functionality. Not true. The original Mozilla Internet Suite was a combined browser, email/newsgroups client, and web-page editor. It was an open-sourced version of Netscape Communicator w

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