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by mhd 4y ago
I would assume that "as a kid", when malware was written in Delphi, those weren't really options. (And VS of that era was rather meh...)
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by mhd 4y ago
...for the enterprise. Which is okay, there's plenty of mixed quality software for that sector. It's just that Delphi used to be a lot more oriented towards beginner to small-business developers. And note that this happened before
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by mhd 4y ago
There's a decent export menu for both image and JSON, and some inventive soul already made an importer for the Foundry Virtual Tabletop. I've actually used this in the past for a randum dungeon in my lockdown RPG campaign. It&#x27
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by mhd 4y ago
Can I run a Beowulf cluster on this?
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by mhd 4y ago
> Sad to see small browsers go. I still miss Arena and Chimera...
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by mhd 4y ago
> You need a different centralized, permission controlled, and auditable solution. So, Access? ;) But seriously, I really miss "PC" databases, Clipper etc.; Would often fill niches between spreadsheets and webapps. (Airtable et
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by mhd 4y ago
Is there a way to do the variable assignment inline? I mean, it's nice to have an overview of all of them, but it would be neat to get them in there by just "tagging" a cell (preferably textually).
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by mhd 4y ago
If I ever get around to writing my Notational Velocity clone for Serenity OS, it's going to be done in C++.
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by mhd 4y ago
For forty years, basically. The first "tugboat" TeX newsletters were written during the rewrite to "TeX82", so most people porting during that time were basing their variants on the the version written in SAIL ("TeX
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by mhd 4y ago
Thomas Dickey is one of the unsung heroes of the open source movement, despite his double-wrong taste in editors ;)
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by mhd 4y ago
I do, mostly. I often ran in some terminal emulation issues with other terminals, especially when using older software. These days, I could probably switch to another terminal, as I'm in tmux quite often, which creates those compatibil
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by mhd 4y ago
> While Concurrent CP/M was a very capable OS, ideal for multiuser accounts systems, it had a big limitation: it could only run CP/M-86 apps. The problem being that there weren't that many of those, while the market in MS-
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by mhd 4y ago
Looking at the scripts, they're mostly wrappers intended to be called on the file or a selection, so closer to a macro, shortcut, vim mapping etc. instead of a general purpose executable name. So closer to "C-x C-k" than &quo
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by mhd 4y ago
Hmm, Ctrl-A for start of line, but Ctrl-C for copy? That's a somewhat idiosyncratic mix of CUA and Emacs.
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by mhd 4y ago
Quicksilver was one of those apps that really drew me into the Apple ecosystem. All those neat little tools like QS, Notational Velocity, TextExpander, GeekTool... Speaking of "neat little", not a big fan of splicing the whole web
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by mhd 4y ago
His "A Philosophy of Software Design" book is one of my favorite software books of the last few years.
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by mhd 4y ago
As others already said, it's still a nice language to learn for several reasons. For one, doing even very minor stuff in the Lua-Tcl-Scheme triad gets you a good overview of the trade-offs of scripting languages, the importance of synt
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by mhd 4y ago
I'm still not sure whether adapting it as the main browser tool was a good choice. It would've been interesting to see various extensions working with e.g. a deep-internal API. Probably with none installed by default, making the b
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by mhd 4y ago
Hmm, interesting genesis: > When it was 2014 or 2015, we had some big events in Russia (Crimea related) so many people here were excited. I was too, so I wanted to program some new project. https://sourceforge.net/blog&#x
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by mhd 4y ago
Depending on what you do and what you really need, old systems might well enough be sufficient. If your work is done on remote systems, you need very little. And if the "very old" thing has a SSD, enough RAM and a GPU that's
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by mhd 4y ago
Are there any color palettes like this or solarized specifically aiming at various types of color blindness? I think the Emacs "modus" themes allow for this[1], but I've rarely seen something that's "optimized"
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by mhd 4y ago
I think TeX is just used eponymously for typesetters, as runoff, scribe, lout etc. aren't as popular anymore, to put it politely.
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by mhd 4y ago
It's interesting to look at the early issues of the official TeX publication Tugboat[1]. The first version of TeX, TeX78, written in the SAIL language was just out and there was a concerted effort to produce a more portable version in
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by mhd 4y ago
Another weird window system was the W system (not to be confused with the X predecessor). Mostly monochrome. https://eerott.mbnet.fi/historical/w1r2.html
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by mhd 4y ago
> Maybe I'm just _too_ into the linux lifestyle Linux has plenty of file managers. Just like the system that ran the original norton commander had copy/dir/etc. Where does a "lifestyle" come in here?
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by mhd 4y ago
> What meaningful file operations do people do day-to-day? Copying stuff out of my Downloads folder, for one. I tried doing that with MacOs' Alfred for a while (select in finder -> shortcut -> fuzzy search destination -> mo
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by mhd 4y ago
Sure, more powerful/common command line usage is one reason why the default file managers are sufficient. So in a way, Norton Commander lost while NDOS won. And of course I can't speak for "old" Mac users (I started
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by mhd 4y ago
I agree with a few fellow posters that this looks a bit like soothsaying 2.0, but it really doesn't matter whether it works or not when it comes to the abuse potential, it's enough that people in charge believe it. Ad targeting. H
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by mhd 4y ago
I agree, and it's not like the 90s weren't full of unlikely novelty hits... Peaches, Blue, How Bizarre, Mambo No. 5 etc.
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by mhd 4y ago
It's interesting to see the "decline" of secondary file managers on Windows and probably Linux systems, too. Back in the days, pretty much any "power user" had their own favorite replacement for the built-in stop ga

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