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by msla 2y ago
It's odd how you insist that sans serif is more readable when body text in every book (OK, every grown-up book) I've read has been serif, as far as I can remember.
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by msla 2y ago
> Not really, there have been various studies that have shown that for the majority of people and cases sans serif fonts are the better choice for reading. ... so therefore thinline grey-on-gray text is ideal! Good meeting, let's do
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by msla 2y ago
So they actually have multiple physical sets of cables?
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by msla 2y ago
> So there's a world of difference between "The studies didn't prove X" and "The studies proved X is not true." Right, because the second isn't possible in the real world. https://en.wikipedi
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by msla 2y ago
What in the world are you talking about?
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by msla 2y ago
I think you need to learn Smalltalk to have a mental model of Self: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_%28programming_language%2...
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by msla 2y ago
Then there's Cyclone, from 2001 to 2006, which intended to be a systems programming language that could be extensively checked for safety at compile time. Rust has taken over its basic concept. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by msla 2y ago
This comment is pure useless snark.
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by msla 2y ago
Reposted to foil vandals: So we're slowly forgetting that FTP and HTTPS aren't the same thing.
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by msla 2y ago
No, the strongest argument is a mix of "DON'T WANNA!" and "U Mad, Bro?" It's the wonderful confection of oppositional defiant disorder and performative assholery that attempts to piss off the performer's m
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by msla 2y ago
Also: > Starting October 7, 2024, your usage of The ASF’s logo must be in compliance with the new logo and brand guidelines that will be available on our Brand Guidelines page. Or else what? What's the penalty being threatened? How
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by msla 2y ago
The "mercantile RPG" genre sounds a bit like "Drug Wars" or "Taipan!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Wars_%28video_game%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipan%21
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by msla 2y ago
It is a violation of privacy.
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by msla 2y ago
Yes, his arrays which have length as an immutable part of their type certainly prevent certain kinds of bugs. Too bad about making it impossible to write generic array-handling subroutines, even if you accept the generally inexpressive type
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by msla 2y ago
> The Internet has become a massive web of surveillance, and doing something about it is a primary reason many of us are at Mozilla. They could start by making their own surveillance opt-in.
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by msla 2y ago
Main download page with more formats: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30251
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by msla 2y ago
It's also outright stupid. For example, from the section about hacking: > "Timid people could become criminals." This fully misunderstands hacking, criminality, and human nature, in that criminals go where the money is, yo
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by msla 2y ago
There's also Bywater BASIC, which apparently isn't being developed anymore: https://github.com/nerun/bwbasic (It's also in the repos of many major Linux distributions as bwbasic.) A blog post where the d
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by msla 2y ago
I can't wait until the big distros decide multi-booting is a feature "nobody uses" that "never worked" and therefore isn't going to be supported because "everyone can use VMs" and containers and wha
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by msla 2y ago
> The "what" part is difficult to answer, except to note that DOS is in many ways what textbooks on operating systems call a microkernel. DOS provides a small bare minimum of services, on top of which other, more sophisticated,
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by msla 2y ago
There's also Scheme In A Grid (SIAG): https://siag.nu/siag/ It has support for the Scheme programming language, MySQL, sending email (was jwz on this project?), and being part of a whole office suite. SIAG Office:
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by msla 2y ago
This website is designed for text browsers.
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by msla 2y ago
From the perspective of the company, you also have a moat in the form of a proprietary system that doesn't have to compete with anything else because little software your customers depend on will run on anything else. Your business dec
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by msla 2y ago
When I compile it with GCC 12, this machine code results: 1129: f3 0f 1e fa endbr64 112d: 55 push rbp 112e: 48 89 e5 mov rbp,rsp 1131: b8 01 00
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by msla 2y ago
Don't be silly: Everyone knows serverless is the way to manage huge numbers of servers! Like how low-code involves large amounts of code, serverless is a perfect term for keeping people from knowing what's going on.
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by msla 2y ago
This immaturity is one reason I don't like array languages: They ape mathematical conventions but mathematicians are interested in communicating, if only with other mathematicians, and so write clearly and understandably. That source c
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by msla 2y ago
If you define a microprocessor as being a CPU on one chip, the MP944 wasn't it. > The CADC's MP944 chip set ran at 375 kHz, executing 9375 instructions per second. It contained six chips used to build the CADC, all based on a 2
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by msla 2y ago
So you admit you have no idea how to learn a new language.
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"I don't know what C is used for but I want to make a Big Statement."
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> Slave labor and ramps. Except not slaves. https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/who-built-the-... > The best evidence suggests that pyramid workers were locals who were paid for their services and ate e

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