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811.
by msla 3y ago
You're throwing out a lot of names to defend a White Supremacist Fascist named Ted Kaczynski.
812.
by msla 3y ago
Don't worry: If this all breaks, the fines levied on Microsoft won't be anywhere near their profits.
813.
by msla 3y ago
> Then there are the tales that old programmers can tell about how they couldn't actually deal in English because ASCII didn't have a pound symbol What's #, then? Chopped liver? /s
814.
by msla 3y ago
> In a MK architecture, your system survives video card driver dying by restarting it and taking over serving its clients (in this case, the compositor). If your video card driver died, something is deeply wrong with your system, hardwar
815.
by msla 3y ago
Don't make this political.
816.
by msla 3y ago
> If there are thinkers who have been in the conceptual space of the 23rd century and beyond, Simondon was surely one. The 23rd Century shouldn't belong to ecofascists.
817.
by msla 3y ago
Cons cells aren't a linked list.
818.
by msla 3y ago
Except those names are wrong in some contexts. That's the point.
819.
by msla 3y ago
He sounds like an ecofascist to me, someone willing to use violence in pursuit of a "green" ideology.
820.
by msla 3y ago
> A Rolex is an incredible engineering marvel and is in fact very high quality and durable. But it's fundamentally worse at being a timepiece than a digital watch synchronized to an NTP time server.
821.
by msla 3y ago
Usenet.
822.
by msla 3y ago
Yes, it's annoying and it comes and goes at random. It's SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP in specific.
823.
by msla 3y ago
> Now you choose 'car' and 'cdr' for each cell's 'data pointer' and 'next-cell-in-list pointer'. How many 'WTF?s'* do you think you'd get in code review? Your names are too verb
824.
by msla 3y ago
They make perfect sense once you understand what they do. They're not mnemonic for any specific usage because they have more than one possible specific usage in the language. Besides, what kind of sense does '+' make for addi
825.
by msla 3y ago
You offer no actual arguments, just pronouncements and irrelevant history.
826.
by msla 3y ago
> As for myself, I do prefer the adhoc discussion of issues, brain storming and silly what-ifs during coffee breaks et cetera. I'm much more in the zone in this environment. Sounds like slacking off to me.
827.
by msla 3y ago
> They should just do what everyone else does and finance themselves by selling your data to the highest bidder! You say that as if they won't anyway.
828.
by msla 3y ago
CAR and CDR can be used to do things other than take lists apart. That's why they have those names.
829.
by msla 3y ago
This is much less of a problem with open source software, although, admittedly, not completely unknown.
830.
by msla 3y ago
It's simple, in part, because it only operates on registers and immediate values, so there's no chance of it taking a page fault. That makes it easy to pipeline, and, compared to having to save a lot of ALU state after a fault, th
831.
by msla 3y ago
The Linux kernel dropped support for the original 80386 in December 2012, with kernel 3.8 Debian dropped support with sarge in 2005 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I386
832.
by msla 3y ago
What would be CISC-like is if the opcode operated on memory locations, such that the CPU would have to deal with it taking a page fault. Anyway, here's John Mashey, who helped design the MIPS, on RISC v CISC: https://yarchiv
833.
by msla 3y ago
I thought it was about making really disgusting moonshine.
834.
by msla 3y ago
No, I only used Option<Int> because the person I replied to did, and I don't expect them to know what Maybe Int means.
835.
by msla 3y ago
How do I represent an Option<Int> in a CSV file?
836.
by msla 3y ago
I always thought FVWM95 did a pretty good job of capturing the Windows 95 (and, therefore, Windows NT from the same era) look and feel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FVWM95 Modern version: https://github.com&
837.
by msla 3y ago
I've used Window Maker on Linux since before my current distro existed. https://www.windowmaker.org/ It should be in any self-respecting package repository.
838.
by msla 3y ago
Usenet had avatars: XFaces https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/XfacesSupport I remember them being used by some Usenet posters in the 1990s.
839.
by msla 3y ago
> It will become a boring, self-congratulating rambler at that point. ... at which point we'll declare it "emeritus" and give it a nice party.
840.
by msla 3y ago
Quoting from the critique of the Unlicense: > Guess what? There's a worldwide default-copyright regime, opting out of it is simply problematic, and attempts to do so risk creating non-deterministic effects that depend on the jurisd

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