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by msla 6mo ago
WebAssembly version with photo-realistic GUI. Run a PDP-11/34 in your browser: https://dbrll.github.io/ll-34/
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by msla 6mo ago
Is this a case of "It Just Works" or "You're Holding It Wrong"?
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by msla 6mo ago
Are they some ancient small-scale integration VLSI design? Do they broadcast on a low-frequency VHF band? Face it: Oxymorons like those are part of the technical world. "VLSI" was a current term back when whole CPUs were made out
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by msla 7mo ago
> But the western Roman empire fell and cities depopulated and folks switched back to subsistence farming for hundreds of years. > And plenty of places have been at war and had much of civilization's usefulness diminished from da
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by msla 7mo ago
Reflecting on my professional journey through high-stakes environments. I’ve taken a deep dive into my career trajectory and realized it’s time for a pivot. I’ve been so focused on disruptive innovation and high-velocity execution that eve
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by msla 7mo ago
Here's the Ten Commandments translated into "Dr. Seuss" I am the Lord, your God, it’s true! No other gods will do for you. Don't use My name in ways that are bad, That makes the Lord quite wishy-sad. Keep My day holy, a
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by msla 7mo ago
Well, they had better hope nobody notices how to use this flaw to chain into another one in the current generation.
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by msla 7mo ago
You can't. Console makers have these locked-down little systems with all the security they can economically justify... embedded in an arbitrarily-hostile environment created by people who have no need to economically justify anything.
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by msla 7mo ago
Remember: If z/OS were as widely used as Windows 95, it would be just as insecure! God, it reminds me of Slashdot trolls in the 1990s..
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by msla 7mo ago
While we're wishing, let's bring back serifs. I, for one, would like to be able to tell the difference between AI and Al without context clues, and using an inherently lossy font is the opposite of "readability".
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by msla 7mo ago
More to the point, if they required 2FA every time you tried to modify the JS, nobody would do it because it would be too annoying. "Username, password... oh, the 2FA just timed out, gotta wait for the next one... what, that doesn&#x
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by msla 7mo ago
> Also the language that has made me millions over my career with no degree. "You can't hate rum, it's made me so much money!"
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by msla 7mo ago
Yep, WASM is so much more secure.
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by msla 7mo ago
So a camp near the westernmost point of Texas is named East Montana. East Montana is also near an international border, and therefore is a "reasonable" place to have an ICE camp. Also, ice and camps. None of this is confusing.
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by msla 7mo ago
Yeah. I'm down on commercial AM/FM radio being touted as an emergency service, because there's so rarely enough behind the scenes to make it reliable or even minimally usable as such, but this is something purpose-built to
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by msla 7mo ago
Ctrl-R to search for previous command, which I use more often. Pretty ergonomic if you do the normal Emacs thing and rebind Caps Lock to Ctrl, ironically.
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by msla 7mo ago
If you're going to be cynical, at least credit them with some brains: MAGA isn't going to last forever, and when it collapses, the ones who publicly stood up to it will be better positioned to, I don't know, not face massiv
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by msla 7mo ago
It's interesting how it's Obviously Impossible to write OSes in garbage-collected languages, and this is proven by the fact successful OSes were written in garbage-collected languages back in the Stone Age, or 1980s, whichever. My
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by msla 8mo ago
About how many training steps are required to get good output?
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by msla 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_and_Medical_Leave_Act_o... > The FMLA allows eligible employees to take up to 12 work weeks of unpaid leave during any 12-month period to care for a new child, care for a serious
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by msla 8mo ago
You're skipping a few steps (like the Altair 8800) if you say that Apple invented the PC as we know it. Apple didn't even invent the GUI as we know it.
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by msla 9mo ago
Surely that would be better written as cat PROMPT.md | cat | npx --yes @sourcegraph/amp
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by msla 9mo ago
I did not expect to see big-company apologia on Hacker News. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apologia The thing this (very good) post doesn't mention is that big companies select for blub languages because that&#x27
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by msla 9mo ago
> Wikipedia is literally a spin-off of a porn company. Thinking this is relevant is a very revealing position. It shines some very strong light on your ideological biases and, yes, your agenda, which I feel certain you will feel obligate
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by msla 9mo ago
A "corporation" is any time two or three people gather together in something's name. It's any kind of, well, corporate entity, a single thing comprised of multiple people. A school is a corporation, a town is a corporati
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by msla 9mo ago
There's no such thing as coercive licensing, and thinking there is is buying into the myths proprietary vendors perpetuate because they're tired of not being able to farm labor from Open Source developers. It's very interesti
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by msla 9mo ago
What happens if I start the game and say WOLFENSTEIN?
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by msla 9mo ago
Hey, so does gold-backed currency! How do you know how much gold the government is holding? Ask them! How do you know the government isn't lying? Ask this question loudly enough and meet people with guns!
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by msla 9mo ago
The problem with Go is that it's single-source. That used to be death, single-source; couldn't get contracts if you were the only one providing a technology. C is multiple-source; even if you limit yourself to modern OSS compilers
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by msla 9mo ago
> If your argument is that Caldera might not actually have the rights to UNIX in the first place to grant the license, that's fair. Yeah, everyone knows Unix is owned by SCO, just like C++, Linux, and the look on your face, which is

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