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by musicale 4mo ago
Because of course they did.
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by musicale 4mo ago
This article seems poorly written, with a high noise-to-signal ratio, but... > “What would it take for you to feel comfortable shipping code to production without reading it?” > Better evals? Better tests? Better feature flags, guardr
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by musicale 4mo ago
How will licking the boot now prevent it from coming down upon your neck later?
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by musicale 4mo ago
You can play 64-bit macOS Steam games using ... Steam for macOS. This works fine (at least until they kill Rosetta2), though you are still translating x86. And most Windows Steam games (32- or 64-bit) via Crossover. (Expect about half the f
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by musicale 4mo ago
"Well it's not a deceptive trade practice because no rational person would take such a hyperbolic or outlandish claim literally - much like 'best ISP in the UNIVERSE!' or advertisements suggesting that beer will make you
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by musicale 4mo ago
Does anyone else remember the people bragging about how they "work" two "full-time" jobs remotely? I wondered how real those stories were, but that is probably what companies are thinking everyone is like.
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by musicale 4mo ago
> programming with straightjacket languages I wish Ada had more high-quality open source compilers and libraries, since it seems easier to write than Rust.
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by musicale 4mo ago
I was just trying to put the timeline together, as C++ doesn't seem to have been particularly production-ready when MPW was released (though I could imagine it had fans anyway.) Also Think C has been mentioned on HN a few times. I look
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by musicale 5mo ago
> MPW was a submarine project, from UNIX background engineers, to eventually replace Pascal with C++. According to Wikipedia, the first commercial C++ implementation came out in October of 1985, MPW was released in September of 1986, and
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by musicale 5mo ago
Would be interesting to hear how (well) it worked, why they abandoned it, what they replaced it with (and why), and whether the replacement actually helped to expedite Half-Life 3.
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by musicale 5mo ago
Well they did exactly that - rewriting the Finder in C++, etc. But it's unfortunate that losing Pascal/Object Pascal also meant losing bounded strings and array bounds checking, even if people turned the latter off in the 1980s be
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by musicale 5mo ago
In addition to Xenix, there was apparently also a System V port for the Lisa.
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by musicale 5mo ago
I've seen flat structures (with a "boss" who is almost entirely hands-off) work very well for teams with several dozen people. Where things seem to break down is at the next level, if the teams (and their "bosses")
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by musicale 5mo ago
But the Lisa, whose developers included PARC alumni who had moved to Apple, had rectangular pixels.
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by musicale 5mo ago
Tall-aspected rectangular pixels enabled early displays to support 80+ characters on a line with fewer bits.
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by musicale 5mo ago
I'm a bit disappointed that Vivado BASIC doesn't include a BASIC-based HDL or HLS system.
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by musicale 5mo ago
Ah Optane, what might have been... Even over PCIe, I imagine the advantage vs. NVMe is lower latency and more operations per second.
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by musicale 5mo ago
s/Preferences/Settings/
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by musicale 5mo ago
System Settings> Keyboard> Keyboard Shortcuts> Keyboard> Move focus to next window
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by musicale 5mo ago
Apple doesn't seem to have leveraged or combined work on (Lisa, Lisa Smalltalk, Lisa Xenix, Mac OS, A/UX, ...) as successfully as they might have. As you note, protected memory was deferred to multiple failed Mac OS successor pro
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by musicale 5mo ago
Lisa 2 was cheaper than many later Macs, but the Mac folks seemed to have little interest in convergent evolution for the platforms or in integrating Lisa features like memory protection into the Mac. The result was that Lisa died as the Ma
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by musicale 5mo ago
The internet is too North American for Canadians to trust.
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by musicale 5mo ago
> the “one weird trick” kind where you’re expected to discern the best possible solution to a problem on the spot and in a pressurized situation. Those were (and are) absolute rubbish; "in 20 minutes please come up with something th
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by musicale 5mo ago
I think so. 6-month contract with 2-week (or however long) vetting period seems like it might work.
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by musicale 5mo ago
> horrible window management which cannot be traversed with keyboard shortcuts Window focus shortcut: System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Keyboard Other window shortcuts: System Preferences > Keyboard > Ke
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by musicale 5mo ago
Likely third-party "security" software. I can't believe CrowdStrike still exists after they vaporized billions of customer dollars and stranded people for days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStr
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by musicale 5mo ago
This is another advantage of fast.com.
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by musicale 5mo ago
> You have 100 applicants for 1 position. Which one do you provisionally hire? Sample size of 100 seems like overkill for finding a 6-month contract employee. How about starting with a sample size of 1: Sort the applicants (ether randoml
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by musicale 5mo ago
see also: "The Record Divide Between Corporate Profits and Worker Pay" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330421
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by musicale 5mo ago
Demoted from SVP to regular VP of Artificial Operations.

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