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by musicale 2y ago
> "Workers are being paid prisoner wages - outrage!" As I understand it, in a number of US states workers are being paid prisoner wages. However regular workers aren't locked up in a prison and don't have to eat pris
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by musicale 2y ago
It does look interesting (and related to the Systems school proposed by TFA), though I've also heard it described as a watered-down or easier CS degree. (Then again, CS itself is sometimes criticized as a watered-down or easier enginee
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by musicale 2y ago
The essay is a bit tongue in cheek, but I think that was basically the point.
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by musicale 2y ago
COM files for CP/M and DOS really are a no-nonsense executable format. I'm a bit disappointed that Linux (or BSD, macOS, etc.) doesn't support them (or similar) out of the box, though Windows will sort of run them via ntvdm.
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by musicale 2y ago
I feel like I shouldn't love x86 encoding, but there is something charming about this. Probably echoing its 8-bit predecessors. It seems like it's designed for tiny memory environments (embedded, bootstrapping, etc.) where you don
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by musicale 2y ago
I'm certain there is, but I don't have a reference for it yet other than my imaginary HELLO (Highly Efficient Limited Line Output) language.
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by musicale 2y ago
I realize TFA is trying for object code, but for source code, QuickBASIC (and its successors) isn't bad: ? "hello, world!" PILOT eliminates the quotes: T:hello, world! Of course a typical REPL (Python, JavaS
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by musicale 2y ago
> as my favorite joke says in the punch line “what do you call someone who only knows one language… uni-lingual… jk: American” "Another thing to keep in mind, when you get to feeling bad about being monolingual, is that the fair que
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by musicale 2y ago
How shocking! Surely such things were completely unprecedented before the Jackson administration. Oh, wait. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupt_bargain#Election_of_18...
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by musicale 2y ago
> What all three of these reversals suggest to me is that the 2024 election wasn’t a victory for populism or actually any kind of “ism.” anti-incumbentism
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by musicale 2y ago
It's amazing how good true vintage ALPS keyboards are. I have a keyboard with Matias (ALPS clone) switches and they are great to type on, but the switches seem unreliable and I got tired of replacing them. Inconveniently, vintage Apple
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by musicale 2y ago
At least now there's a "show all resolutions" setting in display preferences.
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by musicale 2y ago
In my experience, Windows does actually do better for non-integer scaling, and it still supports subpixel antialiasing (which Apple abandoned, much to the dismay of any Apple user with a 1080p display, or a 4K display larger than 24".)
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by musicale 2y ago
Interesting - looks like it's not a regular 16x9 "5K" (5120x2880) monitor like the iMac 27/Ultrafine 5K/Apple Studio but is a "5K2K" 5120x2160 widescreen. Strange that the M4 mini doesn't support all
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by musicale 2y ago
> why would you even need root to compile an OS Usually it's to make it easier dealing with file system ("disk") image files, which may require root privileges to mount and use with regular programs (though FUSE and simila
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by musicale 2y ago
And yet it is legendary for running all sorts of great games (Ultima, Bard's Tale, Wizardry, Castle Wolfenstein, Robotron, Prince of Persia, Maniac Mansion, Choplifter, Lode Runner, and many, many others.) I still want to try last year
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by musicale 2y ago
> With Apple's keychain, and I suspect other companies' solutions, passkeys are connected to your account and at best synced between devices from the same manufacturer. iCloud Keychain/Passwords works on macOS and Windows,
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by musicale 2y ago
As I understand it, SCTP is still a TCP-like stream protocol with sender-driven congestion control (using packet drops or ECN as a signal) and multipathing to deal with in-network congestion, while HOMA is aimed at fast RPC (1 packet reques
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by musicale 2y ago
In my experience, Nix makes some things very easy and other things very, very difficult. I hope the situation has improved, but the last time I had to deal with Nvidia (kernel/driver/library dependencies/updates/etc.) un
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by musicale 2y ago
Steam Deck wouldn't be a thing if Steam/Windows games didn't run well on Proton/Linux.
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by musicale 2y ago
It's demonstrably useful for cheating on homework assignments and examinations.
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by musicale 2y ago
As I noted in another comment, it was a remarkable accomplishment that Mac OS X was reasonably recognizable to Mac users and ran the same apps (via Classic and Carbon), all while having a completely different core OS under the hood (though
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by musicale 2y ago
> their own window manager and app framework on it only Window manager in this case including Quartz/Core Graphics (replacing Display Postscript) as well as complete UI facelift/transplant that turned the NeXTSTEP file browser
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by musicale 2y ago
I hope this is still true. There are certainly lots of opportunities for self-taught software and hardware development. And university lectures and course material (much of which is very good) that used to be locked inside physical campuses
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by musicale 2y ago
Apple (App-le?) certainly popularized abbreviating "applications programs" or "application software" (vs. system software, systems programs etc.) to "applications" in the 1980s, and "apps" with the ad
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by musicale 2y ago
Good explanation, really. Imperative systems programmers reject one or more of the fp commandments (perhaps finding them impractical), and are probably heretics in the eyes of the fp cult.
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by musicale 2y ago
Sure, fp in Lisp might not always be true (scotsman) fp. ;-) But omitting fp in the book is not evidence that Ousterhout is ignorant of fp, and there is certainly evidence to the contrary. The likely explanation, given that he's develo
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by musicale 2y ago
Nice and seemingly balanced review. Defining errors out of existence should be mandatory for all golang programs.
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by musicale 2y ago
> Someone should know about what fp is before writing a book like this. 1. Are you quite sure John Ousterhout (who invented Tcl[1], comparing it to Lisp in section 7 of the original paper) doesn't "know about what fp is" a
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by musicale 2y ago
Hopefully will detect whether a small child is inside or not.

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