mveety

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by mveety 11y ago
You just need to have a standard data structure marshaling format. Lisp gives you the ability to easily structure data, but it doesn't enforce any single way to structure it.
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by mveety 11y ago
Depending on the car, some have accessory power that stays on for five minutes or so after the ignition is killed, and most of not all have lines that power the security systems. I would tap into one of those.
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by mveety 11y ago
I forget we make releases. If you want to download the image here's the link to the iso ( http://9front.org/iso/9front-5048.e16a172bcae6.iso.bz2 ), link to dash 1 ( http://fqa.9front.org/dash1.plea
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by mveety 11y ago
No it wouldn't. Either hack a quick shim to start the interpreter or rely on the operating system to figure out how to run a script. The #! is there for a reason.
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by mveety 11y ago
I was an OpenVMS sysadmin and C/COBOL/BASIC programmer writing code for mostly storing tons of data and sending it off to other places. Hopefully though, now that HP spun off the VMS engineering team and the talk of an amd64 port
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by mveety 11y ago
I really like the System/161 simulator that they use with it. They made some good choices sticking to the simple R3000 MMU model.
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by mveety 11y ago
I code in COBOL. I don't like it that people think it's dead or legacy because often times it isn't and that mindset keeps people from caring about security or using current best practices in COBOL code. Very important things
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by mveety 11y ago
It's should be retired because it's old? That's a terrible reason to retire something. New isn't always better, just as old doesn't mean worse. Also systemd won't be making any appearances in BSD. The one thing
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by mveety 11y ago
That's probably mostly it. Plan 9 doesn't really have that much in terms of features. It's greatest strength is in how they go together. Having everything as a file is about the only thing I can think of that unixes don&#x2
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by mveety 11y ago
It is a cheap hack. Plan 9 is designed around 9P where FUSE is a kinda shitty but useful bolt on. Why they didn't just steal 9P instead of making FUSE is beyond me.
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by mveety 11y ago
The actual elements of the lists are typeless basically. The easiest way to do this is that each car of a cons cell is just a pointer to a value (actually both are). Many lisps use tagged pointers where the tag stores the value or even each
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by mveety 11y ago
It's awesome to see some plan 9 tools in there! I live on plan 9, and find unix annoying because of the differences in the "standard" tools.
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by mveety 11y ago
Yeah there's a lot of that, but grep is like using duct tape to hold something together when you really should be using screws or so. grep can do everything, but its not always the best tool for the job.
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by mveety 11y ago
It's far from nonsense. Everything that happens when you call a syscall nowadays is minimal compared to firing off interrupts to do the job. Memory operations are pretty cheap and the argument checking is probably only 20 or so instruc
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by mveety 11y ago
Kernels generally aren't all that smart. They're usually dumb and simple programs that do things based on some average defaults that look okay and might work for most people. The kernel needs to be told what to do especially if da
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by mveety 11y ago
This is going to end badly. It's going to grow and eventually be used to stifle dissenting comments and open discussion. The authors asking you not to discuss this publically is very telling.
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by mveety 11y ago
I know how to use lex/yacc. This is much better as lex/yacc are, frankly, miserable to use.
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by mveety 11y ago
Yeah lumen's ffi is fantastic. It's really simple and clear compared to like CFFI or so. Seeing that ported to/implemented on CL would be really cool.
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by mveety 11y ago
Why don't we teach people the don't understand so they can make informed choices instead of preventing it entirely?
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by mveety 11y ago
What is the point of this? Shouldn't users be allowed to make their own decisions no matter how stupid or dangerous?
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by mveety 11y ago
When the strings on a Bass go, they really go. I've been hurt once or twice from strings breaking.
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by mveety 11y ago
We (the 9front guys) are generally pretty approachable and cooperative as long as you genuinely want to learn and aren't a complete ass. Starved for labour isn't a bad thing though, less bullshit gets added into the operating syst
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by mveety 11y ago
I talked to Uriel about a week before he left. Sucks that he's gone.
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by mveety 11y ago
That's because cat is unixy. You can concatenate any file to any file with it. That doesn't mean those files are unixy, it means the program is unixy.
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by mveety 12y ago
They're amoral entities that are effectively programmed to make the most money. So really they're working as intended if they do that shit because it allows them to make more money.
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by mveety 12y ago
I always use an emulator when I'm doing OS development or low level shit. The ability to see what's happening makes life so much easier.
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by mveety 12y ago
Are they sure it wasn't on fire before now?
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by mveety 12y ago
My question is that can they actually force this upon a company that isn't within their borders?
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by mveety 12y ago
Octopus. It's an lsub research thing.
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by mveety 12y ago
I use this a lot. My text editor (octopus) runs in it. Inferno is pretty interesting and very easy to code on, however the programming model takes getting used to.

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