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by nineteen999 8mo ago
OMG. Sweet relief. This is one of the greatest things I've read in ages. An FP programmer admitting they live in ivory towers. I never thought I'd see the day. I love it. HN needs 10 times more of this. This person has grown up -
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by nineteen999 8mo ago
I mean - who would honestly expect an LLM to be able to compete with a compiler with 40 years of development behind it? Even more if you count the collective man years expended in that time. The Claude agents took two weeks to produce a sub
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
This is such a toy webdev take. It's like you guys forget that the web-browser wouldn't work at all if not for the server half, all compiled to native code. The browser is compiled to native code. It wasn't that long ago that
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
It's funny I did an LFS system of my own a couple of years ago which I coined "Head Rat" Linux. I used the SVR4 packaging system from heirloom-pkgtools (using this of a Claude port of V4 unix to x86_64 as well at the moment)
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
Very familiar with it. Ran it in production for a major gambling company in my country for years. The stability was okay (no better than say Solaris) but the ergonomics for administrators and developers was absolutely horrid. The Alpha thou
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
I got this patched and up and running on my own LFS distro a few years back, lots of fun. It even has some support for antialiased fonts these days.
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
Much of VMS was eventually rewritten in C to accomodate the Alpha.
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
That sounds way too complicated. I get around that by just not having any family any more.
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
Seems weird, I have Claude's review other claude's work all the time. Maybe not as adversarily as that lol, i tend to encourage the instances to work collectively. Also the API timeouts that people complain about - i see them on m
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
I have a bunch of old Rpi 3B's in a 19" 1RU rack space i use for toy clustering. PoE splitters from a PoE switch to power them which also provides the network uplink. All very neat and self contained and when it comes times to upg
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
The funny thing is that a lot of us older people started with Slackware back in the late 1990's, only because early Debian and Redhat builds on the Infomagic CD's were too broken to install or run reliably. Slackware 2.0 was prett
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
The emperor's (empresses?) new textile.
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
My dad would often bring home an Olivetti M21 "portable" (quotes deliberate - that thing weighed a lot). Really gorgeous design for its time though.
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
At the cheap end we relied on NE2000 ISA card clones, we couldn't afford fancy gear like 3com and they worked under Windows/Linux just well enough to play LAN games.
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
A little BM25 can get you quite a way with an LLM.
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
> (As a personal anecdote, I've probably run into more concurrency-related heisenbugs in Go than I ever did in C, with C heisenbugs more commonly being memory mismanagement in single-threaded code with complex object lifetimes/
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
UE4/5 implement fonts this way.
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
Honestly the ones I probably use more than any other? =~ and !~ if ($text =~ /error/) { print "Found error\n"; } if ($text !~ /error/) { print "No error found\n"; } It's just fun and fast
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
Ive been doing plenty of Z80/x86_64 assembly with it, as well as a little 6502. Those are pretty terse.
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
There's a staff shortage and instead of catching up on packaging tasks the project is building the 19th, what 20th package management system that Linux has now, instead of using battle tested systems like .deb and .rpm? That is why pro
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
Huh? You don't need all of this to program effectively with Claude. You just need a daft idea, a bad API sketch and patience. A large vocabulary of insults and swear words goes a long way as well.
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
My last Windows PC shipped from the vendor with all the tiles and ads and live updates already disabled. I don't know why I see so many other people struggling with turning them off on here.
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
The delulu who think C/C++ is "sunsetting". Hilarious.
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
I guess i've never really "switched" - I've always used Linux desktops together with Windows desktops - each to the strengths that they are good at it. And this goes back to the late 1990's. There are times I'v
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
It may be worth looking into childhood trauma if that's something that may be applicable. I had a similar experience, after losing 35kg over 3 years I felt and looked great on the onsite, even having to overcome back surgery during tha
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
100% I have found the same, SSRI's definitely make things worse and I stay away from them, and regular exercise has offered the biggest consistent/persistent improvement in mood.
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
At first I was grumpy that the artisanal part of programming would go away. Now Im just happy to be giving my hands a break from RSI.
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
Remotely? ... this version of UNIX doesn't have any networking.
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
gcc. Im also working on a port of the original compiler, but that's a much lower priority for me.
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by nineteen999 9mo ago
Already patched this on my x86_64 v4 UNIX port. Hehe.

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