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by pjmlp 5d ago
Also thanks to virtualization being originally invented in mainframes, and the OS design done by IBM (and Unisys as well), they get to run the old workloads on modern hardware, and also support various UNIX flavours. You can even run most c
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by pjmlp 5d ago
Assuming that the PC was actually supported. I had to survive with 800x600 on a 1024x768 monitor for quite some time.
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by pjmlp 5d ago
Later in 2003, when I joined CERN, there were still Sun workstations being used, and I was an earlier user of Scientific Linux in 2004. Afterwards Nokia Networks were still deploying into HP-UX, and the first big Linux project started aroun
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by pjmlp 5d ago
Not in 2000, at my employer back then, our Linux server was only good as MP3 storage exposed via Samba/NFS. All development and production deployments was being done across Solaris, Aix and HP-UX in regards to UNIX flavours.
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by pjmlp 5d ago
Remember, "The Network is the Computer". Which is why it is kind of ironic having folks discussing microservices as something groundbreaking.
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by pjmlp 5d ago
Why would a Go binary (to keep the examples short), compiled to native code, with a compiler toolchain that includes support for Assembly if necessary, and a syscall package as well, have to depend on C extensions? CGO only exists as a matt
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by pjmlp 5d ago
Plenty of people pirate commercial software out of random sources, this isn't really an impediment.
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by pjmlp 5d ago
Since my lifetime I went through 2 language reformations, the ones that took part in German speaking countries, and those in Portuguese speaking countries. Needless to say that outside children learning the new ways, and media that has to o
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by pjmlp 5d ago
Doesn't work, someone else would make them available for free.
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by pjmlp 5d ago
It isn't novel at all, it is going back to Shareware, demos and PD kind of software before GNU ideas took off.
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by pjmlp 5d ago
Companies pay for support, CentOS reason to be was people wanted Red-Hat work putting out a great distro, while not wanting to pay for it. Also very few software can be sold only on having support, regular users don't care about suppor
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by pjmlp 5d ago
All the languages I mentioned compile to native code.
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Compsci grads facing recession-like job prospects thanks to AI(theregister.com)
5 points by pjmlp 5d ago|0 comments
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by pjmlp 6d ago
Yes, if the SaaS application needs to fork subprocesses for every little step of agentic workflows. Welcome to CGIs, a great 1990's technology for Web applications.
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by pjmlp 6d ago
Well, SaaS don't do CLIs for extension APIs. Plus the performance issues to restarting processes all the time.
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by pjmlp 6d ago
Depends on the models pretty much, I used scientific models like FX 4500P, the 880P, the CFX-9850GB PLUS during my education, and they had programming modes where that isn't the case. Maybe that has changed in the last decades.
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by pjmlp 6d ago
Well, see popularity of CGO among Go devs, or JNI among Java devs, or the ongoing work to make all the learnings from System C# (from Midori) available in regular C#, while C++/CLI is slowly left in maintenance mode (last updated for p
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by pjmlp 6d ago
While I partially agree, it seems to have paid out, including among several key projects that Web development nowadays cannot live without.
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by pjmlp 6d ago
Not everyone reads the same posts, and post 2000 younger generations need to be educated in what came first, what is actually new, and what is language adoption marketing. Because it is a rip off, pretending nothing else has done it before,
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by pjmlp 6d ago
XFCE is also a good option. It would be great if Windowmaker was still being actively developed as in the 2000's, but yeah devs moved on.
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Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K(theregister.com)
47 points by pjmlp 6d ago|63 comments
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by pjmlp 6d ago
We had a similar issue back in the 2000's, not the Y2K problem, rather file accesses. One project I did in 2000 was porting HP-UX software to handle 64 bit file offsets, as it was originally written with 32 bit machines in mind, and th
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by pjmlp 6d ago
To the point that in Python culture those C extensions are seen as Python libraries, not bindings.
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by pjmlp 6d ago
In C++ as well, constexpr math introduced in C++23 has similar concerns regarding floating point accuracy.
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by pjmlp 6d ago
Because I thought this was a further discussion and did not notice another username, sorry about that. The point being that beyond the plain vtbl, SOM was much better designed than COM, in the sense of overall architecture for application d
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by pjmlp 6d ago
Ah name calling, the last attack vector when nothing else works.
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by pjmlp 6d ago
Apparently it is not tiring enough, given that you keep replying. Here is an hint, I won't stop having my opinion , so you can keep replying every time I do them, and we will repeat similar discussion threads, or move on and touch gra
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by pjmlp 7d ago
Really? Every single one? You must have a good source of information for such a statement. Do you want examples why Solaris was selling so well before the .com crash?
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by pjmlp 7d ago
Here goes again, better improve your Algolia search skills if you cannot find anyone else.
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by pjmlp 7d ago
Never was really, at least if performance matters.

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