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by progman 10y ago
Interestingly, Emacs is probably the most reliable editor ever. I had not a single crash in 25+ years in daily use in Linux!
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by progman 10y ago
> The only thing I really miss is Excel. You could try SoftMaker Office. Quote: "No other spreadsheet is as compatible with Microsoft Excel as PlanMaker 2016. Both the old .xls files (Microsoft Excel 5.0 and higher) and the modern .
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by progman 10y ago
> scp a device to a remote host dd if=/dev/hda bs=512 | (ssh root@remote dd of=/dev/hdX bs=512) where bs=512 is the block size in bytes. Of course, the hdX drive must be different from the remote hosts's m
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by progman 10y ago
The author states: "A few valiant attempts at bringing GC into systems programming -- Modula-3, Eiffel, Sather, D, Go -- have typically cut themselves off from too many tasks due to tracing GC overhead and runtime-system incompatibilit
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by progman 10y ago
> As the roadmap says "Production use measures our design success; it's the ultimate reality check." I agree with that. C (and later C++) became popular because Unix was successful. Safe systems programming and safe brows
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by progman 10y ago
I know both Lisp and Scheme pretty well. Scheme's macros are hygienic, Lisp's macros however are much easier to handle. The hygiene problem can be solved by using (gensym) for local identifiers. Example: http://stackove
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by progman 10y ago
Fabulous work! Is there a way to change the size of the disk image? Or do I have to bake a new one, according to Yocto/OpenEmbedded RISC-V Port for instance? https://github.com/riscv/riscv-poky
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by progman 10y ago
Emacs's editor is good. The real problem is the awful default configuration. If you want convenient Emacs then you should define your own favorite keystrokes (with global-set-key) and download useful tools like speedbar (via MELPA) for
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by progman 10y ago
Developers who like Python syntax and want C performance should seriously consider Nim. http://nim-lang.org
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by progman 10y ago
As for me, I like C because I consider it a "high level assembler", as a backend for modern programming languages like Nim which profit from the C compiler's strong code optimizations. If there is any new hardware platform, t
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by progman 10y ago
> start with the prebuilt binaries and then do `stack upgrade` Thanks but in this case I could also download the newest binaries instantly. The point is that I don't want to be dependent on any binaries. Compilation from scratch doe
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by progman 10y ago
It may be easy to use but hard to install if you don't want to depend on binary downloads. Since I always prefer source compilation for reproducible installations on new platforms I tried to install an up-to-date Haskell platform on De
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by progman 10y ago
How did you overcome the cabal hell? Sandbox? VM? Nix? ...
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by progman 10y ago
> We may well get a cert for UEFI SB, As long as the vendors cooperate you will be fine. We will see how it works at Win 11+. > and if we don't, then someone will crack it sooner or later. Other people may be able to live with it
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by progman 10y ago
> So yeah, if you want to help, that's where to contribute your effort. Gentoo and Arch are good options. However, in the long term classical Linux will likely only be able to run on retro systems and FREE HARDWARE! If Gentoo and Ar
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by progman 10y ago
> high-level userland software link to libsystemd is viable and acceptable This is a direct violation of the KISS principle which made Unix and Linux so great. Not only do they want to intertwine user software with system software, now t
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by progman 10y ago
In face of cheap TB disks erasure coding seems to be a far better option than RAID. http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Erasure-coding-versus-... Is there any empirical data which zfec parameters are recommended for
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by progman 10y ago
Ok, now we can run a verified OS on multiple cores. Now, what value has verified software which runs on buggy or (theoretically) compromised hardware? In my opinion safe computing requires verified software AND verified hardware. Since prop
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by progman 10y ago
Wow, that was a quick answer. Thanks so much!
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by progman 10y ago
I (former Perl5 dev) am amazed that Perl6 actually has become "production-ready", after all those years. I find it quite good, and there are many interesting new concepts. However, some things seem to be harder. For instance, it s
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by progman 10y ago
FYI macbuntu: Howto make Ubuntu look like OSX http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/macbuntu-transform-ubuntu...
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by progman 10y ago
In Common Lisp you could take a snapshot of the current session with "save-image". Doesn't Racket provide something like that? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/480083/what-is-a-lisp-ima...
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by progman 10y ago
As for me, Ada is an excellent language for safety applications but too much under control of a single company. GNAT is open source, that's fine. However, despite this fact it is almost impossible for someone to write a new Ada compile
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by progman 10y ago
> What are Vim users going to do without the ESC key? They have the pleasure to install an additional ESC server which simulates the ESC key with an ios device :-) https://github.com/brianmichel/ESCapey It's am
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by progman 10y ago
> There's also the issue of self-censorship, where users will refrain from posting their opinion in case they get downvotes and negative karma. This is the price for shadow-banning which some blogs use to censor freedom of speech. T
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by progman 10y ago
Are there any downloadable DNS lookup tables which could be used as hosts.txt or /etc/hosts in case of emergency? I know that DNS is organized in root zones with hierarchical subqueries. A global hosts file which contains the whol
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by progman 10y ago
If you want a modern language with (optional) GC, with seemless FFI to C, and with almost C performance then you should take a closer look at Nim. Rust can learn a lot from Nim regarding productivity. http://nim-lang.org
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by progman 10y ago
If so, could obsolete SIM cards not be reused as embedded systems for free?
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by progman 10y ago
I understand why Clojure deliberately focuses on the Java ecosystem. If I still would be in Java development today I likely would use Clojure. If I were in web development I likely would use Clojurescript. Currently I prefer the Emacs/
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by progman 10y ago
> there is no thing such as small clients anymore This is also right and wrong :-) Right regarding your perception, wrong regarding relative power. 1960s clients were small compared to today's small clients. However, 60s server were

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