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by rahen 4y ago
If I remember well, edlin, the default editor for MS-DOS, was also based on ed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edlin
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by rahen 4y ago
The game changer for me was the detailed mode ("H"), which makes ed a lot more pleasant to use. I wish it could be passed on the command line as an option and aliased in the shell... maybe I should patch it. I've started to f
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Actually using Ed (2012)(blog.sanctum.geek.nz)
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by rahen 4y ago
This is the reason why ed was originally "the standard editor". Of course, moving from teletypes to terminals made it quite irrelevant as we moved to ex/nvi, but ed still has its advantages. It only requires a kernel and a li
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by rahen 4y ago
Are you still using your SGI box with IRIX, or did you move to something more modern like NetBSD?
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by rahen 4y ago
Interesting. This could interest a project like NetBSD for automated regression testing on old hardware.
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by rahen 4y ago
> What does lightweight mean? It would traditionally mean a program running as little code as possible (dependencies included) for a given task, instead of relying on piles of pre-made libraries and frameworks, which obviously creep way
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by rahen 4y ago
I'm pretty sure European companies are expected to follow US laws when operating on US soil. Why shouldn't the opposite be true?
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by rahen 4y ago
Of course. I didn't imply the various backends and operating mode of Qemu weren't part of the set. I meant that Bochs and 86box are just single commands that do a single thing. Qemu is more like LLVM and is indeed massively more c
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by rahen 4y ago
Or Bochs, more specifically. Qemu is a frontend to various CPU emulators and hypervisors (KVM, NVMM, HAXM etc.).
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by rahen 4y ago
A more insightful comparison would be between the CO2 emission for Bitcoin mining and for the traditional finance with its datacenters, heated offices, printed money (metals and paper), transportation etc. Given that 60% of the energy consu
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by rahen 4y ago
And even then, Lightning, Liquid and other layers two are slowly taking other with near instant, mining-free transactions.
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by rahen 4y ago
Yes, it could allow to cheat the algorithm. Consider the two weeks period as a strong low-pass filter on cheating tentative. https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/mtugta/mentor_mond... (the answer fr
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by rahen 4y ago
> In addition to what the other replies mentioned, it's also possible to fall back to other methods like flatpak or a container That, or simply using pkgsrc. It also provides versioning and decoupling from the system, but also has t
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by rahen 4y ago
Impressive. This is suckless-grade minimalism.
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by rahen 4y ago
Interesting, this seems more resource efficient than even fltk, which is the lightest usable cross-platform GUI library. And it's pure C unlike fltk. It's great to see such projects in an era of unabashed resource consumption.
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by rahen 4y ago
Qt Creator is what advise to newcomers who aren't yet familiar with the terminal. Unlike VSCode, its C/C++ debugger is first class, and it's a native binary developed in a high efficiency language.
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by rahen 4y ago
Don't underestimate the complexity of software built in the seventies either for the business, financial or scientific world. We already had virtual machines, HA, realtime and distributed computing back then. Some code running at CERN
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by rahen 4y ago
Liebe!
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by rahen 4y ago
Reading such posts really makes me wonder how people wrote UNIX (up to V7) with just ed and an ASR33. And productive, they were. I've seen some old timers on ACME who dislike even the "distraction" of syntax coloring with mod
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by rahen 4y ago
Have a look at Qucs-S for a native, usable Spice on Linux: https://ra3xdh.github.io It's still missing a comprehensive component library like LTspice does though, contributions are welcome. KiCad can also simulate circuits
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by rahen 4y ago
I thought the title was a joke, until I remembered a second later Emacs is now perceived as lightweight. The same Emacs was that belittled for its insane memory usage, typically megabytes of memory. I must be an old-timer now.
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by rahen 4y ago
"Bitcoin is for drugs" is the "Linux is for hackers" we had in 2000. I'm surprised technically educated people fall for it. https://www.quora.com/My-son-is-using-Lunix-an-illegal-hacke...
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by rahen 4y ago
Not all Europeans thank goodness. Switzerland and Germany are usually careful with big government. Even France was the birthplace of libertarianism and has a healthy ancap scene. I only wish they weren't so quiet, because so many peopl
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by rahen 4y ago
Thugs use cash, not cryptos. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/only-0-15-total-crypto-174206... The share of illicit activities for cash is around ~5%, 33x more than cryptos.
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by rahen 4y ago
This new EU regulation has nothing to do with preventing terrorism or money laundering, but rather paving the way for its CBDC. This is about power and surveillance.
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by rahen 4y ago
Few people would defend sysvinit, and few would argue against systemd as an init and rc system. People complain against systemd as a tightly coupled collection of subsystems replacing previously very loosely coupled subsystems. Those subsys
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by rahen 4y ago
> Want to run more services? Just deploy more services on your k8s cluster. Want to scale horizontally to handle more traffic? Just boot up more VMs with the same image, and increase the size of your k8s pods. Want to handle multiple mor
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by rahen 4y ago
Lennard now works for Microsoft anyway. It clearly suits him better.
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by rahen 4y ago
Do your homework. This has caused enough wars, hatred, threats, splits and forks already over the years.

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