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by rahen 4y ago
It's gibberish.
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by rahen 4y ago
Nothing wrong with loan-words. It becomes a problem though when it becomes linguistic and/or cultural imperialism (trying to undermine various cultures and languages through a more dominant one). French Canada could say a few things ab
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by rahen 4y ago
I guess I must belong to the plebe as I fail to see what's wrong with this one: "les prix augmentent à cause de l'inflation". It feels a bit middle-schoolish but grammatically not wrong to me. One I truly can't stan
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by rahen 4y ago
Oh, sweet, sweet irony from the British medias. How dare we keep our linguistic identity and not surrender to THEIR language in day to day conversations? I guess they surely would rejoice giving up English and using French if the roles were
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by rahen 4y ago
There used to be a circuit simulator for most discrete logic arcade games of the 70s: DICE. http://adamulation.blogspot.com Unfortunately it hasn't been maintained for a while, which is a shame because I don't think an
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by rahen 4y ago
I've built an 8088 replica (Sergey's Xi 8088) and I'm having great fun with ELKS. https://github.com/jbruchon/elks ELKS is a Linux subset designed for the 8088, along with a complete toolchain (gcc-ia16)
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by rahen 4y ago
Granted, Turbo Pascal was nice for small CP/M and DOS machines, at least until version 3 when the IDE was still ~30kB and could fit in 64kB of RAM. When TP4 and Turbo C were introduced with their full TUI environment, the 8088 started
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by rahen 4y ago
This exactly. In the 80s, it was common practice to write in macro assembler, which would then be translated to the target ISA. Microsoft wrote BASIC and others significant software in such a way. https://devblogs.microsoft.com&#
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by rahen 4y ago
> I don’t actually have an Apple II any more … it’s tempting to pick up a IIc or IIe from fleabay but there’s not many left Order a kit. It will be in brand new condition, no bad surprise, and you can put it in a PC case like those AII c
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by rahen 4y ago
At least Debian cannot and will never be bought, will always be there, has an army of contributors (some of them kernel developers), and is basically the only enterprise grade free distribution. Now just add some RHEL/CentOS containers
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by rahen 4y ago
The split is even stronger on NetBSD, where /usr is the base OS and /usr/pkg what's installed by the user through pkgin (binary packages) or pkgsrc (ports). Likewise, the system configuration goes to /etc while the
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by rahen 4y ago
And both the content of system32 and SysWOW64 is actually hard linked from the side by side folder (WinSxS), hence why this folder is usually half the size of the Windows folder. It's the Windows way to abstract system folders and prov
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by rahen 4y ago
Unfortunately, the way I've felt during my childhood, French schools don't teach critical thinking. Basically every student comes out of school saying exactly the same thing: more government, more power to the government, politi
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by rahen 4y ago
Great. This will be VB6 all over again: tightly coupled apps (coupled frontend/backend, coupled SW/OS/HW) depending on a runtime that will go unsupported or killed within 5 years, and will soon require a VM to run at all. Ven
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by rahen 4y ago
Java and COBOL share some common principles. The languages aren't the point, the platform are. They both run on high performance / reliable virtual machines, allowing a superior scalability, reliability and long term compatibility
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by rahen 5y ago
I find it pretty hard here in France to find a media with a pro-market, small-governement stance. Basically the whole press is statist. L'Opinion and Les Echos are somewhat the least worst.
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by rahen 5y ago
Last time I tried micro as an alternative to vi, it didn't even implement search and replace. I find most of those alternatives quiet heavy and featureless compared to vi.
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by rahen 5y ago
The more I dive into this rabbit hole of complexity, the more I enjoy running things on a JVM and an application server. I get HW/SW decoupling, platform independence, standardization, predictable technical debt and clustering at a f
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by rahen 5y ago
Sounds like a heap of clichés, for making a living in France too. Besides, I'm not sure who you would vote for, no candidate here has a real pro market, small government stance.
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by rahen 5y ago
Indeed, I have fond memories of the Turbo C IDE. I wish conio.h would have been something under Unix, free from the VT100 cruft. ncurses is lacking and awkward to use. Apparently conio.h was ported to Linux ( https://github.com&#x
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by rahen 5y ago
Does it really? https://www.corewar.io/app/editor/src
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by rahen 5y ago
Unfortunately corewar.io seems down. I'm not sure what happened to them.
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by rahen 5y ago
Yes, additionally JET stands for Joint European Torus, it's not British. The title is as misleading as calling ITER French because it's located in France.
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by rahen 5y ago
Hopefully, we'll see at some point a standardized RISC-V compute module, that can be used as a building brick for all kind of devices. Besides laptops, an open-hardware server with 32 of those modules for instance would be a thing.
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by rahen 5y ago
You're right. Skyscrapers don't achieve any meaningful density because of all the space between them, which offsets their height. The City of Paris (the classical mid-rise downtown without the La Défense skyscraper CBD), has a pop
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by rahen 5y ago
It's great to see some new projects being wire wrapped. It's becoming some kind of lost art nowadays.
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by rahen 5y ago
There's also org mode in emacs. https://github.com/nnicandro/emacs-jupyter I'm not a great fan of notebooks though, I keep using the REPL with X forwarding for matplotlib, sided with a code editor.
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by rahen 5y ago
Indeed, just like VB6, tcl/tk is a great reminder of the late 90s. Tcl was such an expressive yet minimalist language. Probably the only fast and easy way back then to create GUI applications on *nix systems. I guess Python + QT has ki
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by rahen 5y ago
Have you tried Lazarus? https://www.lazarus-ide.org
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by rahen 5y ago
Alpine is working on it: https://skarnet.com/projects/service-manager.html

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