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by rahen 3y ago
With npm, 64GB ought to be enough for everyone.
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by rahen 3y ago
Thank you. I see the same across the Channel, in a country addicted to public spending and government control. Private companies come with safeguards: competition and the need for profitability (which is just sustainability anyway). When th
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by rahen 3y ago
Isn't the government also a monopoly? Can you really get rid of it and its corruption by just voting? What about state monopolies when they become inefficient and debt ridden, and can just _forbid_ competition? No private monopoly is f
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by rahen 3y ago
No, inflation concentrates the wealth into the hands of the government, banks and the wealthiests, not the people. This is called the Cantillon effect.
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by rahen 3y ago
You may have known IBM i under a different name such as eSeries or AS/400 as it has gone through many renaming. Yes, it currently targets their Power series, although it's fairly hardware independent. As a matter of fact AS/4
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by rahen 3y ago
IBM i is stellar in design, compatibility, quality, efficiency, reliability, consistency and security. x86 and Linux pale in comparison. I wish IBM hadn't fenced it so much like a walled garden. Had they issued inexpensive or free lice
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by rahen 3y ago
Kubernetes is a bit of the new OpenStack. It's like an all-you-can-eat buffet of complexity concealed behind interfaces. Either some startups go rampage with it and deploy needlessly complex stacks because the tooling makes it easy, he
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by rahen 3y ago
How would you sell Node to other old guys? Especially compared to Go. I try to favor simple, efficient software. I used to dislike PHP because it was so messy and inefficient, until newer frameworks like Django made it look like it was slim
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by rahen 3y ago
What shortsightedness from Apple. By aiming to be the sole player in the market and charging exorbitant prices, they paved the way for the IBM PC where the market was wide open and the ecosystem thriving. After the threats and harassing fro
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by rahen 3y ago
Is there any hope to see the LCM open again following Paul Allen's death?
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by rahen 3y ago
That's what assembly programmers do, they re-use code. They just don't need to ship huge runtimes to be then loaded into memory.
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by rahen 3y ago
> NetBSD 5.1 was great. Arguably one of the best releases in the project's history. What would make it one of the best in your opinion? I used to like 1.6 and 2.0 a lot, personally.
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by rahen 3y ago
I don't think so, modern high level languages tend to be linked to huge runtimes that are usually load entirely in memory. Assembly programs don't.
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by rahen 3y ago
In principle, this amounts to giving a gift to society: the programmer spends more time on their work so that society as a whole consumes fewer resources. Often, the opposite happens: the programmer transfers their productivity gain into an
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by rahen 3y ago
If you want a small, portable vi with Unicode, you can static build the version from Busybox. That's what I do.
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A Meccano computer: MOTAT’s differential analyser(medium.com)
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by rahen 3y ago
RavynOS is a much more interesting project. Basically it keeps everything that's open-source in Darwin (save for XNU), and re-implements what that's proprietary with tailor made free software, on top of a FreeBSD kernel. Since m
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by rahen 3y ago
Well, Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of C#, is also the creator of Delphi.
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by rahen 3y ago
And English and French... It's essentially a modern, cleaned-up Latin that any European can pick up quickly.
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by rahen 3y ago
Have a look at Interlingua, it would make a great official language for the EU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua Same article written in Interlingua: https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlin
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by rahen 3y ago
Yes, you got it right. The Dorados now run a binary emulator on top of a microcomputer (x86_64) architecture, while IBM Z (itself essentially a 64-bit S390 arch) kept a mainframe configuration.
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by rahen 3y ago
That's common in the mainframe world. Unisys (ex Univac) still has its Dorado mainframes binary compatible with the Univac 1100 released in 1962.
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by rahen 3y ago
I run NetBSD as a desktop and AA also works with Chromium. This looks strange.
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The Bull Gamma 3 computer (1952)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by rahen 3y ago
Not only that, but Qucs also has a SPICE version which sees a lot of activity, and unlike QucsStudio, is free software: https://ra3xdh.github.io It's only missing a solid components library like LTSpice has. Hopefully its l
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by rahen 3y ago
It's safer as in "whatever I hit, I win". A pretty narrow definition of safety.
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by rahen 3y ago
This reminds me of how Rob Pike mentioned his dislike for syntax coloring as extra cognitive load, which seems odd in regards to current IDEs filled with information and stimuli. With LLMs now directly interfaced to IDEs, it is likely that
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by rahen 3y ago
I prefer the traditional layout over the MS Outlook one. It requires less screen estate, and you don't need to open some emails in a separate window to read them at an adequate size.
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by rahen 3y ago
You're absolutely right, thank you for pointing this out to me. I indeed meant a KL-10 based DEC-20, not a KS-10 2020.
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by rahen 3y ago
Such a shame. Did he try to contact a local museum maybe? I'm looking forward to have PiDP10 but seeing a real one, especially a KA-10, would be a bit of a dream.

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