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by reirob 6y ago
Just want to add Haskell, that was planned and thought-through for a very long time, and the purpose of it being planned was especially to slow down the proliferation of too many (research) programming languages, by providing a base/pl
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by reirob 6y ago
> I'm hoping one day someone will make a statically, strongly typed Lisp that still doesn't sacrifice its flexibility and expressive power. I'd jump to that in an instant. This part inspired me to look up the wiki page &qu
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by reirob 6y ago
Thank you for reminding that there exists a browser that is based a Firefox, without the "services" from Mozilla. As a Firefox user, I will give it a try on desktop and android. But can anybody maybe tell what are the limitations
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by reirob 6y ago
Agree, the only difficulty to work with DPI is when you have several physical screens. X, from what I understood, combines them to one single virtual screen, with a single DPI setting :-/
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by reirob 6y ago
Confirming this. When I bought X1E it was a pain to get 18.04 working. But 18.04 on this device was for me the worst Linux experience since the 90s :-( It is probably because of Nvidia, but I blame Gnome too - the latency got worse than 20
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by reirob 7y ago
In my opinion one of the weaknesses of XML is that it gives so many ways to express the same data, in attributes, as nested elements, with CDATA, and probably different other ways. And often it is a matter of taste. So in the end you come u
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by reirob 7y ago
Didn't read the article, but would like to add that there are already programs used and loved by many people, which are using a programming language for configuration. I know just the following, but there are probably many more: - Emac
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by reirob 7y ago
FOSDEM speach video [1] about the status of seL4, I really enjoyed. [1]: https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/uk_sel4/
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by reirob 7y ago
Well, I would guess FireFox, sort of. If I recall correctly Rust was created to rewrite FireFox and make it better. The Oxidation page [1] seems to give an overview where it is. [1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation
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by reirob 7y ago
Interesting thought, and looking at how many Romance languages evolved from Latin in the past, there might be something to it. At the same time there are languages that managed to re-unite the different dialects, at least in education and l
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by reirob 7y ago
I agree with you. But I would phrase it differently: "A common language unites". We should not forget that at different times in different areas we had and to some extent still have different common languages (Greek, Latin, French
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by reirob 7y ago
ATS language. It compiles to C and I believe I have seen even that experimentally some kernel module was developped in it. Here some resources: The Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATS_(programming_language
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by reirob 7y ago
I think that in general animals and people learn most efficiently by making mistakes. Sure, I am talking about mistakes that do not kill us. But even mistakes that kill, have hopefully a learning effect on those who observe. I think as well
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by reirob 7y ago
Maybe because he didn't self-censor himself? P.S.: Sorry, but I couldn't help being sarcastic...
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by reirob 7y ago
Thank you! I had to scroll really deep in this page to understand some context. Because the link of this page goes just to say "Richard M. Stallman, founder and president of the Free Software Foundation, resigned as president and from
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by reirob 7y ago
Thanks for that! It is very entertaining and puts me in peace with English, which so far I was refusing to give a status of a proper language and was degrading to a tool of communication - actually a great tool and I am happy we have it. Bu
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by reirob 7y ago
I have the X1 Extreme since December. Running Ubuntu 18.04. My experience with it was in short - "the worst possible ThinkPad that I had in 15 years" - and I had 8 ThinkPads. Maybe I am unlucky. I bought it because I finally wante
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by reirob 7y ago
From all the cities that I used, Singapore was the one where I used most often taxis, because they were so cheap. It may have changed since 2004, but I think even for Singapore having electric cars, even for taxis might be better. What am I
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by reirob 7y ago
what will happen if I stop writing? will something happen? Oh it is possible to have capital letters! That's neat. I like how it presents itself, almost no distraction, you are typing on an empty page, the cursor being red is a nice to
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by reirob 7y ago
https://writingstreak.io/ shows me the following in Firefox: Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead Firefox detected an issue and did not continue to writingstreak.io. The website is either misconfigured or your computer cl
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by reirob 7y ago
Now I am really surprised. I knew that Xenix was a Unix that belonged to Microsoft, but I didn't know Word worked on a Unix. And I didn't know that Xenix was bought by SCO later. Looked up wikipedia on Xenix [0], and there are a l
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by reirob 7y ago
But we have qemu [0] that emulates quite a lot of Instruction Sets. How comes that it is allowed to exist, qemu is emulating quite a lot of instruction sets [1] ? [0] https://www.qemu.org/ [1] https://wiki.qemu.
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by reirob 7y ago
As well DDD the X11 front-end for GDB [1]. Helped me quite a lot around 2003. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/
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by reirob 7y ago
> As an aside: I will hear this ocassionally from Americans visiting here. That the food at McDonald's tastes better. This is probably why. Fewer chemicals, more local produce.
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by reirob 7y ago
Editor of your choice in one window and ghcid, which shows compiler errors and warnings on change of file, in another window. From time to time a web browser to search a function in hoogle [1] and ghci (the interpreter console) to interacti
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by reirob 7y ago
And there is Cassandra DB, that advices to deactivate swap. I am wondering what happens on servers, running several Java Services with Cassandra and without swap, once memory pressure gets high, even due to system caches, will it stall as w
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by reirob 7y ago
I am going quite in the opposite way. My IDE is getting more and more the shell, the VI(M) and the terminal based development tools (in my case mostly Haskell and Shell-Related). The more I work the more I am getting used to the terminal, g
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by reirob 7y ago
Do you have any references handy?
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by reirob 7y ago
> Travel between Porto and Faro (Portugal) by train is 5 hours versus 50 minutes by plane That's exactly the problem: Porto to Faro for should have a better train connectivity, that will emit 10x less CO2, should take not more than
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by reirob 7y ago
I was not aware of this, but found a similar solution that is available almost on any computer: On Linux (my main work environment) I use the English International with AltGr Dead Keys. This gives me a lot of European (and other) accents by

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