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by rhet0rica 2y ago
In more recent interviews Cutler has been firm that the NT kernel was designed pragmatically, a view that Tevanian also evidently later adopted, as evident with the great wheel of incarnation that Darwin went through on the road to XNU, alt
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
This is quite a ship-of-Theseus problem. Steve Jobs hired Avi Tevanian to work at NeXT on the Mach kernel, and later brought Tevanian to Apple; he was still working on the Mach/Darwin kernel as late as the first iPhone release. There i
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
As Don Hopkins sort-of says—the original chording keyboard (and most later units) just had you inputting a binary number, which would be added to 64 to get an ASCII codepoint. No attempt was made to optimize for letter frequencies in Englis
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
Isn't it (technically, officially) two colons for a pseudo-element? ::gap instead of :gap.
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
Those are all really old builds. Strongly recommend one of the following alternatives: - On Mac or Linux, building version 3.6 from the SourceForge repo (r1603 is a good revision): https://sourceforge.net/projects/previ
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
Your options are: West Coast Liberal → https://bsky.app/ Bundesrepublik KDE → https://joinmastodon.org/ "I bet Mark Zuckerberg won't get any weirder" → https://www.threads.net&#x2F
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
It sounds like you're thinking purely about the speed of a skilled typist. Alternative keyboard layouts offer a tangible ergonomic benefit even at lower WPM counts, and can have a lower hunt-and-peck time for novices by clustering freq
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
I love not knowing whether the "pdf" in the title (and URL) refers to a probability density function or the portable document format. ...The answer will surprise you!
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Hot take: there are no legitimate use cases for human face transfer.
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I summon QR Exodia!
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Yes, that seems to be what the aptly-named "tardis" monad does, but the article notes that it isn't sufficient because of the minutiae of how jump instructions themselves can vary in length under x86. In an act of brilliance
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There is a time and place for everything—and you should not assume a business environment is the only possible setting in which colleagues might pass by unattended workstations. Ideally the prank is pulled in a high-trust, low-stakes enviro
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by rhet0rica 2y ago
Well, dear Peggy, the program in question is, in fact, known to have existed in 1974 on Multics ( https://multicians.org/terminals.html ), so you're not half wrong. The other major issue is that it isn't machine lea