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by rollcat 1y ago
I've learned Z80 and 8051 a decade or two ago, and then forgot everything. Honestly both were easy to pick up, but I assume you're opinionated and/or an expert? Anything in particular that you like about the 6502?
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by rollcat 1y ago
Django Admin is a bit of a trap though ;) it's powerful enough that you can build an entire application with it, custom views and powerful filtering and ACLs and whatnot, it easily gets 80% of your job done with almost nothing but a de
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by rollcat 1y ago
I think the ORM is fine. There's always some friction coming from mapping rows to classes and objects, but you can always drop down a layer and just pull raw tuples. What I'm not a fan of, is the query DSL. Normally, the developer
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by rollcat 1y ago
Everyone's career started somewhere, and Django has been launching careers for 20 years now.
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by rollcat 1y ago
I don't think you can honestly and objectively criticise something you don't truly know. There's still no framework in e.g. Go that comes anywhere close to matching Django. It's pragmatic, doesn't do too much meta
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by rollcat 1y ago
I've shed a tear. I was still at uni (2008) when I got my first PHP job. I've shown Django to my boss. He's never started another PHP project since. Django is now older than I was when I first used it. To another 20 years.
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by rollcat 1y ago
I'm eager to find out how long that will survive. (No sarcasm, just being realistic.)
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by rollcat 1y ago
It's the same Blink engine underneath. Talk about lipstick. I'm not aware of a Blink-based browser that isn't dropping manifest V2. That would be a soft fork, and wouldn't survive long.
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by rollcat 1y ago
Important extensions like, dunno, uBlock Origin?
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by rollcat 1y ago
I hate to be the that OpenBSD guy, but "the people who do the work are the ones to decide how it's done". Yes, people are paid to maintain OpenZFS, but so far nobody is ready to pay for (or volunteer to) meet your bar. Side n
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by rollcat 1y ago
That's a bit unfair. The size and age of the codebase speaks nothing of its quality. I've thrown out 50k 5yro Python code without a second thought. Also, filesystems are an insanely complex problem, and ZFS is by far the most comp
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by rollcat 1y ago
I mean honestly - the "classic" Apache model of throwing things into the www root is very strong for rapid development. Hot code reloading is sometimes finicky, you can end up with unexpected hidden state and lose sanity over a st
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by rollcat 1y ago
Honestly, I'm not worried about the batteries. Thanks to FFI, you can just talk to libc, and vendor any native Lua code you need. (That's my approach for LÖVE.) LuaJIT, release-wise, has been stuck in a very weird spot for a long
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by rollcat 1y ago
Quoting Rasmus Lerdorf: > I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works then I move on. The real programmers will say "Yeah it works but you're leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that.&quo
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by rollcat 1y ago
What's the landscape like, for when you need to scale your project up? As in: your project needs more structure, third-party integrations, atomic deployments, etc - not necessarily more performance. Python has Werkzeug, Flask, or at th
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by rollcat 1y ago
> Lua doesn't have a CGI module in stdlib either. Lua barely has any stdlib to speak of, most notably in terms of OS interfaces. I'm not even talking about chmod or sockets; there's no setenv or readdir. You have to instal
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by rollcat 1y ago
It's non-competitive (I'm burnt out with SC2 ladder a bit), but I've been enjoying Cataclismo, Settlers 3 (THAT is a throwback), and I'm eyeing They are Billions. Some SC2 youtubers are now covering Mechabellum, Tempest
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by rollcat 1y ago
There's plenty of business opportunity in any genre; you can make a shit-ton of money by simply making the game good and building community goodwill. The strategy is simple: 1. there's always plenty of people who are ready to spen
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by rollcat 1y ago
> Launching a game like [...] Starcraft 2 They can't even keep the lights on for SC2. We [the community] have been designing our own balance patches for the past five years; and our own ladder maps since +/- day 1 - all Blizz
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by rollcat 1y ago
I understand adding the "AI" keyword is just SEO, like adding "Reddit" to article headlines... It still leaves a bad taste, even if the main course is excellent. Even the diagrams for API vs AI gateways are almost identi
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by rollcat 1y ago
All of these platforms combined had less global impact over their lifetime than iPhone has had in its first five years. Apple is never first to do something.
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by rollcat 1y ago
Unfortunately Apple normalised it, first with the iPhone. There are upsides (theoretically - less trash apps), but the review/curation process doesn't scale, and yep - the small devs are effectively told to bug off. 10 years ago I
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by rollcat 1y ago
The broadcast industry continues to move at a slow pace compared to IT, and understandably - it's live TV, you need things to work 24/7/365. That means there's always an opportunity for the resourceful.
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by rollcat 1y ago
DOOM required DOS 5.0. rou2exOS is only the second take. Watch this area ;)
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by rollcat 1y ago
I used to have an alias em=mg, because mg(1) is a small Emacs, so "em" seemed like a fun name for a command. Until one day I made that typo.
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by rollcat 1y ago
Of course there are. Many browser extensions are available for all platforms except Apple's, because you need that $99/y ( and a Mac) to wrap ( and fix up) a bunch of JS you already wrote and tested everywhere else. I applaud th
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by rollcat 1y ago
> since they won't touch it with a swollen battery Interesting. I've had a spicy pillow on a 2017 MBP, they fixed the poor thing, and while at it: replaced the cursed keyboard, and left some kind of tape to reinforce the loosen
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by rollcat 1y ago
Memory-safe language. x86_64, with Arm on the roadmap. Networking stack. Boots from a CD and via multiboot. Your hobby project wipes the floor with DOS.
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by rollcat 1y ago
It would be nice if the authors provided a bootable ISO, or even just a video showcase. I use my Windows machine for games, I wouldn't care to set up a dev environment even if I knew how to.
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by rollcat 1y ago
> I don't understand where the "consistency" obsession comes from [...]. Mental overhead. Sometimes Preferences is Ctrl-P, sometimes Ctrl-[,]; sometimes Copy is Ctrl-C, sometimes Ctrl-Shift-C. Sometimes the menu is a hambu

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