sedatk

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1. 721.▲
   by sedatk 2y ago

   vi was originally the visual-by-default run mode of ed. And EDLIN on MS-DOS (and maybe CP/M too? don't remember) was based on ed too. That's why EDLIN and vi have similar command sets.
2. 722.▲
   by sedatk 2y ago

   That's extremely fast on Firefox and Chrome while it comes to a crawl on Microsoft Edge (Chromium) for some reason. EDIT: Found it. "Enhance your security on the web" option in Edge makes it significantly slower. Disabling th
3. 723.▲
   by sedatk 2y ago

   Yes, they also released F# 9.
4. 724.▲
   by sedatk 2y ago

   Reminds me of the finale of Six Feet Under. "You can't take a picture of this. It's already gone"
5. 725.▲
   by sedatk 2y ago

   Uh, okay, I must have missed that part :)
6. 726.▲
   by sedatk 2y ago

   Off-topic, but, why does he pronounce JavaScript "YavaScript"?
7. 727.▲
   by sedatk 2y ago

   Oh, there you go :)
8. 728.▲
   by sedatk 2y ago

   :'(
9. 729.▲
   by sedatk 2y ago

   Can't wait for Zig team to adopt this over libc, citing concerns about "libc not existing on certain configurations"[1] [1] https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1840
10. 730.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    IIRC, he wrote some of his books on a PowerBook.
11. 731.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    Exactly. They've just gone too far.
12. 732.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    I hate my dishwasher's touch buttons (Bosch 800 series) because of that. The amount of pressure you need to press a button is always ambiguous, so sometimes you press it too short and you have to press it again. Sometimes, the button r
13. 733.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    That's the only reason I didn't buy this otherwise a great laptop. I guess they're "testing the market" for new gimmicks.
14. 734.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    > developers can direct Claude to use computers the way people do—by looking at a screen, moving a cursor, clicking buttons, and typing text. So, this is how AI takes over the world.
15. 735.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    My only 2-star review about my book on Manning's web site is a complaint about not receiving the book. I don't know what madem them give me two stars instead of one. Maybe, they liked the order process. :) If they had reached out
16. 736.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    > use jemalloc for linux targets Why is that? Or, why isn't it required for other targets?
17. 737.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    I had my own utility distributed in Simtel CDs. It was an offline mail reader for FidoNet called Wolverine. I think the filename was w230.zip :)
18. 738.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    Neither have I, and this has gotten me excited solely because of that. I had heard SNOBOL's name back in the 80's a lot, along with COMAL, COBOL, FORTRAN, RPG, etc. This looks like a hybrid between COBOL and FORTRAN :)
19. 739.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    Oh that's convenient, that's for sure.
20. 740.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    `let` is just a .Select(), isn't it?
21. 741.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    Because this is ~25% shorter, and have 71 bits of entropy instead of 44 bits.
22. 742.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    Totally. I couldn't care less if the LINQ syntax had gone tomorrow, but functional composition is so powerful, and easier to maintain too.
23. 743.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    > 4 represents “NOSPLIT” which we need for some reason For those who are curious: "In the general case, the frame size [the parameter after NOSPLIT] is followed by an argument size, separated by a minus sign. (It's not a subtr
24. 744.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    I discovered that completely by surprise when I was learning Rust. I wrote code and unit tests, wrote some documentation, and I was blown away when I saw that my documentation also ran as part of the suite. Such a magical moment.
25. 745.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    Thanks and enjoy!
26. 746.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    30 years is new construction in US standards.
27. 747.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    > “listening" to the keychain garage door opener with the FZ, and playing back the signal That would only work with older garage doors that don’t use rolling codes, wouldn’t it?
28. 748.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    I think parent means "Ampere" being a bad ARM implementation, and Snapdragon X or Apple M-series being the good ones. It's mentioned in the article too. Ampere performs really poorly on idle (101W vs EPYC's meager 19W).
29. 749.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    After 40+ years, finally :) I really want x86 and ARM to push each other for better power efficiency and performance instead of one side winning out. I’m using an ARM laptop nowadays and the battery life is so impressive.
30. 750.▲
    by sedatk 2y ago

    I thank you on behalf of every non-Brit in the universe.