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   by sjmulder 9y ago

   Here is the non-AMP version: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/15/tim-berne...
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   by sjmulder 9y ago

   That's a window manager. I was thinking more along the lines of a lightweight X replacement.
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   by sjmulder 9y ago

   It seems to depend on the program. cat is very quick to respond to ^C whereas in vim, less and elinks often a large amount of text is printed before ^C is echoed and takes effect, like you describe. I suppose that has to do with the size of
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   by sjmulder 9y ago

   Thanks! I had seen the attribute but wasn't aware of its use. I'll read up on it and try to implement it appropriately. Interestingly vim does seem to disable syntax highlighting after a while, as can be seen in the video. Since t
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   by sjmulder 9y ago

   This might be a misconception but I was under the impression that truetype fonts are a complexity and security minefield. In particular I noticed an st developer complaining (on the mailing list, probably) about the lack of a suckless font
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   by sjmulder 9y ago

   I was experimenting with pty's just the other day. I needed only I/O and window size updates, so it turned out fairly succinct: https://github.com/sjmulder/trickle/blob/master/tritty.c I'm
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   by sjmulder 9y ago

   Good suggestion! I found st a joy to read. Only a couple of C files, few frills and a straightforward coding style. I can see what the suckless folks are getting at. Slightly OT here but I was thinking about what a suckless UI system would
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   by sjmulder 9y ago

   Beautiful. I looked at obtaining a teletype or similar device but these things take quite and investment of not only money but also time and effort now. Maybe it would be fun to try and write a small program at 300 baud or so with a line ed
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   by sjmulder 9y ago

   I settled on that as the default because it's slow enough to clearly show it working from simple use (e.g. you don't need to open elinks to see it's slow) but fast enough to not discourage playing around with it. Of course, t
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    What: a 600 baud (configurable) pipe and terminal Why: to experience what it's like to do computing under such constraints, and to learn more about Unix programming. I find it interesting to see how programs like pagers, web browsers a
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    Show HN: Trickle/tritty, a 600 baud pipe/terminal(asciinema.org)

    65 points by sjmulder 9y ago|33 comments
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    I use VoiceOver sometimes which will switch to an appropriate voice for the language.
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    I can fit two thumbs in the header that won't go away. It's like reading trough a letterbox. Luckily I can use reader view but it would be better if it wouldn't be necessary at all.
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    entr, too: http://entrproject.org
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    I maintain a similar list at https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html Like the GitHub repo it's still very short but I'll add more sites as I find them.
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    COBOL is old and increasingly rare but not necessarily unsupported. That makes it a different kind of issue.
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    The Dutch National Reserve is independent nor civilian but comes close. These units train every so often in first aid and military skills. They are tasked with: 1) Security of evacuated areas and vital objects 2) Assisting - during calamiti
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    I wish there was a more modern version of Programming Windows by Charles Petzold that I could recommend for its great, down to Earth introduction to Win32, but unfortunately the fifth edition from 1998 was the last of its kind. If you'
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    This sounds like a Charles Stross novel. One that I'd like to read!
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    There is a datacenter in the Netherlands – I couldn't quickly find out which one – of which the first floor is waterproof and has provisions for boat access on an upper floor, exactly for this scenario.
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    At ~175 MB with a blank drawing open, I've seen worse. Some things I noticed about the menus (on Windows): - The menus don't have hotkey support (Alt+…) - The File menu is missing a Close option - Submenus swich too soon on diagon
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    With GTK, QT, Tk, etc we used to have a fairly good near-native cross platform story before mobile happened. Apple's reluctance to accept non-native code, Google's pick of Java for Android and early smartphone resource limits made
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    Cool project! Given that the whole point of the tool is that it's a tiling terminal app, I'd appreciate a few more screenshots on the page or in the readme showing the different ways it lets me organise my terminals. I'm a bi
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    Thanks for this. I’d love to see a video with the full presentation but it appears there is none. Gnome is going an interesting direction nowadays. The team managed to invent a desktop environment that is very easy to use, looks good, and i
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    I've started writing some Win32 code for fun and like you I found it a whole different experience from GTK and such. It really is an API rather than a toolkit. Take scrolling. Scroll bars are provided when requested, but all the intera
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    I write tiny programs in the Unix tradition: (mostly) stream based primitives that fit together with other tools, like format conversion (json-yaml) or command repeater rept(1), which is great together with lam(1). I also enjoy writing the
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    > moving the Win32k stuff back to CSRSS Out of curiosity, was there some big move of functionality from CSRSS into Win32k earlier? When and what?
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    Sexual harassment in Silicon Valley: have we reached a tipping point?(theguardian.com)

    1 points by sjmulder 9y ago|0 comments
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    Thanks for sharing. Concise and easy to follow. I ported it to C to try it out for myself. Turning off console output makes it finish almost instantly!
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    by sjmulder 9y ago

    That argument makes sense when we're talking about languages that improve productivity at the cost of efficiency, but consider that we are now talking specifically about code already written in a compiled language. There is no need to