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by somat 11mo ago
It was the style at the time. There are a lot of programs from that era with stupid, oversized nothing standard ui's, windows xp was a study in restraint compared to many applications. I think computers had just gotten powerful enough
512.
by somat 11mo ago
I am not very familiar with FreeBSD's pf but my understanding is that fbsd integrated it from OpenBSD and then proceeded to put a fair amount of work in making it more performant(multi core) while OpenBSD put most of it's work int
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by somat 11mo ago
Wow, The Burroughs large system had special instructions explicitly for efficient algol use. You could almost say it was algol hardware. but algol 60 not 68. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs_Large_Systems There
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by somat 11mo ago
luks on an iscsi drive Joking of course, but I am playing around with a similar setup, I should try it over the actual internet and see how much it sucks. Now I am arguing with myself if you would want to run it over an encrypted tunnel. T
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by somat 11mo ago
Yes, massively influential, but was it ever used or popular?, I always think of it as sort of the poster child for the danger of "design by committee". Sure it's ideas spawned many of today's languages, But wasn't t
516.
by somat 11mo ago
The whole point of markdown, really it's whole value preposition is that it has nice looking plain text. And don't get me wrong that is a hell of a value to many people, myself included. Yes it is a terrible markup language, And I
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by somat 11mo ago
And it was bad at other use cases, having used both (3270 and vt) you can do 3270 workloads on a vt(granted less efficiently) but vt style asynchronous updates were very hard on a 3270. If I had to pick one I would pick the vt. And footnote
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by somat 11mo ago
How bad is it? I mean you have the source, it could be ported. Or am I completely misunderstanding and you specifically want the old toolchains, in which case A respectful moment of silence for compilers lost. Speaking of porting I have alw
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by somat 11mo ago
Will not wok on OpenBSD where the shell that comes with the system is ksh at /bin/ksh and /bin/sh and if you want bash it is a third party package and correspondingly gets installed as /usr/local/bin/
520.
by somat 11mo ago
I think that was what I was trying to figure out, how the program was passed. but OpenBSD does not do nested interpreters, it looks like if I had tried Linux it would have worked.
521.
by somat 11mo ago
I am on openbsd. which does not allow it, it looks like nested interpreters are s supported on linux. So my loss there.
522.
by somat 11mo ago
The thing that surprised me was that you can't write an interpreter in an interpreted language, at least not in obsd. It is possible if you jump through a few hoops but you can't directly call it. An example: if you made a languag
523.
by somat 11mo ago
It is double weird because unix has always supported this. I think was an accident of how the unix filesystem was implemented but basically, every file has at least one name but can have as many as you want, if a file ever has zero names i
524.
by somat 11mo ago
On the topic of grammar errors. I have seriously considered leaving several grammar and spelling errors in my posts in order to provide a signal that this post was written by a human. And then I get several sorts of depressed at what this i
525.
by somat 11mo ago
Sigh, Even after I reread the spec... I did not in fact read the spec. complete failure on my part.
526.
by somat 11mo ago
Enumerating all values probably can't be done in python as that requires some sort of unchecked loop construct, that is a goto or bare loop nether of which is present in python. perhaps a recursive solution(throws up a little in mouth)
527.
by somat 11mo ago
Their are many good reasons to always have a primary key, even if it is just an automatic serial number, but the one that hit me personally is that it is surprisingly difficult to deduplicate a relational database. When I was first learning
528.
by somat 11mo ago
The real magic/genius are trailer brakes, they are electric right, however if they worked the way you would naively assume an electric brake would work, directly operating on the friction surface with an electric solenoid, It would tak
529.
by somat 11mo ago
For getting started there is the quick start guide https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/quickstart.wiki and after that the built in help gets you pretty far. Really, most distributed version control
530.
by somat 11mo ago
It has a sane ui/syntax, all the additional infrastructure you might want is built in (webpage, wiki, forum, tickets) and is trivial to set up. It is nearly the perfect version control system. Especially for the small independent amate
531.
by somat 11mo ago
Unfortunately I don't really know, I mean as far as I can tell gnome or kde programs run fine, but I am not running any of background tooling that normally goes with a full desktop environment.
532.
by somat 11mo ago
Here is my rather naive take on the same subject. But I had a very different motivation than the author. See I actually quite like SQL and enjoy programming in it, but what I don't like is mixing sql and python. So one night in a flash
533.
by somat 11mo ago
If we are doing a survey I use spectrwm and it has empty/dedicated workspaces. It also has a concept of shared workspaces, windows there are present in all workspaces, used for fleshing out common desktop ui docks and the like. I have
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by somat 11mo ago
There is a weird interaction here and I am not a ip lawyer and do not know how to resolve it But I will try to explain. There is steamboat willie(the work) it is in public domain and you are able to distribute it and modified copied of it f
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by somat 11mo ago
So just out of curiosity, what is this modern tooling? It was brought up previously in this thread without naming any names.
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by somat 1y ago
The main problem was the missing second stick. It was well built, but for game where a controller is nice touch pads sort of suck compared to a stick and for games where a mouse is nice touch pads sort of suck compared to a mouse. So the o
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by somat 1y ago
My understanding is that the original yt-dl used the browser interface. yt-dlp uses the android app interface.
538.
by somat 1y ago
But Böcker sure as hell jumped on the louvre heist. https://petapixel.com/2025/10/27/how-a-ladder-company-turned...
539.
by somat 1y ago
I agree it is all a bit stupid, But I am feeling charitable this morning so I will give it a go. If you wanted to create a registry of watch ownership a nft is certainly one way to go about it. and this use makes far more sense than most to
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by somat 1y ago
I run a 5600, I am not super familiar with the rest of the g-shock line but the straps do appear to be the weak point of the whole thing. I found an adapter that allows me to use nato style nylon webbing straps. I mainly wanted it so I coul

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