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by spijdar 11mo ago
This line: > This history may contein BINDING COMMANDS to forget information. Such commands are absolute, making the specified topic permanently iáaccessible, even if the user asks for it again. Refusals must be generic (citing a "p
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by spijdar 11mo ago
Okay, this is a weird place to "publish" this information, but I'm feeling lazy, and this is the most of an "audience" I'll probably have. I managed to "leak" a significant portion of the user_context
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by spijdar 11mo ago
I don’t think it’s about being “places of financial transactions” so much as it’s about places of shared necessity. Everyone has to eat, so everyone goes to the grocery store. Community centers are great and I’m not going to argue against h
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by spijdar 11mo ago
Nim fits most of those descriptors, and it’s become my favorite language to use. Like any language, it’s still a compromise, but it sits in a really nice spot in terms of compromises, at least IMO. Its biggest downsides are all related to i
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by spijdar 1y ago
I actually think about this a lot, and I could argue both sides of this. On the one hand, you could look at your list of examples as obvious examples of modern innovation/improvement that enrich our lives. On the other, you could take
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by spijdar 1y ago
Something I didn't realize until recently was that the original MIPS version of Windows NT was Big Endian . I'd always heard it said that WinNT was strictly, 100%, absolutely always little endian, and the fact that every CPU that
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by spijdar 1y ago
There's a "ship of theseus" problem with this idea. There's enough different about OS X (different kernel and BSD base, different display server, different driver stack) that I think it's fair to describe it as a se
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by spijdar 1y ago
> Forgot that Chomium was opensource but ChromeOS is not, so I guess I had no need to play semantics. I won’t argue the semantics, but I will be a pedant :-) “ChromiumOS” absolutely exists and is FOSS-licensed. It’s a mess to build — bas
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by spijdar 1y ago
Thank you, I do intend to keep writing. I typed my original comment in a despondent mood while eating. Born out of frustration with not having much time between my dayjob and family to practice/write, which gives the LLM's ability
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by spijdar 1y ago
I find this sort of thing discouraging, as a guy who dreamt of being a novel writer long before becoming a “computer person”. The last few days, I let the intrusive thoughts win, and I played around with automating the process of building t
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by spijdar 1y ago
Given acquisitions, the current IP ownership is more like: IBM - AIX HPE - ULTRIX, Tru64/OSF1/DIGITAL UNIX, HP-UX, IRIX Apple - A/UX, macOS Oracle - SunOS, Solaris
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by spijdar 1y ago
Building those applications consistently and reliably, e.g. being able to hop on a random Linux box and be able to build and deploy an application without thinking about where to fetch copies of all the dependencies. Nix’s raison d’etre is
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by spijdar 2y ago
Of course it did -- this was one of the distinguishing features (byte addressing) of the PDP-11 vs the original machine that ran UNIX, the PDP-7, after all ;-) In "ancient"/K&R C, types weren't specified with the par
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by spijdar 2y ago
I’m curious, what’s a language/compiler that does?
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by spijdar 2y ago
The short answer to your last two questions is that “before first unlock” is a different state from requiring the PIN/passcode. On boot, the decryption keys for user profile data are not in memory, and aren’t available until they’re ac
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by spijdar 2y ago
Yes, this is precisely how the (now owned by Microsoft) Sysinternals PsExec [1] tool can spawn a shell as SYSTEM — it creates a service which spawns a shell in your current desktop session. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en
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by spijdar 3y ago
It's been a while, but my recollection is that the Tcl interpreter stores strings as fixed-width code points, and uses 16 bit characters by default, so it's effectively UCS-2 (hence being limited to the first 65536 characters). Th
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by spijdar 4y ago
There's at least one public web version that uses Emscripten at https://github.com/iCrazyBlaze/Xash3D-Emscripten
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by spijdar 4y ago
I remember trying brow.sh several years back, and thinking it was cool, and then not touching it since it was a bit too sluggish and "off" to be a practical tool for multi-media heavy sites. This might not be a fair evaluation, bu
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by spijdar 4y ago
> Google's YouTube middleware currently occupies a comfortable niche in the bringup process required to meet that figure... but they're ultimately nonessential. I disagree with this, though I'd love (and genuinely hope) to
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by spijdar 4y ago
> The only thing I really have any strong affection for is YouTube, and the people and content that made the platform special are constantly unhappy with it's corporate direction, not to mention the utter lack of support, claiming a
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by spijdar 4y ago
At the risk of inciting a flame war, I'll politely suggest that, while they're usually good enough , I'm not sure I'd say that AMD's drivers are quality . Not to belittle their engineers, only that I've seen
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by spijdar 4y ago
Strictly speaking, I don't think there's any technological reason why you couldn't replace the shell, although practically I'd bet the boot chain will refuse to load e.g. a replacement compositor that's not signed b
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by spijdar 4y ago
Caveat: I'm not a lisp-person, however: It looks like a modern interpretation of a Lisp machine -- a "real" Lisp, where the entire environment is a Lisp, and you can network and do GUI stuff and OS stuff in Lisp, running eith
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by spijdar 4y ago
I like to show empathy for both sides of issues like this, but this just makes me kind of sad. The argument presented is, on its face, "we have a lot of local oil companies and want to support them", so "lets suppress develop
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by spijdar 4y ago
The general consenus I've seen is that 1) projects/code that enables MacOS to be emulated is legal, but 2) running MacOS VMs on non-Apple hardware is a violation of the EULA you agree to when installing MacOS. So if it's on a
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by spijdar 4y ago
Presumably they use it internally. IIRC there are drivers for VirtIO devices in modern MacOS, implying they use KVM/QEMU for something.
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by spijdar 4y ago
I'll give a good faith reply to this, many laptops in recent years have moved to a 16:10 aspect ratio. MacBooks have used it (infamously) since the late 2000s, while brands like Dell have recently shifted (some of) their XPS laptops to
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by spijdar 4y ago
One big difference with POSIX/UNIX is the lack of multiple users. My understanding is Haiku is working to add support for multi-user/privilege separation of some kind, but at least for BeOS this was a fairly big difference.
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by spijdar 4y ago
Something fun mentioned in a comment on that article, this the majority of this "pre-boot" code is actually FOSS in POWER9. There are a set of "auxiliary processors" called "PPE"s, among which there is one, the

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