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by stevekemp 2mo ago
We did get the term "myspace angle" for selfies though back in that timeframe, from a different kind of manipulation..
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
Cool URIs don't change, as we should all remember: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
Things might change in the future, it seems that WhatsApp is gonna start offering usernames, I saw the notice on my app a few weeks back. That would allow using it with strangers, without sharing a number, in the future.
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
I guess it's the luck of the draw, but unfortunately Sunday's are no good for me. The curse of parenting :) But it's still a great idea, and I wish you all happy meetups. Would be nice if this inspired other groups to form
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
I wanted something standalone I could implement and understand from the ground-up, that's why I did everything myself, rather than using LLVM. In the future I might try to repeat the process with QBE, or similar, but LLVM is a big depe
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
I've worked in a couple of companies who used bitbucket, and I've been glad when each of them migrated elsewhere. Bitbucket managed to be slow, annoying, and suffer more outages than github ever did. (Though perhaps that has chan
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
We already have linkedin for that!
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
I wrote a lisp compiler recently, and that involved generating assembly language. My output is linux/amd64 assembly language which is compiled by nasm. I don't link to glibc, so I had to implement my "print int", "
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
LSP services make it trivial to jump to definitions, as well as local cross-references and filesystem views it's just not something that's a concern. Could I scroll around 5ms faster with a different UI? Probably, but it wouldn&#x
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
I'm a pale-skinned redhead, covered in freckles. For me there is no such thing as a "base tan". I get can get sunburnt from as little as 30 minutes in the sun at times, and I almost always wear sunscreen in the summer for th
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
I think there are phases where it becomes more popular, if some discussion topically references FORTH, or Lisp, you know that within a few hours other people will read them and make submissions on the same theme. It's nice. As for me I
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
And I used to use the Numega SoftIce debugger to debug the anti-copying protection of itself, back in the day. (Allegedly. Shout out to +fravia, RIP.)
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
I buy films from local charity shops for €1/film, but it seems the local electronics stores are not selling many DVD players any more. It seems like streaming "won", which is disappointing.
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
https://zserge.com/posts/fenster/ is what I used when I wanted "basic graphics" in a cross-platform way. But of course that's X11 and much simpler.
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
Github has public keys available, so the server owner could compare the key you sent to those - and that would identify your github username. Whether that's a concern or not is an open question, of course.
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
The parent was talking about it being a "landlords market" and wanting that to be changed. I asked how that might be possible. Improving advertisements to make them accurate, detailed, and directly-comparable is obviously a good
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
While that would be useful it would not change it from a landlords-market - which is what the comment I replied to was about.
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
It's a landlord's market because there are not enough properties, if there was a larger supply the tenants would be able to make choices and defacto reject bad options. How do you change that, short of building more?
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
I don't get snobby about food very often, but I have to say that these days strawberries and tomatoes are things I never buy any more. They're so large, watery, and tasteless, that I grow them myself or go without. A lot of foods
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
That sounds like a good match! I learned with an ex partner that I could assemble furniture, or she could assemble furniture, but if we tried it together we'd both get fustrated and snappy. Easily solved, but surprising considering ho
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
Since I was curious I searched for it, and you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiOLrsl6WSQ
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
Zaks is a name I remember fondly, but for me the starting point was "An Introduction to z80 machine code" by R.A & J.W Penfold.
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
There are clones, and updated packages these days like the EZ80, but they're not the same and they don't have the easy-to-use DIL form-factor. Still I've always loved the z80, since my first computer the ZX Spectrum. Even no
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
I'm surprised that the article even said "but you don’t always have the luxury of sitting down to set the time and get the watch ready for the day". I wear an automatic all the time, in fact I collect them, and most automatic
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
I grew up in Yorkshire, though I'm half-Scottish there's no link to Dundee! But the Spectrums were the best-selling UK machine at the time, so I'm sure there were lots of regions where they were super-common. I think I had a
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
Speccy for me too, and most of the local people I knew. Aged 11, going through the ring-bound orange manual just after Christmas, because the cassette-player we had was broken. When a replacement was obtained in the new-year I started play
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
For sure, learning new languages is helpful even if you don't use them. But that said there's also a significant difference between playing with new/toy languages for fun, and using them in production. Trying to hire Haskal
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
Things like Zig, D, Odin, Rust, etc, are outliers. Most new programming languages are used only by their creators. It's hard for a new language to find its feet, and make a name for itself. Unless its created by a big company with a
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by stevekemp 2mo ago
Making new programming languages is something a lot of people do for fun, and it's also covered in most CS degrees too, albeit briefly. We have so many programming languages because they tend to have a particular niche in which they&#x
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by stevekemp 3mo ago
The Master always comes back, of course. They're such perfect frenemies. (Depends on the era of course, sometimes there are other timelords, sometimes not.)

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