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by tom_ 2y ago
Just about every old platform seems to have a bunch of people building hardware stuff like this and writing new software. For 1980s stuff it's just all a lot simpler than it was back then, and what was cutting edge at the time is hobby
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by tom_ 2y ago
Well you could see multiple buffers on screen simultaneously, rather than just one? But if you don't want that, then there's no point. And anyway, the point of Emacs is that you can do what you like, and customize it to work well
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by tom_ 2y ago
It operates on frames, moving the windows inside them, similar to how transposing a matrix moves around the values it contains.
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by tom_ 2y ago
Oh, right. Well, that's easy: it's an orange site. I've seen it typically (though not universally) used seemingly dismissively, so I've always assumed it was a euphemism. People very commonly refrain from naming a thing
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by tom_ 2y ago
See the first sentence of the article!
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by tom_ 2y ago
This has been on my todo list for a while, as I like Simon Wardley, but I've never quite got round to using it. But I use Emacs a lot, and Emacs was the thing that sprang to mind when reading the blurb. It looks like there's this
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by tom_ 2y ago
Well there you go. Just as you say, it is also known as the STL.
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by tom_ 2y ago
Yes. I use this with VS2019 for generating enum names, and they interact fine with auto complete and go to definition.
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by tom_ 2y ago
If it's a thing people call it (and they do) then surely there's no better qualification for that being something it's also known as.
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by tom_ 2y ago
I remember hearing this about self driving cars.
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by tom_ 2y ago
It's the reference manual. It's just a list of things you can do. If you like this specific thing, and think this should be the main way you express your build process, great. I think that too. Meanwhile with GitHub Actions you ca
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by tom_ 2y ago
Nothing significant on the face of it and I think that's pretty much exactly what's being suggested: don't have anything particularly interesting in the .yml file, just the bare minimum plus some small number of uncomplicated
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by tom_ 2y ago
Related: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/02/04/what-we-talk-ab...
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by tom_ 2y ago
Always bothered me too. At least POSIX is actually a POS.
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by tom_ 2y ago
The author seemed to stop working on it around 2020, and nobody seems to have taken it over.
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by tom_ 2y ago
There is also nitter.poast.org. There sites are possibly better than twitter.com or x.com, as more of the thread is made visible to non-users.
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by tom_ 2y ago
If you don't get to pick your own extensions, does that mean you also don't get to pick your own keyboard shortcuts, font and colour scheme?! That would be a wider interpretation of "cattle, not pets" than I am used to..
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by tom_ 2y ago
It predates dolphin's use of it, though don't ask me by how long. Here's a reference to the term from 2008: https://realtimecollisiondetection.net/blog/?p=73
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by tom_ 2y ago
Judging by the cycle counts, it's a 16 bit cpu internally? Word operations are almost always cheaper, even when there are no additional memory accesses for the long case. (I think long register to register moves are the only free long
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by tom_ 2y ago
The question of whether you'd be happy to have the other guy do it always applies. If you wouldn't, people moaning when it happens is always a good thing.
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by tom_ 2y ago
"All at an incredible value"? Are you really allowed to say that? (Grammatically, I mean. I'm not asking for legal advice.)
532.
by tom_ 2y ago
But they don't say, so how can we tell? I'm not going to be vague with my comment: best thing to do in this sort of case is not to engage.
533.
by tom_ 2y ago
I wonder what this even is. I wondered if perhaps an attempt to evade automated keyword-driven keyboard infantry deployment. But maybe they just can't even type, you know... The Word... because it's just too much for them?
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by tom_ 2y ago
Hence the advice to stick to the standard library - because then it doesn't matter all that much. I'm not sure what the full set of environments I've tested my Python 3 scripts actually is, but they've run OK on all the
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by tom_ 2y ago
Mx Goat added a note about their real-world qualifications for pitching in on this sort of question, presumably because their user name didn't really make it obvious why we might wish to listen to their thoughts on how a society should
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by tom_ 2y ago
Whew, so we've got CreateWaitableTimer, CreateTimerQueueTimer from another comment, and now CreateThreadpoolTimer as well. But that's not all - we already had WM_TIMER from the article. TFA says POSIX has one type of timer, and
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by tom_ 2y ago
It's not a practical problem in practice. The approach everyone else uses is fine, but everybody else is not writing GUI programs for Windows. If you are writing GUI programs for Windows, you print debug output using OutputDebugString
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by tom_ 2y ago
Every exe is sort-of both - a GUI program can allocate a console window using AllocConsole ( https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/console/allocconso... ), and a console program can create a GUI window and
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by tom_ 2y ago
For Windows, you can use CreateWaitableTimer to create a timer that doesn't need a window: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/synchapi... Wait for it to time out using one of the Wa
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by tom_ 2y ago
I switched to mousing left-handed at some point, years ago. I noticed some of my left-handed colleagues mousing wrong-handed, possibly because of right-handed siblings, and getting some good use out of having pen and paper more easily acces

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