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by whobre 11mo ago
It’s fine. Why fixing something that isn’t broken?
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by whobre 11mo ago
I know it was just an example, but out of curiosity, why 1982 for home computers? Commodore 64?
93.
by whobre 11mo ago
This is way worse than dotcom craziness. Databricks has been losing more and more money and their evaluation just keeps rising.
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by whobre 11mo ago
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-remove-most-annoying-ads...
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by whobre 11mo ago
It’s not slow at all. The problem with 11 is the built-in commercials. Disable that and the OS is fine.
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by whobre 11mo ago
Again with people it is a rare occurrence. LLM does that regularly. I just can’t believe anything it says
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by whobre 11mo ago
It’s different. People don’t just invent random API that doesn’t exist. LLM does that all the time.
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by whobre 11mo ago
Seriously, why? They are broken. https://vector-of-bool.github.io/2019/01/27/modules-doa.html
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by whobre 11mo ago
At least my coworkers usually don’t hallucinate.
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by whobre 11mo ago
When, not if.
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by whobre 11mo ago
I remember how computer enthusiasts had hard time explaining to “regular” people what personal computers were good for. They would often mention things like cooking recipes and balancing checkbooks which really was not convincing at all…
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by whobre 11mo ago
I am actually surprised that 3% allegedly can…
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by whobre 11mo ago
Ugh. I know all that and I am still sick of hearing about memory safety. My teammates spend way more time fixing security issues in “safe” languages than C/C++/whatever. It simply doesn’t matter…
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by whobre 1y ago
Decide for yourself: https://skilldrick.github.io/easyforth/
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by whobre 1y ago
Using something you enjoy is fine, as long as you don’t forget the person who is going to maintain your code after you move on.
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by whobre 1y ago
Cool post from Raymond as usual! I’d like to add that the hardware for the SoftCard was designed by Tim Paterson at SCP about the same time he was writing the future MS-DOS
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by whobre 1y ago
Haha, I remember him for “Lindows”. Managed to get quite some press with that smoke and mirrors…
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by whobre 1y ago
Wonderful article! Programming 68000 assembly is a joy. People are quick to dismiss CISC instruction sets because they mostly encounter x64 with its baggage of legacy, but 68k is something else.
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by whobre 1y ago
For a moment I hoped Borland’s Object Windows Library got resurrected https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Windows_Library
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by whobre 1y ago
> It's actually, I would say, slightly simpler to learn what the instructions are than 6502 or Z80, It is far more complicated than 6502 or even Z80. Just compare the Easy6502 with EasyRiscV tutorials if you don’t believe me.
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by whobre 1y ago
Recession is officially whatever NBER says it is and it doesn’t have a well defined meaning.
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by whobre 1y ago
That was not the title of the article
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by whobre 1y ago
The book has a pretty good description of how to escape prison…
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The Spherical Cows of Programming(programmingsimplicity.substack.com)
31 points by whobre 1y ago|46 comments
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by whobre 1y ago
It should be illegal to pay ransom and then the entire “industry” would disappear.
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by whobre 1y ago
The main selling point of the open table formats is to decouple the data from query engines.
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by whobre 1y ago
The best bumper sticker I’ve seen: “My feelings about stuff here”
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by whobre 1y ago
This is definitely the year of Linux on desktop!
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MicroTimes' Interview with Doug and Larry Michels from SCO (1987)(computeradsfromthepast.substack.com)
1 points by whobre 1y ago|0 comments
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by whobre 1y ago
The thing is: it’s nothing new. In early 2000s there was a wave of outsourcing that caused panic in the US. Back then, the difference in salaries was even higher than nowadays. In some cases it worked out well for the employers, but in many

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