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by xvilka 3y ago
Or Rust.
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by xvilka 3y ago
See also a post about OCamlPro experience on migrating some COBOL projects to use GnuCOBOL[1]. [1] https://ocamlpro.com/blog/2023_03_18_autofonce/
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by xvilka 3y ago
Would be nice to have support for S390 finished and merged. There are some PRs but they aren't ready yet.
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By the time Twitter will live long enough as U.S. Steel right now it will highly likely be even cheaper. If even exist at all.
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Also notable SIMH[1] emulator to run various ancient architectures. [1] https://github.com/open-simh/simh
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Conferences are almost never about talks, they are about networking. Not once great ideas emerged from casual discussion between conference attendees/speakers.
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The problem with Debian is their insistence on "stability" by not updating the packages. In the modern world, when software development speed picked up steam quite a lot, releases of new software happen much more often than distri
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Do you mean Julia language?
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Fork and IO performance are major problems when porting *nix software to Windows. It's visibly slower, one of the reasons WSL1 was way too slow to be used for many things while technically being a clever solution.
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This is why once WebAssembly more polished and more common, languages like JS and TS could become obsolete since proper, more powerful languages will suddenly become a valid choice for Web.
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Why not use Rust instead of you need FP?
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GitHub is the most annoying one. It's funny, given how many parts of IPv6 stack are developed here.
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I wish Jitsi had a good native (Qt, for example) GUI client.
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Everyone who is working for these companies should be ashamed of their choice.
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One of the reasons cryptocurrencies became popular even being so much riskier. The current banking system is a joke.
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And the price is everyone suffering for that 1% of criminal intercepts. If you propose a weapon or a drug with such efficiency you would be laughed upon. Why financial world isn't doing the same?
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Maybe that explains why it's almost impossible to get a straight "yes" or "no" to a direct question to Chinese native speakers.
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The email-based workflow often requires quite specific email setup, many mobile-friendly email apps would break the formatting, etc, like Gmail.
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I recommend trying b4[1] tool. [1] https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/index.html
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The biggest drawback is the inability to use on a computer without email setup, e.g. not from the main computer, or from mobile devices - smartphone, tablet. In my case it's not uncommon to do a quick review of some PRs using this Web-
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It's possible, but you can install glibc optionally[1]. [1] https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Running_glibc_programs
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How is it possible to make an introduction to something that doesn't exist?
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SourceHut is great but they still do not support[1] organization accounts. Team development, especially for relatively big projects like Vim is a pain in such environment. It's also sad they stopped publishing regular "What's
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I wouldn't use Debian or Ubuntu as Docker base for this since they always ship heavily outdated software. Alpine as a base offers slimmer image but also updated tools and libraries, including GCC and Clang. Article speaks about GCC 10
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It's hard to imagine how they going to achieve this given that ultimately it's controlled by the closed source baseband code that's not written by Google.
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See our FAQ[1] on why we forked. As three years passed and both projects are actively developed, the divergence has grown a lot since. We aim for exposing the proper API instead of relying just commands, see e.g. our new Python bindings and
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UEFI is a bad choice for embedded. It has too much of the PC quirks, which is mostly irrelevant on ARM or RISC-V. They should have tried to create something new, without x86 cruft.
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1. Not Bazel itself is simple, the concept of build systems is simple enough to be implemented in native and more portable languages. 2. I was unfortunate to write some Java in the past. Strong dislike of it since. Nowadays I prefer nativel
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Can't argue with that.
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In Cutter[1][2] we have an idea to implement the same feature[3] as a plugin, but our priorities lie elsewhere due to the lack of enough hands. Contributions are welcome. [1] https://cutter.re [2] https://github.com&#

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