OnlyMortal

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by OnlyMortal 1y ago
You’re quite clearly wrong. You write code to fit the immediate business need and that shifts rapidly over a year or two. If you do otherwise, you’re wasting your time and the money of the enterprise you work for. You cannot see the future
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by OnlyMortal 1y ago
All code is legacy. Business needs shift. The likes of Copilot are ok at boiler-plate if it has an example or two to follow. It’s utterly useless at solving problems though.
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by OnlyMortal 1y ago
Lagrange? I see your point. I’ll get my coat.
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by OnlyMortal 1y ago
Such as deduplication.
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by OnlyMortal 1y ago
throws faeces Nonsense! Source: Engineer
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
I heard that, in the Netherlands after WW2, the descendants of people who starved were shorter in height even though they were born after the war. Admittedly this was from a Dr Karl podcast.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Heh. I worked on the Mac version of ViaVoice. I joined as I was already an expert in AppKit and Obj-C. We were given old Macs running Classic to run Notes so we had two computers. One being MacOSX. Notes was the biggest pile of crap I’ve ev
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
That’s very interesting. Typically a Rabin fingerprint is used to identify identical chunks of data. Identifying similar blocks and, maybe sub-rechunking isn’t something I’ve ever considered.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
I assume he’s clipping hidden surfaces?
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
I see what you did there :-)
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
:-) I worked in the first OSX version. I did the AppKit UI being one of the few on the planet who had a NeXT background. It came with a UK language model as the US model didn’t recognise my accent.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
My personal favourite unit converter is here: https://www.theregister.com/Design/page/reg-standards-conver...
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Heh. I can relate to seeing your product on a shelf. I recall seeing IBM ViaVoice X on shelves a Circuit City. It was rather an ego trip.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Back in the day on the Mac, the order of source files in your project would determine locality in the binary. If memory serves, this was with MPW C or maybe CodeWarrior. You could see the jump (jmp) instructions use short jumps rather than
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
In a car they’re a distraction from driving. You have to look at the iPad stuck to the dash and not on the road - where the driver’s focus must be. With knobs and buttons, you can feel for them whilst still having your vision in the road. T
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
People also don’t get the idea of an appliance.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Interesting. We went through a similar process and ended up with Yugabyte to deal with the locks (cluster). It’s based on Postgres but performance was not good enough. We’re now moving to RDMA.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Have you had a look at SeaStar and how it works with coroutines?
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Here’s a link to a video about loading games on the C64: https://youtu.be/YUigiY53YCs
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
I miss 68k assembler. Doing Amiga demos or Polytechnic work on a ST. I ended up doing Mac 68k and C after Poly in the early 90s.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
I used to crack C64 disk games. They were mostly trivial because I wrote a disk sector editor that would disassemble blocks on demand. One that comes to mind were Ocean’s copy protection that was hacked by a load of 1 into the accumulator a
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
I’m inclined to agree with you. Having a great product is meaningless if you can’t get people to buy it. If you’re a one person shop, you need to learn the skills needed.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
“Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.”
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Pascal was a first class citizen. Indeed, quite alot of the original Mac was Pascal and 68k assembler. For example, strings were prefixed with a length byte as is popular in the Pascal world. Apple even shipped a Pascal compiler with their
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Users don’t understand your app as it’s not been built using workflows an end user follows. As for code not being understandable, that’s just poor coding in a team.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
I recall it was used to execute a command line of text in MPW Shell. You could triple click a line or select a range of text containing shell commands and hit the key to run. I do miss that as I had a scrapbook page of useful scripts.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
You might check capacitors and it’s possible the power supply is bad.
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
For those who will work on a modern machine and cross-compile, Turbo Rascsal will give you a Turbo Pascal-like IDE. https://lemonspawn.com/turbo-rascal-syntax-error-expected-bu...
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
16, 48 or 128k
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by OnlyMortal 2y ago
Which, initially, was a reskinned OpenStep and a PowerPlant Finder.

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