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by ataylor284_ 10d ago
If anybody's interested in the V20 from a programming perspective, The User's Manual from NEC is here: https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_necV20V30U_11351331/mo... . The V20 instruction set is interest
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by ataylor284_ 18d ago
> SSH-only server administration: Vim’s sub-second startup and tiny memory footprint make it the default choice for editing config files on remote boxes, containers, and minimal Linux images where every extra process matters. It’s also n
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by ataylor284_ 2mo ago
It is definitely possible on the C64. Here's a video exploring the technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX3rVIIaVQk .
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by ataylor284_ 1y ago
Yup. If you call a function with the C calling convention with the incorrect number of parameters, your cleanup code still does the right thing. With the Pascal calling convention, your stack is corrupted.
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by ataylor284_ 2y ago
As much as I love emacs, I think cut and paste is better metaphor for text editing than kill and yank. Once the key combos are part of muscle memory, the value of mnemonics goes down, but they're very useful for adoption. This is an
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by ataylor284_ 2y ago
There were no words for this stuff. People just made it up, and it took years for something to emerge as the de facto standard term for a collection of data persistently stored. There's an interesting parallel with the emacs editor.
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by ataylor284_ 2y ago
One of the great things about C64 BASIC and similar MS BASIC derivatives is it's extensibility. It defines a bunch of pointers, including $0033 this article uses, that control the memory layout. Manipulating them carefully allows you
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by ataylor284_ 2y ago
Did some development for a server application that supported RS/6000 among other platforms. AIX on RS/6000 was a nice enough Unix but, being used to Solaris, everything seems just slightly off. I think it performed slightly wors
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by ataylor284_ 2y ago
This is exactly how I feel about Dune. The invented words and world-building are overwhelming at first, but once you absorb them it makes the narrative richer.
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by ataylor284_ 2y ago
Two of my favorites, too, although I'd go with Anti-Fragile from Taleb. I think Anathem is Stephenson's best. The Diamond Age is also really good. For every one of his books, I just wish he could write an ending that matches the
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by ataylor284_ 2y ago
The core of this a library called nsync. It appears most of the improvements by Justine are upstreamed into nsync itself which doesn't have any of the baggage of cosmopolitan. Whatever your opinion of the project or author, they&#x27
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by ataylor284_ 2y ago
The writeup suggests this implementation is optimized for the not-locked case: > uses an optimistic CAS (compare and swap) immediately, so that locking happens quickly when there's no contention
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by ataylor284_ 2y ago
I second this. OIDC is much nicer and my experience using it with federated identity sources through AWS Cognito was smooth. The sad reality is that SAML is already entrenched in many enterprise environments and unavoidable.
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by ataylor284_ 2y ago
When I had to figure out how to add SAML authentication to a custom application, I built a barebones, no-framework Java application[1] just to understand the webflow. A good way to understand it is to just set up your own IDP like Keycloak
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by ataylor284_ 2y ago
More than half of Canada's coal production is metallurgical coal, suited for steel production. Most of that is mined in BC and exported. The grandparent comment and the above response are both true.
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by ataylor284_ 2y ago
Playing cards in some parts of Europe have alternate suit symbols. Spain and Portugal use clubs, swords, coins and cups. My favorite aspect of this deck is that the clubs symbol is an actual club weapon instead of the usual clover.
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by ataylor284_ 2y ago
You're probably right. There's a lot of code for those processors that's not going away. Too bad though, the 6809 is the pinnacle of 8-bit CPU architecture. It's the result of analyzing the practical shortcomings of th
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by ataylor284_ 2y ago
I own a Gakken GMC-4 microcomputer, which appears to be a remake of the FX-System. It's a fun little 4-bit computer with a hex keypad for input. For output, there's 7 LEDs, 1 7 segment digit lcd, and a speaker. It has 16 instruc
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by ataylor284_ 3y ago
It's been a while since I've run with that configuration, but setting the variable server-use-tcp to non-nil enables it. On startup, the server creates a file with the connection details that emacsclient can consume. I think it
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by ataylor284_ 3y ago
I don't run emacs in a terminal emulator. Emacs is my terminal emulator. All my terminal programs get run in a (graphical) emacs shell-mode buffer. The rare program that needs full screen control uses term-mode. It's not the
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by ataylor284_ 3y ago
You could do something like this to get dependencies almost for free: .depends: $(SRCS) $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -MM $(SRCS) -o .depends -include .depends
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by ataylor284_ 3y ago
Make's killer feature was conditionally rebuilding based on changed dependencies. Back in the day, it was easy for a medium to largish software project to take many hours, or even days to fully rebuild. C and C++ were especially bad,
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by ataylor284_ 3y ago
I never used WordStar itself, but the integrated editor in Turbo Pascal used the same key bindings. I haven't used anything related in many years but I'll never forget ^kb and ^kk for marking blocks.
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by ataylor284_ 3y ago
Posix systems, at least, allow a file's timestamps to be set with utime(2) and related system calls, but a problem with this is that utime with an arbitrary time is not permitted in all situations where writing to a file is possible.
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by ataylor284_ 3y ago
Moving files to backup instead of copying is better. First, the file modification dates remain meaningful. When a backup is made, the backup file has a last modified date of when it was last changed and the new copy has the current time.
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by ataylor284_ 3y ago
Yeah, it's a seamless experience to run a program in shell-mode that invokes $EDITOR and it just pops into a new buffer. Edit, hit C-x #, and you're back at the shell.
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by ataylor284_ 3y ago
This is great, but I think a detail about the Commodore 64 wrong. While the VIC-II is indeed bank switched and can only see a window of 16k, the character ROM is only mapped into 2 of 4 possible banks. The whole thing is confusing since th
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by ataylor284_ 3y ago
This is part of an emerging trend that's a threat to the current symbiosis between open source communities their commercial sponsors. Many of these companies have nurtured a lot of goodwill with the community and built successful busin
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by ataylor284_ 3y ago
The 386 is the minimum viable processor for a lot of applications. 386SX class machines are the baseline for the modern x86 architecture: 32-bit internals, real MMU capabilities. It could probably handle a lot of legacy Win32, Win16 and D
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by ataylor284_ 3y ago
Woz's software is fun to read if you like 6502 assembly. Wozmon and Apple II Integer BASIC are great, but my favorite is Sweet16. It's a 6502 program that implements a virtual 16-bit CPU in about 300 bytes. It's a step bet

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