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by blippage 5mo ago
A huge thank-you to the dev(s)! I love retro projects like this. I use Dillo daily, although it is for internal use. One thing I use it for is to view gemini protocol sites. The plug-in architecture means that you can render any protocol; g
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by blippage 5mo ago
Finance professor Aswath Damodaran, and others, have made many useful insights as to how AI as an investment is likely to pay out. One technique is, instead of trying to pick individual winners, look at the total addressable market. Then co
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by blippage 5mo ago
> Forth is at this point more of a culture than a language. As the saying goes, once you've seen one Forth, then you've seen one Forth. I've mucked around with my own Forths in the past, including one that recognises lexic
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by blippage 5mo ago
To add to the cool things you can do with Neoleo, I wrote a little TCL extension that loads current processes into the spreadsheet. I added custom bindings so that you could search for processes, go to its parent, and kill processes. I&#x27
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by blippage 5mo ago
Yes, I'm partial to a bit of retro. It does back to around 1991, IIRC. I don't think it had a curses interface in those days. And check this: version 1.2.2 is available on Aminet, for the Amiga. How's that for a blast from th
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by blippage 5mo ago
Oleo is C, circa 50k of C code, Neo(-leo) is around 5k of C++ code. A 10th of the size, but not necessarily any less powerful. Oleo has some memory leaks in places, whereas Neo has no (known) leaks. Oleo uses lex and yacc, whereas Neo has a
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by blippage 5mo ago
Visidata is a fast popular data tool in python https://www.visidata.org/ if you just want data entry. If I may be permitted a small plug ... Oleo is a GNU spreadsheet going back absolutely donkey years. I cloned the repo he
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by blippage 6mo ago
You can have anything you want. You get what you design for. However, saying you're committed is not the same as being committed. Furrowing your brow and saying you'll try harder, even when you mean it, doesn't necessarily wo
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by blippage 10mo ago
In the words of Adam Ant: it took us 3 years to be famous overnight. I also heard about Matt Lucas, of Little Britain fame. He was slowly plugging away at it, and was about to give up. At around 30 years old, he teamed up with David Walliam
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by blippage 10mo ago
How about trying to run it on ReactOS?
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by blippage 10mo ago
Don't forget that Aminet is still receiving regular uploads: https://www.aminet.net/ It's amazing that a platform that's been dead since the early 90's is still getting so much love.
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by blippage 10mo ago
There's also Fuzix, which is Unix-like. https://fuzix.org/ Supports Arm M0 (Raspberry Pi Pico), ESP32 and a variety of others, including Z80.
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by blippage 11mo ago
For anyone interested there's tinybasic, which will run on something as small as an Arduino. https://github.com/slviajero/tinybasic
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by blippage 1y ago
I did see Debian on YT being booted up on an Amiga. It was, to say the least, a painful-looking experience. It seems sacrilege in a way. If you're going to use an Amiga you might as well use AmigaOS. Amazingly, Aminet is still up-and-r
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by blippage 1y ago
I tried Zig some time ago to use with microcontrollers. It has a generator for the pins, which was nice. But subsequent versions broke as Zig changed syntax. So I started going down the rabbit-hole (it needed a newer version of llvm, for ex
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by blippage 1y ago
I've messed around with Forth before, and even created my own one. I could do cool things with it, and gotten a DSL-like language. I used words like IMMEDIATE and POSTPONE to create words that create words. I quickly get lost doing tha
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by blippage 1y ago
As some wag on Reddit put it, "Digital Note Taking Systems: Cutting and pasting your life away, one note at a time."
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by blippage 1y ago
As an experiment I tried yes | pv > /dev/null and was getting about 5.4GiB/s On the fasm code, I was getting a meagre 7.3MiB/s. Ouch! The non-assembly version is considerably faster. I wonder if it is because I make a
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by blippage 1y ago
A few days ago I had the very foolish notion of trying to learn assembly for x64 Linux. It came out to 73 lines of code and weighs in at 288 bytes. It doesn't support the --help or --version arguments. https://gitlab.com&#x2
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by blippage 1y ago
As Bill Burr said, if we were to eat just one billionaire, then all the rest would tow the line.
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by blippage 1y ago
Brit here. IANAL, but there is a legal principle of "vicarious liability". So if an employee does something bad, it's the employer that foots the bill. This is vicarious liability. It is actually a "good" thing as
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by blippage 1y ago
I'm currently using Slackware current. I use an approach of compiling from source or using AppImage. Things like Flatpak and Snaps are an opaque black box to me. I have AppImages for things like Zoom, KeePass and LibreOffice. I don&#x2
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by blippage 2y ago
I have set up a Zettelkasten, which alternates between letters and numbers.21a5 is for my Alcatel 3085 mobile. So it's a similar idea, I think. Classification is a vexing problem I've tried to grapple with. The Dewey Decimal syste
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by blippage 2y ago
It also reminds me a little bit like DNA. There's a lot of cruft that doesn't do very much but the organism is still viable anyway.
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by blippage 2y ago
I was playing around with GPIO some time ago. The Linux kernel seems to adopt this approach. The first rule of Linux ABI is that thou shalt not break ABI.The second rule of Linux ABI is THOU SHALT NOT BREAK ABI. So they had something like G
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by blippage 2y ago
I just skimmed the docs, but I heard about it a few days ago. Noteworthy points: * it's not a way for companies to raise capital * not much in the way of regulation. Main UK listings are quite rigorous. The UK has an AIM market, in wh
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by blippage 2y ago
The problem is, sites like DuckDuckGo and Gibiru are not much better. There's loads and loads of paywall sites appearing near the top, which is pretty useless to me. There must surely be a market out there for a search engine that skip
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by blippage 3y ago
You might be interested in "Crap Days Out", a book published about 1 decade ago. In it you can find out such treats as the Dinosaur Museum, which has no dinosaurs, the Pencil Museum, which boasts the world's largest pencil, a
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by blippage 3y ago
In London, some bollards have been made out of recycled cannons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxdJrqV0l4c
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by blippage 3y ago
If that's too scary for you, you could always look at "Pylon of the Month" https://www.pylonofthemonth.org/ The website was set up by an Englishman, of course, because that's what us British do best: qui

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