ch_123

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by ch_123 2mo ago
Hot take: I feel like a lot of the original value of language standards was to unite multiple proprietary implementations of compilers/runtimes/etc. from different vendors, each of which had incentives to add non standard features
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by ch_123 3mo ago
I used to open up mods (I seem to recall them being in "PBO" files) and tweaked around the script code to change things and make my own weapons and such. Also a formative experience on my path to becoming a developer.
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by ch_123 3mo ago
> AS/400 in RPG Aside from a few utilities, relatively little of OS/400 was written in RPG. Originally, most of it was written in two different dialects of PL/I. Some Modula-2 was added into the mix, and most of the lower
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by ch_123 3mo ago
I agree with the overall point of the article, but I feel compelled to be _that guy_ and point out that most of IBM's systems programming involved various dialects of PL/I, not Fortran, and they went through a bunch of different i
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by ch_123 4mo ago
And to the GP's point - the Pi Pico can be programmed in Micro Python.
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by ch_123 4mo ago
Do you have a reference for this? Looking around, I see it being beaten by other ARM SBCs, and even low end Intel devices. Many years ago, I measured performance per watt of the original Raspberry Pi when they were still relatively new. The
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by ch_123 4mo ago
I loved Opera until they got rid of their in-house browser engine and became a Chromium fork, losing a lot of the functionality and UX I liked about the older versions. Ever since then, I have been very reluctant to use a closed source brow
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by ch_123 4mo ago
I use Google daily, and yet I can't remember the last time I used their search box - all of my searching has been done through the browser URL bar for a long, long time. I wonder if similar changes are being applied to the Chrome URL b
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by ch_123 4mo ago
The "lightweight" nature of OpenBSD is a matter of perspective - if you are happy with OpenBSD's feature set, then it's a plus. On the other hand, FreeBSD has a lot of additional features, including ZFS, which may be of
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by ch_123 4mo ago
I had a big problem with BSODs caused by Nvidia drivers. Of course, you could argue that this was Nvidia's fault, not Vista's, but this was somewhat academic. I moved back to XP (and also started using Linux) and all these problem
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by ch_123 4mo ago
They were developed by completely different teams. As an aside - as someone who used ME back in the day, I feel like I honestly had more problems with Vista. ME was a downgrade from 98SE for sure, but I don't remember it being the same
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by ch_123 4mo ago
For me, search integrated into the start menu was a major quality of life improvement. Particularly the ability to hit the Windows key and type the name of an application. Strictly speaking, this was introduced in Vista, but I feel like Win
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by ch_123 4mo ago
The early 3270 keyboards (and the other IBM keyboards from the mid 70s up to the early 80s) are some of the most pleasant keyboards I've typed on in terms of key weighting and tactile feel. The length of travel is comparable to modern
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by ch_123 5mo ago
It's the | symbol. On later generations of IBM terminal keyboard, you'll see | on the shift-1 position, and a separate key with the broken-bar (¦) symbol. For example, on this keyboard, the broken bar is below the backspace key al
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by ch_123 5mo ago
Nitpick: The terminology used by IBM on the 3270 family (including the 3277 whose keyboard you shared) was "Tab" and "Back tab", not "Next field" and "Previous field".
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by ch_123 5mo ago
Your memory is correct, and it's interesting to note that on the IBM terminal keyboards, the Enter key was marked "Enter", and the return/new line key was marked "↵". On the classic IBM PC keyboards such as the
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by ch_123 5mo ago
I find this story odd because IBM was consistent with their keyboard nomenclature across multiple products, and the 3270 series mainframe terminals used the Tab key, located in the same place where you would find a tab key on a modern keybo
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by ch_123 5mo ago
VMS provided some functionality to convert floating point faults into traps: https://docs.vmssoftware.com/vsi-openvms-rtl-library-lib-man...
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by ch_123 5mo ago
Sad to hear this, one of my first mechanical keyboards was a Filco TKL. At one point in time, it was my go-to "safe recommendation" for a keyboard. Since that point in time, the Majestouch keyboards only received incremental impro
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by ch_123 5mo ago
> But I wonder how it seems to people who understand how it works? As someone who mostly understands what's going on - It does not seem like wizardry to me, but I am very impressed that the author figured out the long list of arcane
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by ch_123 5mo ago
> The only potential bad news—and that heavily depends on your perspective—is that the new chips’ built-in NPU falls far short of the 40 TOPS that Microsoft requires for PCs to earn the Copilot+ PC label. An interesting detail, given the
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by ch_123 5mo ago
Quite likely - the buckling spring switches in Model M are quite stiff as far as keyboards go. Brown switches are a good choice if you want a light switch with some amount of tactility.
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by ch_123 5mo ago
In addition to the three physical keyboard layouts in this post, there's a fourth one which has an extra key on both the right and the left side of the keyboard. An example is the Brazilian Portuguese layout Model M (pic: https:/
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by ch_123 6mo ago
The Thinkpad also likely cost far more than $600 when new. Even a several-year-old flagship laptop is going to be superior in some respects than a brand new laptop designed and produced to cost as little as possible.
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by ch_123 6mo ago
Which VMS niceties does it offer?
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by ch_123 6mo ago
A standard US pint is about 473ml so a US pint is ~95ml less than an imperial pint.
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by ch_123 6mo ago
In the UK and Ireland, a pint is 20 oz. (equivalent to just over 19 US ounces), so I always feel cheated by 16 oz. "pint" glasses in the US.
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by ch_123 6mo ago
As far as I can see, at least some of the cost-of-goods-sold of a token is dictated by GPU costs (both purchase price, and operational costs). Surely if Nvidia continues to produce increasingly sophisticated GPUs, the monetary value of each
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by ch_123 6mo ago
See this interview of Lewis Rosenthal by Bryan Lunduke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oXKMZ56R2o Particularly around the 20:15 mark onwards. Also, around the 25 minute mark, Rosenthal points out that the Workplace Shell
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by ch_123 6mo ago
As far as I know, yes. There were no changes made to eCS which required source - everything was implemented as drivers, or layers on top of the base OS.

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