cturner

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by cturner 2mo ago
The fact that people care a lot about Unix clones is significant, though. nine_k could have been more effective in arguing the point, but it seems like a strong point to argue. Do you think you Go is flexible enough to write a Unix clone wi
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by cturner 2mo ago
On a system of that era, some scenes look far smoother with the GUS than SB16. With the GUS running, the CPU could focus on graphics because the audio was offloaded to the GUS. This was particularly true of the 3d flight scene.
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by cturner 2mo ago
Something that undermines the operating system angle is that emacs does not implement hardware drivers. All interaction with the computer go via system calls. Norton Commander contains a text editor. Emacs operates at that level, whilst bei
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by cturner 4mo ago
What you say seems true. But a comment - there are more effective ways to achieve it than a bill of rights. Australia doesn’t have a bill of rights but does have decent due process, as a result of deliberate legislation. The bill of rights
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by cturner 4mo ago
I have built large systems on python that use classes, for more than ten years. I came to it from Java, ten years. As a rule, I avoid implementation inheritance. Occasionally I need to facade a library that assumes implementation inheritanc
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by cturner 5mo ago
This is a rough history from an outsider: the original developers (“DevTeam”) went quiet, and would not take in new talent. There was some new talent in the community, and momentum for code tidy up and new features. One group forked and cal
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by cturner 6mo ago
For all your words, you have dodged the only question of my last post. By the late 80s, the wholesale sales tax was creaking at the seams. Toys were taxed at 24% but luxury goods at 0%. Also it was complex and expensive to administer. The w
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by cturner 6mo ago
If not a GST, what do you think was the appropriate reform to the indirect tax system?
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by cturner 6mo ago
> It's only certain strains of right-leaning governments that > figure out you can grow the pie so rich and poor alike become > wealthier. Credit to a few. Roger Douglas in New Zealand. Contemporary Peter Walsh in Australia, t
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by cturner 6mo ago
Howard/Costello era in Australia. Reagan 80s. Pinochet - fits your criteria. Arden is indefensible. She increased the size of government, decreased social cohesion via critical theory, housing promises went nowhere. Worse balance sheet
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by cturner 8mo ago
"did exactly what you needed and nothing more" You can still do that. Build a config for openbox or dwm. While the wm still compiles you can ignore the fads.
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by cturner 10mo ago
Do you dislike type inheritance? Or only implementation inheritance? My view is that type inheritance is incredibly useful, both for single system programming, and rpc. Whereas implementation inheritance creates brittle systems.
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by cturner 11mo ago
"The only difference is how it presents itself to the switch (ie, says its a Cisco optic), not actual difference in performance." That's not the only difference. I have had situations where I ran equivalent optics side-by-sid
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by cturner 11mo ago
Before I comment, a disclaimer about my small scale. I am running probably three hundred SFP+s running and less than five years of experience with optics. I don't have stock tracking for the individual manufacturers, and the failure ra
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by cturner 11mo ago
Yes, Valve controls supply. That strengthens my point. Market makers do not control the supply of goods. They provide resting liquidity for pre-existing goods. Similarly, market makers do not get to establish rules of the of their own &quot
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by cturner 11mo ago
Valve is not the market-maker here, they are the exchange.
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by cturner 1y ago
Microserfs?
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by cturner 1y ago
Without convenience it will not be successful as a common currency. It does not need convenience to succeed in other ways. For example, as a store of value.
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by cturner 1y ago
I tend to run my tmux session for months at a time on my office workstation. When I remote in to that computer, I can type ‘tmux attach’ and all my context is there. I might have four long arc dev projects running at once, and my planning s
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by cturner 1y ago
Summary: The mainstream ear has changed. As a result, traditional choral compositions have become less accessible to mainstream audiences, but the form of choral music remains accessible. People who participate in choral music train themsel
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by cturner 1y ago
It is a terminal multiplexer. You will be able to find youtube videos. The gp is talking about a tool called gnu screen. If you need a more distinct token to search on try “tmux”.
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by cturner 1y ago
I want to ask about the bureaucracy aspect. I have never written a science grant application, but expect that some of it comes about because the applications want to ensure good governance around the proposals. Do you agree? For the fluff t
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by cturner 1y ago
My comment did not talk about where awk is useful today. Unix gurus will recommend awk as a pattern matching and substitution tool. But my comment was about awk the vanguard imperative scripting language. I don't know of anyone who rec
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by cturner 1y ago
I came here to write - I think awk would fit in the list. Awk is sold on pattern matching, and there are earlier technologies that do pattern-matching - ML, SNOBOL. But awk's historic significance is something else: it was the embryoni
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by cturner 1y ago
You seem to have a chip on your shoulder about Christianity, and that's your right. But in the course of that you may overlook that faith-based treatment of problems is a powerful tool that serves some people well. Consider the culture
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by cturner 1y ago
It depends what you use it for. I worked on a interbank messaging platform that normalised everything into a series of standard xml formats, and then used xslt for representing data to the client. Common use case - we could rerender data to
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by cturner 1y ago
In the UK the government has somewhat gone after banks at a that level - money transfers. When someone falls for a scam and transfers money to a scammer, the government often makes the call that the bank is at fault for that. This is the ab
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by cturner 1y ago
UI concerns need to be in service to the full set of requirements and the data model. UIs are easily accessible to end-users and product-managers, and can allow people to focus on a subset of the requirements. The trap is to allow the UI pe
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by cturner 1y ago
I have in the region of 200 piano rolls in London. Classical emphasis, for example, lots of bach and beethoven. The piano player itself is long gone. The roll collection has been picked over, there will be no monetary high value items. If a
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by cturner 1y ago
In the study, the subjects have access to both reference books and phones to allow them to look these things up. I didn't know Michaelmas Term either and looked it up while I was reading. I am doubtful that this is about people not rea

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