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by ibiza 2y ago
I think that is being too charitable. The problem is 100% reproducible. The machine blue-screens at boot up. What kind of staging environment allows this to go through?
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by ibiza 2y ago
I wonder if a Sun, Dec, or HP of the 90s would have had a fighting chance against Windows NT had they not embraced X, and instead developed a local-first stack optimized for their considerable hardware. Related, I've always found it od
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by ibiza 3y ago
I did not realize cd'ing up was an esoteric sport. My own take: shopt -s cdable_vars u2=../.. u3=../../.. u4=../../../.. u5=../../../../..
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by ibiza 3y ago
HAL 9000 is already included as z/OS or z/VM.
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by ibiza 3y ago
The PC (1981) predates the first color 3270 terminals like the IBM 3179 (1984). A 3179 had 7 colors: pink, red, blue, yellow, green, white, and turquoise. I used one & remember it looking quite good but different from PCs of its day.
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by ibiza 3y ago
Apple's original Objective-C docs are available at their Documentation Archive. They are quite good. • Programming With Objective-C (current): https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co.
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by ibiza 3y ago
Also, 17? At that point young adults have reached cognitive maturity[1], so perhaps that's a good time to drop the qualifiers. 1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30762417/
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by ibiza 3y ago
Re DB2 vs UDB, thank you, it's been too long. Well done breaking DB2! We actually targeted Oracle on Unix. Fortunately, the app developers never got too deep into DB2-isms, so it worked out fine.
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by ibiza 3y ago
The env I helped set up was online only, no batch jobs. JCL is essentially a declarative shell language, so it's not that hard to map to Bourne shell et. al.
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by ibiza 3y ago
Migrating a suite of programs written w/ COBOL, CICS, DB2 from z/OS to Linux is fairly straightforward. MicroFocus COBOL compiles IBM COBOL, DB2 runs on Linux or you can swap out another RDBMS. The CICS part requires a simple runt
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by ibiza 3y ago
I find the bifurcation between HTML elements and CSS statements maddening. Structural things like flexbox and grid would be far clearer as HTML element types.
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by ibiza 3y ago
I use this method as well. To add some specifics, I use a 4 qt saucepan to produce enough for two people. I use enough oil to liberally cover the bottom (glug glug). This is not diet food, excess oil tends to remain in the pot anyway, and I
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by ibiza 3y ago
That's essentially how DNA sequencing works. The longest human chromosome (chr1) has about 250M bases. The DNA samples are sonicated to split them into small sequences, and then sequenced en mass 100-300bps at a time. The results are t
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by ibiza 3y ago
Same. Outside of Lisp & some shell, you've got the OG Cobol and Raku. HTML attrs? CSS? It's a shame really. So easy to type and read.
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by ibiza 3y ago
I'm happy one can buy a mighty 4-stack RPN calculator today new. Greedily, I wish they had recreated the 32S instead, as it had a single Gold function key and far less busy silk screening. I say this as a former owner of a 32SII. http
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by ibiza 3y ago
Power ISA includes decimal floating point, so it's available beyond mainframes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ISA
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by ibiza 3y ago
The BSD man pages cover it pretty well. It's more fun & games w/ the pseudoterm. Should ^S, ^Q go to the terminal driver, or to the program using it? In the case of the shell, this means the readline lib. https://ma
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by ibiza 3y ago
The "other editors" link[1] is welcome. I've never liked the implicit Emacs requirement associated w/ Lisp envs. The list includes Vim, NeoVim, & even IntelliJ!? Good stuff. 1. https://lispcookbook.github.
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by ibiza 3y ago
Your point stands, but I think you're arguing about static vs dynamic typing, rather than strong vs weak typing. CL is dynamically typed (values have types, not variables), w/ strong types (automatic type coercions are rare).
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by ibiza 3y ago
No Boilerplate mentioned Q codes in his most recent video: Amateur Radio: Open Source Airwaves https://youtu.be/XcF6tvepRlg
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by ibiza 3y ago
Events include key scan codes for one. The end of the doc contains a pros & cons section of the alternative approaches. https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/specs/%2...
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by ibiza 3y ago
There's an even richer protocol, `?9001h`, developed by the Microsoft Terminal team, designed to maintain the fidelity of INPUT_RECORD events. These are the events seen by console programs in Win32. It's quite nice. https:/&
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by ibiza 3y ago
You can run the Weather app stand-alone & pin it to your Taskbar or Start Menu: Windows Key > weather
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by ibiza 3y ago
That's a a compelling argument: GC/RC w/ stack allocation where possible. I associate GC w/ pointer chasing and the unavoidable L1, L2, L3 cache trashing that goes w/ it. To what extent is this possible? Does Nim ha
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by ibiza 4y ago
> call it a day, finish work early and go to the beach for sunset. That's great, except if you're on call, responsible for your own and your team's code. Hopefully, there are no NullPointerExceptions, ConcurrentModificatio
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by ibiza 4y ago
> the unrivaled build quality of the MacBook (screen, trackpad, keyboard) Typing this on a ThinkPad X13, after years of MBPs, I beg to differ. The screen on the ThinkPad is better, even at a slightly lower resolution of 1920 x 1200. It
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by ibiza 4y ago
Those are great points. Generalizing a bit: * Identify your superpower What special mojo do you bring to a problem that no one else on your team can? Recognizing and leveraging your superpower can make running w/ a team of true overach
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by ibiza 4y ago
> a big chunk of these vulnerabilities would not exist if C and C++ [...] simply didn’t have zero-terminated string, initialized values by default, had a proper pointer+length type thus replacing 90% of pointer arithmetic with easily bou
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by ibiza 4y ago
Is there potential for a Erlang -> Elixir play here? Ada -> Grace :). I find it a shame languages w/ a Pascal lineage are unpopular simply for syntactic reasons.
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by ibiza 4y ago
I stopped a couple years ago and really didn't intend to. The idea was to hit the pause button for a while, as my wine intake was becoming too regular. I had quit cigarettes long ago w/ a packaged plan. What I remember about it wa

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