jeberle

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by jeberle 11d ago
Removing complexity is 2 to +infinity times harder than adding it in the first place.
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by jeberle 24d ago
I'm still waiting for operating systems to adopt true physical units. You know, that trick PostScript printers have doing since the 80s (running at 300dpi no less). I realize there are large screen projectors in the wild, that's s
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by jeberle 2mo ago
Leo Brodie's "Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Language and Operating System for Beginners and Professionals" is well-suited for any level student. It's quite fun and made a mark on my thinking. It's har
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by jeberle 2mo ago
I love how egregiously bad CDE looks compared to Windows. Whoever made that call, dios mio.
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by jeberle 3mo ago
Also, the images were ruinously far off from what they intended to convey. Dude, just draw a picture by hand & take a picture of it.
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by jeberle 4mo ago
Is there any sense in buying (out-of-the money) put options, to make sure you can taste some of that sweet lucre that your overlords are getting?
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by jeberle 4mo ago
The good stuff landed in Java 8, so you left the party too early. From Java 8 on it has changed direction completely (less OO + JavaBeans, more functional + ADTs). It feels like a completely different language from the Java 1.4 / 5 day
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by jeberle 5mo ago
I could not help but notice the PCB color scheme. Black on white had to be deliberate. Nicely played.
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by jeberle 5mo ago
Before that, page-mode terminals used <Return> to move to first field on a subsequent line (like a line-based <Tab>) and sent the page only on <Enter> or <Fn-key>. This made for quick navigation w/ zero ambiguit
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by jeberle 6mo ago
I use it similarly, but I add spots for side x side as well as left, center, right. I only use Hammerspoon for this and a couple tiny things, but it's completely worth it for this alone. Use math to specify window sizes & location.
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by jeberle 7mo ago
The "no taste" quote makes no sense given that Susan Kare did the many of the significant icons in Windows 95. She did the same for the Mac.
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by jeberle 8mo ago
Does Rice's theorem cover this? > [ all non-trivial semantic properties of programs are undecidable ] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice's_theorem Found here: From Sumatra to Panama, from Babylon to Valhal
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by jeberle 8mo ago
That's the basis for my critique of CSS. There were plenty of other layout systems extant at the time CSS was cooked up. How CSS could have delivered such an incomplete and broken scheme is beyond me. To this day, it sucks harder than
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by jeberle 9mo ago
Thanks for this. It's pointless to argue, but I wonder if shifting from 32 to 64 bits, instead 128, would have seen faster uptake. Aside, isn't embedding MAC addrs in ones IP address a bad idea?
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by jeberle 9mo ago
Cat constructed from block: Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, U+1400 to U+167F U+14DA ᓚ CANADIAN SYLLABICS LA U+160F ᘏ CANADIAN SYLLABICS CARRIER YO U+15E2 ᗢ CANADIAN SYLLABICS CARRIER TTU https://unicode.scarf
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by jeberle 9mo ago
I would look to the UCSD p-System as a precedent to the JVM. Both are byte-code interpreted VMs. Gosling used the p-system earlier in his career, prior to joining Sun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gosling#Career_
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by jeberle 9mo ago
mod_php was distributed w/ Apache httpd, so it was "already installed". mod_perl needed to be installed manually, so it posed immediate friction, if not a complete freeze-out, depending on the situ. I believe that was why PHP
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by jeberle 10mo ago
Yeah, FFM adds many quality-of-life features - scoped lifetimes being a standout. If you just want an arena interface, ByteBuffer has been there since Java 1.4 (2002). It also does off-heap w/ ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(). https:/
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by jeberle 10mo ago
Not sure what you mean by "primitive support". Java 22 added FFM (Foreign Function & Memory). It works w/ both on-heap & off-heap memory. It has an Arena interface. https://openjdk.org/jeps/454
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by jeberle 10mo ago
That was my first reaction. It's not like Java is terribly slow, so rewriting it in a slightly faster language seems like an empty exercise.
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by jeberle 10mo ago
I've often wondered if PostScript or PDF contained the roots of a very good config language. Perhaps it simply is (PDF docs at least) but nobody regards it as such. My guess is the RPN nature would be a no-go for many people. Neverthel
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by jeberle 11mo ago
Ah, you're right: $10K/yr + $0.15/unit. I was thinking more of a BOM part that already did HDMI, making it a no-brainer. Just speculating.
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by jeberle 11mo ago
I would find the product more compelling in a puck form factor (sans kbd). I can't imagine missing the extra key labels. That would make it significantly smaller, more robust, & less expensive. I'd also prefer DisplayPort to H
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by jeberle 1y ago
My favorite in this vein: The Parable of the Two Programmers , by Neil W. Rickert. Sums things up nicely. https://c00kiemon5ter.github.io/code/philosophy/2011/10/30/T...
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by jeberle 1y ago
OK, I'm lost here. Why is there a 1:1 correspondence between the two?
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by jeberle 1y ago
You forgot `- 2^11` for the surrogate pairs. Gee, why isn't Unicode 2^21 code points? To understand the Unicode code point space you must understand UTF-16. The code space is defined by how UTF-16 works. That was my initial point.
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by jeberle 1y ago
UTF-16 arguably is Unicode 2.0+. It's how the code point address space is defined. Code points are either 1 or 2 16-bit code units. Easy. Compare w/ UTF-8 where a code point may be 1, 2, 3, or 4 8-bit code units. UTF-16 is annoy
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by jeberle 1y ago
Likewise, I would kill for gaps between Esc/F1, F4/F5, and F8/F9. ThinkPads do this although it is very subtle. The gaps let you use the the function keys by feel rather than looking at them. They tend to be mapped in debugge
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by jeberle 1y ago
The RST parser is available in only one language, Python. I don't want my content tied to a single language stack, regardless of how good it might be. Markdown parsers exist in any language I care to use.
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by jeberle 1y ago
Makes sense given that IBM already had the POWER arch & AIX, which was based on BSD rather than SysV for Solaris.

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