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by jmmv 5d ago
It is, but you can start with a COPR repo instead.
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by jmmv 6d ago
I think I've cleaned up my box of cables twice in the past and, inevitably, _the very next day_ I did so, I needed one of the cables I had gotten rid of. Never again.
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by jmmv 17d ago
I tried Haiku recently on a not-super-old PC and was impressed by the speed and the reasonable availability of software. I then wished I could run this on my old Powerbook G4 because nothing else seems to run there anymore with ease, and th
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by jmmv 22d ago
Start with Doom Emacs. I haven't felt the need to customize almost anything since I switched (from VSCode) 4 years ago. TBH, I had used Emacs before VSCode and had accumulated a bunch of cruft in my .emacs configuration, and I never fe
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by jmmv 1mo ago
Somehow the clicking around reminded me of Windows RG. Go check this old relic if you have never seen it: https://www.jamesweb.co.uk/windowsrg . Turn the volume up!
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AI-generated vulnerability patches still require expert human review(1password.com)
3 points by jmmv 1mo ago|0 comments
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by jmmv 2mo ago
That's not surprising. The page says the kernel is multiboot compliant, which means it can be loaded by existing boot loaders. Whether the kernel later provides a floppy driver is a separate story. This is also pretty common even if yo
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by jmmv 2mo ago
I've been blogging for 22 years now. At the beginning I could tell I had a relatively steady audience based on frequent comments (when comments on blogs were a thing). These died off over the years. Then, in 2020, I implemented my own
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by jmmv 2mo ago
Yeah, structs (records) is something I've been wanting to add and that became reasonably easy with the full rewrite of the compiler I did in 0.13. Probably in the next update!
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by jmmv 2mo ago
What do you mean? FUNCTIONs are supported, and their arguments and return values are strongly typed.
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EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet?(endbasic.dev)
49 points by jmmv 2mo ago|11 comments
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by jmmv 3mo ago
Two years ago, I spent time studying the Windows NT kernel internals and ended up writing a comparison against Unix here: https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/windows-nt-vs-unix-design . What I came out of that exercise
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by jmmv 3mo ago
> Only the very first few models of Intel Macs had strictly 32-bit processors (the 2006 iMac and Mac minis with Core Solo/Core Duo processors), and none of them were realistically capable of playing Half-Life 2. What? First, those c
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Is anyone still using Emacs?(jmmv.dev)
35 points by jmmv 3mo ago|5 comments
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by jmmv 3mo ago
> It's a little bit sluggish, isn't it? And takes quite a bit of time to boot, right? It's certainly usable, though, not worse than your average website these days. I intend to use this setup for next Advent of Code. >
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by jmmv 3mo ago
Sure, and I'm not arguing that the answers are uninteresting, but I found it odd that this is being double-quoted several times as if it was taken out of the article.
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by jmmv 3mo ago
I'm curious... why are people (this thread, but there are several independent others) replying to "Is anyone still using emacs?" ? I don't see that sentence anywhere in the article!
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by jmmv 3mo ago
Thanks. I haven't documented it (yet?) but I did give a talk last year on the process that got me there and the internals behind this system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZFYTInWAqc
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by jmmv 3mo ago
I went through a similar "thought process" to build this: https://www.endbasic.dev/endbox.html last year. I originally wanted to "just" launch my binary right after the kernel started... but in the end s
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by jmmv 3mo ago
They probably meant 2010s. I remember this was the time when Google started pushing the Chromebook idea and highlighting how it could boot in "just a few seconds". One of the earliest models I got as a dogfooding device probably n
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by jmmv 3mo ago
> I’m starting to fall in love with CDs again. I visited a long-time friend recently and was surprised that they were using modern LP player for music. But the surprise itself actually turned into curiosity. I got the urge to buy one too
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by jmmv 4mo ago
> More Inevitabilism posting with the “not happy with” but is-what-it-is washing of your hands OK so, _realistically_, what can you do that will make any meaningful difference?
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by jmmv 4mo ago
Huh, that's an angle I hadn't thought about. It'd be cool indeed!
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Down the memory lane with OS/2 (2020)(jmmv.dev)
2 points by jmmv 4mo ago|0 comments
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by jmmv 5mo ago
Shameless plug for my https://blogsystem5.substack.com/p/beyond-the-1-mb-barrier-i... article from a couple of years ago. You'll find a deep dive on unreal mode (I just learned it's also known as "vodoo
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by jmmv 5mo ago
I'm sorry but the landing page at fuzix.org (the top page nonetheless) is terrible as it does not even try to explain what FUZIX even IS . I went to the GitHub project page, which contains some more details, but it still doesn't
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by jmmv 6mo ago
> the generated code just annoys me and the agents are too chatty I’ve eyerolled way less with Codex CLI and the GPT models than with Claude.
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by jmmv 6mo ago
It sounds like you haven't tried. LLMs definitely can do this. The output tends to be overly positive though, claiming that any sort of rough draft you give them is "great, almost ready for publishing!". But the feedback you
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by jmmv 6mo ago
I was reading this and couldn't stop thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
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by jmmv 6mo ago
No, I _never_ referred to the GUI versions.

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