mannschott

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by mannschott 1mo ago
In C a pointer can point to any arbitrary offset within an object or array, to a local variable somewhere on the stack, to a static variable, to read-only memory, to the first(?) of an indeterminate number of characters (hopefully) terminat
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by mannschott 1mo ago
«Why dont O/S support executables with something like LLVM binaries and generate the native code at load time ?» I've wondered this too. I can think of two systems "IBM i" (formerly OS/400) [1] and Oberon "Slim
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by mannschott 1y ago
One would assume that, but in practice, the predominant style is not one of many short procedures. Instead it feels that there's a preference to just inline the code unless the resulting procedure will have more than one caller. For ex
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by mannschott 2y ago
It’s all bastard CSV out here in the real world. For extra fun consider the German-Speaking word where CSV files are actually Semicolon-Separated but everyone still calls them CSV and looks at you like you drooled on yourself when you point
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by mannschott 3y ago
When I wrote "teletype" I wasn't referring to what teletypes had become by the time by the time Unix was developed. Think further back than that. This is why I mentioned 5-bit codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by mannschott 3y ago
The early days of manual typewriters, paper tape, teletypes and vacuum tube systems, which already followed this practice predate US-ASCII, so I don't think the particular numeric values assigned by US-ASCII can have any explanatory po
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by mannschott 3y ago
I've always suspected that 'Reader' and 'Writer' were names borrowed from Oberon since that's one of the influences that contributed to early Go design: https://github.com/Project-Oberon/So
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by mannschott 3y ago
I've had a lot of Mohnstrudel (Poppy Seed Strudel) in Austria [1]. You won't get high; you'll just get diabetes. ;-) https://kochen.kerpe.at/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Mohnstrud...
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by mannschott 4y ago
z/OS, OpenVMS and OS/400 spring to mind.
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by mannschott 4y ago
Enumerations and subranges (in style of Modula-2 and Pascal) are missing from Oberon, but Records are present subject to type extension in the style of structs in Go. In Oberon(-1), we used (pointers to) procedures in record fields as meth
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by mannschott 4y ago
I was shocked by how spammy Amazon.com's search results seemed compared to what I'm accustomed to from Amazon.de. I'm not a regular user of Amazon.com but have had occasion to do so since I'm visiting family in the US. A
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by mannschott 4y ago
"Permanently suspended" is neither accurate nor helpful. That an account can't leave that state is precisely what "permanently" means. Since an appeal is possible, "Indefinitely suspended" would be accu
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by mannschott 4y ago
This is the root of the problem for me as well.
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by mannschott 4y ago
The article's proposed mapping of tags and especially comments to links strikes me as unavoidably clunky in a world where one-way links are the only kind available. Maybe I'd find this golden hammer argument more convincing in th
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by mannschott 5y ago
> In school you do “experiments” and if the answer doesn’t match what is in the book you are marked down. This is unsurprising and probably obvious. The purpose of the exercise is learning how to do experiments reliably so that at some
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by mannschott 5y ago
Back in the day™ Think’s Pascal used bold, italics and underlining to do syntax highlighting because the Mac’s screen was black-and-white. It would be a compromise: you can’t encode as much information into the text’s appearance without acc
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by mannschott 5y ago
Presumably what's meant is the tools necessary to directly access the affected systems to effect repairs. I suppose it's by analogy to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_cart
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by mannschott 5y ago
My $JOB is maintaining such a desktop CRUD app that's been in use for the past 20 years. It uses a Swing (via a proprietary higher-level framework) for its GUI. Over the years it's accreted a few dozen services (also in Java) in i
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by mannschott 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unofficial_collaborator Looks like about 1% of the population were snitches for the Stasi. You can decide for yourself if that's "a lot" or not.
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by mannschott 5y ago
A few more oddballs come to mind: iCab was a favorite of mine before the switch from Classic Mac OS to Mac OS X. I made heavy use of its ability to save offline copies of open web pages (with all embedded resources). http://www.i
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by mannschott 5y ago
Sadly not a joke, but thankfully quite obscure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Middle-endian
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by mannschott 6y ago
This will already sort equal file names together. If I wanted to combine that with file sizes, I'd probably do some kind of decorate | sort | undecorate dance on each line produced by find. Where decorate would add the start o
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by mannschott 6y ago
Yea, I used to do this with a little script. The strategy I used, which worked well when I was compressing and archiving workspaces (which might often contain checkouts of different branches of the same project) was essentially this:
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by mannschott 6y ago
Yes, facebook is blocking the creation of new posts with links to Dreamwidth. Or at least, they did so when I attempted to create a post containing a link to the post under discussion here about 5 minutes ago. I am located in Austria if tha
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by mannschott 6y ago
I'm familiar with this conundrum. I've been taking notes, managing tasks and appointments on paper since 2015; before that I took most notes in Emacs org-mode and managed some tasks there, and some in OmniFocus. Lack of search is
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by mannschott 6y ago
What a blast from the past! Logo was my first exposure to programming in elementary school (1981-1986). This was fun to play with and the tutorial is well done. I was surprised by the lack of any kind of "run" button, but I think
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by mannschott 6y ago
"Educt, is a substance separated from a mixture in which it already existed, as opposed to a product, which is newly generated by a chemical reaction." So, in this context, the substances consumed by the cell's chemical proce
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by mannschott 7y ago
Colossus was used to crack Tunny (Lorenz cypher machine) used by German High Command, while the Bombe machines were used to attack Enigma.
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by mannschott 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-level_store
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by mannschott 7y ago
For the case of accidentally closing a Viewer: The command System.Recall restores the most recently closed Viewer. Just find or type that command anywhere on the screen and then execute it by clicking it with the middle mouse button.

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