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by photokandy 6y ago
Native Node is fine, and generally runs better than the equivalent MBP. My 8GB M1 handles Node & JS about twice as fast as my 16GB 15" Intel MBP from 2019. Where you can run into issues is architecture support. I'm running Nod
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by photokandy 6y ago
My perspective: Going from a 2019 15" MacBook Pro with 16GB of memory to an 8GB M1 13" MacBook Pro You don't start to feel the 8GB until you: * have a lot of tabs open in Safari (like ~30+) * have heavy web apps (GMail &
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by photokandy 6y ago
(OP Here) I've used pagetable.com quite a lot for reference to see how things were done in CBM BASIC. I didn't always follow that direction (also looked at GW-BASIC, and others), but it has proven very useful to either set me on a
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by photokandy 6y ago
Nice! (OP here) I've definitely been looking a some implementations, but I don't think I directly looked at these. (Instead, pagetable.com and gw-basic and the like have proven invaluable as well.) I should write a quick post summ
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by photokandy 6y ago
When it comes to JK Rowling, absolutely. She's pretty firmly in TERF territory, and holds pretty damaging views when it comes to those of us who are trans/gender non-conforming.
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by photokandy 6y ago
I finally had time to revisit the suggestions in the comments -- what great ideas. :-) I wrote them up in a post here: https://able.bio/kerrishotts/building-a-basic-interpreter-80... I also included some links to resou
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by photokandy 6y ago
Oooh -- good idea. I don't think I have an instruction that quite matches. Retroputer's branch instructions are directly tied to the flags, so you can do `br !c(arry)`, but that doesn't rule out zero like `ja` does. At a quic
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by photokandy 6y ago
A quick search indicates that BBC Basic had a LISTO command that could add indents. I should see if I can add something similar.
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by photokandy 6y ago
You’re right! I’ll do that. :-) I haven’t done a lot of optimization yet-probably lots of things like this. :-)
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by photokandy 6y ago
Author here & wow! Didn't expect to see this get posted anywhere, but happy to see that there are people as interested in this stuff as I am. If you do play with Retroputer at all, it is still very much WIP -- so lots of things are
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by photokandy 6y ago
OMG--that would have been SO nice to have. I don't think I got my first taste of syntax highlighting until I got access to Turbo Pascal. Adding it to Retroputer BASIC should be trivial. I think I'll have a go at it tonight, since
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by photokandy 6y ago
I wouldn't rule out the pandemic being an issue here. These are not _normal_ times, and is an additional stressor. For me stress _definitely_ impacts my ability to think clearly, and the higher the stress (even if not immediately obvio
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by photokandy 10y ago
Gah; my app doesn't like it either! Gotta be a bug... :-(
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by photokandy 10y ago
As long as one can leverage plugins for hybrid apps, I don't see why most of the demoed features today aren't possible in a hybrid app. At least nothing sent up huge red flags for me as a hybrid app developer.
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by photokandy 10y ago
This looks pretty cool. I think it would be fantastic if you'd integrate social logins here. I'd rather log in with Facebook or Twitter than create a completely separate account just to use the site. Having a demo of sorts would a
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by photokandy 11y ago
Yes -- I was just indicating that WinNT was the first Windows to do it. Every Windows based on the NT kernel supports stderr redirection. Win95, 98, and ME didn't, since they were on a different kernel. Still can't believe I bou
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by photokandy 11y ago
Yeah, Windows NT Workstation 3.1 was the first Windows to have stderr redirection[1]. Windows 95, 98 and Millennium (oh, that horrid edition. I actually bought it! Gag.) don't support redirecting STDERR according to Wiki[2]. [1] https
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by photokandy 11y ago
I've been doing ES6 for several months now. Not once have I mistook `=>` for `>=`. Not once have I made a typo when I wanted an arrow function. Of course any syntax can be abused in such a way to create ugly code. But if I comp
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by photokandy 11y ago
You'll probably transition fairly easily. Mac OS X is a customized BSD, so although it has differences with respect to Linux, it's also not that foreign either. * Remap Command and Control if your fingers can't adjust to the