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It strikes me as like setting up an IDE. People have preferences, switching is possible, but there are advantages to saying "we are a Visual Studio + Resharper shop" or "everyone uses IntelliJ to work on this project".

It's a brand gTLD, like .microsoft and .google. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain#Brand...

https://nand2mario.github.io/posts/2026/z386/#testing gets into this sort of thing a bit more.

The Quark core lives on as a control processor inside Intel CPUs - https://pbx.sh/intelme_talk.pdf

Browser behavior like mixed content warnings (and a clear slide towards discouraging all non-HTTPS traffic) was the impetus for us at Twitch to TLS all our video in the mid-2010s. Mixed content delivery on a website would, I think, also fall below the bar for doing certain kinds of commerce, and ejecting people from your webapp to a separate payment flow discourages spending.

The author's answer as of 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28586767

EDIT: I recall reading that the Netflix client can continuously select between multiple content caches. I'm guessing they do this because it's a quality-of-service and capacity win over making a "best guess" at the start of a session, and sticking with it. It should also enable transparent recovery from a broken or slow cache node. If you test in a busy place with multiple caches, the loss of one needn't be a big deal.

I wonder if anyone ever tried to make the Clipper 5 pre-processor spit out Delphi..

Bizarrely, to protect dBase, there was no compatible Turbo C++ objects integration in dBase (you could import OBJ files from Microsoft C++). There was no way to natively use dBase from Turbo C++ or TurboPascal.

I'm guessing dBase was itself built using Microsoft's compilers, so pulling in other code from the same compiler was plausible. Not a product choice re: the Turbo compilers, just a disjoint path dependency between two acquired product lines (Ashton-Tate's dBase, and Wizard C).

This is the reason that Clipper, a third-party dBase compiler, could only link against .OBJs from particular versions of Microsoft C. Clipper compiles to p-code whose interpreter is implemented in Microsoft C; "linking" a Clipper program is actually linking a Microsoft C program with a static array comprising the Clipper compiler's output. So you can mix in a .OBJ expecting that version of the Microsoft C runtime library. Not a .OBJ expecting the Turbo C++ runtime library.

I find the constant use of punchy style tiring.

Sometimes a "punch in the face" is useful. Makes you re-evaluate things. Being punched in the face all day, every day, is just tiring.

OS/2 1.0 and the first edition of the CUA were both released in December 1987 according to Wikipedia; Raymond's story isn't dated but could've happened before this. (If I had to make a wild guess, I could imagine this request was a side effect of some internal IBM battle about what the CUA should dictate).

I don't think hardware page size has to match database page size. It would if Postgres was mmap'ing it. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-prese... says the database page size is 8KB by default.

Some keyboard enthusiasts obtain lighter keypresses by adding weight to the underside of the keys.

Then you'll love https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jpc.14309

"Six paediatric health-care professionals were recruited to swallow a Lego head."

1. Potential donors get upset that they can't make directed donations to specifically support Firefox or Thunderbird rather than the whole kit-and-kaboodle

2. Separate entity spun up to focus on Thunderbird only. Now you can support Thunderbird development directly.

3. New separate entity is now in the business of extensible AI clients?

EDIT: I went back and read the launch announcement [1]. I'll concede it does say "will also allow us to explore offering our users products and services that were not possible under the Mozilla Foundation" which could mean anything, really. And this development was funded by a Mozilla grant, importantly not by Thunderbird donors. I'm still struggling to not see this as a distraction from the core mission. I wish they'd spun up a new entity instead.

[1] https://blog.thunderbird.net/2020/01/thunderbirds-new-home/

AIX is still ppc64be. That and s390x are the only big-endian CPUs I can think of which aren't end-of-life, which I think is going to be an increasing maintenance burden over time for IBM alone.

They may not be confident in its reliability over the fall gamut of cheap consumer drives.

Did he write down everything he learned? That way the next person only needs to cover the intervening time period.

Conceivably LLMs might be good at answering questions from an unorganized mass of timestamped documents/tickets/chat logs. All the stuff that exists anyway without any extra continuous effort required to curate it - I think that's key.

https://github.com/arobenko/embxx_on_rpi/blob/master/src/asm...

Their stuff isn't running on top of Linux on the Pi.

I worked for a company that published a PalmOS app. Palmgear.com was a very important distribution channel, but so was our own website, I forget the exact ratios.

You could do "network shares" as in mount the filesystem from Linux and export over Samba/NFS/etc; it would probably also be possible to export the drive as an iSCSI device and mount HFS(+) filesystems directly from the Mac.

I assume we are using a lot more energy

What I've learned from visiting my own parents is, you can alleviate the energy concern, if you (1) get solar panels and (2) ban your spouse from running the dishwasher at night :P

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20130108-00/?p=56...

Sounds like this is about making .OBJs that fit in the conventions set by Win32 and the Microsoft linker. If you were using Microsoft's LINK.EXE I'd look at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/nodefa... (and /Zi for the Microsoft compiler)

More generally, a lot of compiler generated code (including from LLVM IR -> native) will rely on compiler-specific runtime library functions, which aren't necessarily considered part of the "C runtime". https://wiki.osdev.org/Libgcc occupies this role for GCC-compiled code. See https://godbolt.org/z/fb75PPobz for an example (64-bit division on 32-bit x86 generates a call to ___divdi3)

Swap the parameters around for C++ and similar langs where `assert(a, b)` evaluates the same as `(void) a; assert(b)`.

True

https://j00ru.vexillium.org/syscalls/nt/64/

(One example: hit "Show" on the table header for Win11, then use the form at the top of the page to highlight syscall 8c)

Starting with FreeBSD might be easier than starting with Debian then removing all the GNUisms. But perhaps not as much Type II fun.

Try something like: ffmpeg -i in.mp4 -c:v h264 -c:a aac out.mp4

To re-encode the content into H.264+AAC, rather than simply "muxing" the encoded bitstreams from the MP4 container into a new MOV container.

I'm on a media engineering team and agree that applying the tech to a new use case often involves people with deep expertise spending a lot of time in the code.

I'd guess there are fewer media/codec engineers around today than there were web developers in 2006. In 2006, Gmail existed, but today's client- and server-side frameworks did not. It was a major bespoke lift to do many things which are "hello world" demos with a modern framework in 2025.

It'd be nice to have more flexible, orthogonal and adaptable interfaces to a lot of this tech, but I don't think the demand for it reaches critical mass.

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"it affects Blizzard Creek and Windy Bluff models'

"Products formerly Blizzard Creek"

WTF does that even mean?