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I think that is being too charitable. The problem is 100% reproducible. The machine blue-screens at boot up. What kind of staging environment allows this to go through?

I wonder if a Sun, Dec, or HP of the 90s would have had a fighting chance against Windows NT had they not embraced X, and instead developed a local-first stack optimized for their considerable hardware.

Related, I've always found it odd that in Linus' history of Linux, part of it was a desire to implement an Amiga-like OS on a PC. This is the message-passing-bad guy. What happened?

I did not realize cd'ing up was an esoteric sport. My own take:

  shopt -s cdable_vars
  u2=../.. u3=../../.. u4=../../../.. u5=../../../../..

HAL 9000 is already included as z/OS or z/VM.

The PC (1981) predates the first color 3270 terminals like the IBM 3179 (1984). A 3179 had 7 colors: pink, red, blue, yellow, green, white, and turquoise. I used one & remember it looking quite good but different from PCs of its day.

Apple's original Objective-C docs are available at their Documentation Archive. They are quite good.

• Programming With Objective-C (current): https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...

• The Objective-C Programming Language (older): https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co...

Also, 17? At that point young adults have reached cognitive maturity[1], so perhaps that's a good time to drop the qualifiers.

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30762417/

Re DB2 vs UDB, thank you, it's been too long. Well done breaking DB2!

We actually targeted Oracle on Unix. Fortunately, the app developers never got too deep into DB2-isms, so it worked out fine.

The env I helped set up was online only, no batch jobs. JCL is essentially a declarative shell language, so it's not that hard to map to Bourne shell et. al.

Migrating a suite of programs written w/ COBOL, CICS, DB2 from z/OS to Linux is fairly straightforward. MicroFocus COBOL compiles IBM COBOL, DB2 runs on Linux or you can swap out another RDBMS. The CICS part requires a simple runtime easily implemented in C plus a new scanner to replace the calls in your programs.

I was part of a 4 person team that knocked this out in under a year. 1,000's of mainframe programs running w/o change (at the time) on Unix. This was in the 90s.

I find the bifurcation between HTML elements and CSS statements maddening. Structural things like flexbox and grid would be far clearer as HTML element types.

I use this method as well. To add some specifics, I use a 4 qt saucepan to produce enough for two people. I use enough oil to liberally cover the bottom (glug glug). This is not diet food, excess oil tends to remain in the pot anyway, and I believe most of the heat transfer is oil to corn as opposed to from the pot itself, so you need ample hot oil for a good batch.

To judge when the oil is hot enough for the corn, I add 3 kernels to the initial pot + oil. Once those 3 kernels pop, add enough corn to cover the base of the pan, swirl the hot oil w/ the new kernels, replace cover, but leave slightly ajar to allow steam to escape, and then yeah, a couple more swirls & you should have a perfect batch in about a minute or so.

That's essentially how DNA sequencing works. The longest human chromosome (chr1) has about 250M bases. The DNA samples are sonicated to split them into small sequences, and then sequenced en mass 100-300bps at a time. The results are then reassembled into contigs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome_1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing#High-throughput...

Same. Outside of Lisp & some shell, you've got the OG Cobol and Raku. HTML attrs? CSS? It's a shame really. So easy to type and read.

I'm happy one can buy a mighty 4-stack RPN calculator today new. Greedily, I wish they had recreated the 32S instead, as it had a single Gold function key and far less busy silk screening. I say this as a former owner of a 32SII.

https://www.hpmuseum.org/32s.jpg

Power ISA includes decimal floating point, so it's available beyond mainframes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ISA

The BSD man pages cover it pretty well. It's more fun & games w/ the pseudoterm. Should ^S, ^Q go to the terminal driver, or to the program using it? In the case of the shell, this means the readline lib.

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=termios

The "other editors" link[1] is welcome. I've never liked the implicit Emacs requirement associated w/ Lisp envs. The list includes Vim, NeoVim, & even IntelliJ!? Good stuff.

1. https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/editor-support.ht...

Your point stands, but I think you're arguing about static vs dynamic typing, rather than strong vs weak typing.

CL is dynamically typed (values have types, not variables), w/ strong types (automatic type coercions are rare).

No Boilerplate mentioned Q codes in his most recent video: Amateur Radio: Open Source Airwaves

https://youtu.be/XcF6tvepRlg

Events include key scan codes for one. The end of the doc contains a pros & cons section of the alternative approaches.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/specs/%2...

There's an even richer protocol, `?9001h`, developed by the Microsoft Terminal team, designed to maintain the fidelity of INPUT_RECORD events. These are the events seen by console programs in Win32. It's quite nice.

https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/blob/main/doc/specs/%2...

You can run the Weather app stand-alone & pin it to your Taskbar or Start Menu:

    Windows Key > weather

That's a a compelling argument: GC/RC w/ stack allocation where possible. I associate GC w/ pointer chasing and the unavoidable L1, L2, L3 cache trashing that goes w/ it.

To what extent is this possible? Does Nim have LTOs that rewrite memory handling across compilation units? I'm guessing no, and instead it's local & one-off, rather than something one can bank on.

call it a day, finish work early and go to the beach for sunset.

That's great, except if you're on call, responsible for your own and your team's code. Hopefully, there are no NullPointerExceptions, ConcurrentModificationExceptions, not to mention the odd race condition or two. I appreciate a language that can eliminate the majority of these cases at complie time. I'd rather sort these issues out on a Tuesday morning than get pulled off the beach by PagerDuty.

the unrivaled build quality of the MacBook (screen, trackpad, keyboard)

Typing this on a ThinkPad X13, after years of MBPs, I beg to differ. The screen on the ThinkPad is better, even at a slightly lower resolution of 1920 x 1200. It's IPS like the Mac of course, but also Anti-Reflective (matte), which Apple hasn't offered since 2008?

The ThinkPad has Left, Right, and Scroll mouse buttons, as well as a TrackPoint stick. Not so on the Mac.

Finally, the keyboard. You're going to laud Apple for their quality keyboards, really? The ThinkPad has a nicer keyboard feel (subjective, I know), has actual Home, End, PageUp, PageDn, and Delete keys, two Ctrl keys, and praise Jesus, gaps between the function keys, so you can use them confidently w/o looking.

Those are great points. Generalizing a bit:

* Identify your superpower

What special mojo do you bring to a problem that no one else on your team can? Recognizing and leveraging your superpower can make running w/ a team of true overachievers a lot more pleasant.

a big chunk of these vulnerabilities would not exist if C and C++ [...] simply didn’t have zero-terminated string, initialized values by default, had a proper pointer+length type thus replacing 90% of pointer arithmetic with easily bounds-checkable code, and had established a culture that discouraged the prevalent ad-hoc style of memory management.

This is Rust's calling-card, so I find this plea for a better lang / eco rather jarring after dismissing Rust for somehow "making the wrong tradeoffs".

Is there potential for a Erlang -> Elixir play here? Ada -> Grace :). I find it a shame languages w/ a Pascal lineage are unpopular simply for syntactic reasons.

I stopped a couple years ago and really didn't intend to. The idea was to hit the pause button for a while, as my wine intake was becoming too regular. I had quit cigarettes long ago w/ a packaged plan. What I remember about it was that it came w/ a card on which you were told to list the things you'd gain, the benefits you'd reap, by quitting smoking.

So I made the same list for stopping drinking and it worked better than I expected. I won't tell you what was on my list, as it would sound preachy. I would recommend making your own list. Spend a few minutes on it & try to be exhaustive. If you frame your goal not as removing a negative but as gaining a set of positives, it may reorient your thinking & get you to your goal. It did in my case.