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That's a fork, this is the original where there's been more recent updates:

https://github.com/madisongh/blissc

My home cluster is built from surplus Dell Optiplex desktops

I used to do this as well and this is fine if you're able to source cheap power. But I'm in the UK, electricity prices are insane and I can't afford to run this kind of setup any more.

Microsoft management has decided CLR has a new meaning, C# Language Runtime. VB, C++/CLI and F# are only there because existing customers.

Oh, I think we need a citation for these claims.

No, sadly not.

When I was a young broth of a boy I worked as a field engineer looking after a whole bunch of different hardware. One of these was a Pick machine with its own dedicated Pick branded hardware, amongst a fleet of terminals and early PC hardware. Nothing ever seemed to go wrong with it.

As a former Data General engineer, I too would like to see some love for RDOS and AOS. And also their diagnostic tool ADES which was a specialised OS in its own right, and ICOS.

Why is it "combative"? Seems like a needlessly hyperbolic description of launching a desktop app.

hides the execution.

But you're not prevented from finding out how your query was executed. For example EXPLAIN (MySQL, Postgres) or query analyser for MSSQL.

I have a link for you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Scroll to the bottom of the page.

Yes, this is that company. This is the "original":

https://github.com/sst/opencode

This isn't LinqPad's selling point. All that dotnet run *.cs has done is remove the need to have a project file for each "script" you write.

LinqPad maybe has this feature but it's selling point is as a scratch pad to experiment with working with data and general futzing around.

Or, just link directly to the paper which isn't paywalled:

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/5/1087

Start here I think:

https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/264

I did google "bus-stops-on-a-slope", but nothing jumped out. What are "bus-stops-on-a-slope"?

Years ago I ended up in a system with a star I couldn't refuel from and was S.O.L. I had vaguely heard of the Fuel Rats[0] and did a google to see if they were real and contactable. I put in a call to them and about an hour later a kindly pilot turned up, refuelled me and off I went with a warm fuzzy feeling. I was very grateful. It reminded me of happy times being in a corp in Eve with your comrades helping each other out.

Being reminded of this might make me give Elite another go.

[0] https://fuelrats.com/

Ah, ok :)

Don't be so hard on yourself, even after 20+ years of .NET dev there are still things I can be a bit forgetful about, such as this UI annoyance.

Often in aspdotnet we have programmers

Pretty sure this is a problem across many other development platforms. Odd that you singled out aspdotnet programmers.

64 Kbit/s ISDN leased line

That would have been Kilostream which wasn't part of the ISDN system. Kilostream pre-dated ISDN. The reason for its high cost was that you could throw as much data as you wanted to 24hrs a day and it was a point to point dedicated circuit, i.e. you couldn't "dial up" different locations the way you could with ISDN.

Minor nitpick...Active Directory didn't appear until Windows Server 2000.

Should we then destroy all legal documents, for example The Magna Carta?

Museums aren't just a store of "art", museums are a way to preserve our heritage, preferably in its original form.

working on tickets while they are on-call

That's why they call it "on-call", you only work if you get the call. If you're on-call and being expected to work on unrelated tickets then you're now adding many hours/days to your working week, and somewhere near and just over the horizon is burnout town.

I think it’s different if someone is waiting on the immediate output of your work.

I partially agree, something needs to be on fire or a complete showstopper for that to happen. My only other reason would be helping out a colleague who's trapped in a gravity well of fail and needs a bit of help and support.

getting started is the HARDEST part of the day for me.

For you, yes. But remember not everyone is a night owl, nor is everyone an early bird. I start work at 930am, we have our stand up, then I warm up with 30-45 mins of coffee, reading some techy stuff etc, and then I'm ready to roll.

why wait until tomorrow?

Because it's the end of the "working day"() and my mind isn't at its peak performance.

I'm imagining the HR person saying, "It will only take a few minutes to fix this for you, so I'm going to wait until tomorrow". Examples are endless.

A whole heap of things aren't that time critical at the end of the working day. If I've had a problem with my salary or some revision to my contract it can wait until the morning.

But if you want to go ahead and knock yourself out with another 2-4 hours of work on top of your working day (and contractually obligated hours) then beware of burnout. Pace yourself.

depending on when you start your working day, which doesn't need to be 9am. Personally I used to start at 10am because of flexitime and work on until maybe 7pm or until there's at natural cut off

as a blogger you should probably always own or create your own tools.

That's all fine and dandy if you're a developer (or have some developer skills). But my mate who wants to blog about wood working isn't a developer and has no interest in building his own blogging tools.

I'm a developer and even I don't want to build and maintain my own blogging tools, I just want to write about the stuff I find interesting (most of which isn't necessarily development related).

The thing you're thinking about is http.sys and it was introduced in Windows 2008/IIS7 to support the new "Integrated Mode" request pipeline.

WinHTTP doesn't have anything to do with http.sys it just listens for HTTP requests and then hands them off to the right bits inside IIS.

WinHTTP is essentially a HTTP stack for client services running on Windows Server to allow them to make HTTP requests. It has a sibling API named WinINet which is aimed at use in desktop environments. I think the threading models are main differentiator (I been a while since I looked at this).

WinHTTP is fairly well documented:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winhttp/abou...

This might be useful to review:

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

"Text after a blank line that is indented by two or more spaces is reproduced verbatim. (This is intended for code.)"

From the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

It's not really about being "newsworthy", but what tickles your grey matter's fancy.

But no-one is shipping content with these long gone formats any more. My almost 20 year old receiver supports formats that have long since fallen by the wayside as well, why put any effort into them for test and diagnostics?

If you're alluding to COPY.TXT meaning COPYRIGHT.TXT and therefore it would/should contain a license then I hate to disappoint you. Copyrights and Licenses are different things. So maybe put a dampener on your expressions of incredulity, it's not a great way to engage here.

To add to the sibling comments. My first hint at getting COVID was that my local takeaway curry didn't taste of anything, but the usual fiery heat was still there. I almost phoned up the shop to have a moan about them sending out this tasteless dish but realised that I might have gotten the plague. I took a rapid test and lo and behold I was positive for COVID. It took me weeks to get my sense of taste back again.