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Syssiphus

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About Syssiphus

- born 1975 - German - speaks: german, english - programmer - likes: Lisp, Commodore64, Amiga

Recent public activity

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    Comment #37954752

    The SDF Plan9 Bootcamp is running at the moment. Registration is under: https://sdf.org/plan9/ In case anyone wants to try sam or acme on Plan9 without having to install the system…

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    Comment #37012973

    If it's something that you use for a large part of your day, then there is nothing weird about it.

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    Comment #35725681

    I checked my pi-hole query log and couldn't find any reference to the named telemetry address.

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    Comment #21906106

    Windows amd64 as well now.

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    Comment #20738910

    Nothing can ever replace your dog.

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    Comment #20566249

    I think that property of a vacuum is already used in a day-to-day object. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_flask

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    Comment #20482206

    Or just CTRL+z and then 'fg' to go back.

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    Comment #18863882

    Or TORG .. so many possibilities in that game ( badum tss )

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    Comment #18791108

    It's possible to interpolate the correct values with a screenshot, the gimp and a calculator.

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    Comment #17705296

    > Fred Fish was an American programmer that mailed out a floppy disk every month with a curated selection of the best open-source software available for the Amiga platform. Fish di…

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    Comment #15797971

    Surreal Numbers

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    Comment #15415456

    How to learn ViM: Stop reading articles about how to learn ViM, and start using ViM.

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    Comment #12539818

    1541 Ultimate cartridge: http://www.1541ultimate.net/content/index.php

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    Comment #12512850

    Looks like Geos for the C64 has recently been reverse engineered and is now available on GitHub. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(8-bit_operating_system)#... https://github.com/…

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    Comment #11490879

    Interesting view. I've never seen vi as a standard. But it makes sense.

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    Comment #11487714

    Soo, are these changes already in the git repository? Because the readme is still pointing out that the repository is for 7.4 and the tags/branches are not very helpful. Did I miss…

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    Comment #11487691

    Normally you should be able to yank the lines you want to copy to the * register (check :registers). The * register is basically the clipboard. You can use it to copy stuff from an…

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    Comment #11487631

    Nonetheless he is right. As far as I remember Vim is based on the code of an editor that was similar to vi, and not vi itself.

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    Comment #11162627

    Wake me when they made an augmented reality game where people actually have to do something creative together, instead of 'killing' each other in a million ways.

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    Comment #11100455

    Why? It's the only real fun we have.

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    Comment #10681832

    You can still use Emacs+SLIME, Vim+Slimv or whatever. It's just mentioned because of the fact that sbcl does not have readline support (last time I looked).

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    Comment #10681469

    On OSX I also found 'rlwrap' useful when using sbcl from the commandline.

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    Comment #10681466

    There are some html syntax errors in the (caveman2:make-project) line. :)

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    Comment #10575478

    Didn't see the Acorn Archimedes [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes

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    Comment #10470664

    Maybe that is the one thing EMACS cannot do.. making screenshots ;)