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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 u…

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. …

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 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 dBas…

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 tirin…

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 ma…

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 dat…

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 …

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 f…

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 uno…

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 mou…

> 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 spou…

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 wer…

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

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