Viewing profile — gecko

My favorite alt time is definitely the ancient way of doing things: there are twelve hours during the day, and twelve hours during the night. Yes, this means that the length of an …

I will say that a lot of that RAM is going to creature comforts that aren't about apps getting worse per se. For example, everything is running double buffered images and windows i…

Uh, that title is...wrong...

I'm in PowerShell 7.4.2 and they're definitely absent. I hadn't thought to install directly from GitHub, given part of the whole shtick of winget is it's The One True Package Manag…

I was super excited to see this comment, but I don't seem to have those cmdlets, even though I'm on Windows 11, fully updated. Are you sure you didn't install something extra?

I mean, it is a country of laws. Just...some of those laws are pretty bad. For what it's worth, the Court in this case is narrowly focused on correcting a lower court's interpretat…

I'm not sure you understand how WSL works: it's just the native `curl` binary for whatever Linux distro you're using in WSL. On both Ubuntu and OpenSuSE, which are the two I have i…

I love the concept of Fossil being in SQLite, but there's a reason that Mercurial invented revlogs and Git tries to keep related objects close to each other in packfiles. Sometimes…

Isn't that literally just slightly different colors? I don't remember meaningful differences between OS/2 1.3 and the Windows 3 line. I always thought that was part of why WinOS2 w…

It hasn't changed radically, but it has changed. Wikipedia actually has a nice write-up if you want the details, but support for symbolic links, transactions, and partition resizin…

It'll reset the engine control unit (ECU), which will cause your car to run rough constantly as the computer has to relearn how to adjust the engine tuning from scratch every drive…

I'm happy to always have London, but I could do with forgetting most of Cambridge.

As an aside, I do think that targeting Mono was the right thing to do for the universe, as it butterfly-effected tedu into writing weird and wonderful technical blog posts for the …

(Since you're answering arbitrary Fog Creek questions) In retrospect, do you think it was a mistake to make kiln hg-centric at first? No; I think it was a mistake to not also suppo…

Everything you're asking about happened after I left, so I have no idea. I didn't even know they'd discontinued FogBugz for Your Server. [Edit: We did discontinue Kiln for Your Ser…

There's an imdb trivia item[0] about how you and Liz disagree about whether it was a shush, but it's unsourced, so it was hard to put much stock in it. This is a much more satisfyi…

This is honestly quite a trip to read (I'm the Benjamin Pollack in the movie). I did want to make two small corrections, though: In one scene, she’s being interviewed on her birthd…

It's worth noting that Compose Multiplatform, which makes the same core decision, actually has a pretty solid accessibility story ( https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-multiplatfo…

Can you explain what you mean? Multiple insertion points is kind of The Point Of Helix (and Kakoune, for that matter)

It's worth noting that OpenSuSE is one of very few distros in the Windows store, and the only one other than Ubuntu with really solid put-of-the-box interop (e.g. adding Linux apps…

You're correct. And they didn't "revert", as GP is saying, but rather added junction points such that "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data" is the same as C:\Progr…

I mean, even the IIGS wasn't really an Apple II in a real sense. Classic Apple II programs did use the IIGS' CPU, but were otherwise basically running on the MEGA-II (which I think…

Generically, anything by Microsoft will historically have used UCS-2, and will use UTF-16 these days, so this is utterly unsurprising to me as an experienced Windows dev . Converse…

The title of this article had me do a double-take: C and C++ development on Windows is great . No sanity is needed. But that's not what the article is about. What the article is ab…