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I don't hate Micro-soft however I like the truth. Do you know the BASIC was open source ? Wikipedia is your friend.

I wouldn't call that an easter egg. IMHO it's rather a backdoor. A covert method to gain access to information about the system. Indeed what is the benefit to the user? No need to …

Scons is very easy and readable yet very powerful. It is Python based and extensible. https://scons.org/

If you like Makefiles you should try Scons: https://scons.org/

Thank you for sharing :-) Your script is simple, yet effective. If you plan to modify it you might want to check shlex : https://docs.python.org/3/library/shlex.html#module-shlex

Where is the Linux version ?

XDG specs are crap. Sure one single ~/.config folder is a very good idea. But I want it clearly visible such as ~/config. But I don't want an additional and confusing ~/.local. Plu…

I use Vim infrequently. I know it and if it was the only option I'd be efficient with it. I've even started with Vi as the only option. However I prefer Emacs because I feel way mo…

If an AI were meant to write code it would be Python. That is english with very few syntactic sugar mainly parens and colons. Unless the result wouldn't be meant to be read nor und…

This is not quite surprising as I experienced a few times that kids understand pretty well a CLI rather than a GUI. As soon as they can read the concept of a REPL is rather straigh…

Make it more like a laptop whiteout a screen but with a full sized trackpad and I will buy it !

"before the user perceives a delay": I agree with you. For any UX/UI designer out there a delay is perceived when it is greater than 200ms. Those are milliseconds.

I don't mean to be rude, but what is the point ? AFAIK the % operator is not deprecated. In fact % formatting being syntactically near identical to C is a feature to me. I use form…

Isn't it more like the following?: git clone https://github.com/github/dmca.git git fetch origin pull/8142/head git checkout FETCH_HEAD

I remember how as a little boy I was instantly hooked on my father's Dragon32 and its BASIC interpreter. A screen plus keyboard plus an instant-on Micropython board setup would be …

Try scons then: https://scons.org/

Firefox is my browser of choice and I gladly appreciate much of the improvement the devs put in it. However under Linux an improvement would be to get rid of Pulseaudio and to dire…

Dear Pi-hole devs & maintainers: thank you very much !

Nice article. I'm all for it ! I use Pandoc and Makefile as well. Except I use Emacs and Inkscape for SVG graphics. IMHO this is the way to produce documents in the 21st century.

From design point of view this is cool. However it is just a lame PR story. First glass is one of the rare materials that is nearly 100% recyclable it would be a shame to sore it a…

I for one have always thought that keeping things synchronous based on select() is a better intellectual discipline and less error prone. Only in few cases you are forced to use as…

"Really forward-thinking"? All of what Bill Gates "envisioned" in this 1983 article was already done or about to be done at that time. Gates is well known for being bad at predicti…

I'm kind of puzzled by this fanboism about "a new MS happening now". The new propaganda is along: "Hey! reset everything you know about MS. The new MS is shiny!". Why would anybody…

To be fair BASIC was not much of a deal. The interpreter is just a REPL. Very basic at it, hence the name. The BASIC was not invented by MS: they replicated it. The real operating …

This is vaporware. VW are stuck. They are not able to innovate. VW EVs are always tomorrow, whereas actual manufacturers do deliver EVs now : Nissan and Renault besides Tesla.