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«Why dont O/S support executables with something like LLVM binaries and generate the native code at load time ?» I've wondered this too. I can think of two systems "IBM i" (formerl…

One would assume that, but in practice, the predominant style is not one of many short procedures. Instead it feels that there's a preference to just inline the code unless the res…

It’s all bastard CSV out here in the real world. For extra fun consider the German-Speaking word where CSV files are actually Semicolon-Separated but everyone still calls them CSV …

When I wrote "teletype" I wasn't referring to what teletypes had become by the time by the time Unix was developed. Think further back than that. This is why I mentioned 5-bit code…

The early days of manual typewriters, paper tape, teletypes and vacuum tube systems, which already followed this practice predate US-ASCII, so I don't think the particular numeric …

I've always suspected that 'Reader' and 'Writer' were names borrowed from Oberon since that's one of the influences that contributed to early Go design: https://github.com/Project-…

I've had a lot of Mohnstrudel (Poppy Seed Strudel) in Austria [1]. You won't get high; you'll just get diabetes. ;-) https://kochen.kerpe.at/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Mohnstrud...…

z/OS, OpenVMS and OS/400 spring to mind.

Enumerations and subranges (in style of Modula-2 and Pascal) are missing from Oberon, but Records are present subject to type extension in the style of structs in Go. In Oberon(-1)…

I was shocked by how spammy Amazon.com's search results seemed compared to what I'm accustomed to from Amazon.de. I'm not a regular user of Amazon.com but have had occasion to do s…

"Permanently suspended" is neither accurate nor helpful. That an account can't leave that state is precisely what "permanently" means. Since an appeal is possible, "Indefinitely su…

This is the root of the problem for me as well.

The article's proposed mapping of tags and especially comments to links strikes me as unavoidably clunky in a world where one-way links are the only kind available. Maybe I'd find …

> In school you do “experiments” and if the answer doesn’t match what is in the book you are marked down. This is unsurprising and probably obvious. The purpose of the exercise is …

Back in the day™ Think’s Pascal used bold, italics and underlining to do syntax highlighting because the Mac’s screen was black-and-white. It would be a compromise: you can’t encod…

Presumably what's meant is the tools necessary to directly access the affected systems to effect repairs. I suppose it's by analogy to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_car…

My $JOB is maintaining such a desktop CRUD app that's been in use for the past 20 years. It uses a Swing (via a proprietary higher-level framework) for its GUI. Over the years it's…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unofficial_collaborator Looks like about 1% of the population were snitches for the Stasi. You can decide for yourself if that's "a lot" or not.

A few more oddballs come to mind: iCab was a favorite of mine before the switch from Classic Mac OS to Mac OS X. I made heavy use of its ability to save offline copies of open web …

Sadly not a joke, but thankfully quite obscure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness#Middle-endian

This will already sort equal file names together. If I wanted to combine that with file sizes, I'd probably do some kind of decorate | sort | undecorate dance on each line produced…

Yea, I used to do this with a little script. The strategy I used, which worked well when I was compressing and archiving workspaces (which might often contain checkouts of differen…

Yes, facebook is blocking the creation of new posts with links to Dreamwidth. Or at least, they did so when I attempted to create a post containing a link to the post under discuss…

I'm familiar with this conundrum. I've been taking notes, managing tasks and appointments on paper since 2015; before that I took most notes in Emacs org-mode and managed some task…

What a blast from the past! Logo was my first exposure to programming in elementary school (1981-1986). This was fun to play with and the tutorial is well done. I was surprised by …