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The stickers that wrapped around the edge of the floppy and would never stay stuck...

Never mind, I saw the story on the front page. wah-wah sad trombone for me.

Um did something happen? I'm pondering an M5 make to replace my perfectly-working-but-won't-be-able-to-get-software-for i9 MBP.

One advantage of vi is that even though emacs is available on all those systems, vi is actually installed on all of those, setting aside windows. If you know rudimentary vi you can…

How do you have non-IBM clones of something like this? It sounds like it would break every law ever made about copying hardware, BIOS, everything. And IBM would come after you with…

Common Lisp, and even more so Racket, has reader macros. With a little help from LLMs you might be able to get a Ruby-like language that translates into Lisp. As a last resort look…

I still use a 2019 MacBook Pro, in 2026 I found the best way to warm it up was to use it daily and not blow the dust out of it for 7 years. After I opened it up and did that it's r…

If Intel virtualization works for Docker, why doesn't it work for things like VMWare or VirtualBox for Intel VM's?

I've barely read about Category Theory, but isn't it a just a slightly more mathy version of what programmers have been doing all along? Going up and down levels of abstraction, gr…

Other magazines mentioned but no love for Computer Language Magazine? It held its own with DDJ when it came to software and theoretical topics.

Works on my Intel mac running Sonoma 14.8.2. I use Omakub on my Linux machine and missed this when on my mac.

I didn't save the tweet I saw it in but I saved the joke - "I wish I had enough money to run Oracle instead of Postgres." "Why do you want to do that?" "I don't, I just wish I had …

The big headline for our household will be to pause updates as long as needed. My wife is a CPA and having to manually delay and delay updates during the end of tax season(s) (Marc…

I'm in the same boat as waynesonfire and I'm afraid this doesn't answer the question sufficiently. What do you do with an agent? What's a concrete example vs. typing in a chat box.…

I don't know your autonomy with regards to IT within the confines of your classroom but if you can't install ad blockers on the Chromebooks can you set up something like PiHole and…

I had a Spaceball Avenger which made it so intuitive to play. From my old reddit post about it, "The Spaceball Avenger is a gaming peripheral. It has the usual buttons, but the big…

Rarely mentioned is the audio, the Mac's bass and overall sound is much better than any other laptop its size.

How does 86Box and PCem compare with DOSBox in terms of accuracy?

Due to the nature of the sport (one person in a metal box, pit crews distanced from each other), after an adjustment period NASCAR races happened during the pandemic. To empty stan…

The reason my 2018 Chevrolet has HDR radio and my wife's 2024 doesn't.

The nerdiest project on github sounds like a high bar, what's the project?

I worked at a perfectly reasonable company that was acquired by Oracle. This was in the 2000s. We were working on a big Java project and were using ADF, the "Oracle Application Dev…

Everyone talks about GenServers and OTP and all that, and that part is great, but what sells it for me is that it's a practical functional programming language. You get 80% of the …

Technically not updates but if you hook up a PowerPC mac with 10.4 Tiger on it you can still get it updated to the latest version released, 10.4.11

As a user, I'm just here to offer ::applause:: for GraFORTH.