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You can do all those things with a macro assembler.

fpcupdeluxe is a lot more reliable than installing the releases. When arm64 came out, I couldn't even get an arm64 build for my Mac, but fpcupdeluxe just handled it.

Pascal originally required you to specify the length of the string before you did anything with it. This is a totally good idea, but was considered to be too much of a pain to use …

It was so much harder when I was a baby- you had to bootstrap the whole thing on an IBM 360.

Feels like a lot of people like making dealing with null as complicated as possible.

Then use Ice Cubes. Not everything has to be FOSS.

It's not very community-like out of the box, that's totally true. OTOH, after you follow both people and hashtags, it feels pretty much like everything else, more or less.

> Can’t pick a big generic instance because Nobody is going to defederate from mastodon.social, but otherwise, this is all true.

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Both. Mainframes though are incredibly good for both I/O and uptime. Yeah, Linux/Unix are way better on both than they used to be, but on a mainframe, it's just a totally different…

Because a lot of real humans on social media are awful. (Some platforms are better than others, obviously.)

Sure, but that is different than being a translation. A "translation" of the Bible is always considered moving from the original text, not from the likely language of the speaker.

You are completely wrong. The US is not a leftist nation by any stretch of the imagination. Honestly, you're so incredibly wrong, that I can't believe you actually believe what you…

I lost hope for Swift after seeing a minor holy war about the c-style for loop.

> "But nobody made them agree to that!" And to amplify your point just a bit, if the alternative is losing your healthcare and possibly going homeless, what does "agreeing" even me…

Probably because only the US has the kind of gun violence that you're wondering about. I don't think in Europe, the idea that someone is going to come after you with a gun because …

Greatest amp ever, if you ask me.

I see this idea a lot, but I don't really buy it. I've coded in 6502 assembly for years, and the zero page is not register-like at all. Best thing you can say about zero page is th…

Do you like to be surveilled at work? Would it make you want to do a better job or just hate your job more?

The concern here is that people aren’t happy that LLM parasites are wasting their bandwidth and therefore their money on a scheme to get rich off of other people’s work.

> It seems fine as long as they follow the regulations related to price fixing This would be the "if it's legal, it's also ethical" fallacy.

Something tells me Apple is not remotely interested in systemd. launchd, however works fine.

I remember back in those days trying to lead a plant supervisor through installing some custom software on a MS-DOS machine from floppies. "No, not the slash under the question mar…

Yeah, it does! You probably need Rosetta 2 installed first though.

Wine bottler works well for that.