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Things might change in the future, it seems that WhatsApp is gonna start offering usernames, I saw the notice on my app a few weeks back. That would allow using it with strangers, …

I guess it's the luck of the draw, but unfortunately Sunday's are no good for me. The curse of parenting :) But it's still a great idea, and I wish you all happy meetups. Would be …

I wanted something standalone I could implement and understand from the ground-up, that's why I did everything myself, rather than using LLVM. In the future I might try to repeat t…

I've worked in a couple of companies who used bitbucket, and I've been glad when each of them migrated elsewhere. Bitbucket managed to be slow, annoying, and suffer more outages th…

We already have linkedin for that!

I wrote a lisp compiler recently, and that involved generating assembly language. My output is linux/amd64 assembly language which is compiled by nasm. I don't link to glibc, so I …

LSP services make it trivial to jump to definitions, as well as local cross-references and filesystem views it's just not something that's a concern. Could I scroll around 5ms fast…

I'm a pale-skinned redhead, covered in freckles. For me there is no such thing as a "base tan". I get can get sunburnt from as little as 30 minutes in the sun at times, and I almos…

I think there are phases where it becomes more popular, if some discussion topically references FORTH, or Lisp, you know that within a few hours other people will read them and mak…

And I used to use the Numega SoftIce debugger to debug the anti-copying protection of itself, back in the day. (Allegedly. Shout out to +fravia, RIP.)

I buy films from local charity shops for €1/film, but it seems the local electronics stores are not selling many DVD players any more. It seems like streaming "won", which is disap…

https://zserge.com/posts/fenster/ is what I used when I wanted "basic graphics" in a cross-platform way. But of course that's X11 and much simpler.

Github has public keys available, so the server owner could compare the key you sent to those - and that would identify your github username. Whether that's a concern or not is an …

The parent was talking about it being a "landlords market" and wanting that to be changed. I asked how that might be possible. Improving advertisements to make them accurate, detai…

While that would be useful it would not change it from a landlords-market - which is what the comment I replied to was about.

It's a landlord's market because there are not enough properties, if there was a larger supply the tenants would be able to make choices and defacto reject bad options. How do you …

I don't get snobby about food very often, but I have to say that these days strawberries and tomatoes are things I never buy any more. They're so large, watery, and tasteless, that…

That sounds like a good match! I learned with an ex partner that I could assemble furniture, or she could assemble furniture, but if we tried it together we'd both get fustrated an…

Since I was curious I searched for it, and you can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiOLrsl6WSQ

Zaks is a name I remember fondly, but for me the starting point was "An Introduction to z80 machine code" by R.A & J.W Penfold.

There are clones, and updated packages these days like the EZ80, but they're not the same and they don't have the easy-to-use DIL form-factor. Still I've always loved the z80, sinc…

I'm surprised that the article even said "but you don’t always have the luxury of sitting down to set the time and get the watch ready for the day". I wear an automatic all the tim…

I grew up in Yorkshire, though I'm half-Scottish there's no link to Dundee! But the Spectrums were the best-selling UK machine at the time, so I'm sure there were lots of regions w…

Speccy for me too, and most of the local people I knew. Aged 11, going through the ring-bound orange manual just after Christmas, because the cassette-player we had was broken. Whe…

For sure, learning new languages is helpful even if you don't use them. But that said there's also a significant difference between playing with new/toy languages for fun, and usin…