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Any good guide on getting started with hosted AROS on Linux (Arm64 or x86_64)? I've been able to get to so far was building, being able to run but just getting an unresponsive proc…

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and write(2)/WriteFile a struct to disk.”

Question, how does this compare/contrast to “image based persistence” as used by e.g., most Smalltalk and certain Lisp based VMs?

Yes. Scala and Clojure are my preferred JVM languages, but there are certain frameworks that are highly useful but problematic when used with Scala and/or Clojure. * Spring Boot fo…

> He looks at the code and criticizes design decisions, some of which were made largely on my manager's explicit suggestions. (When I bring this up, he says I probably just misinte…

See also Microsoft‘s sqpal https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2016/12/16/sql-se... . Note however that DBOS inverts what sqlpal is doing.

Thank you for the revised link! Good that you mention Leto (which was a beautiful movie, despite many historical inaccuracies): Leto is set in the early, pre-perestroika 80s. The f…

“Alan Delon doesn’t drink cologne” (as you probably know) is not random: drinking cologne was very much a thing, due to alcohol rationing meant to combat drinking (which also lead …

Ideally Pham would be played by Chow Yun Fat, Sammy Park by Teo Yoo, Tomas Nau by Kevin Spacey, and Anne Reynolt by Lana Del Ray. Rotoscope could be used for Spiders.

I am one of those folks (born in early 1980s in Minsk). One can get a taste of that era by listening to the amazing music from bands like Kino and Nautilus Pompilus. Some example: …

I've built a quick demo showing how to build a very basic synthesizer in rust. Missing are UI buttons controlling the sounds being emitted, I will add them at a later point.

On a slightly related tangent: I recently purchased an electric bike and have been very happy with it. It has the looks and performance of a 1920-30s Harley or Indian motorcycle (o…

interesting: it did appear pretty popular behind the iron curtain (as did e.g., PL/I, home-PC sized PDP11s, and other seemingly well designed but less commercially successful weste…

My parents have worked extensively on a Soviet bug for bug clone of this (with an incomplete sed job of replacing references to ATT UNIX) running on an an EVM/ES 370 (a laboriously…

Indeed they are! The notion that each process has its separate address space is called virtual memory for that reason. See also cgroups: while this feature is used by the container…

Don’t ride a bike: first motor and response times are impacted, second (at least in California) you absolutely can get a DUI on a bicycle.

I believe the aforementioned engineers are simply experiencing the effects of marijuana: both acute intoxication and symptoms associated with regular use. If they're healthy adults…

> contaminant microbe would have to truly thrive in an extremely inhospitable Martian environment, survive spaceflight and decontamination, yet also be undetectable in the places o…