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"Even if it cannot match the rapid calculation speed of American models called 'Whirlwind' or 'Typhoon', it will be enough for a 'Wiener Mailüfterl'" (Viennese May breeze). The par…

Also, where I live, radio transmitted the precise time in the most low tech way possible. A person said: "It is XX:XX time with the beep" and this was followed by four beeps, three…

This is so important, especially in São Paulo. This city has 100000 homeless people living there. Imagine the population of a medium-sized city living with no roof over their head …

Hopefully!

The longer background is that Christian Ude our mayor until 2014 furthered the LiMux[1] project - migrating more than 14000 PCs in public administration to Linux. He got personal v…

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As exciting as it sounds, but "As a constraint, a GA designer should aim at a system which costs, as of mid-2026, >$1,000⧸month" will make this an elite tool for the privileged. I …

I see many .env files with unquoted values, like the first example in OP REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379 and it triggers me big time. Always quoting shell variable values is so de…

It is more like buy, relentlessly milk to exhaustion, butcher when the victim goes dry, repeat.

The other favourite besides Arch is NixOS. How does it compare when it comes to supply chain security?

If I understand this correctly then Integer becomes a value class and every instance of it loses its object identity. I do not have a lot of knowledge about the details but from th…

Oh, the memories! My favourite one was on a C64 disk mag called "Input" . It looked roughly like this: menu entry 1 * menu entry 2 menu entry 3 ----------------------------- with a…

I put it in AI and even that couldn't fix the sentence sufficiently for me to understand it completely. "So, in ordinary language:" "One dirty raw ingredient introduced far more sp…

It's nice they acknowledge and confirm the need for small, fast native executables. Having followed the story for this in Java over the decades I'm skeptical about the practicality…

Back in the day pl was a real problem. It was and is the conventional extension for the Perl programming language, and Perl was most popular for server side (CGI) scripts for some …

"Our task as the older generation is to shield the young from those who would exploit their naïveté without infecting them with our own accumulated pain and cynicism." [33:53] stuc…

Isn't an AWS region comprised of at least three data centers "many kilometers apart" [1]? So, if the whole of me-south-1 (Bahrain) went down it means at least three buildings many …

People are good at different things. Usually they like the things they are good at and vice versa. Different tasks require different mind sets and dev, QA and ops are vastly differ…

Tables. Not from TOML, just from my config language. TOML has other applications that require its complexity. I'd still keep simple INI style sections in my config lang, but they w…

I think INI-style config is one of the few good things that came out of the Microsoft/Windows ecosystem. Shame that it is so underspecified. We have TOML, of course, but I think fo…

Sure and there you have the problem. No wonder people who do not take mid life literally and plan as if half of it is over with 36 (or let it be 40 if you must) are in crisis with …

Life expectancy for most people on HN should be around 72 (give or take), so mid life is in your mid thirties. Also, using the Commodore in the 90's is probably pretty rare.

That the spec is lenient and the conformance test strict makes ot only worse.

Luckily in math we do not have to allocate memory and worry about buffer overflows.