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z29LiTp5qUC30n

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    Comment #39288385

    So they want symmetric complement of the ancient Knight Processor where there was NaN encoded so that divide by zero wasn't an exception but just a return NaN.

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    Comment #38113212

    sometimes called audit or journal tables. Every time something is updated or deleted, the entire previous record is inserted into its corresponding _A table with who did it and whe…

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    Comment #38112412

    does no one know about _A tables anymore? This has been a solved thing since the 1970s

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    Comment #37404113

    Well the easiest way to give people secure systems is to ensure that they are able to change the software themselves. So just require 90 days prior to end of support, that the manu…

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    Comment #37161132

    Please do the VIC-II chip next

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    Comment #36970141

    Too easy. Try you only have a single bootloader and a little bit of source code and building all the way up to a complete linux distro https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap (…

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    Comment #36212631

    Yeah, that was like trying to program when my ex-wife wanted attention. Just wish I could have typed half as well as Hugh Jackman in Swordfish; then I wouldn't feel so sorry for al…

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    Comment #36150380

    Clearcase was utter crap. 6 hour code checkouts and 2 weeks to setup a new developer is a freaking joke. I literally did a conversion from Clearcase to git and reduced the setup ti…

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    Comment #33504873

    Well the Systemd developers got sent death threats. Heck the cryptocurrency community has repeatedly sent death threats to the very people working on their root of trust. People ju…

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    Comment #29064567

    Just use sin https://github.com/oriansj/stage0/blob/master/High_level_pro... It'll dehex any non-humanly used ASCII characters

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    Comment #29064486

    The bootstrappable community already produced a solution for this: https://github.com/oriansj/stage0/blob/master/High_level_pro...

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    Comment #27367776

    But I was born in 2002 and I still don't get this crap. It is like people are begging to be psychologically controlled for max financial extraction...

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    Gnu Guix Bootstrapped from Hex

    With the FOSDEM announcement https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/gnumes/ Gnu guix https://guix.gnu.org/ is now bootstrapped from stage0 https://github.com/oriansj/stage0

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    Comment #25941316

    Let me know when they finally fix their SOCKS Proxy issue.

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    Comment #25915478

    The Free Software community is having a Renaissance right now and making advances on nearly every front. Turns out not compromising your principals and being zealots works.

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    Comment #25858663

    But compilers are not hard but simple state machines. If you don't believe me, look at cc_x86 https://github.com/oriansj/stage0/blob/master/stage2/High_le...

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    Comment #25846227

    The best part is the moved to physlock, specifically the version which you can bypass by hitting enter 3 times...

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    Comment #25746928

    I'd argue the easiest to implement language is macro-assembly then the C subset known as cc_x86 https://github.com/oriansj/mescc-tools-seed

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    Comment #25430128

    It should be pushd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" >/dev/null 2>&1 not cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" >/dev/null 2>&1 with a matching popd at the end Otherwise it can screw u…

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    Comment #24710439

    https://github.com/oriansj/orgmode-bookmarks enjoy

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    Comment #24697181

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAFMFjc6mJk

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    World's only Cross-platform C compiler written in Arm Assembly

    It also appears to be the only C compiler in the world written in Arm assembly. https://github.com/oriansj/mescc-tools-seed/blob/master/armv7l/GAS/cc_x86.S

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    Comment #24187430

    but parsing command line arguments is a solved problem https://github.com/oriansj/M2-Planet/blob/master/cc.c#L40