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Network shares: still talking about them in 2026

pointieststick.com
2 points·by mmphosis·17 days ago·0 comments

That which is unique, breaks (2020)

map.simonsarris.com
4 points·by mmphosis·21 days ago·0 comments

The Servo project and its impact on the web platform ecosystem

servo.org
3 points·by mmphosis·5 months ago·0 comments

The Enclosure Feedback Loop

michiel.buddingh.eu
4 points·by mmphosis·5 months ago·0 comments

The AI Revolution in Coding: Why I'm Ignoring the Prophets of Doom

codingismycraft.blog
18 points·by mmphosis·6 months ago·15 comments

Debian goes retro with a spatial desktop that time forgot

theregister.com
3 points·by mmphosis·6 months ago·0 comments

Super-Flat ASTs

jhwlr.io
100 points·by mmphosis·7 months ago·26 comments

EA will be a different company under private ownership

arstechnica.com
15 points·by mmphosis·9 months ago·6 comments

The Attribute of Greatness: Decision Log

read.perspectiveship.com
5 points·by mmphosis·10 months ago·1 comments

Are we 'born obsolete'? How technology makes us feel ashamed [audio]

cbc.ca
1 points·by mmphosis·10 months ago·0 comments

He crossed 26 miles in a kayak made from mushrooms – and lived to tell the tale

theguardian.com
5 points·by mmphosis·10 months ago·0 comments

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mmphosis
·2 months ago·discuss
I had only ever known ski lifts.

One day, way before the lifts had started, I hiked up the mountain, snowboard under my arm. Trudging, my breath heavy, lungs filling, oxygen, snow, blue sky, cold but my body warmed. There was not one track in the fresh powder. My snowboard was slower in the powder, and I felt safe in the knowledge. I had to work a little harder. Carving.
mmphosis
·3 months ago·discuss
1) Apple II plus with pulse dial at 110 or 300 baud, once a week or less in 1984 and make sure nobody needs to use the phone, the program that came with the modem or my hacked up version with better throughput.

2) local phone numbers, that use of the word "server" would have been unknown to me

3) again, what's a server?

4) limited discussion, games was the focus, my memory is probably wrong

5) the abbreviated word "tech" would not appear until at least a decade later. Programming was offline in books, class and classmates; not online. It was limited, flaky chat, no "topics" except games
mmphosis
·5 months ago·discuss
the fediverse
mmphosis
·5 months ago·discuss
diff in a text editor
mmphosis
·5 months ago·discuss
The Commdore 64 has 64 kibibytes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units

"the C64 took its name from its 64 kilobytes (65,536 bytes) of RAM"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64
mmphosis
·6 months ago·discuss
https://mmphosis.netlify.app/hires/
mmphosis
·6 months ago·discuss
Programming was "cooked" before the current Artificial Inference hype. I am not saying reducing the tedium is not beneficial. Where is the innovation, attribution and intelligence?
mmphosis
·6 months ago·discuss
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46547962
mmphosis
·6 months ago·discuss
This website was made by Thomas Bloom, a mathematician who likes to think about the problems Erdős posed. Technical assistance with setting up the code for the website was provided by ChatGPT -from the FAQ
mmphosis
·6 months ago·discuss


  P=project-name-0.0.0; mkdir $P; cd $P; b install
mmphosis
·7 months ago·discuss
Try to keep the value 0 in the Y register.

  echo tya|asm|mondump -r|6502
                                A=AA X=00 Y=00 S=00 P=22 PC=0300  0
  0300- 98        TYA           A=00 X=00 Y=00 S=00 P=22 PC=0301  2
mmphosis
·7 months ago·discuss
It is either a fork or new software based on what a people really want or need. This is not an easy hill to climb.

Unfortunately, "configuration" is the survey. I detest both configuration and surveys. Modify the open source code and rip out the Artificial Inference code because Firefox is open source, or build software from scratch: servo, ladybird, your own web browser based on a survey.
mmphosis
·8 months ago·discuss
GNU Linux BSD

  curl
mmphosis
·8 months ago·discuss
Garbage in, garbage out. Beautiful code in, beautiful code out.

Code "quality" is a judgement call. Just like some LLMs, I'll repeat your question: What do you consider quality code?

I treat all code from LLM, search, stackoverflow, etc, as "sample code" that requires review and most likely modification, or writing the code from scratch. Your abilities and laziness may vary.

Also, there are reasons other than code quality not to trust LLMs.
mmphosis
·9 months ago·discuss
Given that planes still have to have places for ashtrays, and that I predict battery-powered airbusses won't be a thing, I am okay with failing airlines. The Ushuaia/Cape Town railway can't come soon enough.
mmphosis
·9 months ago·discuss
Yes, Paul Lutus wrote GraForth.

As for vhtab, I don't know.

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.forth/c/WqrpoPtxwoM/m/...

A customized figforth 79forth proforth or some other forth lost in a basement.
mmphosis
·9 months ago·discuss
True is the default. False is what I set these to. I have these documented.
mmphosis
·9 months ago·discuss


    browser.urlbar.trimURLs         false  to display http:// in the address bar
    browser.fixup.alternate.enabled false  to enable adding www. and .com to urls
* updated the descriptions
mmphosis
·9 months ago·discuss
I think that windowing systems need to be way more flexible. I want to be able to drag fullscreens, workspaces, windows, tabs, MDI sub-windows, and other types of views from different programs into and out of each other. I think Serenity OS has this with windows and tabs.
mmphosis
·9 months ago·discuss
Can Firefox do this?

with an elaborate script that relies on xdotool