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ronjakoi
·9 days ago·discuss
Disks are magnetic. The optical kind are discs.
ronjakoi
·13 days ago·discuss
I have one stashed away. Bought it from a Dutch importer in the late 2000s. I also ran OpenBSD on it for a while.
ronjakoi
·2 months ago·discuss
They are deliberately not looking at coreutils code because the Rust versions are released as MIT and they don't want the project contaminated by GPL. I am not fond of this, personally.
ronjakoi
·3 months ago·discuss
What's wrong with typing 2:1?
ronjakoi
·3 months ago·discuss
In Finland, we make an independent computer magazine called Skrolli that comes out 4 times per year. Our issues are about 120 pages each, but with hardly any ads.
ronjakoi
·3 months ago·discuss
You should start a xanthina where you serve various xanthinated beverages.
ronjakoi
·3 months ago·discuss
I've been growing bonsai trees for about 13 years. It doesn't have anything to do with computers, so it's a nice counterbalance to my software job. I don't really even take pictures or videos of my trees, I want to keep the subject as analog and simple as I can.
ronjakoi
·4 months ago·discuss
Are you sure?
ronjakoi
·5 months ago·discuss
The question is more about the hardware. Back then, TLS existed but was used sparingly for things like banking, because of the computational overhead, at both the server and client end. Today's computers are so much faster that we don't even think about it.
ronjakoi
·5 months ago·discuss
I work with PHP, where classes are supposedly a lot slower than strings and arrays (PHP calls dictionaries "associative arrays").
ronjakoi
·5 months ago·discuss
I used to have alias rm='rm -i' for a few years to be careful, but I took it out once I realised that I had just begun adding -f all the time
ronjakoi
·6 months ago·discuss
I used to run Gnome on 8 MB in the late 90s
ronjakoi
·6 months ago·discuss
That's an unreasonable ask. I'm not gonna fiddle with the brightness of my monitor throughout the day, thanks
ronjakoi
·6 months ago·discuss
Finnish case markers vary a lot from word to word, because of not only vowel harmony but other features of the word stem, and consonant gradation which is a weird feature of Uralic languages.

For the subtraction example, some numbers would be 50:tä 5:llä and others 6:tta 3:lla. Of course you could encode for all those possibilities and successfully parse them, but it would feel weird for a compiler to reject an expression because it's ungrammatical Finnish.

Also it would feel weird if you first write (vähennä muuttujaa 256:lla) but then realise you made an off-by-1 and have to change it to (vähennä muuttujaa 255:lla) but that doesn't compile because it should be 255:llä, so you have to remember to change two things.

But on the other hand, that's just how it is to write in Finnish, so in prose we don't really think about it. In natural language, it's normal to have to change other stuff in a sentence for it to continue making sense when you change one thing.
ronjakoi
·6 months ago·discuss
Essentially you could write equivalent code as (vähennä 5:ttä 3:lla) in Finnish
ronjakoi
·6 months ago·discuss
I haven't had any meat in about 20 years. But I also don't live in the US.
ronjakoi
·6 months ago·discuss
But that's what Linux distros are for, package maintainers watch the CVEs for you, and all you have to do is "apt upgrade"
ronjakoi
·6 months ago·discuss
On mine, I don't. Any interactivity is too much hassle for me to worry about wrt moderation etc. I also don't particularly care what random people have to say. If my friends like what I wrote, they can tell me on Signal or comment on the Bluesky post when I share the link.
ronjakoi
·7 months ago·discuss
Or even just a microsecond emergency.
ronjakoi
·7 months ago·discuss
Will the time it takes you to answer depend on the mass of the person asking?