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egl2020
·11 giorni fa·discuss
Come back when your computer is in a room with a raised floor (for cabling), tremendous AC, and windows in walls so a passer-by can look in and see the tapes rotating. Geezer here.
egl2020
·15 giorni fa·discuss
What about language was used in the masters program? Spanish? I'm guessing that German is your first language.
egl2020
·15 giorni fa·discuss
Origins of the 1918 flu are unclear, but there is evidence that it started in Haskell County, Kansas, and spread to Camp Funston, Kansas. As a consequence, many of the trainees became non-functional.
egl2020
·17 giorni fa·discuss
This also works in drawing and painting. One of my painting teachers used to admonish us: "copy, copy, copy".
egl2020
·19 giorni fa·discuss
Article title should be "Efficient C++ Programming for Modern 64-bit CPUs...".
egl2020
·20 giorni fa·discuss
Nothing new under the sun: Strobe Data did this decades years ago for things like PDP-11s (http://www.strobedata.com/home/pioneer10.html) and DG Novas.
egl2020
·22 giorni fa·discuss
I'm a pretty conservative emacs user, partly because I don't want to spend time tinkering to get things to work consistently across Windows, ubuntu, and mac os -- all of which I use daily. My most "modern" adoption is probably using lsp and eglot with various language modes, notably golang and rust.

Should I consider adding tree-sitter into the mix?
egl2020
·23 giorni fa·discuss
The port in 1977 of Unix to an Interdata architecture was one of the singular accomplishments of the Unix operating system.
egl2020
·24 giorni fa·discuss
My first computing experience: Fortran on an 1130 in about 1967.
egl2020
·25 giorni fa·discuss
Love this kind of fearless DIY. Keep at it.
egl2020
·mese scorso·discuss
Similar thoughts here. That was when I realized the potential of the Internet: I didn't have to be a grad student at a tier 1 research university to learn about the frontier.
egl2020
·mese scorso·discuss
I have a Kelty BB5 that I purchased in 1972, and I used it as recently as 2025. On family trips where you end up carrying odd loads like two sleeping bags or outsized tents, it beats the internal frame packs I use for fast and light trips.
egl2020
·2 mesi fa·discuss
When I was a wee lad, a conference speaker announced that "portability" meant "runs on anything that supports OS/360".
egl2020
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Huge privacy minefield.
egl2020
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Libraries. I use both languages, and a survey of what libraries are available is part of picking an implementation language when starting a greenfield project.
egl2020
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I went the other way: from a Pixelbook to a Macbook Air. I mostly do SW development in the CLI, so the Linux subsystem on the chromebook was fine, as is macports/homebrew/etc. on the mac. I would still be using the Pixelbook if I could have replaced its battery. The low-end Air had good price-performance tradeoff, and the Neo would probably be today's choice.
egl2020
·3 mesi fa·discuss
When I did a small concrete project at home, I was advised not to over do the vibrator.
egl2020
·3 mesi fa·discuss
The Greenland shark appears, if I remember correctly, in her book "Golden Mole", which is about many interesting creatures. This is published as Vanishing Treasures in some countries. Her "Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne" is interesting and also not a children's book.
egl2020
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Accounts receivable, revenue, and cash are related, but separate, accounting items.
egl2020
·4 mesi fa·discuss
I enjoyed Werner Herzog's "Encounters at the End of the World" at many levels, not the least of which was how different it was from "Aguirre, the Wrath of God".