sys42590 · HackerTrans

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Former FastTracker II [1] user reporting in.

The Gravis Ultrasound had an incredible price to performance ratio back in the day and made high quality wavetable synthesis at "CD quality" available to the masses.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastTracker_2

Edit: The fact that quite a few games supported the GUS out of the box or received patches to do so was also a well received boon on my side.

sys42590

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Modula-2 was born into a time when 8-bit char sets with upper- and lowercase letters were common place but syntax highlighting was still not common. This caused the language to be designed with uppercase keywords because it really makes the code easier to read without syntax highlighting.

Oberon inherited this despite syntax highlighting starting to get traction in the 80s. But nowadays it places an unneeded toll on the shift and caps lock keys and makes coding a bit more tedious.

sys42590

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Many years ago I used Exim because it was default for my distro of choice back then. But after a few emergency patchings caused by yet another RCE in Exim I learned that switching to Postfix massively improved my sleep quality.

sys42590

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It would be interesting to hear their contingency plan for any kind of disaster (most commonly a fire) that hits their data center.

sys42590

3 jaar geledendiscuss

I recommend uBlock Origin and the anti-malware DNS from Cloudflare

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