Same as we use it now, to be frank. Unix workstations as an interaction model have persisted so long because it works just great.
I was writing a lot of Unix software in that period - database apps, business logic, and so on. For me, using an MSDOS-based system was a compromise, which I enhanced by using Desqview to get multi-tasking - it allowed multiple MSDOS instances on a single machine, in which I ran terminal software, compilers (our apps were being ported to MSDOS...), and database admin tasks - just like today.
What we have today in the form of MacOS or Linux workstations is pretty much what we had back then, too. The power is inescapable.
It still to this day has a thriving scene, lots of interesting quirky programs still being written for it. (https://oric.org/)
There is also a thriving hardware hacking scene of course, 21st century peripherals being brought to the user base, and so on.
One of the more interesting things (besides LOCI), is the orix system, which is a 'unix-like' environment for the Oric, which uses avariant of the 6502 cpu.
Its pretty cool - and fun if you're an Oric nerd - but if you like 'unix-like' systems for unusual platforms, put this one in your list to check out, as well:
Oh, yeah, I know 'unix-like' has a wide scale of sincerity, this is not quite there .. yet .. in terms of having all the unix bits, really .. but it is at least bootstrap in that kind of direction, for the Oric .. anyway ..
> .. the most frustrating part about software engineers believing themselves to be the part of the business with the most complex, unknowable work. ..
>_Every_ function in a tech business has hidden complexity.
In my opinion, the conflict is in the distinction.
Stereotypes abound, but I have always found in this battle between worlds, there is a simple bridging maneuver: never work for someone, or accept management guidance, from someone who cannot also comfortably do your work. corollary: never manage someone unless you're prepared to do their job for them comfortably.
Yes, this is cold and hard, but so are those stereotypes, kids. There are Manager Engineers and there are Engineer Managers. But there's also just managers and engineers with both skills, simply focusing their work as needed for the specific project. The ultimately fun organization to work in is where different people have different roles in multiple projects, comfortably.
Key word. Getting this mix comfortable is the job of a good CEO, fwiw.
And guess what, it doesn't matter whether the salesperson can do any job but understand just how great this particular hierarchys' products are, and why the end result of this configuration is worth the spend.
I have written device drivers for, literally, decades now.
Its the old guys who write the best drivers, naturally.
For me, Asterinas represents a refreshing way to approach some thorny problems in the embedded space, in which embedded-Linux on ARM, RISC-V and MIPS is a viable, economically-speaking, platform for a great deal of industry.
While Asterinas is really sexy, if this same approach were taken for, say, FreeRTOS as well along the way .. then there could at least, also, be "on one hands" worth of operating systems, abstracted, in the "lets just use rust' camp ..
If you're really objecting to new information systems being created from an existing historical/cultural corpus' as a means of making cultural treasures more accessible to a literate audience, are you really a hacker?
The fact of the use of Maori to organize Maori literature, is of immense interest, whether it suits a foreign, supposed culture more, or otherwise.
This is a new method of organizing an important corpus of cultural knowledge, granting new insight to an intended audience.
Why not applaud its utility, rather than immediately disregard the results to be attained?
Or have you, indeed, found it wanting as a means of searching for specific details in the Maori collection?
>gaslighting
I think the standard issue, if you feel like this, is to check oneself, before one wrecks oneself. Here, let me show you the gaslight: "has no historical basis", "just Maori-themed", "forms of record keeping", "no meaningful information classification system", "I feel.."
I agree with you completely and will happily join you into the grey zone by stating simply, anyone who objects to new information systems being created on the basis of heritage/historical/cultural grounds, is just a wannabe hacker, and thats just not news.
So .. you're willing to learn Maori in order to gain equality, or not?
I personally see nothing wrong with this classification system, and if it serves its intended purpose of making Maori literature more accessible, then what the heck, hackers?
Language usage like this is great. Think of all the things you can learn now.
"Religion" literally means, 'the device which binds people into one', and is not the only form of this very same device.
Latin religare ‘to bind’.
We are all bound "in legion" (literally, by the strong, cured ligaments of a foot) here on HN, for example. Ligament and Legion and Religion are all based on the same common root: a way to bind people together, strongly.
So forget about trying to make the human capability to become an egregore exclusive to those who organize around religion. We humans don't get anything done unless we are bound together, as one, around a common purpose.
Has there been a final solution to the VSCode phoning-home problem?
Last time I tried to use it in my environment, it triggered too many 'external network requests' for the liking of our IT guy. We relegated it to the "Do Not Use" pile as a result.
Has this been resolved? Nobody in my team wants to use an IDE that sends data back to its masters ..
I remember getting computer magazines for birthday presents in the 70's/80's, which you could play into your computer from Dad's record player and load up a few of the type-ins .. I had a small suite of them, as well as some music variants. They were fun, but I transferred most of the interesting stuff to cassette tape, anyway.
These Bhutan stamps are delightful, and inspire me to learn more about the country. I hope there might be the prospect of future new releases, this is a kind of thing I could really get into.
A fun thought-game is to construct a small player stamp, onto which you drop a content stamp, blow a little, and hear the results .. I once knew a guy whose business-card could be used to play a record, barely audible, but still ..
I've been using Lua professionally and personally for some decades now, and I think that there is no need to be surprised that more projects don't provide a Lua scripting layer, because actually, Lua is everywhere. And the scripting aspect is one thing - but its not the only reason to use Lua.
Lua is so easily embeddable and functionally productive as a development tool, its not always necessarily necessary to have this layer exposed to the user.
Sure, engines and things provide scripting, and that is a need/want of the respective markets. Who doesn't love redis, et al.?
But Lua can be put in places where the scripting aspect is merely a development method, and in the end shipped product, things are tightly bound to bytecode as an application framework beyond scripting.
The point being, Lua is such a treat that it is, literally, in places you might least expect - or at least, will find under a lot of covers.
And after all, thats the beauty of it: as an embedded language/VM/function interface, Lua can sure scale to different territories.