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rbanffy
194,608karma·63,760submissions·March 12, 2008
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Seasoned software developer, proficient in Python, Java. Less proficient in Ruby and Lisp. A bit rusty in C and C++. Learning Erlang very slowly. Also a computer collector and restorer, lover of 8-bit computers, mainframes and interesting Unix workstations.
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It has USB and VGA ports, therefore it's a workstation.
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I don't think anyone loves PostScript though...
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It's a beautiful little language. We should do more with FORTH.
4 pts
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That was never to be the majority of the audience, but enough to keep the flame alive. A lot of them will criticise the movie from departing from a text they never read, that they never understood the…
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I don’t think Linux on Z supports GPUs on the PCIe IO drawers, but that’s a relatively minor software enablement issue. All I need is a z17 for myself to play with it ;-)
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I admit it’s sometimes painful to self-host your SMTP service, but that’s because it was very painless to send massive amounts of spam and very painful to throttle and filter messages, but we have muc…
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Apart from : and ;, does it even have a syntax?
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I would also be very sad to lose one of my best coworkers. Everybody in the office treats Claude as their own assistant. Just today Claude reminded me I forgot to add a database zone migration to my f…
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The fact nobody reinvented e-mail on top of a different set of standards is a good indication that the current stack is not as broken as some people would like to think. It reminds me of a previous li…
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The internet was conceived to be something very different from the web we all know and loathe. Anyway, I think GP was referring to building community centres, schools, libraries, and caring for vulner…
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A real shame it's not a crewed spacecraft - would be nice to have crewed access to GEO... Robots get the best jobs...
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The good thing of the iPhone is that your next phone is just like the previous one, but faster. Some features are added, some change places and some are even removed or replaced, but it doesn't c…
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Maybe a year from now we'll all be using MI300As and EPYC 9600s to read e-mails. Or Nvidia Veras, maybe AWS will sell some of their Graviton stuff in an effort to offset their capex. Unfortunatel…
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I kind of look forward to Oracle's demise. Maybe they sell the remains of Solaris and SPARC to someone who'll make something useful out of that IP, maybe even a nice product. I sincerely hop…
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By the time we have a radio telescope on the far side of the Moon, I assume we can just lay a couple hundred kilometers of fiber to the nearest settlement. The border of the disk, from Earth's pe…
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> but Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope WILL find Earth-sized exoplanets and even REAL moons I find Earth-sized exomoons quite exciting. Imagine the civilizations that can develop around those.
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As far as I'm concerned, CD-35 2722 B can self identify however they want. If they want to identify as a planet, however, they can claim the almost unique distinction of having a gas giant as the…
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Diameter-challenged star
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They have the manufacturing capacity others lack, and that’s hardly surprising when they have more STEM grads than previous superpowers have grads. Dedollarisation will severely limit debt-financed de…
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If you make them with Lithium batteries every neighbourhood can have their own volcano. I’ll show myself out.