- kpsI think discussion duration is a big factor. For sites like HN, there is little point in high-effort replies, since no one will be around to see them.
- Today is Wednesday the 11796th of September 1993.
- COBOL is some five years newer than Fortran. You could try FLOW-MATIC.
- If you frequently write the same characters, it's straightforward to create your own keyboard layout that matches your usage, using https://software.sil.org/ukelele/
- When I occasionally use MTL into a language I'm not fluent in, I say so. This makes the reader aware that there may be errors unknown to me that make the writing diverge from my intent.
- Presumably Alpine. I bet it doesn't run GNOME either. And these are just a few of the issues!
- https://collaborate.unpri.org/group/35676/stream
Saudi Arabia
- A stack of labelled backup tapes.
Whereas today, we have a stack of virtual backup tapes plus a DAG on the labels.
(OK, only 30 years ago we were using SCCS or maybe already RCS.)
- > we hope to use direct solar power to operate CI/CD nodes only during sunshine hours
Status: CI down due to cloud issues.
- Not everything in the world is passive end-of-the-line presentation. JPEG-XL is the only one that tries to be a general-purpose image format.
- > (in Rust?)
Looks like that's the idea: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/462919304
- Long ago, users looked forward to updates. Users were positively excited about updates. Users were willing to pay for updates.
What changed?
> If you are using my service and I need to make backwards incompatible changes to my system, you can bet I'm going to force you to update.
Now, users universally understand that updates solve your problems, not theirs.
- > “How about making widows fast?”
Will AI spare the children as well?
- You can tell who's really old when they have a CDC sticker…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CDC-Logo.svg
(Now I want one.)
- Uses colours I can't read (even with `env TERM=dumb …`)
- > What flavor are hydrogen protons?
Sour. A high concentration of hydrogen protons (low pH) tastes sour.
- The Canadian outbreaks were driven by traditionalist Mennonites. Neither social media nor immigration (20th/21st century, anyway) were significant.
- > Denmark (they have a longrunning dispute regarding an island near greenland)
That was resolved in 2022 by dividing Hans Island. Canada now has a land border with Denmark.
- >then again I'm not certain when the change to 9-track happened
1964, with the IBM 360's 8-bit bytes.
- Sure, but that's a different level with different considerations. The JSON parser shouldn't care about things like ‘files’ with ‘locations’; maybe it's running on some little esp8266 device that doesn't have such things.
