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Ahhh, Vaxman still up to his usual shenannigans :-)

The answer honestly feels a bit lacking, and evasive.

I've had exactly the same situation, ~2M MAU service with REDIS as the only persistence system, all data being JSON serialized Pydantic models. The storage overhead was just terrible and cost real money.

This would have been a super nice to have back then.

I wonder though how much sense it would make to get something like this mainlined into upstream Pydantic? as having this downstream would give many continuity and dependency lock concerns. And having it as part of the main library would significantly drive adoption rate.

How is the write support now-adays, is it production quality now?

I used Kaitai in a IoT project for building data ingress parsers and it was great. But not having write support was a bummer.

I honestly zoned out when I saw how many and what steps where required before just wget'ing a image file.

Sorry, nope.

Well....toml isn't that much more than .ini files slightly brough up in feature support.

Again not great for bigger documents.

This also seems a bit like AWS Chalice reinvented, which might be a good thing as AWS has silently abandoned it.

Great read, but I honestly had wished the author had split it into several separate articles.

I had this literally happen to me a couple of months ago.

Slacking off while waiting for some performance tests to run (Shoutout to Locust.io!) with my big 27" screen full of terminals for each runner, server logs etc.

...And then on my laptop screen I honestly was just slacking off and reading Reddit.

'VP Of Technology' comes over "I dont know what you are doing, but it's the most impressive thing I've seen in a while".

...Yes sir!

Provision a VPS/VM/Cloud instance/etc, install your dev tools on it and use it over mush.

And remember for things like looking up git commands or even a lot of your dependency documentation, you do not need a web browser. Git comes with manpages, many libraries will have docs in .md or whatever in them.

....Atreides Management?

The financing arm of a aristocratic line running a personality cult and who have a nepo baby on the cards contemplating a little bit of jyhad as his ticket out?

....I Do sometimes wonder who comes up with these names.

The thought someone went from no programming background, taking a company internal course and then writes a GPU emulation layer in the 90's is just absolutely mad.

Super impressive!

M68k has the advantage that it has a fairly typical memory model.

Alpha's memory model has problems with providing atomic access to single bytes, which i'd imagine in a kernel is a bit annoying :-)

And then there's just the social aspect, m68k was used in the Amiga/Atari/Mac/QL/x68k, so there is a whole generation of us m68k fans who are willing to keep it alive.

Alpha has it's fans (me included!), but it's not exactly the same. So in a way it's no surprise it's slowly bitrotting away.

The ghost of the Alpha's infamously weak memory model coming back to bite it's undead self.

Linux on AMD64 happened.

My request was ignored at first, after i sent a new request with my business email i got a community license link sent within an hour.

I've used Haskell several times for implementing isolated 'maths business logic units in commercial backend applications.

In one such system I built had the main (REST API exposing) backend implemented in Kotlin with a separate application in Haskell doing a complex set of maths driven business rules against GIS data to calculate area specific prices.

The amount of IO on the Haskell side was fairly minimum and abstracted away quite nicely.

Haskell allowed expressing all complexity in a way that was easy to audit and translate from business/data analyst requirements.

Would do again :-) But only with the correct amount isolation so you can lean into Haskell's strong sides.

I think it's even weirder how Sharp/Hudson decided to superficially clone MSDOS for the X68000 independently.

I'm a heavy ReMarkable user, mostly as a note taking device when doing client meetings.

For personal use I use it a lot for annotating philosophy papers and source materials, and the lack of a split screen feature is extremely frustrating.

Writing annotations or commentaries on texts means writing in the margins or switching back and forth between books (often a paper book and the remarkable for writing, or 2 notebooks in the device which is a slow operation).

A split screen mode would have been extremely useful, or lacking that a method for having a page-matched 'fold-out' so I can just associate a full blank page to each source page for my commentary.

I know there's an unofficial hack that adds this, but why ReMarkable doesn't I can't fathom, especially as annotations and such are marketed as primary use cases for the device.

/rant :)

I had one in the early 00's.

Especially liked packet radio stuff back then, but due to regulatory restrictions in practice the networks built are not really all that useful other then for contacts. So in a way, loved the tech but it's really a hobby just for the tech itself rarely applications there-of.

It's just a bummer the community around it is super-cultish.

Sorry to reply to a random comment of yours, but did you ever publish your CM-2 emulator?

If you have important Mac disks to archive, then a Kryoflux is probably the way to go.

It's a external USB attached floppy drive controller that uses a normal PC floppy drive.

It reads the raw disk stream and software then decodes that for whatever disk format it was. It seems old Mac disks can be recovered with it:

https://www.kryoflux.com/?page=home http://forum.kryoflux.com/viewtopic.php?t=135

I use that mode on a Panasonic S1R to scan 5x4" film negatives, it does actually work.

However it requires a solid reproduction column mount, excellent lenses, perfect focus and vibration free environment etc.

I tried to look it up, but are any bootable GNO/ME disk images around? I'd like to see it run in an emulator just out of curiosity.

This seems to have been a pattern with all the 80s home platforms, especially in Europe.

I came from the Commodore Amiga, and used mine still in the early 00's all hacked up with cottage industry expansions and software hacks as a Mini-workstation writing LaTeX and C/C++ for Uni and a somewhat functional browser.

The Atari ST had a similar trajectory post Atari with FreeMiNT, and even smaller the Archimedes and Sinclair QL did!

Systems from DEC also prefered this date format (RSX11 and VMS).

As Karl Marx said about philosophy: "The point, however, is to change it [The world]"

Indeed, his lectures are a great startoff point and presented as such but often his personal opinions and philosophical narrative runs through a bit roughly.

I get the feeling he is deeply Christian and mostly looks at the history of western philosophy as the project to build the modern Christian Enlightenment and how most (to him) valuable Post-Enlightenment philosophy is fundamentally based in processing biblical scripturally derived strands of thought through a dechristianization processes.

This might sound like a harsh criticism, it's not entirely meant to be. His introduction course is definitely worth it!

Hah! We had ixemul.library and the geekgadgets distro back in the day! Full bizare GNU+BSD userland on top of AmigaOS!