Scuds

even the rust-analyzer plugin for plugin for VSCode installs and runs without any fuss, definite improvement from when I last saw it in 2019.

Re: apt install - I never trust the OS packages for anything like developer tools, I'd rather have everything run out of my home directory. Then again, I'm not a C/C++ developer where the OS, libraries, build tools are all intertwined.

It feels l33t to appropriate the terminology of a professional -

like "We need to control the optics of the situation"

"I flashed my cellphone but it failed and now it's bricked."

but the unsophisticated public gets it wrong and now here we are, every recent unpatched exploit is now 0day

Wizardry, like Lode Runner and Spelunker, is a well beloved old favorite in Japan - appearing on PC and consoles. Lode Runner and Spelunker even have Switch ports.

The people who'd worked on the original Dragon Quest saw Wizardry and were inspired to create a pared down RPG for two buttons and a d-pad consoles

It's the same as Amiga fanaticism. Hardware is more expensive, software is a lot more arcane. People put a lot of work into getting their computers to work the way they wanted to.

iOS is a utility to me, I already have my set patterns of working with it, and some new feature that changes that only happens once in a few years.

I wonder how elm and clojurescript are doing?

this is part of the greater lament of FP languages in industry. You might have to be satisfied with a kind of FP flavored C#, which in newer versions of the language isn't all that bad The thinking is that there's a million C# devs, a hundred thousand VB devs, and ten thousand F# devs.

If you want to work in F# come up with your own OSS projects or champion it at work.

richgel999 has posted before about Valve's toxic culture - so bikeshedding about "well why don't you just... " is beside the point in the larger context of perverse incentives. https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1330765701037101057?s=...

The kernel people can say one thing, userland people can say another.

"It compiles, it runs! No smoke tests. libc is busted? oh well, patches welcome!"

Not knowing anything I'm guessing it's all embedded/non-interactive systems, but I can't imagine someone compiling a brand new new 5.9 kernel with drivers for a twenty year old board.

Yes, their job is to Bill Hours, so if they're working an inefficient process* or dealing with a bad architecture that needs all hands on deck to deploy anything or the developers environment takes ten minutes to go from edit->compile->debug, none of them are going to raise their hand and call out this bullshit, especially if they're new to the team or new to the business.

* a config flag needs to be changed for a new release. Configs are stored in a database. A dev needs to write a SQL update script to make the change. This needs to go through QA, and be signed off by a DBA.

I get it, just like an iPhone can track the health of an installed battery, an oem laptop manufacturer should be able to track the effectiveness of a cooling solution and know that the fans are worn or dirty or you've blocked the vents.

I replaced the thermal compound my trust old dell Latitude. Barely an hour of effort undoing Phillips screws and scraping off the seven year old gak. Roughly a 15 C decrease under load. Fans are less of a blowdryer and more of a hand warmer.

Linkus7 at Awesome Games Done Quick 2020 exploiting memory leaks so that the Gamecube can't malloc RAM for a barrier wall thus skipping over a large amount of the game https://youtu.be/7XBPrFYN1MU?t=3106

Each line gets translated down to a few bytes, maybe two to ten depending on the opcode. The downside being that each line doesn't do a whole lot.

And I can imagine that this is an absolute ear pull to try to debug with the tools they had. It's more akin to debugging embedded systems to the PCs we have today.

why? what makes you say that?

The ones that are formatted to 40 columns in all caps because THATS WHAT THE ORIGINAL APPLE II COULD DO are charming to no end.

http://www.textfiles.com/apple/wiztips4.txt

I wish I was five years older and to have experienced the Apple II bbs era instead of getting an old hand me down //c in the early 90's and not having the cash for a modem.

phrack writers went pro.

I know of an MSP that laid off all their non-critical-infrastructure field staff, and even the (now remote, THANK GOD) helpdesk staff had a paycut.

I know... dotnet and Go aren't exactly hurting for effort for things like docs and tooling that take a project from good to great.

My general file card on Rust's appropriateness:

It's for anywhere you want an iron grip on memory and correctness and the cost of screwing up is very large and don't need a quick minimum viable product. You'd expect to be writing a database or a high availability proxying server or any kind of driver or a game engine

At the Living Computer Museum in Seattle they have an IBM S/360 that prints out we’re in year 19120.

There’s a FastROM conversion for the Super Ghouls and Ghosts. The original was plagued with slowdown while the conversion runs very well. This leads me to think that the game was originally designed with fastROM in mind, but then they took manufacturing cost into account.

how much this actually was, I don’t know. Burger Becky mentioned begging her boss to use Fast ROM when interplay made RPM Racing but was also denied.

The trade offs of 1991!

Edit: of course Nintendo wasn’t as cost constrained. It was never an even playing field for 3rd parties

Any context would be nice. This is a modified/wrapped client, right?

edit: any forums software I ever write is going to use a 'fallback to static rendering' circuit breaker setup in the case of slashdotting.

There's "Fall out of favor within MS Developer Division, who has to build the future" and "Fall out of favor with line of business app developers."

VB6 (runtime and language) was great for its time but it's an evolutionary dead end.

> Was it because of Microsoft forcing VB into "just another skin" over .NET, i.e., a variant of C# that doesn't have curly braces? That's how it looks on the surface, but it's compiled, not interpreted, has an actual type system, threads, a proper standard library.

There's also the need to gather the C++ Win32/MFC crowd and the VB6 crowd into a single tent.

Would the best use of this CPU be in a group or multi-group build+integration server? It's $2000 for the CPU alone, so this can't be general-use.

As a college student, I can remember my school's engineering job fair in 1999 taking up three floors of the student union building. In 2000 (2001?) it was down to one floor and nothing but companies like HP, IBM, and Microsoft.

Weird. Recruiters were calling me last month for some well paid contract gigs there.

Closer to https://github.com/libuv/libuv compare to the description here: https://docs.rs/tokio/0.2.0-alpha.6/tokio/

libuv is a native C library that V8+node uses for async disk and network accesses

You'd think publicly funded schools would have a system-wide public software infrastructure project instead of just writing a check to Blackboard every year to infinity.

I always wondered why full time academic-oriented OSS activists like RMS didn't campaign for things like this instead of trying to sell the concept of "OSS in General"

this? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/rust-runtime-for-aws...

https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-rust-runtime

https://crates.io/crates/lambda_runtime

you rock! That docker based build system makes building those MUSL based rust binaries a snap!