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raverbashing··on LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
no, the other way

2400 were 300 bytes per second

(though it might be that 9600bps worked at the 'official definition' of 2400 baud but nobody advertised it like that)

raverbashing··on LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
Yeah slow?

Try using a 2400baud modem, that was slow

raverbashing··on I'm building a clarity-first language (compiles to C++)
Yup exactly this

It's the "C is a simple language" BS again

Using a circular sawblade without the saw is as simple as it gets as well

The simpler it is the more you get annoyed at it, the more it is easier to shoot yourself in the foot with it, because the world is not perfect

Abstractions are great and I'm dying on this hill

"getError" what year is it again?

raverbashing··on US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says
Any person minimally experienced in commerce (possibly in a less developed country) would know that they experienced this already
raverbashing··on Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
About your point in [1] yes it is complex but maybe 50% is done by the issuing bank/institution

And people do underestimate the complexity of it

raverbashing··on The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)
Your date range is correct ;)

But some companies are even slower to migrate

Anyway I don't know how the builtin shell was called, maybe simply sh but it was also a big no no for me

raverbashing··on The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)
Yeah

The exception is when you go do some work at server using a commercial unix and that is not how it's set up (in fact they don't even know about vim)

sigh but ok that story is dated and that behavior was already dated at that time

raverbashing··on Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?
The next machine is not necessarily a longer LHC

There are talks of a Muon collider, also there's a spallation source being built in Sweden(?) and also of an electron 'Higgs factory' (and while the LHC was built for the Higgs boson it is not a great source for it - it is built as a generic tool that could produce and see the Higgs)

raverbashing··on Clean Coder: The Dark Path (2017)
C programmers non-ironically believe this

And of course they only believe this because they don't lose a finger when they write outside of bounds or they don't fall down the shaft once a pointer was accidentally null

raverbashing··on Clean Coder: The Dark Path (2017)
Yeah once you get into Monofunctor or 'PorcelainPile<static const volatile String&>' lawyering you know you went too far
raverbashing··on An Update on Heroku
Honestly if you're still using Heroku today it's because you haven't really caught up with what's going on around you
raverbashing··on ICE seeks industry input on ad tech location data for investigative use
Hey but who cares about cookies anyway right?
raverbashing··on Fintech CEO and Forbes 30 Under 30 alum has been charged for alleged fraud
As is now tradition with Forbes 30u30
raverbashing··on I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored
You really think mom & pop business that have limited IT skills have 5k laying around for some minor violation like not deleting an older email?
raverbashing··on I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored
Honestly I'd think about several "worse" companies to annoy with such "a test" first than Prusa, but anyway

> A company can list an email address as their official GDPR contact in their privacy policy, and if their own spam filter eats your request, it legally never happened. There is no obligation to check. There is no obligation to ensure delivery. The burden is entirely on you to prove they received it.

That's you being silly. The correct way is to send a letter with a Reception Receipt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avis_de_r%C3%A9ception which is the way lawyers like to do

raverbashing··on xAI joins SpaceX
And that's why the best way to use Superman's powers is in making him turn a giant crank

(yes I fully agree with you!)

raverbashing··on xAI joins SpaceX
Yeah

I don't know where this delusion of "Servers in space" came from, I think of it as the new NFTs

But I bet those pushing for it are very interested in feeding the grift

raverbashing··on Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support
"When it's explained well" is the keyword

I'm not a systemD fan but SysV is not without its quirks and weirdness and foot guns

raverbashing··on MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China
Yes because there's no difference between a voluntary service with limited context needs and a malicious extension
raverbashing··on A judge gave the FBI permission to attempt to bypass biometrics
Yes, very nice

Cut to my phone failing to recognize the fingerprint whenever it feels like or maybe because the humidity is 0.5% from the ideal value

sigh

raverbashing··on OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again
Breaking news: tech bro unable to do basic research on existing trademarks, news at 11
raverbashing··on That's not how email works
I think people are overthinking this, though the discussion about reliability is merited

For every HN technically inclined people you have dozens of other customers who will give any email (thinking it's just writing "John.smith@bt.co.uk" or something) - or worse- and they have to find a way of identifying those customers

raverbashing··on RIP Low-Code 2014-2025
HATEOAS won't give you the basic nouns on which to work with
raverbashing··on RIP Low-Code 2014-2025
REST + Swagger I'd say
raverbashing··on Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds
> 2024 floods in Valencia; a partially preventable tragedy, followed by a whole lot of mud slinging

sigh

Of course you're right

raverbashing··on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
And two wrongs don't make a right
raverbashing··on Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android
Yeah for every HN user complaining about it there are hundreds of people sideloading apps (not realizing what they're doing - under promise of loans or other advantages) and then getting their phone ransomed
raverbashing··on BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
> as it's been implemented as opt-in on WhatsApp's side

Chatting with anyone has always been opt in from the point of the receiver, so I don't get your point?

raverbashing··on Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study
It is amazing the amount of bs and grasping at straws that the oil company will push to keep their amazing polluting stuff going on

No I'm sure fracking and pipelines and all the crap the oil industry needs just to exist does not have any pfas or micro plastics

raverbashing··on Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
It's also the "default" in Windows 11 to require a recovery bitlocker key every time you do a minor modification to the "bios" like changing the boot order
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