No such luck :( Both the bt1.archive.org and b2.archive.org trackers appear to be down.…
I seed a torrent of the SICP lectures that originally came from IA, I'll have to see if that's still up and if there's some way of getting the other torrents from the tracker. If you're lucky there's other seeds around,…
> and the nucleus of an atom or neutron star has a density on the order of 4x10^17...if you can build the entire ship out of pure neutrons, you're still coming up short by a factor of ~100 Would you be getting into…
Have MS managed to figure out window snapping for WSLg yet? From what I've heard (maybe this is dated) there are a bunch of limitations that come from them using a primitive compositor for their Wayland setup. Xpra (or…
Huh, my other pages don't have the same issue. I guess the search indexer must've died - I'll restart it in an hour or two. FWIW, the snapshot of c2 that this runs off of is somewhat dated…
You might find Chess960 interesting then. The starting position is randomized, with enough variations that memorizing an opening book no longer really helps. You have to start evaluating the board from move 1 in the…
> I think I’ve had more trouble with data loss from Evernote than those index cards, ironically… Plain text file and a text editor app, assuming rich content isn't a requirement. There are a million of them -…
It has to do with how long you expect a given dollar to live. Below a certain point a dollar doesn't persist very long since you're mostly living paycheck to paycheck. If you're spending most of what you earn, then what…
Not PS/Office (more of a dev workflow - VS, Intellij, DB admin tools), but I've personally found that straight KVM with the default virtual hardware is good enough. The last big adjustment I made was getting a dedicated…
I guess that's where the What If blog went, it hasn't been updated for a while now. No timestamps on the last post but wiki says he started writing this column for NYT late 2019, which feels about right.…
I guess I'll be the one to make the obligatory "magit is awesome and if you use Emacs you should definitely check it out" comment. Other that being horribly slow on Windows I can't think of any downsides. Aside from the…
Agreed. I find it easier to interact with people in service situations if they're responsible for the whole experience. The point of going to a restaurant or a barbershop or getting take-out is that you're leaving the…
I'm not sure fad is the right descriptor here. Unix WMs have had virtual desktops since the 90s (80s?), MacOS got them around 2006 and Windows in 2015. Use by the non-initiated may not be that high, but that shouldn't…
The Advent of Computing [1] podcast recently put out their episode 47 which I think provides a sort-of explanation of this line of thinking. The short answer is that the context in which Emacs was originally developed…
More or less, though LXC (and LXD using the LXC backend) are focused on system containers rather than single services. Basically lightweight VMs with a full init and the usual set of set of system daemons.
https://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox The basic idea being that you know a tool that's obviously superior to a lot of alternatives, but you're blind to how different alternatives are superior to it because you can't grok the…
Also along those lines: what keyboard layout? I've never seen a (QWERTY) layout where underscore isn't a shift-level key.
The series overall has a pretty good cross-platform story: - The original DOS versions run well on DOSBox from what I've heard, although I've never tried them personally. - There's also a re-implementation of the game…
> Title: HBO Max drops Linux support in all browsers Is there some acknowledgment that this is actually official, a statement from their support or anything? Or did they just push some change and not check that it…
If you're open to learning it, Tcl is actually a good middle ground here. The best way I can describe it is "structured shell script" - still very string oriented, but the syntax and command set is much more well…
Depends what you mean - signs for input or signs for output? If the reactions to TFA are any indication, compared to the amount of effort you have to go through to explain the credit/debit notation, account signs are…
That should only happen if you update from underneath it by doing an upgrade though, which is entirely at your discretion with apt. The snap equivalent is obligatory. That said, the update auto-restore almost always…
Curious what kinds of problems you used to run into here that made you give up on Windows guest/Linux host. I've been running my daily driver that way for the past 3 months and haven't hit any issues aside from 2 nits:…
You could use nmake and use a build.sh (well, build.cmd) if you wanted to, although it's not really common. My sense is that the hierarchy of build tooling goes something like this depending upon complexity: 1. Hit the…
No such luck :( Both the bt1.archive.org and b2.archive.org trackers appear to be down.…
I seed a torrent of the SICP lectures that originally came from IA, I'll have to see if that's still up and if there's some way of getting the other torrents from the tracker. If you're lucky there's other seeds around,…
> and the nucleus of an atom or neutron star has a density on the order of 4x10^17...if you can build the entire ship out of pure neutrons, you're still coming up short by a factor of ~100 Would you be getting into…
Have MS managed to figure out window snapping for WSLg yet? From what I've heard (maybe this is dated) there are a bunch of limitations that come from them using a primitive compositor for their Wayland setup. Xpra (or…
Huh, my other pages don't have the same issue. I guess the search indexer must've died - I'll restart it in an hour or two. FWIW, the snapshot of c2 that this runs off of is somewhat dated…
You might find Chess960 interesting then. The starting position is randomized, with enough variations that memorizing an opening book no longer really helps. You have to start evaluating the board from move 1 in the…
> I think I’ve had more trouble with data loss from Evernote than those index cards, ironically… Plain text file and a text editor app, assuming rich content isn't a requirement. There are a million of them -…
It has to do with how long you expect a given dollar to live. Below a certain point a dollar doesn't persist very long since you're mostly living paycheck to paycheck. If you're spending most of what you earn, then what…
Not PS/Office (more of a dev workflow - VS, Intellij, DB admin tools), but I've personally found that straight KVM with the default virtual hardware is good enough. The last big adjustment I made was getting a dedicated…
I guess that's where the What If blog went, it hasn't been updated for a while now. No timestamps on the last post but wiki says he started writing this column for NYT late 2019, which feels about right.…
I guess I'll be the one to make the obligatory "magit is awesome and if you use Emacs you should definitely check it out" comment. Other that being horribly slow on Windows I can't think of any downsides. Aside from the…
Agreed. I find it easier to interact with people in service situations if they're responsible for the whole experience. The point of going to a restaurant or a barbershop or getting take-out is that you're leaving the…
I'm not sure fad is the right descriptor here. Unix WMs have had virtual desktops since the 90s (80s?), MacOS got them around 2006 and Windows in 2015. Use by the non-initiated may not be that high, but that shouldn't…
The Advent of Computing [1] podcast recently put out their episode 47 which I think provides a sort-of explanation of this line of thinking. The short answer is that the context in which Emacs was originally developed…
More or less, though LXC (and LXD using the LXC backend) are focused on system containers rather than single services. Basically lightweight VMs with a full init and the usual set of set of system daemons.
https://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox The basic idea being that you know a tool that's obviously superior to a lot of alternatives, but you're blind to how different alternatives are superior to it because you can't grok the…
Also along those lines: what keyboard layout? I've never seen a (QWERTY) layout where underscore isn't a shift-level key.
The series overall has a pretty good cross-platform story: - The original DOS versions run well on DOSBox from what I've heard, although I've never tried them personally. - There's also a re-implementation of the game…
> Title: HBO Max drops Linux support in all browsers Is there some acknowledgment that this is actually official, a statement from their support or anything? Or did they just push some change and not check that it…
If you're open to learning it, Tcl is actually a good middle ground here. The best way I can describe it is "structured shell script" - still very string oriented, but the syntax and command set is much more well…
Depends what you mean - signs for input or signs for output? If the reactions to TFA are any indication, compared to the amount of effort you have to go through to explain the credit/debit notation, account signs are…
That should only happen if you update from underneath it by doing an upgrade though, which is entirely at your discretion with apt. The snap equivalent is obligatory. That said, the update auto-restore almost always…
Curious what kinds of problems you used to run into here that made you give up on Windows guest/Linux host. I've been running my daily driver that way for the past 3 months and haven't hit any issues aside from 2 nits:…
You could use nmake and use a build.sh (well, build.cmd) if you wanted to, although it's not really common. My sense is that the hierarchy of build tooling goes something like this depending upon complexity: 1. Hit the…