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> SSH-only server administration: Vim’s sub-second startup and tiny memory footprint make it the default choice for editing config files on remote boxes, containers, and minimal Linux images where every extra process matters. It’s also nearly guaranteed to already be installed, since most base Linux and macOS images ship Vim or vi by default, unlike Emacs, which almost always requires a separate install step.

That's one way to do it. A better way to accomplish this with emacs is to use tramp mode which uses ssh as a tunnel to edit remote files in a local emacs instance. It just needs ssh access and doesn't require emacs to be installed remotely.

Yup. If you call a function with the C calling convention with the incorrect number of parameters, your cleanup code still does the right thing. With the Pascal calling convention, your stack is corrupted.

As much as I love emacs, I think cut and paste is better metaphor for text editing than kill and yank. Once the key combos are part of muscle memory, the value of mnemonics goes down, but they're very useful for adoption. This is an unfortunate barrier for emacs beginners. Even though the usual CUA keystrokes are available (and even the defaults on some popular starter configurations), the terminology creates some friction when reading the docs.

I agree the semantics are strictly superior though.

There were no words for this stuff. People just made it up, and it took years for something to emerge as the de facto standard term for a collection of data persistently stored.

There's an interesting parallel with the emacs editor. Operations we now universally call "Cut" and "Paste" are "Kill" and "Yank". The better terms won out and emacs is stuck with Ctrl-K and Ctrl-Y as not-so-intuitive mnemonics for cut and paste.

One of the great things about C64 BASIC and similar MS BASIC derivatives is it's extensibility. It defines a bunch of pointers, including $0033 this article uses, that control the memory layout. Manipulating them carefully allows you to free up blocks of memory that BASIC won't trash. Or deliberately "trash" for hacks like this.

On top of that, a handful of key internal BASIC routines are called indirectly through pointers. BASIC itself is in ROM and more or less immutable, but by redirecting those pointers you can have it call out to new code in RAM.

Did some development for a server application that supported RS/6000 among other platforms. AIX on RS/6000 was a nice enough Unix but, being used to Solaris, everything seems just slightly off. I think it performed slightly worse for the same price as Sparc hardware for our purposes, but some customers wanted an all IBM solution (we also supported an OS/2 client).

The main thing that stands out was a tool (smitty?) that could do system configuration and IIRC it could show you the steps to do it manually as well.

This is exactly how I feel about Dune. The invented words and world-building are overwhelming at first, but once you absorb them it makes the narrative richer.

Two of my favorites, too, although I'd go with Anti-Fragile from Taleb.

I think Anathem is Stephenson's best. The Diamond Age is also really good. For every one of his books, I just wish he could write an ending that matches the quality of the rest.

The core of this a library called nsync. It appears most of the improvements by Justine are upstreamed into nsync itself which doesn't have any of the baggage of cosmopolitan. Whatever your opinion of the project or author, they've made good effort to not lock you in.

The writeup suggests this implementation is optimized for the not-locked case:

> uses an optimistic CAS (compare and swap) immediately, so that locking happens quickly when there's no contention

I second this. OIDC is much nicer and my experience using it with federated identity sources through AWS Cognito was smooth. The sad reality is that SAML is already entrenched in many enterprise environments and unavoidable.

More than half of Canada's coal production is metallurgical coal, suited for steel production. Most of that is mined in BC and exported. The grandparent comment and the above response are both true.