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Porting rules is one of the responsibilities of keeping them.

>Bebe

Awesome shout-out.

Missing: Cabaret Voltaire, Art of Noise, Yes ..

Multi-tasking that didn't suck.

Same as we use it now, to be frank. Unix workstations as an interaction model have persisted so long because it works just great.

I was writing a lot of Unix software in that period - database apps, business logic, and so on. For me, using an MSDOS-based system was a compromise, which I enhanced by using Desqview to get multi-tasking - it allowed multiple MSDOS instances on a single machine, in which I ran terminal software, compilers (our apps were being ported to MSDOS...), and database admin tasks - just like today.

What we have today in the form of MacOS or Linux workstations is pretty much what we had back then, too. The power is inescapable.

Work on not seeing class at all - this is the ultimate fluidity.

Embrace differing views. It can be done in a way that makes everyone win.

Some destruction is necessary for all creation, but generally its a bad idea to destroy the middle class instead of shoring it up.

>making bullshit

Make things that empower people and give them the ability to be class-fluid. That's what the world really needs, after all.

> .. the most frustrating part about software engineers believing themselves to be the part of the business with the most complex, unknowable work. ..

>_Every_ function in a tech business has hidden complexity.

In my opinion, the conflict is in the distinction.

Stereotypes abound, but I have always found in this battle between worlds, there is a simple bridging maneuver: never work for someone, or accept management guidance, from someone who cannot also comfortably do your work. corollary: never manage someone unless you're prepared to do their job for them comfortably.

Yes, this is cold and hard, but so are those stereotypes, kids. There are Manager Engineers and there are Engineer Managers. But there's also just managers and engineers with both skills, simply focusing their work as needed for the specific project. The ultimately fun organization to work in is where different people have different roles in multiple projects, comfortably.

Key word. Getting this mix comfortable is the job of a good CEO, fwiw.

And guess what, it doesn't matter whether the salesperson can do any job but understand just how great this particular hierarchys' products are, and why the end result of this configuration is worth the spend.

I have written device drivers for, literally, decades now.

Its the old guys who write the best drivers, naturally.

For me, Asterinas represents a refreshing way to approach some thorny problems in the embedded space, in which embedded-Linux on ARM, RISC-V and MIPS is a viable, economically-speaking, platform for a great deal of industry.

While Asterinas is really sexy, if this same approach were taken for, say, FreeRTOS as well along the way .. then there could at least, also, be "on one hands" worth of operating systems, abstracted, in the "lets just use rust' camp ..

I wanted it to work, but the font used doesn't help.

With a better font, amber-on-black is restful.

I wonder what the metrics would look like when tested on a tablet device, i.e. no mouse, just finger-drag?

If you're really objecting to new information systems being created from an existing historical/cultural corpus' as a means of making cultural treasures more accessible to a literate audience, are you really a hacker?

The fact of the use of Maori to organize Maori literature, is of immense interest, whether it suits a foreign, supposed culture more, or otherwise.

This is a new method of organizing an important corpus of cultural knowledge, granting new insight to an intended audience.

Why not applaud its utility, rather than immediately disregard the results to be attained?

Or have you, indeed, found it wanting as a means of searching for specific details in the Maori collection?

>gaslighting

I think the standard issue, if you feel like this, is to check oneself, before one wrecks oneself. Here, let me show you the gaslight: "has no historical basis", "just Maori-themed", "forms of record keeping", "no meaningful information classification system", "I feel.."

I agree with you completely and will happily join you into the grey zone by stating simply, anyone who objects to new information systems being created on the basis of heritage/historical/cultural grounds, is just a wannabe hacker, and thats just not news.

So .. you're willing to learn Maori in order to gain equality, or not?

I personally see nothing wrong with this classification system, and if it serves its intended purpose of making Maori literature more accessible, then what the heck, hackers?

Language usage like this is great. Think of all the things you can learn now.

Seriously.

"Religion" literally means, 'the device which binds people into one', and is not the only form of this very same device.

Latin religare ‘to bind’.

We are all bound "in legion" (literally, by the strong, cured ligaments of a foot) here on HN, for example. Ligament and Legion and Religion are all based on the same common root: a way to bind people together, strongly.

So forget about trying to make the human capability to become an egregore exclusive to those who organize around religion. We humans don't get anything done unless we are bound together, as one, around a common purpose.