hobo123

Many people might not know that ARM the company behind pretty much all phone CPUs (at least historically) was founded as Acorn Risc Machines and built their own computers with their own RISC OS.

I know almost nothing about it, so I will give your links a read.

No, Docker transformed the systems architecture such that system administration works completely differently now.

Docker is still a skill if you want to build your containers without AI help.

The thing is that the learning curve for any tech has never been easier. You can ask a question and AI will help/tell you which command can answer that question. You can write that down. You can poke around the system.

You can ask how your current automation code handles XYZ situation to get a better understanding, then ask if a code patch (you're working on) would help with ABC (i.e. get it reviewed), and so on.

It has never been easier to be a junior dev.

The point about needing manual "practice" is on point, yes, you need hands-on time.

To me it's not nostalgia, the system felt truly great to use. Haven't met anything as good since then.

And while I agree that Steve Jobs and Next were the right business (and people) choice, I still mourn the loss of a much better UI (never been a fan of the Mac UI, and it's my daily at-work system).

As mentioned in another thread above: you can get similar(?) tabs in Fluxbox on Linux.

I'm not familiar with Be API, but I did a lot of GUI dev in Java Swing back in the day. It's not that hard in principle, you launch whatever background op in whatever threads you like, and any GUI updates have to be done by sending messages back to the GUI event thread (or something like Swing.invokeLater(closure)).

Yep, reeeally nice feature, used it on Linux. After that I wondered why apps bothered to implement their own tabbing when you could just stack Windows as tabs (assuming more WMs would adopt that feature).

To me BeOS was and is still the best looking desktop OS ever, and it was so fast, it felt so good. I think in 2000ish (when it was released freely) I used it on my PC pretty much exclusively for a few months.

Maybe similarly cringe as the Russian cartoon movie about the first dogs in space. I think it was called Space Dogs.

That looks really nice, including the VSCode/Mac wrapper.

Probably a good idea to only run LLMs with a dedicated user account, or in a container.

True, I lived in viper-mode for quite a while.

But when you talk editor names, you should really rather name it "Ed".

Ed is the standard Unix text editor.

That's New Glarus, not Milwaukee.

The only German that makes sense would be

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