immutology

I wrote my middle-school papers in WordStar...

This was my first exposure to 2-step command combos (some call "chords") starting with Ctrl+K and then a second key.

I'm unsure if WordStar created this feature.

However, by way of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, Visual Studio and even VS Code, somehow this feature followed me into the present day for ~40 years!

"Thin" can be interpreted as relative, no?

I think it depends on if you see the browser for content or as a runtime environment.

Maybe it depends on the application architecture...? I.e., a compute-heavy WASM SPA at one end vs a server-rendered website.

Or is it an objective measure?

Seems like an alternative to freeRTOS / RIOT.

Last commit was 8 years ago? Does anyone use it?

Have you tried to find someone to work with on a 20% project? I have found working on them with a coworker or two to be a lot of fun.

Squash-merge PRs. You can configure this in GitLab, GitHub, and Azure DevOps. Your private commits can be whatever you want and they get rolled up to a single PR commit when your working branch is merged to trunk.

Native interop in .NET has always been via what they call "P/Invoke". On .NET Core, P/Invoke is cross-platform and you can also call .so/.dylib functions on Linux/MacOS just like you could always call .dll functions on Windows on .NET Framework before we had .NET Core.

I'm curious to know what you needed to do with native libraries. I've been programming with .NET around 20 yrs and find it fairly rare that I need to use P/Invoke... But I'm sure it depends on what you're building.

From what I've seen, the biggest issue here is that you cannot transfer purchased Google Play Store purchases. Even without the G Suite thing, this is a problem.

For example, I have a fairly unprofessional primary Google account that I created when I was young and dumb(er). I would like to transfer the hundreds of dollars in purchases I've made under that account to another, more appropriately named, account but it does not seem possible.

They could solve this part of the problem for the affected G Suite deprecated users as well as people in positions like me by having a way to do this.

I find this intriguing. Care to elaborate on it?

Is this "consulting" or "contracting"?

In my mind, "consulting" is knowledge work. Your role is to lend knowledge and expertise, help with strategy, architecture, tool/platform selection, etc.

"Contracting" is high-skill grunt work. Your role is to code your fingers off, deliver-deliver-deliver, typically according to someone else's (possibly ill-conceived) plan.

Have these things truly become synonymous?

From what I've read, the Koch method combined with Farnsworth timing is the best way to learn to hear Morse code.

Koch method is about using full-speed dits/dahs from the beginning and gradually adding a couple to the set of characters being trained as you learn to identify them by their sound.

Farnsworth timing is about controlling the overall speed by putting pauses between the characters while training instead of slowing down the dits/dahs of the actual characters.

I don't know the science behind it, but I've spent a few hours training this way. Each set of tones that makes up a character starts to sound like its own word, or phoneme at least. It feels like it's stimulating the subconscious language bits of the brain rather than the logical/conscious ones as if you tried listening and counting the dits/dahs.

It depends on what you're doing with Docker...

Docker runs an arm64 Linux VM on an M1 Mac. My experience is that it works well for anything that has arm64 images available. It can also run x64 containers via QEMU emulation.

I found this to be hit-or-miss. I need the full version of MS SQL Server for one of the projects I work on. MS only supports x64 and the image won't start because of what looks like some kind of memory mapping/translation problem with the QEMU emulation.