kragen
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Comment · 23 hours ago
No, "notepad" is a good name in a way that "text editor" is not, and Notepad has the advantage that it has been present in Microsoft Windows since two years before the first version of Windows, so nobody is going to call a different Microsoft Windows text editor "Notepad".
You might object that, when it was first released, before Windows, it was not the first text editor on the operating system, which was MS-DOS, and so "Notepad" might have already been too generic even then. Microsoft would have agreed with you, because that version was called "Multi-Tool Notepad".
Comment · 1 day ago
There's no point in attacking the security of a company that doesn't try to provide any.
Comment · 1 day ago
The things that Northflank and Railway were apparently breached to steal aren't just things that hyperscalers would have protected worse instead of better; they're AI API keys, things that only existed because people were using hyperscalers instead of running inference on their own hardware (or on Amazon AWS EC2 GPU instances).
Comment · 1 day ago
Self has inheritance, using it far more pervasively than Smalltalk, and the original VB isn't OO.
Comment · 1 day ago
It is important for beginner-friendliness that it be possible to ask for help.
"Hey, how do I insert one file into another in text editor?"
"Which text editor?"
"Text editor."
"Sounds like a personal problem."
Comment · 1 day ago
Yeah, ae is awesome and inspirational, but it's missing some crucial features. It sounds like maybe he did eventually add a single level of undo, though?
Atto seems to be a little smaller than that version of ae, though.
Comment · 1 day ago
Right. Vim is an Emacs in this sense, but mg, atto, joe, readline, etc., aren't.
Comment · 1 day ago
In GNU Emacs, try running M-: (dot) RET.
I think this alias was an aid to porting Lisp from some other Emacs variant in the 80s that used "dot" instead of "point". Never figured out which. It isn't mg because mg doesn't run Lisp.
Comment · 1 day ago
In countries with freedom of the press, the distinction you're talking about doesn't exist.
Comment · 1 day ago
Probably most of the people who used them a lot at the time would be 55–70-year-old men in the US today. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html suggests that 88% of US men who would be 55 if they were still alive are in fact still alive, and 72% of US men who would be 70 today if they were still alive are in fact still alive.
So probably three-quarters of the people who remembered them in, say, 01990, still remember them. You remember all those guys, and the occasional gal, you saw at computer stores and user group meetings at the time? Most of them are still alive, and most of them still remember them. They're just harder to find because places like HN have filled up with MBAs.
(I remember ]CATALOG but not *3D0G.)
Comment · 2 days ago
I guess you can leave the solder mask off the high-current traces and then slather solder all over them?
Comment · 2 days ago
I'm assuming you mean SKUs. Is there a list? JLC says they have 751,878 SKUs in stock, with 1586 "basic and promotional extended" parts they always have mounted on a PnP https://jlcpcb.com/parts/basic_parts, and there's a queryable mirror of their database on GitHub.
To take a particular example, they claim to have 11065 SKUs of microcontrollers in stock https://jlcpcb.com/parts/2nd/Embedded%20Processors%20&%20Con... of which 6 are "promotional extended": STM8S105K6T6C (1213 in stock), STM32F103C8T6 (231496 in stock), STM32L151C8T6 (287 in stock), ATMEGA328P-AU (40476 in stock), STM32F030C8T6 (73009 in stock), and STM8S003F3P6TR (152762 in stock). 100 units of this last one will cost you US$30.47.
Where do I find the corresponding information on your web site?
Comment · 3 days ago
You're likely aware of this, and certainly Don is, but for those unaware, PIP was the RSX-11 and CP/M equivalent to /bin/cat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral_Interchange_Program