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You can do all those things with a macro assembler.

fpcupdeluxe is a lot more reliable than installing the releases.

When arm64 came out, I couldn't even get an arm64 build for my Mac, but fpcupdeluxe just handled it.

Pascal originally required you to specify the length of the string before you did anything with it.

This is a totally good idea, but was considered to be too much of a pain to use at the time.

It was so much harder when I was a baby- you had to bootstrap the whole thing on an IBM 360.

Feels like a lot of people like making dealing with null as complicated as possible.

Then use Ice Cubes. Not everything has to be FOSS.

It's not very community-like out of the box, that's totally true.

OTOH, after you follow both people and hashtags, it feels pretty much like everything else, more or less.

> Can’t pick a big generic instance because

Nobody is going to defederate from mastodon.social, but otherwise, this is all true.

Both. Mainframes though are incredibly good for both I/O and uptime.

Yeah, Linux/Unix are way better on both than they used to be, but on a mainframe, it's just a totally different level.

Because a lot of real humans on social media are awful.

(Some platforms are better than others, obviously.)

Sure, but that is different than being a translation.

A "translation" of the Bible is always considered moving from the original text, not from the likely language of the speaker.

You are completely wrong. The US is not a leftist nation by any stretch of the imagination. Honestly, you're so incredibly wrong, that I can't believe you actually believe what you are saying.

In fact, after being on HN since 2008, I have never encountered someone as wrong as you are.

I lost hope for Swift after seeing a minor holy war about the c-style for loop.

> "But nobody made them agree to that!"

And to amplify your point just a bit, if the alternative is losing your healthcare and possibly going homeless, what does "agreeing" even mean anymore?