d4rti's comments

On: LSP: The good, the bad, and the ugly

[d4rti]

A strange thing is you can specifically donate to Thunderbird, but not to Firefox.

I never quite understood why Mozilla seems more interested in other things vs Firefox (the browser, not the other Firefox branded things).

On: GNU Screen 5.0 Released

[d4rti]

It's been a while but I used this with a USB to serial and a console cable for accessing Cisco switches/routers console.

On: Cosmopolitan v3.5

[d4rti]

Works for sure:

  $ file ./bin/python
  ./bin/python: DOS/MBR boot sector; partition 1 : ID=0x7f, active, start-CHS 
  (0x0,0,1), end-CHS (0x3ff,255,63), startsector 0, 4294967295 sectors

  $ ./bin/python
  Python 3.11.4 (heads/pypack1:6eea485, Jan 24 2024, 10:14:24) [GCC 11.2.0] on 
  linux
  Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
  >>> import platform
  >>> platform.processor()
  'arm'

[smcameron → d4rti]

I forget how I did this, but:

    $ file hello.com
    hello.com: αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε

[4gotunameagain → d4rti]

Out of curiosity, why are you running python packed with cosmopolitan ?

[simonw → 4gotunameagain]

Presumably to demonstrate that it works on Mac ARM platforms, in response to the question about that.

[4gotunameagain → simonw]

If was satisfied with my own presumption I wouldn't have asked ;)

[simonw → 4gotunameagain]

That Python app is a popular demo for Cosmopolitan. It's what I would have chosen for that demo, too! It's handy because it outputs a little bit of information about the current architecture on the first line when you start the shell.

There's some interesting background on it in this issue: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/issues/141

On: US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, ...

[d4rti]

KDP from Amazon will always take a 30% or greater cut.

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200644210

On: Does the “Learn Vim the Hard Way” website still ex...

[d4rti]

There is the vim adventures site https://vim-adventures.com/ but it doesn’t sound quite like what you are looking for.

[filchermcurr → d4rti]

It's also pretty expensive. $30 for 6 months, I believe. At least a year would be a somewhat more attractive value proposition. But they must be doing fine with that pricing, it's been around forever. So good for them!

[lampshades → d4rti]

This is how I learned Vim a decade ago. Highly recommend.

On: Retro: A modern, pragmatic Forth

[d4rti]

Semi-literate programming?

On: MRSK vs. Fly.io

[d4rti]

This is a competitive post par excellence, for politeness, accuracy and still doing a great job of demonstrating fly.io's key competitive points vs MRSK.

I'd love it if all 'vs' and competitive marketing was this good.

On: When did New York start building slowly?

[d4rti]

There’s a difficult asymmetry in that it takes much longer to build in house expertise that it does to privatise it.

Privatisation also often allows a short term financial boost at long term net expense.

On: The Basics of Arm64 Assembly

[d4rti]

M1/M2 Mac or a Raspberry Pi?

[gary_0 → d4rti]

Mac is a lot of money to spend if you care about good Linux support, and Raspberry Pi makes for a very weak workstation (if you can even get one for a reasonable price).

The demand for a developer-oriented ARM workstation is there, but the market still hates us.

[zamnos → d4rti]

Or any of the ARM Chromebooks. Enable Linux mode on it and go to town.

On: Britons face 20k digital pound cap under Bank of E...

[d4rti]

One suspects that even some of the people behind this effort are skeptical, when you read between the lines.

As with the rest of crypto, 99% a solution in search of a problem.

Banking in the U.K. isn’t perfect but for the majority of consumers it’s quick, easy and convenient and by and large fee free.