praising 'loop' in the same post as describing lisp as 'elegant' shakes head
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NikkiA commented on Typed Lisp, a Primer alhassy.com/TypedLisp.htm... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
I think “15 times further from the Sun than Pluto” is more meaningful for most readers than “700 times further from the Sun than Earth.” If it exists, it’s way way way out there.
I dunno, '700 AU' gelled for me instantly, '15 times the distance to pluto' doesn't even make sense given pluto's orbit isn't anywhere near circular.
NikkiA commented on Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes github.com/Jacksaur/Gorge... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Make sure this works on your system before you really need it, as some keyboard/USB-controller combinations take a few seconds to wake up from whatever slumber they're in and start working. I ran into this several times.
That's likely something related to USB legacy support being on or off.
A lot of modern BIOS/EFI also allow a hybrid setting that enables legacy support until the OS takes over, which can sometimes be better too.
NikkiA commented on Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes github.com/Jacksaur/Gorge... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
NikkiA commented on Owen Le Blanc: creator of the first Linux distribution lwn.net/Articles/1017846/... · Posted by u/sohkamyung
Has the distribution model been good for Linux? It led to different approaches to things like desktop environments, packaging, and a variety of platforms, but 30+ years later, there are several sane choices for server distros, desktop distros are even more fragmented, and the most popular user distros are Android and ChromeOS.
The amount of software available for linux vs the BSDs tells me that the distro model has not hurt linux. If a homogenous software stack from a single centralised set of software was beneficial, it would be more likely that porting to linux from a BSD codebase would be the norm, rather than the other way around.
NikkiA commented on The Gang Has a Mid-Life Crisis chris-martin.org/2025/the... · Posted by u/dralley
"There once was[...] no search engine that could find what you were looking for."
What's old is new again.
The web was only 3 years old when altavista burst on the scene.
So the window of there being 'no search engine to find what you were looking for on the web' was tiny.
NikkiA commented on U.S. Economy Contracts at 0.3% Rate in First Quarter wsj.com/economy/us-gdp-q1... · Posted by u/bko
> big ships don't turn on a dime
No, but Trump is trying to turn the US ship in a dime, and like this aircraft carrier, we are about to drop a ton of money into the ocean...
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-navy-lost-67-million...
Ironically, replacing multi-million dollar aircraft that 'fell into the sea' is part of what keeps the american GDP so high.
I've worked with "both sides" and the way ELF shared libraries on Linux work is an absolute bloody mess compared to how Windows' PE works. On Windows the same executable format and dynamic linker are usable in both user and kernel mode.
to be fair to linux, elf was bolted on after a few years, the original linux used a variant of coff without shared library support.