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twoodfin commented on Office on HP-UX and Unix   openpa.net/hp-ux_office.h... · Posted by u/naves
tanelpoder · 8 days ago
I have used Internet Explorer 4 on Solaris 2.6 for SPARC. I don’t remember why…
twoodfin · 8 days ago
The MIT Athena computer labs while I was there were 80% SPARC and 20% SGI. Despite whatever porting frameworks Microsoft had to glom on, IE for Solaris was still better than the pig Netscape was at that point.
twoodfin commented on Office on HP-UX and Unix   openpa.net/hp-ux_office.h... · Posted by u/naves
twoodfin · 8 days ago
Ami Pro on OS/2 was my word processor of choice through most of high school. The intuitive layout controls and clean, focused interface spoiled me for life.
twoodfin commented on Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity   osec.io/blog/2025-08-11-c... · Posted by u/luu
vlovich123 · 9 days ago
All I took away from this is how more and more complicated C++ as a language becomes to make the syntax slightly more convenient.
twoodfin · 9 days ago
It’s less about convenient syntax and more about simplifying the construction of abstractions.

You could argue that the latter is the core drive to evolve the standard.

twoodfin commented on Gartner's grift is about to unravel   dx.tips/gartner... · Posted by u/mooreds
apavlo · 11 days ago
They double dip. You pay them to review your company. Other companies pay them to read those reviews.
twoodfin · 11 days ago
Right, but what’s the ratio? Every interaction I’ve had with Gartner suggests the vast bulk of their analysis revenue comes from “clients” rather than vendors.
twoodfin commented on Gartner's grift is about to unravel   dx.tips/gartner... · Posted by u/mooreds
twoodfin · 11 days ago
This article implies that Gartner’s revenue stream comes primarily from vendors.

Does anyone know if that’s true? Gartner calls that whole arm of the business “insights” and doesn’t break it down further in their SEC filings.

I’d be surprised if that’s the case.

twoodfin commented on Exile Economics: If Globalisation Fails   lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n... · Posted by u/mitchbob
diputsmonro · 12 days ago
Which is exactly why strategies like UBI are so important. Eventually the average American with no specialized skill will find that they cannot produce value when competing on a global scale.

Our strategy so far has been to let them starve and tell them to "learn to code" or "become a machine operator/technician", but that strategy can only help so many people. We do not need as many technicians as laborers that the machine replaced.

And when you have a mass of people who see that the future globalist economy is moving in a way that has no place for them, or plan to make sure they don't starve, you get the globalism backlash like what's happening in the US and UK over the last decade, and nationalistic pandering politicians taking advantage.

The only solution is to tax the billionare owners of the job-displacing machines to provide basic living UBI to the people they replaced.

twoodfin · 12 days ago
For this claim to work, you have to demonstrate why this time is different, why standards of living and disposable income have been rising in the West and all over the world for 50 years or more—all while technological progress was as fast or faster than today.
twoodfin commented on FreeBSD Scheduling on Hybrid CPUs   wiki.freebsd.org/Schedule... · Posted by u/fntlnz
jcelerier · 12 days ago
As a user with a laptop, the last thing I want is the OS to decide for me. I want to tell it myself "this is sensitive, put all your energy into it because I'm five minutes away from pushing that important work and I have seven minutes of battery left" or "this won't work at all if run at less than 2 GHz" vs "I must drag what I'm doing along for as long as I can, save every bit of battery possible. The computer can't know about these cases.
twoodfin · 12 days ago
FWIW, Apple leaves it up to the app developer to specify a quality-of-service for a particular execution context:

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Pe...

twoodfin commented on Porting to OS/2 (1987)   gitpi.us/article-archive/... · Posted by u/rbanffy
icedchai · 13 days ago
Microsoft kind of did though? Windows/386 was released in late 1987. It could run multiple DOS apps using the "virtual 8086" mode. That was pretty revolutionary at the time. I think I knew more people using DESQview back then, though.
twoodfin · 13 days ago
Sure, but their mainstream OS didn’t support the bulk of the 80386’s capabilities until late 1995.

That’s kind of insane if you think about it.

twoodfin commented on Apache Iceberg V3 Spec new features for more efficient and flexible data lakes   opensource.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/talatuyarer
eatonphil · 13 days ago
Not sure (probably not). But it's definitely much easier to immediately understand IMO.
twoodfin · 13 days ago
OK, but at least from my perspective, the point of OTF’s is to allow ongoing interoperability between query and update engines.

A “standard” getting semi-monthly updates via random Databricks-affiliated GitHub accounts doesn’t really fit that bill.

Look at something like this:

https://github.com/delta-io/delta/blob/master/PROTOCOL.md#wr...

Ouch.

twoodfin commented on Apache Iceberg V3 Spec new features for more efficient and flexible data lakes   opensource.googleblog.com... · Posted by u/talatuyarer
eatonphil · 13 days ago
To the contrary, the Delta Lake paper is extremely easy to read and implement the basics of (I did) and Iceberg has nothing so concise and clear.
twoodfin · 13 days ago
If I implement what’s described in the Delta Lake paper, will I be able to query and update arbitrary Delta Lake tables as populated by Databricks in 2025?

(Would be genuinely excited if the answer is yes.)

u/twoodfin

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