Posts by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
 (DIR) Post #B6agiELqFKrcDqV2Dg by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       my “Americans can’t use standard units” affliction is measuring volumes in terms of iPods “this iPhone Air is about two iPods”https://mastodon.social/@malarkey/116623171824281798
       
 (DIR) Post #B6axlpKGvjkUzF49oG by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       (🤝 “complimenting a dad on their grilling skills” “complimenting a Unicode Consortium member on their new emoji”)@> “nice char”
       
 (DIR) Post #B6ayMTfmOmw4XsbPlY by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       they should make a new pirate bay and call it the Torrent Nexus
       
 (DIR) Post #B6cjr4CY2boBWmyfIW by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       a fun evolution of the virtual OS museum (https://www.virtualosmuseum.org/) idea would be to set it up so you can run software from any of the emulated platforms "rootless" like a native app window in your modern desktop OS
       
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       when people argue for consistency in computer environments as an absolute, i sometimes think of jane jacobs and her argument that urban environments are best when they're layers of old and new buildings mixed together. we have enough generations of software now that it'd be interesting to take that attitude to our computer environments. and there's a lot of old software that could still be useful if it were still readily accessible
       
 (DIR) Post #B6d2UkSced1z3rZF8y by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,Eight for Rest,and Eight for What you will
       
 (DIR) Post #B6hWXxsFUe769Qat3A by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       making sure my codebase is properly agentic
       
 (DIR) Post #B6lLKkfewtIqZg2fbs by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       I was reading about "unreal mode" on the x86, as one does https://www.os2museum.com/wp/a-brief-history-of-unreal-mode/I knew there are fundamental architectural problems with using a >64k code segment under real mode, since the processor will only save the 16-bit CS:IP, but michal's post hints at problems with >64k stacks as well. i can foresee problems within a DOS environment (OS routines using 16-bit arithmetic instructions on SP), but from bare metal, are there hardware-level problems with large stacks in real mode as well?
       
 (DIR) Post #B6mBPEX73jbJxtVEIK by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       we have the 386 microcode dump now, but that alone doesn't fully reveal the details. looks like `eSP` is the thing that gets updated, but i didn't see notes on when exactly eSP refers to SP or ESP. i would guess it comes from the current SS, since a 16-bit code segment with >64K stack segment would be a weird-but-valid protected mode environment
       
 (DIR) Post #B6mBPEn46QMSlMxy9w by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       the 386SX programmer's reference manual seems to confirm this. i should try it on the real 386 in my FM TOWNS
       
 (DIR) Post #B6mBt49KEJoKRqbM3s by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       @djsumdog 32- and 64-bit code coexisting is relatively rational and well-documented, all things considered. "unreal mode" is a complete accident of the 386 implementation that turned into a trick people depend on
       
 (DIR) Post #B6pUn1oUU2cC4KZRGC by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       english language pronunciation test (level: impossible)
       
 (DIR) Post #B6rbDExxC1buQnnads by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       when you write spaghetti code in a dependent typed language, that’s Leanguini
       
 (DIR) Post #B6rcwIcsX0w4lgzUNU by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       Gil Amelio, hurling a jewel case into the garbage: You’re telling me a bee wrote this OS??
       
 (DIR) Post #B6regE1i43TPmJ4IWe by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       lionel hutz would've been a great psychoanalyst
       
 (DIR) Post #B6rfEJWc7yhYg2mJYO by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       if Swift is serious about helping people write better software, i think we should tailor how the standard library handles common anti-patterns
       
 (DIR) Post #B6yU17RHwNJldW6tf6 by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       i thought they all used nvidia chips. why is everyone today talking about their ai prices Ryzen
       
 (DIR) Post #B6zfKZWKrxcRFn719M by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       ✋🏻 protocol requirements👉🏻 key conformance indicators
       
 (DIR) Post #B7so84w5XoHuivebwG by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       time for some vi be coding
       
 (DIR) Post #B7voNto7FoACrcRV2W by joe@f.duriansoftware.com
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       how bad is the memory crisis? shady guy outside micro center was trying to sell me this for a thousand bucks