Posts by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
(DIR) Post #B4HnT65jaa8CKtQXDs by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
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https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/6764/ ← I think this is a super neat stack machine architecture! #PermaComputing
(DIR) Post #B5McjgO0Kh43d8zfeq by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
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@fiore `&nbsp;` is a non-breaking horizontal space, and `<br>` is a line break, if that helps.
(DIR) Post #B5Md0EGi7urTLdTKjY by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
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@fiore yeah well HTML was derived from SGML, so it's gonna' be ugly.If you don't mind it being in a fixed-width font, the `<pre>` tag will preformat the text as it was typed in.
(DIR) Post #B5MdIWES4qrEH18XeS by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
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@fiore How about `<p style="white-space: pre">` to open your paragraph.
(DIR) Post #B5ttkOKv2MAfNQ9Tmq by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
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@bkuhn The way I fixed it in my head was when I memorised that if you leave out the second argument, it makes the link in the CWD with the name of the first argument. So obviously the first argument is the target, because the second argument is optional!
(DIR) Post #B5ttl1B0d8PvpyocFs by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
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@bkuhn @idlestate @lanodan @shrub900 That one may not count, as the target register was often in the mnemonic itself (i.e. `LDA`, `LDX`, `LDY` to load the operand into the A, X, or Y register).
(DIR) Post #B6CfPLg01aJVgtK3bk by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
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@tealturtle It's not prescriptive, so if you have cool plans for low-resource lua systems, I say get talking and let's see what comes of it.
(DIR) Post #B6niprKGwStHSBlCgi by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
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I actually worked at the same place as Andrew Tridgell, over a quarter-century ago. I got to know a few of the OzLabs folks during their immediate post-IBM years, and always had the highest respect for them in that way where you feel acute impostor syndrome when they're in the room.Tridge almost walked backwards into implementing the Windows SMB protocol (he was just debugging some funny NetBIOS extensions IIRC). But his paper on the #rsync algorithm was groundbreaking, and actually writing the tool to implement it was brilliant. It's become one of those tools like #curl that just forms one of the major structural supports of the modern Internet. I still remember the day that the SSH transport became the default, and I remember being able to thank him in person when he came to the San Francisco office (although IIRC by that point he'd handed control of rsync over to mbp).I remember at my next job he came to a summit of folks working on print driver/spooler software. When he pointed out that some problems were effectively a cache-consistency algorithm, we all kind of put our fingers to our temples and said "Oh wow, you're SO right!" He was always insightful and sharp, while being gentle and approachable.I write in the past tense because I haven't crossed paths with him in two decades, and only know what I see him put out. A friend of mine in Australia noted that he hasn't posted to the Canberra LUG list since 2020, thanking someone for congratulating him on receiving the Medal of the Order of Australia. He's very much alive, but from what little I see I grow concerned for him.In 2024 he took over maintenance of rsync once more. The 3.3.0 release was the last one from the previous maintainer, and Tridge is currently working on 3.4.x releases.Well... Tridge and #Claude, it seems: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@JeremiahFieldhaven/116654345332213390The issue tracker for rsync has recently lit up with regressions, showing features that worked reliably for almost 30 years are suddenly coming crashing down in 3.4.2 and 3.4.3. People are scrambling to find ways to pin rsync to known-good versions. The considerate, incisive mind I briefly knew is letting the stochastic parrots do his work for him, and it just seems so astonishingly *unlike* the person I met back in the day.I am still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. I hope all is well for him, but I will not cast aspersions on his goals or his abilities. No, instead I draw this conclusion: If TRIDGE of all people can't handle #LLMs without a slopocalypse, no one can.That means you. That means someone you admire who is intelligent and careful and considerate. Not even someone whose opinions on technology you respect a great deal. No one.
(DIR) Post #B6v595eFTUFaTPOmps by spacehobo@teh.entar.net
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@ariadne They just won't give up on the unrealistic dream of UML diagramming.