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That title was... slightly confusing. That said, I will always feel a sense of awe when I read about how those old, DOS-based versions of Windows worked behind the scenes. Everything is held together by software duct tape, yet somehow it works.

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> That title was... slightly confusing.

There's nothing in the rules that says a dog can't use Ghidra.

Finally an Air Bud movie I'd watch.

"Hey look! It didn't crash!" "I guess Toonces can write a driver!" "Yeah! Just not very well!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fvsItXYgzk

I was expecting something about the dog from Microsoft Bob, like a war story from an MS veteran about making the characters work on Windows 3.1

Alright; I’ll bite. Where’s the dog? I’m still confused.

The author is a furry, and the dog being referred to is himself

(Do other kink subcultures do this stuff??)

It's not a kink subculture. There are kink subcultures within it, but the only common factor among all the subcultures inside it is an appreciation for anthropomorphism.

Hi fox.

Furries do tend to be more open about kink (as part of the community’s general culture of acceptance), but to describe furry as a “kink subculture” is misleadingly reductive at best.

Less kink and more “if you’re on the internet why NOT pretend to be a walking talking dog?”

See also, VTubers, manga artists (who often represent themselves as characters), and our tendency to anthropomorphize computers (“it’s gotta think”)

It reminded me of the old comic with the phrase "on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog".

The author has a fursona, so I think the author himself is the dog.

Famed for the "when you like my post, it's like you're putting a treat in my mouth" tweet and pictures of lonely abandoned objects.

It’s the author.

Go listen to Casey Muratori talk. We've created a giant pile of abstractions but we don't actually need them and all they is make performance worse.

Now I'm interested, which talk do you mean?

Edit: I might have read that wrong, but I'm interested in specific recommendations nonetheless.

See for example this playlist of videos of his with some videos from 2021 where he implements a terminal emulator. As he says himself, this project is not so much about terminals as it is about software development practices in general.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEMXAbCVnmY6zCgpCFlgggRkr...

See also this video of his: “Clean” Code, Horrible Performance

https://youtu.be/tD5NrevFtbU

We would already be much better if folks actually bother to learn a bit about data structures, algorithms, and not shipping Electron garbage.

Abstractions aren't the problem, rather how they are used nowadays, by plenty of folks that only went through JavaScript bootcamps.

To note they aren't at fault, rather those that teach on those factories.

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