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You can do all those things with a macro assembler.

fpcupdeluxe is a lot more reliable than installing the releases.

When arm64 came out, I couldn't even get an arm64 build for my Mac, but fpcupdeluxe just handled it.

Pascal originally required you to specify the length of the string before you did anything with it.

This is a totally good idea, but was considered to be too much of a pain to use at the time.

It was so much harder when I was a baby- you had to bootstrap the whole thing on an IBM 360.

Feels like a lot of people like making dealing with null as complicated as possible.

Then use Ice Cubes. Not everything has to be FOSS.

It's not very community-like out of the box, that's totally true.

OTOH, after you follow both people and hashtags, it feels pretty much like everything else, more or less.

> Can’t pick a big generic instance because

Nobody is going to defederate from mastodon.social, but otherwise, this is all true.

Both. Mainframes though are incredibly good for both I/O and uptime.

Yeah, Linux/Unix are way better on both than they used to be, but on a mainframe, it's just a totally different level.

Because a lot of real humans on social media are awful.

(Some platforms are better than others, obviously.)

Sure, but that is different than being a translation.

A "translation" of the Bible is always considered moving from the original text, not from the likely language of the speaker.

You are completely wrong. The US is not a leftist nation by any stretch of the imagination. Honestly, you're so incredibly wrong, that I can't believe you actually believe what you are saying.

In fact, after being on HN since 2008, I have never encountered someone as wrong as you are.

I lost hope for Swift after seeing a minor holy war about the c-style for loop.

> "But nobody made them agree to that!"

And to amplify your point just a bit, if the alternative is losing your healthcare and possibly going homeless, what does "agreeing" even mean anymore?

Probably because only the US has the kind of gun violence that you're wondering about. I don't think in Europe, the idea that someone is going to come after you with a gun because you pissed them off generally hits the radar.

Someone may find the question offensive because of that.

Greatest amp ever, if you ask me.

I see this idea a lot, but I don't really buy it. I've coded in 6502 assembly for years, and the zero page is not register-like at all.

Best thing you can say about zero page is that it only requires one read cycle to fetch a value from. (Or one write cycle to store a value to it.)

Why ZP isn't like registers: You can't do register operations with it. For example, you can do this with the accumulator:

LDA #03 ; load immediate value of 3. STA $c000 ; store it at $c000.

or

LDA $1004 ; load a value from $1004. ADC $4000 ; add the value stored at $4000. STA $4001 ; store to $4001.

You can't do this at all with a zero page address. You have to go through an actual register first.

Do you like to be surveilled at work? Would it make you want to do a better job or just hate your job more?

The concern here is that people aren’t happy that LLM parasites are wasting their bandwidth and therefore their money on a scheme to get rich off of other people’s work.

> It seems fine as long as they follow the regulations related to price fixing

This would be the "if it's legal, it's also ethical" fallacy.

Something tells me Apple is not remotely interested in systemd.

launchd, however works fine.

I remember back in those days trying to lead a plant supervisor through installing some custom software on a MS-DOS machine from floppies.

"No, not the slash under the question mark key, the other one."

5 Minutes Later...

"No, not the slash under the question mark key, the other one."

Yeah, it does! You probably need Rosetta 2 installed first though.

Wine bottler works well for that.

A non-zero amount of delusional people believing something ridiculous doesn't make it true.

I think just about everybody has had to deal with one or several of these guys.

> I hope the hole your head is buried in is comfortable.

Not being on Facebook is burying your head in a hole? I mean, really, why say something like that?

Idk, seems like if you're already established somewhere and someone else comes in and tells you the place you live and your ancestors have lived in for millennia is now called "America"... Dunno, that feels kind of wrong.

> MacPorts is the standard macOS package manager.

No, it's not. macOS does not have a standard package manager.

> and for the love of god don't use the stock A1200 PSU, it'll kill your system (thanks Commodore)

That is definitely a Commodore tradition. I had a C64 back that had a PSU die in 1985 and took out all of the DRAM chips.