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svthon Mini-Mainframe at Home: A 6-CPU Server from 1997

Cool, but why the hell would you want to install Windows Vista on it?

svthon For cops who kill, special Supreme Court protection

"Land of the free? Whoever told you that is your enemy."

svthon Ask HN: What does brexit mean for EU developers looking to find work in the UK?

Six bloody years. No more!

svthon Ask HN: What does brexit mean for EU developers looking to find work in the UK?

Trust me, if you're an EU citizen, you don't want to work in the UK. Horribly dysfunctional, overtaxed country run by evil kleptocratic psychopaths. Take a look at the Nordics instead.

svthon Draft of German copyright reform proposes memes should only be up to 128 pixels

The US has lots of overbearing regulations and laws relating to "moral" stuff such as drinking and nudity. In many places in the US, it's illegal to drink alcohol in public [!!!]. That's pretty fucked up, not being allowed to drink a beer on a park bench. And don't get me started on the puritan anti-nudity laws...

svthon F-35 logistics system to be reinvented and renamed, official says

Obligatory War Nerd post:

https://pando.com/2015/09/24/war-nerd-why-f-35-albanian-mush...

svthon A Look at PureDarwin – An OS Based on the Open Source Core of macOS

Here's a link to the first volume, made available on the book's website:

http://newosxbook.com/MOXiI.pdf

svthon Developer Survey Results 2019

Dumb comment. "Not using Microsoft SQL Server" != "don't work with databases" Sensible people prefer Postgres.

"Like last year, MySQL is the most commonly used database. PostgreSQL has taken the second spot this year."

svthon Sloth – Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use

Binary is ~200KB. The rest is mostly images, icons and whatnot, and the auto-update framework (Sparkle). Version 1.0 was 40KB zipped, back in 2004. O tempora, O bloat.

svthon Sloth – Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use

Author of Sloth here. I develop free software in my spare time and I'm not willing to pay Apple USD 100 per year for the "privilege" of developing for their platform. It's a sad state of affairs when independent developers like me have to shell out hard cash in order to give software away for free. True, USD 100 isn't much, but I'm opposed, on principle, to paying money to an enormously wealthy megacorporation just to make software for their platform. Not so very long ago, macOS had a vibrant independent developer community. It's now slowly being choked to death with this horrid App Store stuff.

svthon Sloth – Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use

Author of Sloth here. The controller didn't start out quite so fat, the whole thing was quite slim, 400-500 lines, when I first put Sloth together some 15 years ago. It grew as various additional features piled on over the years. However, your point is well taken. I should refactor things at some point.