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thinkyfish··on Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
If your into C++, there is U++ (Ultimate++), which is a fully featured RAD ide equivalent to Lazarus with the fastest compiler I've seen. It compiles to Win/Mac/Linux/BSD.
thinkyfish··on I fixed Windows native development
Guix and Nix can do that. They were built from the ground up to be able to have multiple, simultaneous versions of everything installed in separate store, and you can request on a per shell basis what you want in your environment.
thinkyfish··on Science Communications on YouTube
An who can forget Lord Nice!
thinkyfish··on Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED
I was just thinking of making something like this last night but using FLENG instead of Erlang ;) I'm really glad more people are taking inspiration from Node-RED, I will definitely be playing with this!
thinkyfish··on Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line
Lingering colonial attitudes. America, for the longest time was the "exploited space" for Europe and much like India, carries this beaten in attitude that "this is not the nice place". You can find nice places like this but you have to go to the richest enclaves to find it. Japan is its own "nice place".
thinkyfish··on OpenAI just put the final nail in the coffin of the open World Wide Web
And then when you find out they didn't give you the best deal, you got the sponsored pick? And you didn't even get to comparison shop? The AI tax is coming for your choices, one purchase at a time.
thinkyfish··on Laser mapping reveals oldest Amazonian cities, built 2500 years ago (2024)
You should check out the Miniminuteman series on ancient apocalypse, its pretty interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iCIZQX9i1A
thinkyfish··on U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules
"conservative administrations tend to favor cutting regulations"- citation needed. They favor looking like they do, but end up putting in punitive regulations that only the large entrenched, conservative owned companies can afford to comply with, stifling competition from below.
thinkyfish··on Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?
I've witnessed the answer personally. Indian immigrants working physically in US call centers.
thinkyfish··on Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO
Forgejo jumps to mind.
thinkyfish··on A Return to Blu-ray as Streaming Value Evaporates
Why do we tolerate this? Shouldn't there be consumer protections that say that if you don't use the service, you shouldn't have to pay for that month? Where do we get our refunds?
thinkyfish··on Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork
How about EngineF?
thinkyfish··on Right to Repair: The Price Is Not Right
Some plastics melt at a certain temperature (thermoplastics like PETG/PLA) and others don't (thermosets like resin/epoxy). Its possible you just attempted to melt the type that just burns when you heat it.
thinkyfish··on VMware is now part of Broadcom
The tooling is really mature. Amazon used xen for ages. kvm wins for hardware passthrough and performance, but if your willing to sacrifice a little performance the advanced admin features are competitive.
thinkyfish··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2023)
Location: Frederick, MD

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: not possible

Technologies: Javascript, Python, C, C++, PostgreSQL, Linux, Google Script, Svelte, Scheme

Resume/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tristan-maccrehan-321219186

Email: tristanmaccrehan@gmail.com

I have a couple years experience so I'm looking for an entry level position, ideally joining a team. I can learn anything you need. Full remote only.

thinkyfish··on When photography “produces something other than photographs”
You bring up an interesting point, not all modern art is directed at anyone other than the artist themselves. Its less likely in that framework that a particular artist just happens to create art that most people would also like and create a name for themselves and there are fewer trying to show off an absurd quantity of craftsmanship in a single work.
thinkyfish··on Ask HN: Dealing with ADHD Without Medication?
The personally confounding thing was that I assumed there would simply be a withdrawal period and I would start to feel normal at some point. That never really happened, even years later. After hearing rumors I started looking at articles like this https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-adhd-drugs-tak... and this https://www.acnp.org/g4/GN401000166/CH162.htm and I started to think that perhaps taking these drugs as a child over a period of 8 years might actually have had a much deeper impact that I realized and after trying various things over the years I found some that seemed to help. The causality was a little funny. I started lions mane, it helped. Herbals usually don't do much and I started doing research into why it might help so much. Lion's mane increases nerve growth factor, and that led me down the rabbit hole.
thinkyfish··on Ask HN: Dealing with ADHD Without Medication?
I went down this path and after much struggle, I learned the hard way that amphetamines can damage your nervous system. My current routine is to use samatha (calmness) style meditation to promote parasympathetic activity and taking Lion's Mane mushroom to promote nerve healing. It's been a decade since I stopped taking amphetamines and its the first thing that actually seemed to make a difference in restoring what was lost. Your not alone in struggling after going off medication.
thinkyfish··on Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller start a new semiconductor fab
EUV can expose a whole chip image in a single shot. Raster scanning electrons takes about 4 hours to do the same image.
thinkyfish··on Tesla Terminated Dozens in Response to New Union Campaign, Complaint Alleges
By creating an environment of respect in employment terms. In a word, inertia. There is a reason employment contracts with greater than 40 hours a week are almost unheard of. Union blood was spilled to bring it down to that.
thinkyfish··on America Has Gone Too Far in Legalizing Vice
Making vice illegal simply encourages "fake virtue". If you needed the vice to be illegal to stop you, you weren't virtuous in the first place. But you can pretend as long as you are "innocent". Innocence is not Purity.
thinkyfish··on Steve Wozniak used to tip from printed sheets of $2 bills
"Such things are no longer jokes. They screw up entire lives." But should they screw up lives? Why should we put up with authorities that can't take a joke. This is the foundation of the culture of defiance that hacking was all about expressing.
thinkyfish··on Pristine meteorite found within hours of hitting Earth
Here is a video talking about molecular chirality and how nature really only produces one version of molecules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKhcan8pk2w. If it picked up the molecules in the atmosphere those atmospheric molecules should have been made by life on earth and those have a handedness bias depending on the molecule, some are produced right handed only or left handed only because they are made one atom at a time and need to be one handed for life to use them. Abiotic synthesis produces a 50/50 bias of left and right handed molecules because they are made all at once.
thinkyfish··on Inca Child Sacrifice Victims Were Drugged
I wonder if all these sacrifices were because of a lack of food. Better to give your kid to the gods than to watch them slowly starve to death during a bad winter.
thinkyfish··on Computer powered by colony of blue-green algae has run for six months
While I doubt this will be used for main-line power generation, it might be useful for low cost, battery free monitoring for algae farms.
thinkyfish··on What if Sun Microsystems acquired Apple in 1996?
Enjoy your Oracle oPhone(TM).
thinkyfish··on Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok
Facebook has no motivation to make true accusations against TikTok. There may be legitimate criticisms that can be made, but facebook doesn't have a reason to care, and being tasked with making those criticisms in an environment where anything that sticks is rewarded, regardless of the truth, will have their honesty and truthfulness compromised, and will be encouraged to view that as normal, compromising their wisdom.
thinkyfish··on Britain to start approval process for Rolls-Royce mini nuclear reactor
I think it just means that the whole reactor itself IS a module, can be removed, put on a truck, repaired, upgraded, and replaced as needed. Here is a Wikipedia link that has a picture of one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuScale_Power
thinkyfish··on Show HN: Simula One – Portable Linux VR Computer
I'm actually really hyped for this, I was thinking I would have to get the ultra-proprietary Varjo headsets to get a really good headset in 2022, but I'm really looking hard at the Tethered version and building my own RDNA2 based compute unit. I'd much rather give 2k to an open source project.
thinkyfish··on Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation (2019)
I think they should be called Runbook Scripts. They basically walk you through a procedure with a text interface. I bet they would work even better as a slide deck.
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