Notices by Joe Groff (joe@f.duriansoftware.com), page 4

learn to type English like a programmer!

"first" -> 0st
"second" -> 1nd
"third" -> 2rd

I gotta say, I really appreciate the “juice” the Safari team put into the “delete annoying elements” feature

@mcc if you're fortran-curious and objective-c is too much C for you, i have good news

@helge @mcc maybe there's a happier timeline where the object-oriented hype phase was just people adding Smalltalk on top of every language, instead of whatever C++ and Java is

We're excited to announce NAPL, a special-purpose tool that is emphatically *not* a general purpose programming language! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you that NAPL is accidentally Turing-complete

instead of using file extensions and having the OS map those to file icons, why don't we just put all the file icons in Unicode and start filenames with an emoji to indicate the file type

number system with +0, –0, and 0⁰

@helge @mattiem @calicoding on Apple Silicon™️, the expensiveness is at least only if you have actual contention accessing the refcount

@helge @mattiem @calicoding the particular instructions used for refcounting get speculatively executed as if they were nonatomic, so in the case where there's no contention, there's very little overhead (because the atomic codegen still needs more instructions than a nonatomic update, etc.) if it turns out later the memory location was contended then you throw all that work away and do it properly

they call it a “conventional oven” because the temperature can’t go past 640 K

it's like... a website in here?

We had to say goodbye to Gummy Bear (2008–2024) earlier this week. He was the first dog my wife and I rescued together, and we were so happy with him that we've since adopted four more Pomeranians. I'm glad we got to spend more than a decade with him, and that he made it to the ripe old age of 16. I'll miss him.

@pinskia the x86_32 build does still use GCC 2.95 to maintain bincompat with Intel BeOS R5!

let's try posting from a parallel timeline

Haiku already gets +10 points over 99% of X11 based desktop environments for having correct Macintosh-flavored shortcut keys

…and it's not only BeOS fan fiction! Haiku's got some pretty interesting OS design stuff going on with its package management system. When a package gets dropped into certain blessed folders, their dependencies are automatically resolved and their contents are overlain read-only into the filesystem. The bootloader keeps track of system revisions and lets you easily boot into a previous configuration too. Like a modular version of the APFS system/data volume split https://www.haiku-os.org/docs/develop/packages/Infrastructure.html

@inthehands "I heard Google's writing 25% of their code with AI now,"

My trashcan’s internal speaker got knocked loose or something so everything rattles. On the plus side, it now boots with the quad damage noise

@justkwin being outside of the EU, Switzerland still uses the franc as the unit of execution

if you think about it, 100% of text typed on an iPhone is AI generated,