[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 93 points 1 month ago

I bet this was some sort of gen AI mishap: "translate this campaign text to Latin", because of course Latinos speak Latin, and it's called Latin America too!

Although this would be twice as hilarious if they hired a translator who just went "🤷 ah well, money is money"

[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 2 points 2 months ago

I've only done it the "manual" way but I don't think the script was even a thing the last time I installed Arch, which must have been close to 15 years ago now.

[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh it's not quite as "from scratch" as some people make it out to be. It definitely can be more work than most distros, but mostly it's pretty straightforward and you generally just follow some wiki guide or another when picking "components" to install and I think nowadays you can use prebuilt binaries too (I haven't used Arch in a good while.) There's really not all that many moving parts, most of them are sort of a package deal – if you want to use X, you have to install Y and Z. It really is more like building a PC from parts.

Now, if you actually want to build a Linux system from scratch, there's the very surprisingly named Linux From Scratch project

[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 13 points 2 months ago

Academics, think tanks and magazines are buzzing with conversations about how to undo the damage wrought by half a century of misguided economic policies. On the right, that debate has already spilled out into the public view.

Well, if vocally campaigning to make shit much worse qualifies as "spilled out into the public view", then yeah I guess it has

[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 30 points 2 months ago

I suppose they meant that it slows down their internet, not the internet

[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 3 points 2 months ago

I thought he'd understood why it was better for him to drop out of the race, but I guess that was overly optimistic of me

[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 1 points 2 months ago

I'm surprised I haven't seen any "trump for Harris" generated images yet in this thread.

It'd mean having to give money to Musk

[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 23 points 2 months ago

Clueless MBA parasites ruining shit for everybody again?

Must be a day that ends in Y

[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 2 points 2 months ago

I doubt he's that open-minded. He's one bottle of whiskey away from suggesting concentration camps for minorities and "woke" people

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[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 34 points 2 months ago

This but unironically

[-] dactylotheca@suppo.fi 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, separating his [REDACTED] from his [REDACTED] using the famous French invention called [REDACTED] would definitely be justice

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By Jon S. Stumpf

May your signals all trap
    May your references be bounded
All memory aligned
    Floats to ints rounded

Remember ...

Non-zero is true
    ++ adds one
Arrays start with zero
    and, NULL is for none

For octal, use zero
    0x means hex
= will set
    == means test

use -> for a pointer
    a dot if its not
? : is confusing
    use them a lot

a.out is your program
    there's no U in foobar
and, char (*(*x())[])() is
    a function returning a pointer
    to an array of pointers to
    functions returning char

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Guess it's sort of appropriate that you have to pay for crushing dystopian sadness

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Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx7Lfh5SKUQ

A fairly in-depth and "dense" C3 talk about the AGC that covers the architecture and instruction set, the hardware implementation, peripherals, and the system & mission software.

Really interesting stuff if you're into retrocomputing and/or computers that got people to the fucking Moon, and if you're not the sort of person who turns into an unskippable cutscene when the AGC is mentioned, you'll probably learn a lot. If you're like me and you are that sort of person, you'll probably enjoy the talk anyhow.

(book tips: The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation by Frank O'Brien for AGC details, and Digital Apollo by David Mindell for a general overview of the automation in Apollo)

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