Conversation

Notices

1. pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 00:42:13 JST pistolero

   • NonPlayableClown
   • mischievoustomato
   • frogzone
   • Hyperhidrosis
   • broken god
   @NonPlayableClown @cvnt @mischievoustomato @Hyperhidrosis @frogzone
   
   > Are you building the app as a x64 app on 4GB?
   
   What? qt6 is a library and the DevTerm is ARM. If you are talking about the screenshot, that's old, that's qt4, I think. I used to use luakit, so I had to build qt back then, too.
   
   "x64" is not real, and it's a stupid coinage: 8086, 80286, 80386, 80486, these are x86 CPUs. The 64-bit ISA is called, depending, AMD-64 or x86-64. Microsoft came up with "x64" because "AMD-64" had AMD's name in it, "x86-64" has too many SCARY NUMBERS, and changing "32" to "64" in "IA-32" wouldn't work because the "I" part is no longer true.
   
   > You can also place ram usage limits on your apps
   
   Did you just send someone that has been using Linux since the 90s a StackOverflow link where the only piece of information is the ulimit man page? Do kids these days actually not know how to type `man ulimit`? Do you call /bin/sh an "app"?
   
   :tyrellshades: Why don't you like these pipes?
   :elliotthinking: Because they leak.
   :tyrellshades: Show me where it leaks!
   :elliotmanic2: Here, here, here...
   :tyrellshades: But duct tape is so cheap!
   :elliot: ...
   
   Nothing you are telling me makes C++ less shitty to use. None of it makes C++ programs less shitty.
   
   > It's on the todo list try it out.
   
   I am not a fan.
   
   > Good thing you didn't see how cancerous VB.net was.
   
   I lived through it. I had already ditched Windows for Linux by then. I saw happy99 and Code Red and nimda and Slammer in the news. (And happy99 in my inbox.) I was there.
   
   C++ was already shit in 1998 and it has not gotten any smaller or more manageable. That is 26 years ago. I don't know what you write, maybe C++ makes sense for you, it has never made any sense for anything I have ever written in my life and 1998 is before most people on fedi were born.
   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 12:48:08 JST pistolero

     in reply to

     • 
     • NonPlayableClown
     • mischievoustomato
     • frogzone
     • Hyperhidrosis
     • broken god
     @mint @Hyperhidrosis @NonPlayableClown @cvnt @frogzone @mischievoustomato
     
     > Even Gentoo is dropping its support
     
     NetBSD supports VAX still. Wonder if they've dropped Itanic.
     
     > That said, Itanium's spirit lives on in Elbrus/E2K, partially fueled by my tax money.
     
     The, uh...
     
     > The Elbrus 2000 (or e2k; Russian: Эльбрус 2000) is a Russian 512-bit wide VLIW microprocessor developed by Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST) and fabricated by TSMC.
     
     Holy fucking shit.
     
     > the Elbrus 2000 architecture implements dynamic data type-checking during execution.
     
     This is actually kinda cool. It seems like something that'd run better as a coprocessor, though. Like, even on a conventional CPU, 90% of the time (90%!) is spent waiting for the memory bus. 20 instructions per clock would have to be way worse. So a regular CPU doing the regular CPU stuff for an OS with this insane VLIW coprocessor, that would be pretty cool.
   • pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 12:48:09 JST pistolero

     in reply to

     • 
     • NonPlayableClown
     • mischievoustomato
     • frogzone
     • Hyperhidrosis
     • broken god
     @mint @Hyperhidrosis @NonPlayableClown @cvnt @frogzone @mischievoustomato Nobody is writing software for it.
   •  (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 12:48:09 JST 

     in reply to

     • NonPlayableClown
     • mischievoustomato
     • frogzone
     • Hyperhidrosis
     • broken god
     @p @cvnt @NonPlayableClown @mischievoustomato @Hyperhidrosis @frogzone Even Gentoo is dropping its support despite still supporting PA-RISC that's even more dead.
     https://www.gentoo.org/news/2024/08/14/Gentoo-drops-IA-64-support.html
     That said, Itanium's spirit lives on in Elbrus/E2K, partially fueled by my tax money.
   •  (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 12:48:10 JST 

     in reply to

     • NonPlayableClown
     • mischievoustomato
     • frogzone
     • Hyperhidrosis
     • broken god
     @p @cvnt @NonPlayableClown @mischievoustomato @Hyperhidrosis @frogzone >changing "32" to "64" in "IA-32" wouldn't work because the "I" part is no longer true.
     IA-64 existed no matter how much low-level system engineers want to forget it to sleep more soundly.
   • Bricky (thatbrickster@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Aug-2024 12:48:54 JST Bricky

     in reply to

     • 
     • NonPlayableClown
     • mischievoustomato
     • frogzone
     • Hyperhidrosis
     • broken god
     @p There was once a fedi instance that was running on a Elbrus 2000 system. Might be worth looking into.
     
     @cvnt @NonPlayableClown @mischievoustomato @mint @Hyperhidrosis @frogzone