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Re:Unix Year 2038 problem and the art of underestimating on Saturday September 19, 2026 @05:36PM (#49770319)
This one was pretty fun to discuss. Nobody is ever going to need more than 640k of RAM.

Show HN: Dap-mux – Connect your editor and REPL to the same debug session

I have been coding over four decades, in many languages, on many projects (including Firefox, Final Cut Pro, the Newton, and Fullwrite Professional if you can remember that far back; all these using my "dead-name").I wrote something small and simple to scratch an itch. It's the UNIX philosophy: small "one-trick ponies", each *really* good at their one trick, then the user can hook them together...

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And don't forget people with just a single name. Filling in computer forms that require two names is the bane of my existence.