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Re:Charles Moore Fireside Q&A [video] on Tuesday November 18, 2025 @05:42PM (#45973258)
It looks like colorForth runs in qemu or bochs according to documentation, so Proton/wine wouldn't be required.
Re:Autodesk's John Walker Explained HP and IBM in 1991 on Monday November 03, 2025 @05:10AM (#45797513)
Two things that carry negative sentiment in relation to HP:

HP acquired Palm for $1.2 billion in 2010, stumbled with a mobile product launch that was killed without much runway or developer investment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44270709 (article archived: https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jxp06mns) - This no doubt soured people who cared about Palm.

HP were known for carrying Intel's Itanium business, for which few tech people have nostalgia for (the second hand market prices have always been eye-watering too), compared to the older PA-RISC line.

I'll agree their consumer/business laptops were always been perfectly usable and long lasting. I dumpster dived an excellent condition pentium 3 laptop from a HP Office that was probably thrown out because of a password locked BIOS (which was not resettable by battery removal, only by getting access to someone who had the bios password serial->keygen tool). It was a great daily driver with Debian, and wifi worked fine with ndiswrapper.

Despite originally saying it was a perk of graduation, mine ended cutting access after 10 years by citing cost saving (I imagine Google Workspace bills add up quickly, compared to self-hosting email). I wouldn't be surprised if this is the trend now.
Re:The Futures of Inform on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @01:38AM (#32575314)
Historically speaking, GHC has had C backend option to facilitate porting.

https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/9.4.2/docs/users_guide/co...

> -fvia-C

> Use the C code generator. Only supposed in unregisterised GHC builds.

> This is the oldest code generator in GHC and is generally not included any more having been deprecated around GHC 7.0. Select it with the -fvia-C flag.

> The C code generator is only supported when GHC is built in unregisterised mode, a mode where GHC produces “portable” C code as output to facilitate porting GHC itself to a new platform. This mode produces much slower code though so it’s unlikely your version of GHC was built this way. If it has then the native code generator probably won’t be available. You can check this information by calling ghc --info (see --info).

> Gnome supports Google Drive, or at least used to, directly in Nautilus. I don't use Gnome, so I can't comment.

I'm using it right now. It is not particularly responsive (perform an operation and it looks like no operation is happening until the remote end responds) but works well enough for copying files in and out via nautilus if you don't expect instant feedback.

Re:Maestral – open-source Dropbox client on Monday March 28, 2022 @09:59PM (#30837872)
are there any limits around the number of files? The official linux client starts to bug out somewhere over 250k files and gets stuck on "syncing". Dropbox support have said they don't recommend more than 100k files.
Re:DOSEMU2 Pre9 on Monday January 03, 2022 @04:29AM (#29778905)
> I remember painful memories of late 90s and early 2000s. Until DosBox, it was impossible to run DOS applications under Linux.

I seem to remember playing Commander Keen under DOSEMU seamlessly on a p200mmx with 64mb of ram. If this mail from 1999 is anything to go by, others were able to play similar vintage games:

https://web.archive.org/web/20000118171326/https://www.mail-...

Re:Anthocyanins on Monday November 29, 2021 @01:17AM (#29376957)
It is not from anthocyanin. It is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phycocyanin.
> And what on earth is going on at the FDA to approve this?

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/07/02/th...

> one of those dietary fat != blood/bodily fat type things.

What is meant by that though? Radio-labelling experiments do show that some dietary fat ends up as stored in fat cells.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2362....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopic_labeling

Re:Human Rapamycin Longevity Clinical Trials Begin on Saturday June 19, 2021 @01:01AM (#27557894)
> Is this physical or mental longevity, or both? I

A different study plans to evaluate Rapamycin for Alzheimer's disease, while being well aware of the positive effects on lifespan.

https://news.uthscsa.edu/ut-health-san-antonio-gains-2m-to-s...

Re:Raspberry Pi WiFi to ethernet bridge on Thursday June 10, 2021 @07:19PM (#27467307)
n=1

I use an intel nuc i3-7100U as a wifi to ethernet bridge for a Windows 10 machine (HP Elitedesk 8300 Core i5-3470). The nuc also serves as a htpc running libreelec.

Why? I tried 4 different USB WiFi dongles with different chipsets spanning ~11 years and each one would end up being the cause of intermittent blue screen of death. The dump file backtrace repeatedly pointed to the usb-wifi stack.

There are these too:

* https://www.rejuvenatebio.com/ (Gene therapy for mitral valve disease in dogs)

* https://dogagingproject.org/ (Involved rapamycin which is already known to increase lifespan in model organisms)

* https://www.vaika.org/ Reverse transcriptase inhibitors in dogs to increase healthspan/lifespan.

Re:Kunst Der Fuge Collection – Free Classical MIDI Files on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @05:30AM (#26790009)
"Free" - terms and conditions say only for personal, non-commercial use. http://www.kunstderfuge.com/notes.htm#Limitations%20of%20Use

> Personal use. You may use and play everything from the kunstderfuge.com web site and from its Services for your personal, non-commercial, use only. you agree not to reproduce, retransmit, distribute, disseminate, sell, broadcast, make available to third parties or circulate the musical content downloaded through the Service to anyone, or to exploit any such content for commercial or non-commercial purposes without the express prior written consent of kdf.

Re:Aquafaba on Thursday January 14, 2021 @08:25PM (#25785706)
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/bpa-substitutes-may-...

Might not necessarily be better, just different to satisfy the claim "BPA free".

Re:Manuka, the World’s Most Coveted Honey (2018) on Saturday November 07, 2020 @12:54AM (#25013426)
What I don't get is how they are marketing their honey around containing higher amounts of something which has putatively negative qualities?

> Methylglyoxal, a highly reactive dicarbonyl compound, is inevitably formed as a by-product of glycolysis. Methylglyoxal is a major cell-permeant precursor of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs), which are associated with several pathologies including diabetes, aging and neurodegenerative diseases. In normal situations, cells are protected against methylglyoxal toxicity by different mechanisms and in particular the glyoxalase system, which represents the most important pathway for the detoxification of methylglyoxal. While the neurotoxic effects of methylglyoxal and AGEs are well characterized, our understanding the glyoxalase system in the brain is more scattered

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2015.0002...

Re:On Old Age on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @06:11PM (#24644616)
If anyone here is giving, don't forget to check if your employer provides a matching fund. Many large companies do, so you can effectively double your donation.
> The goal is to slow down the process of aging in order to allow humans to live longer.

I think he'd say living longer for remaining disease-free would just be a happy side-effect.

That said, there many companies working on aging biology now: http://agingbiotech.info/companies/

Re:Longevity FAQ: A beginner's guide to longevity research on Sunday August 30, 2020 @12:28AM (#24321375)
List of companies working on the biology of aging: http://agingbiotech.info/companies/
Re:Take care editing bash scripts (2019) on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @06:25AM (#23089454)
They do.

Can be used it to interact with the execution of the current program. It is simple as appending further code with a label and jumping to it using goto. I first noticed it in 2007 started using it in production.

The latest news on the compound is from April 2019: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/nb-nba041019...

If anyone is interested in a talk by one of the authors (Kevin Strange), he goes into the history of the compound here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aAr5pKW9Dw

For progress on similar lines of tech, this is a good site: https://www.lifespan.io/the-rejuvenation-roadmap/

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