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Thank you for your post on virtual memory. Though I still don't understand it, I have a better idea of how much I don't know.
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>(For OS, I recommend you to check [HyperbolaBSD]) I've had interest in this project before. An OpenBSD-derived operating system is of course interesting. However, the first release has been in-progress for some time now. The project was announced more than 3 years ago. https://www.hyperbola.info/news/announcing-hyperbolabsd-roadmap/
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For OS, I recommend you to check [HyperbolaBSD](https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:manual:contrib:hyperbolabsd_faq). The release date is not far away.
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>https://mikegrindle.com/posts/permacomputing Thanks for writing on this. I argue that we have been wasteful *because* of the advancements of computing hardware. The focus is on speed before efficiency or durability. Likewise, popular software has grown to suit the convenience. Should computer hardware stop increasing in speed, developers may stop upping their hardware expectations,
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kaa
5 months ago
and then people who value their time can afford to keep a computer for a decade instead of 3 years.
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kaa
5 months ago
I own and occasionally use a 12 year-old laptop. The keyboard on it is great, and the touchpad is much better than the modern ones. Opening three heavy web sites at the same time causes disk swapping.
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mikegrindle
5 months ago
Thanks, appreciate you reading. Unfortunately, I don't see any such slowdown becoming the norm, but we can still strive for better. They really don't make keyboards like they used to, right? I always work my tech into the ground but I don't think I've hit the 12-year mark before. My current laptop is about 6-7 years old and doing okay (with a lightweight Linux).
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mikegrindle
5 months ago
Currently using Peppermint OS with Awesome WM. Linux Mint Xfce is brilliant if your hardware isn't too old. AntiX is a good choice if its ancient.
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owlroost
5 months ago
To add more lightweight options: quite a few people I know swear by Alpine as a lightweight choice. Void is popular if you prefer rolling release. Debian can be light if you set it up that way and has the added perk of very slow updates.
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nohappynonsense
5 months ago
thanks owl, i'll look into alpine as well. i use ubuntu on my regular set up cuz i'm a normie, but i do want to revive some ancient chromebooks with something very light
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kaa
5 months ago
Alpine is great. It uses musl libc https://musl.libc.org/, which uses much less memory than GNU libc https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/. My 12-year old laptop boots it in 30 seconds, and I've only beaten that metric using a purpose-compiled kernel on a source-based distribution https://kisslinux.org/. It requires some technical know-how, however documentation is readily available https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki.
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In case anybody else here uses neatroff to format their papers, here's some code for references in the style of the American Mathematical Society. https://kaa.run.place/ref.go
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kaa
5 months ago
I'm using it for my English101 research paper. Here's what I've got so far. https://kaa.run.place/English101/research.pdf
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kaa
5 months ago
Yes, that could work. I may spend a paragraph explaining the relative failures of competitors, such as Forth, and Lisp, and APL.
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I have now found that Firefox and friends will hyphenate pages only if both the language are set in the tag and the strange -moz-hyphens and -webkit-hyphens are set to auto. I am unsure if this is less or more obscure than the wrapper code I wrote around libhyphen.
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kaa
5 months ago
Taketwo: I've got the tools to do that. I'm currently renting a domain from godaddy.com, which provides an API to create sub-domains. I've got a VPS connected to that domain. However, somebody else has already done this project. https://tilde.institute/stats All they're missing is a pretty interface.
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To anybody who uses `text-align: justify;' and can run `make': Please run a program I wrote, for our mutual benefit. You get better looking text, I get bug reports and a sense of fulfillment. Compiles and runs on Linux and Windows, presumably on Mac. git clone git://mesacsclub.com/hyp
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kaa
5 months ago
New and Improved: the singular dependency, `libhyphen', is included in-tree. The build path is now compiled in to the program without manual intervention. Compiling on Windows is as simple as installing a compiler, a shell, and then running `make win/hyp.exe'.
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kaa
5 months ago
I went looking for web sites which use `text-align: justify', however the lack of consistent hyphenation seems to have caused aversion from it. Since this is a chicken-and-egg problem, a web page I have written with justification in mind is provided in the `demo' directory, before and after hyphenation.
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This is a great start :) As mentioned in the post, even people experienced with systems have trouble with it. And thank you for the comment, I've always loved your website (every once in a while, I go and check your "appreciated" page, it's wonderful)