So, Python hacking friends...I need to work on an app that I'd normally install from pip and I have no clue at all how to actually iterate on this thing. Like, how do I set up a local environment properly? How do I get Python to read the local source and not the stuff installed via pip? A crusty old C hacker needs to know.
Drew Devault gets me. This is ultimately why I don't throw myself into Rust-- it's a heavy, rapidly moving target with no standards for the language or ABI.
https://drewdevault.com/2021/02/09/Rust-move-fast-and-break-things.html
@neauoire You might find it funny that, because of our various interactions, search engines seem to know your websites matter to me. When I go looking for ORCA/C, the Apple iigs C compiler, your ORCA comes up first.
The Real Novelty of the ARPANET
"Physical distance was conquered well before the ARPANET by the telegraph. The kind of distance conquered by the ARPANET was instead the logical distance between the operating systems, character codes, programming languages, and organizational policies employed at each host site. Implementing the first packet-switched network was of course a major feat of engineering that should also be mentioned, but the problem of agreeing on standards to connect computers that had never been designed to play nice with each other was the harder of the two big problems involved in building the ARPANET—and its solution was the most miraculous part of the ARPANET story."
Tooting this from a terminal app on an Apple iiGS emulator. Pretty damn cool. #retrocomputing
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-- Abigail Adams, March 1776
“2000 me: Wow you still work on the web, that’s amazing. It must be so easy to publish really interesting web pages.
2020 me: Uhhhhh. [Very long pause.] Look, you can pay a low monthly fee and listen to any album anyone ever made.
’00: That must create some amazing opportunities for musicians!
’20: Well.”
https://ftrain.medium.com/web-conversations-with-the-year-2000-f0c40fb8b19c
"To run, to explore without consequence, to wander without meaning, to play. To love and enjoy our own world." ... "It's all we've ever wanted." (Ibid)
"I look at myself and I see imperfections."..."These imperfections will persist until the end of time, and there's nothing I can do about that. My life will never be a perfect one. Those lakes, and the ruins that stick out of them, remind me that it's not supposed to be. This isn't Heaven. Waters rise and batteries fail. This is a universe in which things can still fuck up. And that's where I belong. I BELONG here. I can't tell you how good that feels."
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