Part of my .emacs

    ;; LOL LOL - WOW mid '90s config returns from the grave
    ;; Load ladebug mode on OSF4
    (if (file-exists-p '"/usr/lib/emacs/lisp/ladebug.el")
      (load-file '"/usr/lib/emacs/lisp/ladebug.el"))

Shoutout to all those who used the C++ debugger on OSF with Digital hardware in mid-anthropocene …

The Internet is guilty of having a supreme lack of trivial functional examples. In the past trivial examples frequently functioned as the documentation for various libraries and utilities. While that was probably what we refert to now as the 'bad old days.' The modern focus on documentation and literate code …

Mithraism was one of the most important mystery cults in the Roman Empire. The principal deity of Mithraism was Mithras, a figure associated with Ahuramazda and Zoroastrianism. Mithras was associated with the Sun god. Mithraism was a male-only religion and followers where baptized in the blood of a bull before …

I recently discovered Hardware Offloading is not enabled by default on Unifi Edgerouter. To enable it you must give up QoS. However many small office networks don't need that and would benefit from the 3x performance boost instead. I tried it on my network and I observed easily a 3x …

Latin: literally natural law. The Romans believed, at least in principal, that the rights of individuals are inalienable from them. This precept maintains that a person is innocent until proven guilty, and that all people should be equal in the eyes of the law and government. Though this precept has …

"Even high-spec machines can run out of memory while compiling parts of the Solana codebase."

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