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You can do all those things with a macro assembler.


fpcupdeluxe is a lot more reliable than installing the releases.

When arm64 came out, I couldn't even get an arm64 build for my Mac, but fpcupdeluxe just handled it.


Thanks for the pointer, but it seems to not know about the new releases yet.


Pascal originally required you to specify the length of the string before you did anything with it.

This is a totally good idea, but was considered to be too much of a pain to use at the time.


In C you have to do that too, like... malloc()?


It was so much harder when I was a baby- you had to bootstrap the whole thing on an IBM 360.


Feels like a lot of people like making dealing with null as complicated as possible.


Then use Ice Cubes. Not everything has to be FOSS.


What's the argument against it?


It's not very community-like out of the box, that's totally true.

OTOH, after you follow both people and hashtags, it feels pretty much like everything else, more or less.


> Can’t pick a big generic instance because

Nobody is going to defederate from mastodon.social, but otherwise, this is all true.


It's very common to defederate from mastodon.social due to spam. It might be among the most de-federated instances.


People can and have.


Both. Mainframes though are incredibly good for both I/O and uptime.

Yeah, Linux/Unix are way better on both than they used to be, but on a mainframe, it's just a totally different level.


Not just that. Most operating systems lie about when an IO transaction completes for performance reasons. So if you lose power or the IO device dies you still think it succeeded. A mainframe doesn't do that... it also multiplexes the IO so it happens more than once so if one adapter fails it keeps going. The resiliency is the main use case in many situations. That said IME 99.995% of use cases don't need a mainframe. They just don't need to be that reliable if they can fail gracefully.


You can run Linux on mainframes fine. RHEL has first-class support for s390x / Z.


Yes! I had the good fortune of working with z/VM for Linux guests. It was a lot of fun and it worked quite well.


Because a lot of real humans on social media are awful.

(Some platforms are better than others, obviously.)


Case in point, my suggestion of just talk to real humans got downvoted.


That's what you get for talking to real humans /s


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