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Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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pram posted:

do it from an aws vm with tons of memory? what the gently caress is the problem here
It’s plausible that rms could have put a condition on him not to use any pooprietary government-linked systems for the migration

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Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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Im the multiple root revisions from when gnu merged all its compiler projects together

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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quote:

Among the measures being now attempted are running the process with his web-browser shutdown to conserve memory and potentially shifting some code from Python to the Go programming language, but that could prove to be very tedious.
Lmao don’t miss this part

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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Sweevo posted:

if 64gb is too expensive then maybe the loving club-footed moocher could try getting a job!
muh scars

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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i wouldnt hire eric would you?

however much code he wrote back in the day, he doesn't seem motivated to write any now beyond int -> bool conversions. then throw in the arrogance and irritating personality and the EEO risk

Gazpacho fucked around with this message at 17:20 on Jul 10, 2018

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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That’s quite a self-own considering both were outmoded by 1997

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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Zlodo posted:

I wrote to Eric, advising him that I would not put his patch in that week, because I could see problems with it.

Eric replied, saying

You have no right to do this,
for I am an author of ncurses,
and you are not.
poetry

btw RMS comes across as unusually pragmatic in that story

Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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ncurses is good software

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Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
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it's a paul world

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