Of course what I actually _want_ is to use GNU binutils, but for the build process to not pass it the wrong arguments. Ugh.

UNIX’d again: This might be because I have GNU binutils in my PATH and it’s trying to use Sun’s assembler.

I suspect that what I need to do is build a 32-bit GCC that targets 64-bit first, and then build a 64-bit GCC with that.

Why do I care whether my compiler is itself a 64-bit binary? The same reason I care whether my linker is: C++.

@arclight @brouhaha In theory if you use pseudorandomness rather than true randomness, they’re perfectly repeatable given the same weights, connections, and seed to the pseudorandomness generator. However, in practice you’re 100% correct because even if they use pseudorandomness they don’t […]

@ricci Congratulations, but have you considered ensuring it gets to someone who will dump and share it before delivering it to the Computer History Museum to put on a shelf forever?

@uliwitness I figured out a good analogy: Imagine if someone were to name a chain of comedy clubs “The Funny German” but otherwise had nothing to do with Germany or the German people. Is it going against the “Germans are serious all the time” stereotype, or is it playing into that?

@uliwitness Yeah, that’s the parable; the problem with using “Good Samaritan” as a _name_ is that it reinforces the wrong part, e.g. “there was a good one” rather than “don’t judge a book by its cover.” Also, you know, completely erasing that the Samaritans are an actual people that still exist.

And “Good Samaritan” is named for a fucking *slur*. The Samaritan people still exist, and still deal with prejudice and oppression.

PS - Ever hear of a “Kaiser Family Foundation” poll or study? Or see the Sutter Health logo on a soccer jersey or rinkside ad? That’s your money they’re using to promote themselves.

And I’m sure the people who keep producing new editions of GS/OS could produce a “ROM05” that can boot from a 1.44MB floppy via the SWIM, or from SCSI via the 5380, or from an SD card, or whatever—all while incorporating the latest enhanced Toolbox components, and being implemented via flash […]

After all, there are lots of battery-rotted Apple IIgs systems from which ASICs like the VGC, Mega II, and Ensoniq sound chip could be salvaged, and other equivalently rotted systems from which SWIM and 5380 SCSI controllers could be salvaged, and one could just include 8MB of RAM (or more) on […]