> My home cluster is built from surplus Dell Optiplex desktops

I used to do this as well and this is fine if you're able to source cheap power. But I'm in the UK, electricity prices are insane and I can't afford to run this kind of setup any more.

it's not unmanageable to do if you have plentiful and cheap access to area that can see the sun. My 'vintage' computing collection got a lot bigger when I switched to solar.

a big ask in most of the UK, though.

> Microsoft management has decided CLR has a new meaning, C# Language Runtime. > VB, C++/CLI and F# are only there because existing customers.

Oh, I think we need a citation for these claims.

Can't think for yourself reading DevBlogs and Github issues?

When I was a young broth of a boy I worked as a field engineer looking after a whole bunch of different hardware. One of these was a Pick machine with its own dedicated Pick branded hardware, amongst a fleet of terminals and early PC hardware. Nothing ever seemed to go wrong with it.

As a former Data General engineer, I too would like to see some love for RDOS and AOS. And also their diagnostic tool ADES which was a specialised OS in its own right, and ICOS.

I guess you don't happen to have copies of them lying around, do you?

No, sadly not.

Why is it "combative"? Seems like a needlessly hyperbolic description of launching a desktop app.

>hides the execution.

But you're not prevented from finding out how your query was executed. For example EXPLAIN (MySQL, Postgres) or query analyser for MSSQL.

I have a link for you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Scroll to the bottom of the page.

Thank you for the link - I'm familiar with the commenting rules. I just don't think that people follow the spirit of those rules.

Yes, this is that company. This is the "original":

https://github.com/sst/opencode

This isn't LinqPad's selling point. All that dotnet run *.cs has done is remove the need to have a project file for each "script" you write.

LinqPad maybe has this feature but it's selling point is as a scratch pad to experiment with working with data and general futzing around.

The .NET team said they're working on VS Code integration. LinqPad still has some unique features (mostly database related), but at least for me, VS Code + dotnet run will be sufficient for my needs. Worst case, I can just throw a breakpoint on my database IQueryable result.

Or, just link directly to the paper which isn't paywalled:

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/14/5/1087

Thanks for that link!

I didn't find it in my search...

In the phys.org article:

> The paper is published in the journal Land.

the word 'published' links to the MDPI paper

It's good to know the link was in the phys.org article. I didn't read it.

When I have interest in an article at that site, I search for the text of the headline, and try to identify the original source.