You can wine about it all day - it still isn't an emulator.
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Well then, I guess our ideology doesn't translate into the same meaning.
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HURD moment
A Criminal Regiment Of Nasty Young Men
Qemu?
Quick Emulator
(At least it was when it was written. Rosetta blows it out of the water.)
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wine = iterate (++" Is Not an Emulator") "WINE"
I've never worked with Haskell, but I've been meaning to expand my programming repertoire (particularly since I don't get to do much coding at work, let alone learn new languages) and this makes for a nice opportunity, so I wanna try to parse this / guess at the syntax.
I assume iterate function arg applies some function to arg repeatedly, presumably until some exit condition is met? Or does it simply create an infinite, lazily evaluated sequence?
( ) would be an inline function definition then, in this case returning the result of applying ++suffix to its argument (which other languages might phrase something like arg += suffix), thereby appending " Is Not an Emulator" to the function argument, which is initially "WINE".
So as a result, the code would produce an infinite recurring "WINE Is Not an Emulator Is Not an Emulator..." string. If evaluated eagerly, it would result in an OOM error (with tail recursion) or a stack overflow (without). If evaluated lazily, it would produce a lazy string, evaluated only as far as it is queried (by some equivalent of a head function reading the first X characters from it).
How far off am I? What pieces am I missing?
You're pretty much right on the money. In Haskell, a String is a type synonym for [Char], so we can use the list concatenation function ++ to join strings. ++ is an infix function i.e. [1,2,3] ++ [3,4,5] = [1,2,3,3,4,5] (which will be equivalent to doing (++) [1,2,3] [3,4,5] by virtue of how infix functions work in Haskell). When we do (++ "a"), we create a partially applied function. Now, we can supply another string to it and it will add "a" at the end of it.
iterate f x produces a lazily evaluated sequence [x, f x, f f x, ...]. So, to get the nth entry, we can do wine !! n where we use another infix function !!. With partial application, we can modify the definition of wine to create a function that takes an Int n and spits out the nth entry of it by doing
wine = (!!) $ iterate (++" Is Not an Emulator") "WINE"
We needed to wrap the !! inside parentheses because it's an infix function. $ just changes the order of application. (IIRC, it's the least significant function.) You can think that we're wrapping whatever's on the right of the $ by parentheses. Now we can do wine 2 instead of wine !! 2 to get "WINE Is Not an Emulator Is Not an Emulator".
I'm by no means a Haskell expert. (I'm not even a professional programmer lol.) So, if someone would like to add some more details, they're more than welcome.
Edit: A much more readable version might be
wine 0 = "WINE"
wine n = wine (n-1) ++ " Is Not an Emulator"
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Internal errors - invalid parameters received
Sorry, I should've specified, it's in Haskell. Idk where you tried running it.
My personal favorite acronym like that definitely goes to AROS (Amiga Research Operating System) that if I remember correctly had to - for legal reasons - change the name. Rather than come up with a completely new name, went with AROS Research Operating System.
Edit: name change was apparently to avoid any trademark issues with the Amiga name.
Acorn/ARM apparently did much the same thing.
i refuse to call it advanced risc Machine, it's always Acorn Risc Machine
my favorite fact about Wine is that they could've named it Pine, Dine, Fine, Line, etc
Pine was already taken by an email reader. One of the early ascii email readers was called elm, for ELectronic Mail. Pine was made after elm and it stands for Pine Is Not Elm.
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It’s a cheeky play on “WINdows Emulator” as well as “WINE’s Is Not an Emulator”, but I think for both legal (trademark) and logistical (it really isn’t an emulator) reasons, you’ll never officially see that bit sanctioned
It’s a cheeky play on “WINdows Emulator”
It's not an emulator though. That's literally what the name is explaining!
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WINaE! It bugs me that it isn't "Wine Is Not Emulation"
My favorite software acronym is PINCE, the reverse engineering tool that's similar to Cheat Engine in Winblols, that stands for PINCE Is Not Cheat Engine.
My favorite is the scanning device interface driver protocol.
TWAIN
Technology Without An Interesting Name
I really wanted this to be true but according to Wikipedia that’s an unofficial backronym. :( Sorry to be Debbie Downer.
Get outta here with your facts! /s
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Well looks like I finally found a cheat engine equivalent for Linux
Game Conqueror also works, but is missing a lot of features too from what I can tell. Don't know how it holds up against PINCE.
I've had success getting CE to run with Proton though, specifically by using SteamTinkerLaunch to run it as additional custom command with the game. There are other ways too, like protontricks. In my experience, it has been mostly stable, with the occasional freeze, but generally usable for pointer scanning and such.
Sadly not, Cheat Engine has a whole lot more features. PINCE is still very good though
GNU's Not Unix! moment
GNU's not Unix image manipulation program toolkit.
Lol Edit: TIL that's what GTK stands for
RecursionError: Maximum recursion depth exceeded image manipulation toolkit
I haven't really done much recursion in Python, but can't we do a tail-recursive version so that it (almost) never reaches recursion depth issues?
We cannot, Python explicitly doesn't do TCO.
http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2009/04/tail-recursion-elimination.html?m=1
Is there a separate RecursionError in modern versions of Python? Been a couple years but I remember it just being a RuntimeError
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Windows should emulate Linux so it can run wine on its arm chips.
WSL 3 wishlist starts here
I refuse to use 2 because it breaks all my shit.
OG WSL 1 for me, or just Linux lol
Qemu if you can get it. It is a little hard to learn but it can use Hyper-V acceleration
It's harder to set up windows without giving microsoft the right to let 72 virgins rape your ass than to use QEMU.
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