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by 7thaccount 11mo ago
I keep seeing the videos pop up. It does look really cool. I see it has a basic interpreter, so I guess kinda like a C64?
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by 7thaccount 11mo ago
Are you aware of anyone who has used that system outside of a hobbyist buying the dev board? I looked into it and the ideas were cool, but no clue how to actually do anything with it.
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by 7thaccount 11mo ago
I respectfully disagree. The amount of folks in upper management that can actually use something like Tableau is very small. However it doesn't matter as none of those people have the time outside of very small businesses which probabl
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by 7thaccount 11mo ago
I missed this earlier: "Radiance features a modern syntax and design inspired by Rust, Swift and Zig."
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by 7thaccount 11mo ago
>"It's a tool for personal computing where every application and every surface, exists as code you can read, edit, and extend. It's a system you can truly own" This sounds a lot like a Smalltalk running as the OS unti
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by 7thaccount 11mo ago
I assume they know but don't care. Either way, that is a bad choice. I think "Rad" would be a good name, but maybe they already are using that for something else. Edit: where did you see it's called "R"? It loo
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by 7thaccount 11mo ago
You wouldn't I don't think (assuming this thing ever got off the ground - huge assumption), but is that really a problem? I think the web page is more to make normalish people aware that this hypothetical ecosystem would be out th
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by 7thaccount 11mo ago
It's prob a balance. Sure, C is king....but if you are starting from scratch...do you REALLY need it or could you design something even better? Maybe, maybe not. I've programmed for a long time, but always struggled with Assembly
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by 7thaccount 11mo ago
Same. I was super excited until I saw the AI stuff you pointed out. I'll have to read more about that. I like the idea of a new OS that isn't just a Linux clone, networking stack that is old school and takes computing in a differe
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by 7thaccount 11mo ago
I think that is a fair point too. The person that builds the Tableau dashboard could just send Brenda a screenshot once a month and that saves everyone time.
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by 7thaccount 11mo ago
That's a pretty specific example when there are a lot of good "spreadsheet people" out there who do a lot more than spreadsheets (maybe they had to write SQL queries or scripts to get those numbers), but commonly need to simp
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
I can't tell if OP just really enjoyed the experience or if he is the actual author of the OS.
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
I think some of that is a certain group of people will do anything to play with the new shiny stuff. In my org it's cloud and now GPU. The cloud stuff is extremely expensive and doesn't work any better than our existing solutions.
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
It may be designed to do that, but I'm highly skeptical it does a better job than a typical well-run school. I've heard plenty of horror stories too.
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
Early on, the selectric typewriter thing had a spherical ball that could rotate to stamp the characters. So when you typed a key the IBM hardware would type a character on a piece of paper exactly like a typewriter and also the IBM computer
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
Interesting to see this. I bought a book on Ada 2012 awhile back. Pretty cool stuff - especially with Spark. The license model always made me uncomfortable for when you were using the commercial compilers though. Does this lock you into Spa
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
I never went to Montessori, but did cub scouts at one and those were some odd kids and parents. I felt like I was on an alien planet. Not bad people or anything, just certainly different. Like they took a class on how to act human, but lost
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
Did you hire them?
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
I'm in a similar boat. It would be cool ...but how would I use it outside of hobbies.
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
I think it's a simple abstraction situation and the move for programming environments that include everything. Geordi Laforge doesn't code much on the Enterprise. He simply asks the computer to build him a model of the anomaly so
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
I think I'd agree from a mathematical perspective that lisp is more elegant, but implementation-wise, I really do like Forth's simplicity. They're both really cool.
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
The quote makes more sense IMO for array languages like J that support a tacit style. J's "trains" just make things flow without a lot of variables. Aaron Hsu's Co Dfns compiler (spoken about on here and YouTube) also us
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
It's well known in the array community.... which is practically nobody, so you're correct :) It is exciting to see free and open source languages like this and uiua maturing though. https://www.uiua.org/
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
Not if those components eventually get included as part of other core chips you can't remove. At some point, you'll have to completely redesign your cars electronics system to do so.
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
I don't think that's always possible anymore
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
It's really just that it's a pretty easy language to learn that finds a good balance between structure and brevity. It has very good support for the data structures you need and libraries for everything. A lot of people love the l
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
The corps won't stomach it anymore at the scale they formerly did, but at one point they did. It could happen again some day...just a lot would have to change. Parc just didn't capitalize on what they had. I know the Alto was expe
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
I wonder if Milton Friedman regrets going out and popularizing that and saying the board has a duty to maximize shareholder profit and all that.
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
On one hand, sure. They're able to make an informed decision to maximize return to shareholders. On the other hand, a ton of amazing inventions came out of that system which created entire industries that went on to turbocharge the eco
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by 7thaccount 1y ago
Nothing against research universities as good stuff does occur there, but it just seems like it was such a a huge loss seeing those corporate labs disappear. I think it helps to have scientists and engineers closer to the problem and who do

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