EdwardCoffin

8 ms·

61.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
I listened to the whole series with Dyson some time in the past year. It was well worth it. I also listened to the series with Murray Gell-Mann [1] and Hans Bethe [2]. All time well worth spending, and I've been thinking of download
62.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
Freeman Dyson recounts the episode [1] that inspired this paper in his web of life interviews (prepositioned to the fitting an elephant bit) [2] [1] https://youtu.be/hV41QEKiMlM [2] https://youtu.be/hV41QEKi
63.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
The topic of the currency of Meeus's book came up on stack exchange [1]. The consensus seems to be that there's no replacement yet, but that there are some better ephemerides available - but figuring out how to use those rather t
64.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
I have the same Meeus book. It's been a while since I read it, but my impression was the signs of longitudes being turned around was not unique to his book, but was rather a convention throughout astronomy, so you could expect to find
65.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
The article opens by stating the author had overlooked mentioning the iSeries (aka AS/400) version of DB2 in a list of DB2 versions. My understanding is that the iSeries DB2 was really more a marketing name applied to the iSeries data
66.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
Here's Stephenson from an AMA on reddit twelve years ago [1]: Q: My ultimate goal in life is to make the Primer real. Anything you want to make sure I get right? Neal Stephenson: Kids need to get answers from humans who love them.
67.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
Generally avoiding plywood isn't actually useful advice for someone with even a serious problem with gluten: "simply touching gluten will not harm an individual with celiac disease." [1] The above source does continue: "
68.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
People with celiac disease have to go to great lengths to avoid things that have even the possibility of cross contamination. I can easily imagine that the processing that wheat straw goes through is not stringent enough to ensure that no
69.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
The commenter was clearly concerned about wheat-derived food containers. Is plywood now used in making such now, and I missed it?
70.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
Five of the nine authors are apparently employed by The Wellness Company, which is in the business of holistic mail-order supplements. Of the other four, one is an independent physician, one is at a cancer clinic, one apparently retired.
71.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
I'm a little more charitable on such things than I used to be, because it is hard to know why they overlooked the typo. For example, in this case it might be that they actually use a tool called signular [1] and so added that to the
72.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
A counter-argument to the idea that TRE is merely an optimization: Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls, by Guy Steele [1]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20091206042608/http://projectfor...
73.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
Someone reverse-engineered Robotron and found bugs in that too [1]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20130714200334/http://www.robotr...
74.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
A couple of years ago I finally started to understand the Waters series facility [1], which was offered as an alternative to Loop. It's a bit finicky, and the error messages are often mystifying, but I have come to quite like it for s
75.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
I was a bit surprised to see no mention of StarLisp [1]. Is this just a fundamentally different approach? I can imagine that targeting modern machines rather than the Connection Machine would be very different, but I thought the notations
76.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
Neal Stephenson's novel Seveneves [1] included something like this (early in part 3), and it being inflatable wasn't even the coolest thing about it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves
77.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
I don't really see the relevance of either of your comments here. Your first comment suggests that people interested in the Dylan language's text editor Deuce could try it online, then you give links to an editor that is a layer o
78.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
I do not think this is the same thing. The links I posted were about the Deuce text editor for the Dylan programming language, which was implemented using DUIM, the Dylan successor to CLIM (itself a successor to Dynamic Windows). The link
79.
The Deuce Editor Architecture (2014)(web.archive.org)
34 points by EdwardCoffin 2y ago|6 comments
80.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
I understood it came about due to RMS wanting the source for the printer driver for the Xerox 9700 - nothing to do with Symbolics.
81.
by EdwardCoffin 2y ago
Jim Gray talked about this idea in an ACM Queue interview in 2001 [1] calling it a TeraScale SneakerNet box : Another option is to send whole computers. I’ve been sending NTFS disks (the Windows file system format), and not every Linux sy
82.
by EdwardCoffin 3y ago
I liked his book, The Humane Computer, when I read it in 1999. I don’t know how well it has aged. It’s still on my shelf, so perhaps I will try to reread it.
83.
by EdwardCoffin 3y ago
About a year ago I read the OpenDoc specifications [1] (which for some reason are not linked to from the Wikipedia entry on OpenDoc). What struck me was how much of the complexity was to allow different vendors to provide differing amounts
84.
by EdwardCoffin 3y ago
Jef Raskin's Canon Cat [1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_Cat
85.
by EdwardCoffin 3y ago
Wow, thanks for all the links. I hadn't realized you really meant book - I thought by their book on Higher Order Software you meant Hamilton's and Zeldin's paper Higher Order Software—A Methodology for Defining Software
86.
by EdwardCoffin 3y ago
I'd recommend you read Guy Steele's blog post Why Object-Oriented Languages Need Tail Calls [1] and perhaps the essay by William Cook [2] and the discussion over on Lambda the Ultimate [3] [1] https://web.archive.org&#x
87.
by EdwardCoffin 3y ago
You'd probably be interested in their set of slides on techniques for constructing robust software [1]. It talks about this issue, among others. For one thing, the processors could easily be in different states due to resources each
88.
by EdwardCoffin 3y ago
Do you have a link for Higher Order Software perhaps? I couldn't find it on htius.com
89.
by EdwardCoffin 3y ago
I believe the microprocessor from Steele's and Sussman's paper Design of a LISP-based microprocessor [1] used Peano numbers. [1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/359024.359031
90.
by EdwardCoffin 3y ago
iAPX 432 [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_iAPX_432

More ›