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by Jach 1y ago
I have yet to use Forth for anything serious, but it's worth pointing at an example for how expressive you can be dealing with hardware. From https://www.forth.com/embedded/#Embedded_Programming_Example the top le
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by Jach 1y ago
I've had the lucky position to be able to think positively about a lot of the tech and gaming layoffs in the last couple years for pretty much this reason -- that we'll eventually look back on them as unleashing a lot of previousl
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by Jach 1y ago
It's important to try and de-googleify your life if only so you don't get caught up in making such an exaggerated sky-is-falling point. All of these could literally vanish tomorrow and the world would go on, they all have their al
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by Jach 1y ago
I was thinking about Japan too. In situations like store prices, Japan is pretty transparent, having the total price including taxes displayed up front. But for various live shows/concerts there's typically a mandatory "drink
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by Jach 1y ago
If you don't perturb the initial numbers to see what changes to help construct a richer model (as well as one with tighter bounds on what it predicts or forbids), you're leaving out a lot of the benefits of the exercise. Sometimes
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by Jach 1y ago
Not a lawyer but I do wonder if refusal to provide any number also adds liability, especially if it can be demonstrated to a court later that a reasonable estimate was known or was trivial to look up, and the deciding party would not have g
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by Jach 1y ago
The criticism and response both feel a bit too sensitive, but I do want to support having your own opinion/conclusion on CL probably not being the best language for the job when it comes to web stuff, or as I would phrase it CL not bei
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by Jach 1y ago
I wouldn't even call myself an amateur photographer, I've never really had the obsessive "Move out of the way!" or "Hold that thread of conversation, let me take this shot" thoughts that the article describes.
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by Jach 1y ago
Huh, didn't realize that beach didn't like it so strongly. Still, hardly "much maligned"... My impression was that most people enjoyed it, even though it definitely has some weaknesses and could (especially now 15 years
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by Jach 1y ago
Lisp applications still are used behind the scenes for a lot of interesting stuff. In 1987, "An advanced VSLI design and simulation suite, with programmability and a GUI, used to design actual taped out processors."[0] Screenshots
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by Jach 1y ago
Who is maligning Land of Lisp?
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by Jach 1y ago
I'll never understand the love for iterate. Look at these comparisons: https://github.com/sabracrolleton/sabracrolleton.github.io/b... For almost all of them, it's the same guy, just more parens. Nothing
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by Jach 1y ago
Thanks for the article! It's good to have more examples of this sort of stuff, especially if people decide to go the lack/clack route rather than using e.g. hunchentoot directly as I like to do. If you ever do a followup to go bey
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by Jach 1y ago
Yeah it's good to call that out. If the author used the term embedded systems there'd be less room for disagreement, as there is a pretty wide spectrum there -- obviously a RasPi that can run Linux is more than enough as far as ha
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by Jach 1y ago
CSS grids are pretty nice, flexbox is ok, float hacks were fine and an improvement over table shenanigans. On the other hand I quite liked the simple hbox/vbox explicit elements that things like ActionScript + MXML had (Flex). I liked
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by Jach 1y ago
Of course, my remark was more on if the sole purpose was to drive to and from work. It seems absurd to be ok with spending $20k if that is the primary feature. I'd expect a few more use cases, especially to buy new vs. used. But I&#x27
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by Jach 1y ago
You can get a lot of Uber rides for $20k.
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by Jach 1y ago
What a gross looking vehicle, and at that price? I just want the old ranger design. I've been using a 2006 ranger for quite a while and it's served me well, I'd like to upgrade it to a ranger XL for that little extra cab room
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by Jach 1y ago
I frequently try to mention how Java with JRebel is the closest to the Lisp experience I've found with non-Lisp, it's more dynamic feeling than so-called dynamic languages. Having something like the condition system being ubiquito
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by Jach 1y ago
It's funny but I think your exact comment could have been written 10 years ago, substituting 2025 with 2015. Some things might be ±2 years. This observation could be seen as both a positive and a negative about both the language and pe
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by Jach 1y ago
Another game that gave me similar vibes to A Short Hike was Lil Gator Game. For me though, a game doesn't have to have cozy aesthetics to put me in a more cozy or calm mood, and I've never really gotten into games like Stardew Val
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by Jach 1y ago
"In December 2015, Intel acquired Altera for $16.7 billion in cash." $21.5 bn inflation adjusted. Amazing ten year performance.
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by Jach 1y ago
Man I remember being excited when Intel bought Altera, maybe they'd bring FPGAs to the masses, then they proceeded to do nothing with them...
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by Jach 2y ago
I really hope to see it. The TSA going away is my current measuring stick for whether DOGE has actually accomplished anything significantly valuable.
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by Jach 2y ago
I don't buy this. Google has this information on their backend, they don't need to query any local state. Indeed, when I visit a play.google.com URL, google checks if my browser is logged in or not. If it is not, the default is &q
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by Jach 2y ago
I don't dispute it had massive hype at the time. I wasn't even an xbox fanboy but I still played it with friends who had the system. I still think its long-term cultural impact is rather minimal, the biggest influences of the seri
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by Jach 2y ago
I'd second this. The "advanced AI" was pioneered with Halo 2's Behavior Trees. I'd not give very high props to level design to any of the 3, partly because I so easily remember all the re-used assets and geometry an
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by Jach 2y ago
Probably enjoyed working on cool sci-fi shit. Invisible weapons are pretty cool -- though I think conceptually the heat ray class ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System?useskin=v... ) is cooler than the LRA
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by Jach 2y ago
Having once sat in one of the chairs in the House Chamber, I'll fault no politician for fidgeting with their phone. If whatever is being discussed is rather irrelevant or droning on, you've got to do something to stay awake with s
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by Jach 2y ago
GTM is just another JS CDN, like unpkg and jsDelivr and others I forget. What amuses me is sometimes a site will use all three . Often, none are necessary for the core site to work; having had to help add support for GTM once to a site bui

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