Koshkin

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by Koshkin 4y ago
> it’s not clear how to pronounce Indeed, this is a universal property of English spelling.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
There are two Cyrillic spellings, one being Ukrainian and one Russian. Previously the transliterations were based on the Russian spelling.
693.
by Koshkin 4y ago
How am I even supposed to pronounce it?
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by Koshkin 4y ago
More specifically, this is about “reimagining matrices in the context of a pure functional language.” To be honest, as much as I appreciate the functional paradigm, I have been haunted by the impression that trying to apply it to some thing
695.
by Koshkin 4y ago
> basically the only thing There is also the overflow which is even more nasty than the zero-divide, because often it goes unnoticed.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
So, back in the day Poland must have had quite a few people working in hi-tech. Which leaves me wondering, has the country been able to retain its corps of specialists, and what is Poland’s most hi-tech product today?
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by Koshkin 4y ago
;;
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Discussed previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29127586
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> An equivalent for the IBM PC platform, or PC DOS/MS-DOS/compatible environments has never been available As usual - you will never know the difference until you try.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> only… China and India For Russia at least, wouldn’t that be plenty enough to get by on?
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by Koshkin 4y ago
To clarify, the only character I cared about was the IBM/360.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> No need "But I want muh blinking lights..." I mean, this depends on whether you are a programmer or, say, more into electronics. Different emulators may emulate different representations of the same device, at different lev
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by Koshkin 4y ago
I have always admired PDP-11, but the closest I have come to the “manual” programming was with an IBM/370, when I managed to type a small program, in hexadecimal, on a data entry device that used a magnetic tape, booted the system from
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Indeed, being the nerd that I am, I have seen just one episode, which is where they brought in the IBM/360. It left me unsatisfied.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> somewhere else But that’s literally excommunication
706.
by Koshkin 4y ago
No, it would be opposite if it was someone else’s lap.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Of course! These "Windows programs" must indeed be Win32 DLLs provided by Wine. Thanks.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
I think Wine on Linux has beat OS/2 as a better Windows than Windows.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
I am probably misreading this, but: what is the use case in which a Windows program must call a Unix library?
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> 4. A extends B ... can be read as "A is subset of B". I agree, it is unnatural to think of a subset as "extending" the set it is part of.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
You can get off my lawn now.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
The recent and ongoing events clearly show that politicians do not learn anything from history, as the lust for power, money, notoriety, and what not, is too strong.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
In fact, back in the day they were making electro-mechanical wall clocks which, too, had exactly one transistor in them. (The transistor controlled the tiny coil that kept the balance wheel moving and, at the same, served as the timing sens
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> I'm not sure that makes sense Maybe this is done in order to decouple the orientation of the leads from that of the holes, so one does not force the other? (Just a guess.)
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> The name Globus (Глобус) seems to be a nickname, and I suspect it's more commonly used in English than Russian. Actually, "глобус" is just the Russian word for the familiar model of the globe (like those found in class
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by Koshkin 4y ago
You can get a feel of AS/400 UI at https://pub400.com/
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Give it a try! The page includes snapshot.zip and a number of scripts to start you off. See also https://github.com/vygr/ChrysaLisp/blob/master/docs/INTRO.md
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ChrysaLisp(github.com)
153 points by Koshkin 4y ago|16 comments
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by Koshkin 4y ago
Nice to see this wonderful project getting love it deserves.
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by Koshkin 4y ago
> very performant with Brave To add to that, my 8GB "late 2014" Mac Mini is very performant with (the modern) Linux on it. (It was barely usable running a recent MacOS.)

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