Rochus

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by Rochus 1y ago
Here is an article with no paywall: https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/uk_court_getty_stabil... Getty Images largely lost its lawsuit against Stability AI, with the judge dismissing most copyright claims.
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by Rochus 1y ago
Just amazing. A good alternative to Linux for many use cases.
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by Rochus 1y ago
> it has been around for almost 30 years now, so it's very mature. The compiler is insanely large and complex, more than the sum of the implemented languages would suggest. I can't imagine that anyone still has a complete und
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by Rochus 1y ago
Interesting. Never heard of this system before. It's apparently a monolithic kernel, developed almost exclusively by originally Canadian programmer Andy McLaughlin since 1997. The system has a graphical user interface, preemptive multi
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by Rochus 1y ago
It is clear that the three monopolists are playing for time in order to stifle all innovations and the mostly much smaller companies behind them that threaten their position of power, even if they have rather poor arguments. It is downright
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by Rochus 1y ago
There are quite many given that I only started using Sequoia a few weeks ago, and all happen only on Sequoia, not on my other macOS versions. A nasty one I discovered last week is e.g. that I have to delete and re-add an application (which
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by Rochus 1y ago
> "Go to Privacy & Security and click "Open anyway" Thanks. Unfortunately this no longer works on sequoia; you first have to run "spctl --global-disable" in a terminal and then - within a few seconds - go to
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by Rochus 1y ago
Very simple. Some of the applications work with the "console/allow all" trick (which is a tedious procedure, but hey, I'm just a dumb customer), others still don't work but crash and give strange errors that some st
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by Rochus 1y ago
> This is simply not true. Ok, then try to run a pre-compiled macOS M1 compatible application on your new Sequoia system, such as https://github.com/rochus-keller/oberonsystem3/ or https://github.c
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by Rochus 1y ago
This is very frustrating. As if they couldn't afford to continue it. And at the same time they keep making the system more and more closed, so that you can't even run applications without Apple's permission. I don't unde
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by Rochus 1y ago
This article indeed exhibits multiple strong indicators of AI-generated content, particularly from early ChatGPT-era models. The text was published in January 2023, just two months after ChatGPT's public launch. But Pascal (and especia
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by Rochus 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45729400 , 4 comments
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by Rochus 1y ago
> " It's not just the destination, but the journey for getting there. " You can still enjoy the journey, but still profit of AI; I think AI is extremely useful to discuss concepts; e.g. recently I did extensive research ab
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by Rochus 1y ago
Respectfully disagree. This is a compiler engineering tool backed by peer-reviewed research (DLS'16, 112+ citations) and used in 30+ academic publications across PLDI, OOPSLA, and ECOOP. It requires understanding controlled experimenta
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by Rochus 1y ago
See e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon or https://github.com/rochus-keller/Are-we-fast-yet/blob/main/O... .
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by Rochus 1y ago
There are some results in the repository, e.g. one I published recently: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Are-we-fast-yet/blob/main/L... Or here: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Obe
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by Rochus 1y ago
I think we can skip this discussion.
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by Rochus 1y ago
They surely have better things to do than worry about what I call my programming language.
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by Rochus 1y ago
It's the abbreviation of Micro Oberon, therefore a quite obvious naming choice; there is no real risk of confusion with commercial offers under this name; it's also a common name in science.
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by Rochus 1y ago
(2023) Great documentary by TheVerge.com, thanks for sharing.
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by Rochus 1y ago
Indeed, e.g. Apple Lisa OS and the first Mac OS. But the present one so far is only around 100 lines; the author calls it a "bootloader". Here is a list of more complete systems: https://wiki.freepascal.org/Operati
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by Rochus 1y ago
I was actually surprised to see nearly a factor ten between C99 and LuaJIT. In previous measurements (on x86, see e.g. https://github.com/rochus-keller/Are-we-fast-yet/blob/main/L... ) there was rather a
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by Rochus 1y ago
> has the LuaJIT implementation been checked over Just re-checked that I inserted the Luau Mandelbrot results in the correct cell. > does that mean LuaJIT is going down the < 5.3 path? Yes.
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by Rochus 1y ago
Here are some measurement results based on the Are-we-fast-yet benchmark suite: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Are-we-fast-yet/blob/main/L... Luau in interpreter mode is pretty much as fast as LuaJIT 2
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by Rochus 1y ago
Meanwhile I conducted performance measurements myself, based on the Are-we-fast-yet benchmark suite. Here are the results: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Are-we-fast-yet/blob/main/L... Luau in interpre
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by Rochus 1y ago
The interpreter, JIT and backend look very interesting. Have there been performance measurements with comparison to e.g. equivalent C code?
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by Rochus 1y ago
FP is an interesting language. In my opinion, it is somewhat problematic that different language concepts (Delphi, etc.) have been more or less merged into FP, resulting in redundant object models, for example. Pascal as a language also has
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by Rochus 1y ago
Like so many compiler books from academia.
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by Rochus 1y ago
Well, they could lose control if people suddenly could speak directly with Jesus (via LLMs); see e.g. https://www.vice.com/en/article/ai-jesus-is-now-taking-confe...
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by Rochus 1y ago
So young; what a tragedy.

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