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by _ph_ 4y ago
When the parent post spoke about "faster" I compared the CPUs. The Apple CPUs are very competetive the the top end x86 CPUs, especially in laptops.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Depending on which model you are looking at, you cannot get a faster Intel or AMD machine. Also not for less money. The Apple ARM hardware is amazing. Running Linux natively on a fast RISC machine should make many people excited. Also a goo
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by _ph_ 4y ago
> Usually one contacts the vendor and asks for a time-limited full version of the product for evaluation. Yes, if there is already the deep desire to acquire Lispworks, this would be the way to go. But I never arrived at that point. It i
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by _ph_ 4y ago
> Less than 1000 if you can live with 32 bits but I wonder if someone goes for that option nowadays. Right. I don't count the 32 Bit versions as serious contenders. > The MacOS version supports both Apple Silicon and Intel. That
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by _ph_ 4y ago
> what are strengths of sbcl over racket? SBCL is a Common Lisp implementation, racket implements variants of Scheme. SBCL is natively compiled, creates standalone executables. > what are strengths of racket over sbcl? It implements v
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yes, if a hobbyist absolutely wants to buy a Lispworks license, that should be possible for many people. But that isn't the only criterium. The question is: is anyone as happy to pay the price compared to spend the money on other thing
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by _ph_ 4y ago
What do you mean by that? A lot of people use racket, a lot of people use SBCL, which is indeed significantly faster. They are actually completely different software for different purposes and very different strengths.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Well, it starts at €480 (Linux) - €720 for the Mac for a pure IDE, without the ability to produce executables. You are limited to run your programs inside the development environment, this limits its applicability a lot. You can't writ
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I am convinced that Lispworks is a great product. From what I can see it comes with a nice IDE and some nice libraries. I would have loved to give it a try, but unfortunately I was never able to do do so. And that is where the critique of t
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Sorry, I have to disagree. €500-600 for just the ability to use the IDE but not being able to create an executable doesn't sound very appealing to me. And that all limited to "non-commercial" use. And per platform. So you can
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by _ph_ 4y ago
"The alternative is useless" is not a valid legal defense.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yes, of course. But the range (1-2h) might be just enough for a lot of szenarios.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yes, considering the first hybrid with the Prius was available as early as 1998, the car industry should have switched to hybrids in the early 2000s. But unfortunately they didn't. Just keeping selling pure combustion engined cars was
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I think that is one of the reasons why the upcoming electric small planes are such a huge thing - getting rid of not only combustion engines, but very old and inefficient combustion engines. Could be a real game changer.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Where will it be written to and how is it guaranteed to be picked up by any further invocations of the tools?
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Because it most likely means that people are sending data without their consent. Perhaps I am naive or just very old, but I wouldn't expect a compiler to "phone home" with information about what I do with it. Certainly not w
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Still, opt-out is just inacceptable. At least with a mechanism which can easily fail, like setting an environment variable. This basically forces you to wrap the go tool in a script which ensures the environment variable to be set. As this
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by _ph_ 4y ago
If there is any virtue to collecting telemetry, make it opt-in. Any developer convinced of this being useful will gladly enable it. But making it opt-out is just nefarious, because most users will not be aware of it.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Of course the whole story is way more complex, but I have been saying for years that the Itanium might have succeeded, if AMD had not extended x86 to 64 bit. The 64 bit extensions did not only fix some of the x86 problems (it increased the
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by _ph_ 4y ago
This gives me fond memories and actually LispMe turned out to be literally life changing for me. Not that I used that app much, but as I just had gotten a Palm Pilot 3, I liked playing with it a bit. But it triggered my interest into finall
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Because having sex before you are 18 is quite normal? It is odd to pretend otherwise, but 16 for example is quite an usual age, at least here in Europe. I doubt it is actually different in the US.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Currently there is definitely a wide gap because the current "AI" are completely incapable of a real intellectual process. Wheras humans can develop a true understanding and consequently it is an actual learning and not memorizing
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The key point is: an AI calls itself an intelligence but this so far is quite a bit of marketing. A human is considered an intelligent being. Where a process of creating new things happen. They are based on true learning and not just reprod
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by _ph_ 4y ago
First of all, don't pretend that copyright depends on how much "worth" a copyrighted piece of work has. Not just the works of Prince and the Beatles deserve copyright. Then, a lot of open source authors understand that their
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by _ph_ 4y ago
One important point for the discussion is: one cannot (at least not currently) directly compare these AI models with the human mind. A human learns, can reason about the learned things and can use that ability to create completely new piece
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by _ph_ 4y ago
We don't need to shut down these technologies. But there needs to be a clear ruling to which extend they can use copyrighted materials without the consent of the copyright holder. And establish a framework on how such a consent could b
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The default assumption should be that the solar system is typical and that would lead to numerous earth-like planets in the galaxy and that would give hope to a lot of (intelligent) life. But untiol a few years ago, this was just a very pla
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The graph you linked shows that this is not true. See the tiny purple graph at the right side of the bar? That's the rare earth minerals and their amount in an electric car is tiny.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
While I love my 27" iMac, with its 1440 vertical points (2880 pixels) I always found it a regression vs. my 30" 2560x1600 pixel screen it replaced. That is from the real estate side, picture quality was of course much better. This
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Almost all quartz watches have a similiar movement, running of a 32kHz crystal. Those give you about 15s/month accuracy, which is an oder of magnitude better than most mechanical watches and that for a very few bucks. More precise quar

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