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anthk
6mo ago
Clojure? Forget it, SBCL would be better for that task. Just look what could be done with Coalton.
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6mo ago
In JS land, for sure; for systems' programming and software made for small and medium companies, that's granted.
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6mo ago
Yeah, welcome to 1980, where a library coming from a roguelike shaped almost all the TUI's for Unix until ~2010 or so, Curses. A 386 could run NetHack at blazing fast speeds and read the news in a TTY perfectly well. A multicore machin
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6mo ago
>Zaragoza, Hotel Pilar Plaza café. I won't use neither Claude, nor a MacBook; I would just keep chilling out programming with decent tools and a bare XTerm to accomplish the rest. I can get Aragonese bricks ^U sweets in the meanwhi
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6mo ago
Related? https://www.t3x.org/files/floodfill.pdf Basic interpreter for the code: https://www.t3x.org/nmhbasic/index.html To compile it: unzip nmhbas3_32.zip cc -O2 -DEXTRA -o tcvm
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6mo ago
No, this is like fishing with dynamite.
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6mo ago
This is not terminals vs punchcards. This is like Windows ME over Windows 98. Or, maybe, the 286 over a 8086 when a 386 it's the proper path.
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6mo ago
https://smsk.dev/2026/04/26/ai-cannot-self-improve-and-math-... >You are not using the tools correctly. Stop being deluded, man. When this crap collapses into itself you will be in tears back asking for th
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6mo ago
A line? Enjoy the papers telling you otherwise. Not just the cognition it's down, LLM's degrade themselves on every iteration.
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6mo ago
To toss them because the level of damage they have done it's astounding. Tons of companies are still fixing the losses from vibe coding. What we need it's better code analizers, lexers and the like. And LLM's are practically
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6mo ago
Millions of Apple users can't even have grabable corners. Enjoy.
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6mo ago
English it's a hugely romance-influenced Germanic language.
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6mo ago
>Aristotle As a snake oil seller, heh, I woudn't expect something better from Jobs. A competent and true programmer/hacker like Knuth and the like would just want to talk with Archimedes -he almost did a 0.9 version of Calculus
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6mo ago
Well, there was a (now under public domain) movie which predicted WW2 bombings. https://publicdomainmovie.net/movie/things-to-come-1 On nukes, "The World Set Free" from HG Wells predicted nuclear weapons: ht
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6mo ago
"digital" in "romance" languages means the modern 'digital' sense but also an adjective meaning "related to the fingers".
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6mo ago
From 1930 like shows, there's the Red Panda podcast mimicking the era of the scifi radio serials: https://archive.org/details/RedPandaAdventures Yes, it's weird, cheeky and outdated, but it's really fun
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6mo ago
Old ZSNES was GPL. And it looks maintained and forked over. https://github.com/xyproto/zsnes/
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6mo ago
Being bigger and stronger didn't work well for dinosaurs.
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6mo ago
Backports maybe.
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6mo ago
The NSA can't touch China before turning the whole commerce with the US into shards. They are improving like crazy on clear energies and the Oil Jihad can't do nil.
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6mo ago
Not just Iranians, something odd it's happening with the JPL people. Shitty and brainwashed people in Middle East comes in both ways. Can't wait to the Chinese secularizing all the Abrahamic bullshit by brute force -not by war, bu
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6mo ago
RCS->CVS and from that you can convert it to GIT or SVN.
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6mo ago
The govemerment, 1984-like agencies and some others in Middle East will truly hate Guix and reproducible computing being portable to Powerpc and even legacy machines. There more heterogeneous your setup, the better.
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6mo ago
Good. Let the slopwares collapse into themselves, from GNU/Linux, to Hurd (sadly) and Ubuntu. Trisquel will be damned, but Hyperbola BSD -after Hyperbola GNU- will be like the Phoenix bird. https://arxiv.org/html/2
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6mo ago
Well, good enough it you read the OpenBSD FAQ section on Multimeda for RT throughput and the like.
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6mo ago
I always had some Knoppix live CD/DVD which had better defaults than Ubuntu itself on hardware autodetection and setup. I think they used kudzu from RH for a good while plus custom patches. Bear in mind the Knoppix creator had a blind
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>Modern Anything Non-Zork. Even Adventure from Don Woods was half-consistent in some places. But having an "odd" geometry matched perfectly the environment of a cave.
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6mo ago
TBH pipewire works much better than pulse, up to the point to replacing jack itself. But DMIX worked fine for non-professional user needs and with very low CPU usage. Yes, it was Jackd for the professional but Windows had ASIO drivers too.
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It was on tons user oriented distros.
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6mo ago
ALSA had DMIX by default, all that before Pulseaudio. I remember Knoppix and a few more doing that.
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