armitron

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by armitron 8y ago
I am not sure in which universe games can be described as hard real-time tasks but it's surely not the one we live in. Either way, it's laughable to say that Forth is terrible at hard real-time (see NASA link below). The rest of y
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by armitron 8y ago
Going by what you write here, we should all praise PHP and Javascript. Popularity amongst the masses of 9-5 brogrammers who code for money and have no artistic sense when it comes to programming doesn't really imply quality. All the pr
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by armitron 8y ago
Unlike the phantom time hypothesis, you can find actual non-historic evidence for the bicameral theory of mind. The strongest of which you can actually experience yourself by triggering psychotic states (through the use of psychedelics or o
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by armitron 8y ago
The article claims: "There is no legal nor illegal alternative to it as of today." That is absolutely not true. Libgen and Scihub have been with us for years, massively eclipse library.nu on content, and do not seem to be going an
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by armitron 8y ago
To me this looks like the continuation of Project Cybersyn [1] and is just applied cybernetics on a societal scale. To call it totalitarian or dismiss it as a simple dystopian nightmare is very superficial. I am actually quite impressed at
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by armitron 8y ago
How can you talk about irrationality when it's obvious that you've never worked on a Lisp Machine and are thus totally projecting and making up things? Then of course you accuse the Lisp advocates of suffering from what you so cle
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by armitron 8y ago
The marketplace gave us PHP and Javascript, Facebook and Google. The marketplace also gave us the billion dollar computer security industry as a direct result of practices that were 'selected' by said marketplace. We find ourselve
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by armitron 8y ago
You should definitely read 'Worse is Better' by Richard Gabriel if you truly believe that the marketplace is the final arbiter of what is really good. Hint: It's not. In order to see how important and iconoclastic (nevermind
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by armitron 8y ago
Reverse osmosis only for peace of mind. Nothing else is worth it in my opinion.
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by armitron 8y ago
I have always found interesting how some people seem to make an effort to justify to themselves - in all sorts of ways - their failure to grasp something. Alan Kay is a supreme genius, there can be no question about that, but also an origin
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by armitron 8y ago
Don't forget Michael Abrash too, who, isn't going anywhere else anytime soon. If Abrash and Carmack can't deliver on VR, I don't think anyone else will, at least in this generation.
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by armitron 8y ago
This is, really, elementary cybernetics (or systems theory). I wish the article talked more about cybernetic modelling, feedback loops, meshing and second order cybernetics since these are really the most interesting bits in my opinion at l
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by armitron 8y ago
I'm very happy to see this. For those who are not familiar with Luke Gorrie, he has done many interesting things whilst tightly orbiting around languages that lack popular appeal. Erlang, Common Lisp, Forth and now Lua and Smalltalk, i
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by armitron 8y ago
I don't agree with this at all. First of all, something feels off when you talk about right and wrong optimization without taking context into account. RaptorJIT grew out of the Snabb switch community. With that in mind, Rust+Lua isn&#
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by armitron 8y ago
On SICP and Lisp, I was recently asked: "Thanks a lot for this insightful reply! I've read about how powerful are Lisp languages (for example for AI), my question is: does Emacs really use all this theoretically po
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by armitron 8y ago
Lua (LuaJIT really) is battle-tested to the extreme and utterly reliable at this point (it's used all over the place, including in the game industry). Guile is still very much focused on Linux and has well-documented issues on other pl
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by armitron 8y ago
I found Ivan Bratko's Prolog Programming for Artificial Intelligence excellent (I've read the previous two editions, but not the current 4th).
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by armitron 8y ago
The feature that sets DMT apart from other psychedelics such as LSD or mushrooms is the persistent environment called "hyperspace". In short, various psychonauts over the years have discovered an environment - for lack of a bette
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by armitron 8y ago
The free, open source CL implementation that matters and pretty much everyone (incl Google) is using - SBCL - destroys luajit in performance, not to mention your average JITed language..
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by armitron 8y ago
Love2d can use luajit or plain lua.
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by armitron 8y ago
I guess your definition of practical differs from mine. For me practicality is tied directly to usability in solving a widely disparate set of problems. This means that flexibility is key. The language I use should not only be able to bend
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by armitron 8y ago
No, Clojure is not as elegant (or flexible) as Common Lisp, not even close. Also, how can Clojure be highly practical when it ties you to the JVM? When it forces its worldview on state down your throat? When it prematurely optimizes with co
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by armitron 8y ago
You forgot arguably the most important bit: Racket is not an image-based interactive language (every time you evaluate code in DrRacket the entire state is wiped) and its designers do not think that's worth doing right. Of course there
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by armitron 8y ago
A lot of libraries that don't have separate documentation in the form of HTML/PDF/README.. are actually well-documented at source level in the form of docstrings. Since Common Lisp is an interactive programming language and i
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by armitron 8y ago
The mantra that shared memory parallelism is hard to get right to the point where such platitudes as "unless you're writing some really really really niche thing" are uttered is entirely erroneous I find, through my own exper
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by armitron 8y ago
This is inaccurate, for threads see: https://common-lisp.net/project/bordeaux-threads/ For processes, ASDF comes with UIOP which contains portable code for multiprocessing (among other things).
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by armitron 8y ago
They did not, which is why this "course" illustrates taking advantage of multiple cores via multiprocessing without mentioning the GIL at all. Which is a little misleading if you think about it. Also, by having the introductory ch
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by armitron 8y ago
So many classics here, some personal favorites: http://amiga.lychesis.net/resolution/Lowres/Agony_Loader6.ht... http://amiga.lychesis.net/resolution/Lowres/AlienBreed.html http:/&#
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by armitron 8y ago
Read what I wrote again, carefully this time before you jump to conclusions. Consuming Opium is arguably a lot less harmful in terms of OD deaths/cancer/accidents than black market "opioids"/alcohol/tobacco. Th
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by armitron 8y ago
The vast majority of phones, tablets, and IoT embedded devices do not run Windows and are not tied to x86 ecosystems. Achieving desktop-class performance on these platforms is indeed a major disruption and I don't see Intel being able

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