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by astrobe_ 8mo ago
This is made by the company the inventor of the language created. Then he left it because Forth, inc. needed the language to be standardized, which wasn't his idea of Forth and, his point of view is that he solved the software problems
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by astrobe_ 8mo ago
There's none. It's kind of like the "hello world" or "empty program" example for arrays. What this page shows is that the CREATE ... DOES> construct is similar to a closure, except it can only capture one ad
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by astrobe_ 8mo ago
The CVE itself only lists Chrome as the "affected software configuration", and I missed the line saying other browsers in the blog post, so I had a slight doubt. Other projects could use a drop-in replacement lib for the CSS, that
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by astrobe_ 8mo ago
This doesn't affect the many browsers based on Chromium?
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by astrobe_ 8mo ago
It sounds like OKAD [1]. In my very modest experience, I once wrote a system that I could boot from a floppy, edit, then recompile. For this I needed to make an assembler, or rather I was willing to meet the challenge of writing an assemble
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by astrobe_ 8mo ago
France is considering a ban on certain social media for minors, and parental consent on all social media for minors under 15, pretty much like Australia. They had work around EU laws that prevented them to force service providers to do thin
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by astrobe_ 8mo ago
One use of AI is classification. A technology which is particularly interesting for e.g. companies that sell targeted ads spots, because this allows them to profile and put tags on their users. When AI started to evolve from passive classif
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by astrobe_ 8mo ago
I didn't finish my second sentence: not only the stack is a central element in the design of Forth, it also has 2 of them: data stack and return stack. the return stack is also used directly by programmers.
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by astrobe_ 8mo ago
> It has a stack but the stack is an implementation detail, not a robust abstraction. Not exactly. Not only the stack is central in the design of Forth (see my comment over there [1]). It seems to me that a point-free language like Forth
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by astrobe_ 8mo ago
Forth should be considered a family of languages; Anton Ertl took its picture some time ago [1]. Chuck Moore agrees I think with the idea [2]: That raises the question of what is Forth? I have hoped for some time that someone would tell me
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by astrobe_ 8mo ago
... And a hacker is precisely a cyber-criminal.
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by astrobe_ 8mo ago
Then the mystery is how the CERN "raised" those $1B. Maybe they have an amazing PR department? Or maybe the project is going to be such a huge success that they are acting from the future [1]? [1] https://en.wikipedia.o
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by astrobe_ 9mo ago
Sometimes you get huge value from things you didn't expect ;-)
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by astrobe_ 9mo ago
What were your plans for advertising website updates? Classic RSS feed or something else?
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by astrobe_ 9mo ago
> While using AI tools for everyday tasks like finding directions is “low-risk,” human translators will likely need to be involved for the foreseeable future in diplomatic, legal, financial and medical contexts where the risks are “humun
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by astrobe_ 9mo ago
I think the general problem is that SoC-based security relies on internal "fuses" that are write-once, as the name suggests, which usually means that they are usable by the manufacturer only. TPMs can be reprogrammed by the custom
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by astrobe_ 9mo ago
Nope! "G" moves the cursor to the end of the file. Very useful. Inferior editors have ctrl-end or alt-end, but with Vim, 90% of your lazy fingers stay on the home row!
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by astrobe_ 9mo ago
AKA L181n.
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by astrobe_ 9mo ago
Not so much, actually. The better-than-default "process" for their 3rd level is to interview the customers, users, or domain experts, which is something you should do already in a sane software development process. Transposed and
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by astrobe_ 9mo ago
Oh, that's why. I barely used any CVS before Git, so I was always puzzled about the "weird" opinions on this topic. I'm still puzzled by the fact that some people seem to reject entirely the idea of rewriting history - e
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by astrobe_ 9mo ago
The funny thing is that HTML was supposed to be a markup language that could be read/written by hand, while making it also machine-to-machine friendly - notably by making some "semantic" features accessible for browsers. One
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by astrobe_ 9mo ago
Speaking of roads, everyone points out lifestyle choices, but the lifestyle of popular bands/musicians is also countrywide or worldwide tours. It doesn't look like an easy life, so I wonder to what extend those excesses are relate
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by astrobe_ 9mo ago
Also battery life. 20% less time, 20% more battery. But OP is correct, companies don't care as long as it doesn't translate into higher sales (or lower sales because the competitor does better). That's why you see that sort o
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by astrobe_ 10mo ago
Totally on-topic, because 20th century video games were mainly single-player or 2-4 players in the same room. Multiplayer games were "social" in a different way.
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by astrobe_ 10mo ago
> parents who oppose the ban can easily get around it Irresponsible parents are irresponsible parents, and they can do much worse than letting their children wander on the Net alone. IFAIK no law at least here forbids parents from giving
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by astrobe_ 10mo ago
Proper moderation, and - how to say it without sounding elitist? - more mature users.
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by astrobe_ 10mo ago
The question is how this is implemented, in particular age verification. It's usual to say that MPs are old people that don't understand current technologies, but in law preparation committees they appear to be well aware; in part
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by astrobe_ 10mo ago
Because garbage-collected languages are easier to teach and to use. So the low-level, low-resource or high-performance stuff is left to a handful of specialists - or "insects" according to Heinlein. Speaking of old things, this re
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by astrobe_ 10mo ago
> The optimal balance of efficiency, flexibility and transparency. You know the rule, "pick 2 out of 3". For a CPU, converting "123" would be a pain in the arse if it had one. Oh, and hexadecimal is even worse BTW; oc
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by astrobe_ 10mo ago
Indeed, even writing this utility in C is trivial and has 0 extra dependency for a pure C/C++ project. Avoiding #embed also removes the dependency to a C++23 capable compiler, which might not be available in uncommon scenarios.

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