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by bitwize 2mo ago
As I like to say, Forth is the dual of Lisp. They reach the same goal (a programmable programming language) through completely different and complementary methods.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Now I've got the whole picture.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Rabbit, flu shot, someone talk to me!
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Fasttracker was coded by demoscene people though, namely members of the group Triton (later Starbreeze Studios). It has a couple of demoeffects in its about screen, and even a version of Nibbles (qbasic snake game) you can play. And if you
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Well if LLMs get access to it, we humans should get free access to it as well!
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by bitwize 2mo ago
The thing is, Wolfram is that smart, having gotten his Ph.D. at 20 or something. He's just never been humbled, had a leash put on him so he could be aimed and focused on productive work (outside of maybe Mathematica ). Probably beca
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by bitwize 2mo ago
If Elon Musk is dying of thirst then the price of that glass of water is set at (pinky to side of mouth) one million dollars.
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by bitwize 2mo ago
Mass Effect distinguishes between AI, which is sentient enough to be a person; and VI (Virtual Intelligence) which is more like a conversational user interface. What we have built in real life may qualify as a VI by the Mass Effect stan
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by bitwize 2mo ago
This is because of the nature of what it's doing. It's still just predicting tokens behind the scenes; it's just treating the entire conversation between you and it as one long chunk of text for which it must predict the te
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by bitwize 2mo ago
We're living in the glorious future where software engineers don't have to worry about nitty-gritty stuff like actually making software and can focus on the really important work: administrative and managerial tasks!
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Oh snap, I'm so Hackernews-brained I thought Amazon (company) had sponsored the construction of special animal-crossing bridges for San Francisco freeways.
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by bitwize 3mo ago
And this is why ghosting is a thing. We've entered into an era when self-defense is more important than outdated notions of politesse . In dating, for instance, it's usually advantageous for a woman to ignore (ghost) a man she wa
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Well, it's a more faithful adaptation of the manga, and hence has a lot more of the humor, sexiness, and overall humanness from Shirow's original work. Not that Mamoru Oshii's more cerebral 1995 adaptation doesn't have m
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by bitwize 3mo ago
A new adaptation of Ghost in the Shell just dropped, and not a moment too soon as society deals with AI hacking people's brains, making them confuse what's real and what isn't...
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by bitwize 3mo ago
"Oh god, what have you done. You have drawn your horse incorrectly. Look what your careless hands have wrought. Select the pistol, and then, select your horse." https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/05&
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by bitwize 3mo ago
This is pretty much what COM is under Windows.
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by bitwize 3mo ago
The thing is in Lisp, data with a nice structure that you can easily work with is evaluatable as code; and all the code that runs has a nice structure and is easy to work with! You cannot easily manipulate and transform BASIC programs from
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by bitwize 3mo ago
In 2004, the logic driving such decisions was literally GOFAI: rules engines that fire off responses when certain criteria are met.
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Well, out of the agentic harnesses available, OpenCode is the most promising and capable whilst still remaining open; proprietary alternatives like Claude Code have all these problems and more. So I guess the only way out is to just not use
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by bitwize 3mo ago
C-f Mark Twain Nada. Seriously?
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Yeah, as soon as I was able I upgraded my Pi 4s to be able to boot USB and used an SSD in an enclosure as my main boot volume. Works rather well.
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Zig is a DOA language for other reasons though. The reason why Rust enthusiasts act so morally superior is because they are: > Rob Pike, an unsafe guy, may insist that a small language and garbage collection are enough. But the typesafe
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by bitwize 3mo ago
LLMs are statistical learning. GOFAI is symbolic, rules-based stuff, expert systems and that.
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by bitwize 3mo ago
There's another thing about the Commodore computers that is really special. The binaries for disk and tape games consisted of the machine code for the game, along with a stub BASIC program to jump into it (typically one line with a SYS
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Wait, pirate game mixtapes? Awesome!
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by bitwize 3mo ago
My wife's brain could probably do that. I'm not so sure about mine.
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Stephen Bourne was a fan of Algol 68, and the original Bourne shell was written in "Bournegol", which is C with enough #define malarkey to make it more Algol-like: https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Needs more DIVISIONs. Though I can imagine this being what would happen if the designers of PowerShell were responsible for C.
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by bitwize 3mo ago
I made a mix CD for my wife for her birthday last year. It was my interpretation of Cereal Killer's "Greatest Zukes Album", featuring "great artists that asphyxiated on their own vomit" that was mentioned in the 199
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by bitwize 3mo ago
Japan? Techno music? Pre-internet electronic communication? This is one of the coolest things ever! It's the next best thing to being straight out of a Gibson novel!

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