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by crq-yml 17d ago
This is exactly how it was back then, roughly from when the 386-based PC clones appeared up through Windows 7. The best thing you could do was ask the local computer stores about what configurations they were building, since they got to see
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by crq-yml 1mo ago
Unmentioned elephant: Work. From. Home. Downtown SF has not had lively nightlife in most living memory, but the commuter crowd filled it up and gave it some bustle. That era ended with 2019 and all the activity has shifted to the neighborho
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by crq-yml 4mo ago
The Web is an ads platform with useful functionality as bait. That's all there really is to it: Mosaic added image support. Investors got excited and asked if the images could animate, if they could record click data and credit card da
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by crq-yml 5mo ago
I'm actually really happy to see a fresh "just Pascal", and one that is aiming for a slim bootstrap at that.
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by crq-yml 5mo ago
Forth could make a case for "faster" in compilation, at least, since it's aggressively machine-level(in a traditional assembly-up bootstrapped system) but blends a mix of interpreted and compiled. Readable and fast in the rea
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by crq-yml 5mo ago
I don't really see this as a Waymo story(although they are a bad actor) because this kind of blockage is mostly a combination of urban design, infrastructure and norms. Traffic is experienced individually as "that guy cut me off&q
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by crq-yml 5mo ago
Some of the sound drivers would be paired with a machine code monitor, and therefore you could interactively develop by modifying hex bytes, which when you think about it, is basically the prototype for a tracker workflow. There was definit
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by crq-yml 6mo ago
This rebuttal only deepens the actual point of the author. All of those tools are made to solve problems specifically formulated within a utilitarian corporate logic, which in turn is going to be socially constructed around the legal and te
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by crq-yml 6mo ago
There's an artistic thread in game coding - one that isn't the norm, but which I think RCT is exemplary of - that holds that mechanical sympathy is important to the game design process. A limit set around NPOT maximums and divisio
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by crq-yml 8mo ago
They can produce idioms that resemble the flow of Forth code but when asked to produce a working algorithm, they get lost very quickly because there's a combination of reading "backwards" (push order) and forwards (execution
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by crq-yml 8mo ago
There is a VM project now using the reversing work as a basis: https://git.information-superhighway.net/SpindleyQ/starfligh... Microblog: https://gamemaking.social/@SpindleyQ/115058149348319018
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by crq-yml 8mo ago
I have just spent a month writing about 2000 lines of Forth. My answer is no, at least w/r to generating something that looks like the by-hand code I wrote. LLMs coast by on being able to reproduce idiomatic syntax and having other for
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by crq-yml 8mo ago
Korg satisfies both ends of this spectrum in its different products. The Microkorg 2 is the update of its record-setting best-seller built around "here is a giant preset knob that has sounds organized by genre". You can program a
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by crq-yml 9mo ago
TBH I think the greatest benefit is on the documentation/analysis side. The "write the code" part is fine when it sits in the envelope of things that are 100% conventional boilerplate. Like, as a frontend to ffmpeg you can ge
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by crq-yml 10mo ago
I'm pretty sure that it's not exactly about the code, it's a case of having honed skills and techniques from multiple different sources - John Romero was bouncing around the industry and working on both larger and smaller p
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by crq-yml 10mo ago
I think the gap comes from the collective/individual divide found elsewhere in Japan/US comparisons. It's just a bit less obvious w/r to art. In Japan there is a presumed collective endeavor to creativity. That starts in
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by crq-yml 10mo ago
There's a cruel truth to electing to use any dependency for a game, in that all of it may or may not be a placeholder for the final design. If the code that's there aligns with the design you have, maybe you speed along to shippin
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by crq-yml 10mo ago
I think the main reason not to go full-throttle into "vibes -> machine code" (to extrapolate past doing it in C) is because we have a history of building nested dolls of bounded error in our systems. We do that with the idea of
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by crq-yml 10mo ago
Solus. Same install for five years running, rolling release, no breakage.
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by crq-yml 11mo ago
You will still need the tool but the interface to it may start to change. A lot of the editing functions for 3D art play some role in achieving verisimilitude in the result - that it looks and feels believably like some source reference, in
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by crq-yml 11mo ago
I believe Lisp is relatively more understood than Forth these days, in that most of the "big ideas" that have been built in it have also been borrowed and turned into language features elsewhere. We have a lot of languages with ga
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by crq-yml 11mo ago
Bloat mostly reflects Conway's law, with the outcome of it being that you're building towards the people you're talking to. If you build towards everyone, you end up with a large standard like Unicode or IEEE 754. You don&#x2
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by crq-yml 11mo ago
One of the things I remember about myself and others as young people emerging in the years around Y2K, was that we were taught presumption at every opportunity. Pat answers from the elite circles were to be found for everything, and the re
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by crq-yml 11mo ago
I believe it's more nuanced than that. Artists, like programmers, aren't uniformly trained or skilled. An enterprise CRUD developer asks different questions and proposes different answers compared to an embedded systems dev or a c
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by crq-yml 11mo ago
That's verisimilitude. We were doing that with representational art way before computers, and even doing stipple and line drawing to get "tonal indications without tonal work". Halftone, from elsewhere in the thread, is a pro
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by crq-yml 1y ago
I'm a bit agnostic about the specific solution these days. In general, early binding(so, static memory and types, formalized arenas and handles, in-line linear logic with few or no loops or branches) debugs more readily than late(dynam
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by crq-yml 1y ago
It took me decades to find a "learning routine", but it now looks like this: 1. Imitate. Find a way to boil down what I'm looking at to "monkey see, monkey do". Kindergarten songs and projects. Tracing the letters.
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by crq-yml 1y ago
There's a correspondence between where node-and-wires works best and where the problem statement prefers something like a circuit diagram because it's synchronization-heavy. Games need a lot of this, and so do audio apps. The prob
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by crq-yml 1y ago
Pad grid controllers like the Novation Launchpad, and its indie, open-source counterpart, Mystrix Pro, have an 8x8 grid. At first this style of controller didn't use any lights, but as the manufacturing and features progressed, they we
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by crq-yml 1y ago
You've implemented a stack calculator, which misses the big picture: the stack is an implementation detail that enables a lot of the nifty stuff, but Forth is a "braided language" - the whole is more than the sum of the parts

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