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It took me a few tries(over a few years) to properly approach the task of writing a Forth, and when I approached it, I made my Forth in Lua, and all I really did was implement the wordlist in FORTH-83 as the spec indicated, and rewrite ever
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CD and other formats create trade-offs vs MIDI event sequences - it's a simple playback method offering a lot of fidelity but in exchange, you're tied to having either "one track at a time and the CD spins up in between"
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We're on the cusp of an indie software boom. The reasons why exist in Taleb's antifragility thesis: the antifragile will gain from disorder. The nature of the tech industry, in the decades roughly since the Cold War ended(which pu
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It's attempting to reconcile the stigmergic ideas of the Binding Chaos books(which, though not called out as such, are very present in the article) with the "Dark Enlightenment", and therefore it must labor to curse the epist
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I was imagining this kind of product the other day, in the context of building content creation pipelines(I was looking into extending Blender to call out to ffmpeg and similar tools), and now here's a full example of where it could go
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The underlying issue with game engine coding is that the problem is shaped in this way: * Everything should be random access(because you want to have novel rulesets and interactions) * It should also be fast to iterate over per-frame(since
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by crq-yml 2y ago
It's easier to appreciate math when you are disinterested in the results or applications, because the nature of academic topics near the core grouping of math/philosophy/empiricism is that they are discovered with a lot of me
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It's a formal model that we can opt into surfacing, or subsume into convenient pre-packaged idioms. For engineering purposes you want to be aware of both. It's way easier to make sense of why it's relevant to write towards a
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What I've noticed(as someone relatively active around retro hardware communities) is that the users sort into demographics with rather conflicting goals: * I want to run Linux, or CP/M, or a particular version of Basic, or somethi
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It's a strategy to redefine the doctrine of information warfare on the public Internet from maneuver(leveraged and coordinated usage of resources to create relatively greater effects) towards attrition(resources are poured in indiscrim
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I'd nominate Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni. As authoritarian "president for life" since 1986, he's demonstrated some savvy statecrafting amid Africa's resource wars and ethnic violence, making the country a poin
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I didn't gain direct experience with Cell, but given that description of the tooling, I'm unconvinced that the issue is fundamental to many-core, or that the author's assertion of non-composability holds up under scrutiny. Co
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It's not really about the content - it's a McLuhanesque phenomenon of "the medium is the message". When CD-ROM became affordable for consumers, investment into content that demonstrated the power of CD flooded in. A few
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Our lack of building is directly tied to dollar reserve currency policy. We export a lot of dollars; other countries export goods to the US and end up with dollars. The things they can invest their dollar in are dollar-based assets. That re
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by crq-yml 2y ago
Forth exposes both problems and solutions that aren't germane to the bulk of everyday computing systems: 1. I want to debug my assembly code with a REPL 2. I don't want abstraction, I want minimalism 3. I want to write solutions i
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In this respect, Kay's methods seem to be merging with those of Chuck Moore: the difference lies in that Moore doesn't seem to perceive software as a "different thing" from hardware - the Forth systems he makes always ce
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My take on what the issue is, is primarily in the ramifications of Conway's law and how our social structures map to systems. When the system is small, it makes a great deal of sense to be an artisan and design simple automations that
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I think the brain drain idea is fine. Making a goldbug argument is surprisingly regressive. Currency is a socially constructed phenomenon in all times and places, and gold is only special in that at this moment, reverting to it would cause
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by crq-yml 2y ago
Wrong. Zoom out.
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Learning at least one assembly language is very rewarding because it puts you in touch with the most primitive forms of practical programming: while there are theoretical models like Turing machines or lambda calculus that are even more sim
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I've embraced the Pulaman over the past year. It's grungy when used on rougher paper, and wet enough to bleed through lighter weights, but the lines are full of character. It's a fountain pen with a marker tip - it fills in a
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by crq-yml 3y ago
The US represents a certain mythology around the Enlightenment principles that were most popular at its founding: one of the big ones was Bentham/Smith utilitarian market thinking, resulting in a conflation between "pursuit of hap
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by crq-yml 3y ago
My speculative reaction: Prolog offers a way to describe an AI "commander" that can make plans that optimize for many units simultaneously. This technique is often used in strategy games, not usually with Prolog itself but using s
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Minimal 64x4: The Oddball in Home Computer Development [video](youtube.com)
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I don't believe the answer is simply "write more", because that leads in the direction of "rise and grind", not epistemic pursuits. Rather, I believe in writing as part of a cycle of grasping knowledge from differen
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What the contemporary dev environment teaches about scale is that it barely matters until you hit certain thresholds, and then it suddenly dominates everything. A corollary of this is that as your program becomes more complex, relatively mo
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The article suggests lack of oversight from TSR on the Japanese market's needs is mostly to blame. They kept making products released much later than their NA counterparts, with half-hearted support, in packages that were more expensiv
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The dark forest is usually applied as the converse of a panopticon: a society where things are illegible and private as a normal way of conducting one's business, versus one which is maximally surveilled and made legible to a state. Th
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I believe it's the combination of needing exploration but also wanting "safe checkpoints" that leads me now towards writing in terms of code generation first and making big iterations through the generator, and then subsequen
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The wrinkle in the generational hypothesis is that the "when" of a crisis being felt may depend on which generation you belong to. The nature of the major trends in the US have been primarily economic: rising debt being kicked dow

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