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Hot take, it's an author who wants total power over computers and is upset that Turing completeness impedes that power. If they were thinking pragmatically they wouldn't have gotten into the argument linked in the post about Zig c
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There are characters from ASCII for delimiting records, which are underused because they cause confusion about whether they should be represented as a state change like a backspace character, or as a glyph. See also: "nobody can agree
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When state gets out of hand, I know of three options: 1. Put a constraint solver over it so that the programmer describes rulesets instead of state "paths". Regex rules like the Kleene star's backtracking are a simple example
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Finding things later is downstream of deciding what you want to remember, which isn't going to be clear on the first pass through. The act of taking the note is supposed to be more intense than sitting there and thinking "yeah I&#
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The web site behaves strangely on mobile and folds the text as I try to scroll around.
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The eZ80 is indeed quite fast, and the 24-bit space is a comfortable size for values as well as addressing - I've been working with it in Forth and haven't felt deeply constrained by that size(occasionally needing the double numbe
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Venn diagram it out. You have your own skills, needs and inclinations. And then other people have theirs. Look for a clear, coherent overlap with a market and build the pitch from that. Validate occasionally that you understand the market y
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The 030 was targeted for a Quake 2 engine port some years back, which got to an impressive amount of progress: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/234077-quake-ii-engine-rew... And here is the 030 (plus some aftermarket
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I had a good time with PICO-8 - and I think it retains its core appeal - but I've moved on to "genuine" retro hardware with the new crop of machines like CX16, Mega65, or my personal choice, Agon Light. The specification end
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"Competitive moat." It's a term Warren Buffett has used often to describe businesses that have an advantage that blocks competitors, like a moat around the wall of a castle. Control over intellectual property rights is an exa
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It's just good illustration practice to stage your scenes if you can, as a way of getting the most detailed reference possible. The technique dates back centuries, only limited by the available technologies(grid viewfinders, mirrors, l
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Market investment is ultimately determined by plausible narrative, and by the national narratives at the broadest level. That is, if your industry is tuned in to the investment climate, the things being pursued match the things that people
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I've picked up Forth to code for Agon Light, which is a new spin on those old platforms - it's BBC Micro-patterned, but uses some modern chips to make things faster and roomier. Easy to develop for on emulator too. One of the comp
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Paper and plastic packaging are marvelously complex. The paper is light weight, but sturdy, often in the form of corrugated cardboard, which needs a good glue to function - already we have multiple ingenious engineering feats that need fact
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I would suggest looking towards equipment for "overcoming isometrics", which at its baseline is literally just self resistance and can be expanded with a few mechanisms to add some springiness and help your nervous system reach fu
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I think our options basically come down to types, tests, and syntax. Syntax is the least explored because it's expensive to iterate on and teams can't agree on it, so we sit around hoping that the next generation of languages will
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What's actually happened in practice: A huge number of politicians became entangled in SBF's operation, and the direct attacks made to date could be construed as attempts to get in at lower prices or control local onramps. Governm
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Hollywood used to use a Roman copyright year as well. The rumor I heard was that it was intended to obfuscate the time of production so that audiences would think they are seeing new work.
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I see it as a "levels of depth" kind of exercise. The first level is to be exposed to some kind of summary. The second is to attempt to read and investigate the details. The third is to use a hands-on mechanism of engagement, whic
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The elephant in the room is that the majority of the standards we end up with are the same thing done three or more different ways in a great rush by a bunch of industry players, with the most popular one being sufficient for a demo app, an
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It's sensible in principle: * Editors will play nicely with the graphical representation. If you need better graphics, it's done with font customization, which everyone already supports. * It announces that the data is source text
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The good/great line is something you can stumble over and and then fall back from because it's a relative measure that has a zigzag to it, exactly the same as how artists perceive their work vs others. At first you know with some
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Agreed, there's profound difference between "default runtime checks for common issues, can inline a toggle to disable" (which describes both Delphi and Ada) and the C "do it yourself kid" or C++ "we have a temp
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It's another iteration of the unit record machine [0] - batch processes done with a physical arrangement of the steps in the process. CPU design moved away from this analogy a long while ago because the tasks being done with CPUs invol
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Yes, arity is "number of arguments". I don't have expertise in lazy evaluation myself, I've just been exposed to enough of it to explain the motivations.
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If you're in eager evaluation land, everything evaluates as you come to it, so you can handle all arguments at runtime by using a stack and no problem is felt. Once we say, "actually we don't evaluate until it's used&quo
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There's a corresponding objection to the idea of fast-food software, though, which is that the world doesn't have to be one-size-fits-all, and in fact we may be near or past a peak era for that approach to software: while everyone
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Whenever a politician says "we don't want to inhibit innovation", always call them out for being for sale to whoever lobbies them.
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This one is probably more for Scaleway to gain experience than for customers to use seriously. Of course, that excuse could be true for customers too.
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It's a very good language to play with to get a glimpse of "just the computer". It's still an interpreter environment, but it's one that crashes spectacularly because you accidentally swapped your arguments and wrot

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