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Forth (according to sources I have not verified) powered the influential CRPG series of Stuart Smith: Fracas (1980), Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (1981), Return of Heracles (1983), and Adventure Construction Set (1984). All were multi-platfo
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The CDC has proven themselves willing to lie repeatedly to manage the narrative around Covid politically. Long Covid has had a large and continuing impact. The virus has not changed. In fact it had its second largest season this winter, jus
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You can go lower-tech than the OLED method and have a printed legend with a bank of lights to represent row or column selection. In practice, every time I experiment with "big" control surfaces with a lot of buttons and macros, it
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The leaf elements are often coupled by a protocol, even if it's as simple as "call this API to return a result". Domain language is derived from seeing that a certain conventional protocol is used over and over. So to me, pro
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Windows is not better at this. Plenty of troubleshooting advice says "Now open the registry editor and..." or "Now open this .ini file and..." or "Now open cmd in admin mode and..." The ease of the GUI ends whe
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I too have my own preferences. What I've figured out about myself is that I like to flip between "practice" materials and "archival". Practice notes are more like your preferences: 70-pager subject notebooks, pencil
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Although comic book lore has a canon defined by intellectual property, the topics they explore tend to be interchangable fictions. That is: there are a lot of characters that have superpowers, characters who drink magic potions or elixirs,
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Memory safety in a general sense of "just" computing things and getting an answer has been solved for a long while by using either garbage collection or static, bounds-checked, allocation with handles and liveness checks. It'
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Having recently discarded one that was gifted a few years ago, I can say that the "best" rain jackets are essentially Formula 1 supercars. They have low lifespans by design; even if you are careful with reapplying the magic recond
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SFPD no longer polices traffic. They have offered various excuses for why, but the fact is, citations are down over 90% from 2014. Anyone who stands by a busy intersection in SF during rush hour will see dozens of violations. I have no inte
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The creator not being able to community manage was why I left Nim - not "forever", but I moved on to other things. The language has some good ideas, but at that time development seemed to be heavily guided by two trolls who hung o
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I agree, I think syntax could be defined as "the whole problem" if you see it holistically. Approaches that avoid scaling an intermediary grammar from lower-level tokens like the Lisp or Forth construction of "the parse dire
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I think Forth counts, in a "Turing-complete" sense of homoiconicity. A Forth program in a classic indirect threaded system can self-modify, reach in and change core interpreter words during execution. But it isn't obeying any
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I agree. It's a historical document of how 2000's-era game developers were grappling with making much, much larger codebases than before, and, because everyone in undergraduate CS was learning from a "Java school", it ad
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The thing that is provoking the switch is really in the "disruptive 10x better" areas, which Rust does offer around certain aspects of resource management. Zig is aligned around a different axis of "better", that axis be
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It's more nuanced than that. A large share of software bloat is tied to awkward combinations of device convergence and modularity. I'll give an analogy with pens: * Dip pens and brushes, the original inking tools, rely on the user
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Many of the issues that come up with applied information theory to practical code are of the form "oh, but it won't be fast if we do it that way". The end of the article links Alan Kay discussing STEPS and how it solves many
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I have noticed the same issue with Todd's approach. He does a good job of establishing an experimental metric that allows apples-to-apples comparison, but he reviews so many categories of product that there is no way he could be captur
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Suckless has always hinged on parody of "good" software, but it retains an audience of modders who take the core that doesn't work, and add the two or three things they want. If they actually wanted a succinct system they cou
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GC changes the performance profile of allocations, specifically. If your code is written to use static memory you won't experience GC pauses, but languages like JS that employ GC intentionally steer you towards allocating to do, e.g. s
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Remote + pandemic-driven displacements forced a lot of markets out of equilibrium. A large cohort retired(not just because they got sick, but because the markets started moving very fast) and another cohort traded up to higher wage and skil
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At smaller scales you are less likely to experience imperial dynamics impacting your life, which is a major generator of dissatisfaction: the notion of "good for the nation" when you have an element of empire in play is directed a
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The lesson I've taken from learning drawing is that the observation accomplished by slowing down is different from the one made when you speed up. If you read, for example, Kimon Nicolaides, who was writing before any of the modern res
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If the question is sufficiently related to the actual application, it could be an interview of the "solve our biggest problems for us, unpaid, without context" form, which I experienced once at a tiny startup. The technical lead j
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If you start adding traditional GUI application features - toolbars, tooltips, shortcuts, clipboard, drag and drop... You can get very close with all of those things in HTML, but not in the "native look and feel" way where the OS
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It's iterative pressure to push features further down the stack. Early Unix did very little! Modern BSDs ship in a very "complete" state. The early Lisps put very little in the language, but Raku shoves every trivial thing th
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What the games industry needs is a language packing a disruptive, 10x advancement to get away from C++. There are a lot of accumulated ideas right now that could make, perhaps, a 3x-5x difference, and are reasonably well-represented when lo
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The next time a thread about "what should I give a kid today instead of BASIC" rolls around, a Forth with Starting Forth and Thinking Forth is a probable answer. Forth gives an even more direct experience than the microcomputer BA
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Agreed that the semantic of language-oriented is sometimes hard to disentangle from the aesthetic of "parsing and compiling". In a majority of cases you can go part of the way in that direction by overlaying a FSM, stack machine o

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