crq-yml

18 ms·

151.
by crq-yml 3y ago
If you want to solve computing problems more directly, you will want to apply the approaches of Thinking Forth, regardless of the language you use. A lot of software and features are there to communicate with other people and their software
152.
by crq-yml 3y ago
It's technically easy to turn a grid city into walk/bike superblocks, given political will: add modal filters to intersections so that auto traffic is faced with more cul-de-sacs. The fast traffic gets concentrated onto a sparser
153.
by crq-yml 3y ago
That misses the danger. We have to view societal inefficiencies as a targeted way of offloading pressure from expedient, one-size-fits-all "production quotas" and "final solutions". Technologies are levers - they produce
154.
by crq-yml 3y ago
It's notable that the turnover of listings on major stock indexes has generally increased over time. Everyone knows that companies have lifecycles, and part of the old 20th century career path was that the lifecycle was sufficiently la
155.
by crq-yml 3y ago
You might be interested in the Cerberus design: https://www.thebyteattic.com/p/cerberus-2100.html?m=1 It doesn't match your concept precisely but it has concretely implemented a good combination of observability
156.
by crq-yml 3y ago
The nature of the Software Crisis has changed, but the crisis is still here. At the outset of that, the predictions were simply that software wouldn't get built because it was getting too complicated and expensive. The 80's saw a
157.
by crq-yml 3y ago
I remember this period. Early 2010's indie games had a "you had to be there" quality, as there were a lot of people showing up to the parties that weren't "in games" in the usual industry sense. I remember meet
158.
by crq-yml 3y ago
You can definitely get a lot out of JS if you start trying to "write it low-level", but it also definitely becomes a case of fighting the language to do so, because everything that it tries to help you with becomes a sharp edge fo
159.
by crq-yml 3y ago
Here is what I see taking shape across a number of cities: 1. A big micromobility boom. This describes a number of phenomena: the e-bikes are perhaps the most visible since they add a lot of power to a bike commute and make it easier to jus
160.
by crq-yml 3y ago
Lisps are "wizard" languages: the runtime semantic is kept close to the syntax, which also means that you can rapidly extend the syntax to solve a problem. This quality is true of Forth as well, and shares some energy with APL and
161.
by crq-yml 3y ago
Capitalism needs the state to function, because the legal pooling of assets and authority that takes place within capitalism needs laws and enforcement. Someone who comes in and says they're an "owner" without that backing ju
162.
by crq-yml 3y ago
For making it really exact to the actual measurements(which presumably was the goal) grid paper isn't going to work, not without large sheets and drafting tools. Illustrative drawing can be done freehand and allowed to slop and distort
163.
by crq-yml 3y ago
Ah, that would have made DOS game piracy so much easier.
164.
by crq-yml 3y ago
It's advice about prioritizing. You can go in any direction with work tasks and end up yak shaving, but if you are trying to "make the machinery move" as a founder would, you cannot go deep into that yet. You have to first cl
165.
by crq-yml 3y ago
Lately, esoteric realms of computing have started trending on HN every day - lazy evaluator languages and concatenative languages and array languages and research operating systems and standards that are no longer in use or died as a propos
166.
by crq-yml 3y ago
War is run bureaucratically and with political aims in mind, so it doesn't proceed with the efficiency you might be able to apply to a chess match or a video game. If you examine what happens on the front lines of the Ukraine conflict
167.
by crq-yml 3y ago
You should go implement the FORTH-83 wordlist. (arbitrary pick, but it's easy to find documentation for the words) Doing that will reveal exactly how powerful and succinct Forth has always been, because the compilation/execution d
168.
by crq-yml 3y ago
As it is, I already run a Debian VM locally to seal off the "development" stuff from my primary desktop. Is is kinda heavy? Yeah. The hard disk footprint is substantial. But it works fine for writing some Python, compiling a few d
169.
by crq-yml 3y ago
I've been working with eZ80 on Agon Light and the performance ceiling is considerably different. Both the clocks and the instruction timings are more generous owing to a three-stage pipeline, so while interpretation is still slow, and
170.
by crq-yml 3y ago
I would like to say something from a somewhat disillusioned "FOSS agnostic" perspective. It's not about the cost or workload, but the imagined premise: that we are making software that "the user controls". Well, we
171.
by crq-yml 3y ago
That problem can be solved with estimation of the roots on a number line. It's not the most precise way of calculating it but when visualized you can clearly see that the root of 13 will have a fractional part above .5, while the root
172.
by crq-yml 3y ago
It's not really the list, but the "grindset" meanings you've assigned to it. Here's an example of two contrasting approaches to organizing yourself, not to Magic but to learning art: 1. Open up Youtube, search &quot
173.
by crq-yml 3y ago
Let me address that last point of project scoping: it's a great skill to teach, and the right way to do it is to introduce Venn diagramming. This is a serious tool for any kind of creative project. The way to use Venn diagrams is to di
174.
by crq-yml 3y ago
I believe it's related to PC standardization really kicking in during the 90's. Before that point, cross-platform abstraction existed but was relatively bespoken to the application, and you couldn't rely on coordination of de
175.
by crq-yml 3y ago
Some of the improvement in BBC BASIC over Microsoft's BASIC is attributable to the larger ROM(the first Altair BASIC was just 4k), but it's also that the BBC Micro's 6502 and DRAM was clocked higher than contemporaries. It&#x
176.
by crq-yml 3y ago
I see it as the crossover between approaches amenable to static order and iteration, vs those that demand constraint optimization. This is a recurring problem in programming, because if you code towards the optimal result, you end up making
177.
by crq-yml 3y ago
At large scale, game engines have relatively unsatisfying answers to "what's the best way to iterate quickly on the game while supporting all the features we need". If the scope is small, the answer is easy: write some naive
178.
by crq-yml 3y ago
I believe it's attributable to "wider" vs "taller" software development. As in, software using more cores, running more background processes, intermittently accessing I/O more frequently, vs software that does
179.
by crq-yml 3y ago
D has some great developers working on it, past and present. The thing that moved me away from it was a lack of purpose, which isn't exactly how I would have put it at the time, but in hindsight seems obvious. The way in which I'm
180.
by crq-yml 3y ago
The specific thing of "copy the imprinted marks" can be constructed by hand by scrubbing the back of ordinary paper with soft graphite, and this is something still done by artists using traditional workflows. It's helpful whe

More ›