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by dented42 9mo ago
This very much depends on your definition of ‘best’. While your criticisms of the environment are valid, smalltalk is flexible in tangible ways that Java couldn’t match. Java took the OO model of smalltalk and make a bunch compromises that
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by dented42 9mo ago
I can’t be alone in this, but this seems like a supremely terrible idea. I reject whole heartedly the idea that any sizeable portion of one’s code base should specifically /not/ be human interpretable as a design choice. There’s a
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by dented42 10mo ago
It’s heartbreaking.
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by dented42 10mo ago
That kind of feedback is also possible within this framework in theory. It depends on at what level the abstract interpreter is operating. If it’s the source level then it’s easy, but propagating that from an IR to source code is, shall we
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by dented42 10mo ago
The sheer amount of linear algebra number crunching vs some database lookups is monumental. I don’t see how an LLM could ever be as efficient as a search engine.
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by dented42 10mo ago
HyperCard is one of my all time favourite memories of Mac OS.
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by dented42 1y ago
What an utterly delightful itty bitty scheme. <3
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by dented42 1y ago
You’re pulling a quote that disproves your point.
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by dented42 1y ago
As a native English speaker it likewise took me quite a while to figure out Andy kind of thread they are talking about. ;)
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by dented42 1y ago
This is blatant misinformation. Firstly this has nothing to do with the patriot act, I’m pretty sure the patriot act expired years ago. But more importantly it doesn’t seem like the government is trying to ban anything, they’re just extendi
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by dented42 1y ago
Was scaling ever the point?
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by dented42 1y ago
Nothing to do with Apple Intelligence. The speech synthesiser manager (the term manager was used for OS components in Classic Mac OS) has been around since the mid 90s or so. The change you’re hearing is probably a new/modified default
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by dented42 1y ago
That’s not a far comparison. Say just calls the speech synthesis APIs that have been around since at least Mac OS 8. That being said, the ‘classical’ (pre-AI) speech synthesisers are much smaller than kitten, so you’re not wrong per se, jus
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by dented42 1y ago
Agreed I think the criticism of this post is largely undeserved. This kind of thinking is an important stepping stone on any developers journey.
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by dented42 1y ago
That analogy doesn’t really work here. Because there is a downside. It’s slow, takes up a ton of memory, lots of disk space… When you have so many processes on a modern machine competing for resources, when every app chooses to be bloated a
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by dented42 2y ago
Twitter continues to be broken. Each twitter hyperlink gives me an error message.
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by dented42 2y ago
We’re covering the history of null pointers on the Mac and not mentioning that in the early days null de-referencing was totally allowed and the system didn’t do anything to stop it? ;)
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by dented42 2y ago
This is so reminiscent of doing web development in smalltalk with seaside.
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by dented42 2y ago
But the libraries aren’t broken, they follow the spec. The spec is vague enough that compliant implementations can be mutually incompatible, that’s the main criticism as far as I can see.
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by dented42 2y ago
I don’t understand what you think they want out of this. They don’t want to keep infowars the way it was, nor are they trying to make money off of it. Do you think their goal was to buy it, keep it running without any changes, and keep extr
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by dented42 2y ago
This is my thought exactly. I really love the idea of open hardware, but I don’t see how it would protect against cover surveillance. What’s stopping a company/government/etc from adding surveillance to an open design? How would y
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by dented42 2y ago
I believe he’s asking if it’s available via QuickLisp. It’s a sort of package manager for Common Lisp, but it seems to no longer be maintained.
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by dented42 2y ago
I’m pretty skeptical of anything claiming to be a zero cost abstraction…
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by dented42 2y ago
This is very sensible but I think is missing one key insight. Very often side projects are ridiculous things that serve very little actual utility but we build them because we think it’s cool. If, for example, I want to writing a reminders
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by dented42 2y ago
I don’t understand what part of this I am meant to be opposed to.
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by dented42 2y ago
I genuinely don’t understand why that matters. The fact that there exists bad editors that don’t support my workflow shouldn’t prevent me from using the tools that I like and am comfortable with. I use editors that don’t screw up makefiles
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by dented42 2y ago
Make has been my favourite unix tool for years and a really useful tool to have in your pocket. It’s simple, elegant, and powerful.
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by dented42 2y ago
But those are things that he’ll learn about as he keeps using make. And why does it matter that some editors don’t know about makefiles? The one he is using handles them just fine so what’s the problem?
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by dented42 2y ago
CAH, yet again doing the lords work of trying to do the right thing in the absolute silliest way possible.
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by dented42 2y ago
I’m serious considering it too…

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