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by eggy 5y ago
But I have to ask, because I am curious what Lisp feature, that if missing, has you dismiss a language built to do a specific task you might be interested in. What were you trying to do then? Thanks!
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by eggy 5y ago
I programmed AutoLISP, and it is cool, but you need AutoCAD (or other CAD with AutoLISP feature). I found Rosetta [1] six years ago, that is a universal language for doing CAD/geometry/procedural stuff, that uses Rhino or AutoCAD
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by eggy 5y ago
No OP, but I used C and asm. Hi-Tech c compiler. I had no issues with it. Very simple and straightforward to code the PIC chips. I forget how much I paid for it.
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by eggy 5y ago
I still have my UV EPROM eraser from those days. My friend used an old chip of mine with the brass frame around the quartz window as a base for jewelry design. They do look cool on their own!
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by eggy 5y ago
I had a VIC20, and I wanted a way to print out my programs and some output. I bought a cheap 25x80 column thermal printer and interfaced it to my VIC20. I wrote a program that showed the position of Jupiter's four large moons - Io, Eur
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by eggy 5y ago
Nice article. I used to program 8-bit micros, BASIC Stamps, etc. back in the day (early 90s)for animatronic effects for store windows and malls. Mainly electric, pneumatic systems. I even used a capacitive touch sensor through the window of
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by eggy 5y ago
I don't know where this will eventually lead. I tried blue-blocking glasses, but I found simply remembering to adjust my screen's brightness and contrast when the room is dimly lit helped greatly with eye strain. I can't spea
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by eggy 5y ago
I had thought repairing modern electronic devices was going to be near impossible coming from my early experiences in the 1970s, and although a lot of the repairs involve swapping a card or whole board, others are simply board-level repairs
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by eggy 5y ago
Yes, not clear on my part. I meant to other ML languages, not other array languages. It's amazing the speed you get from J as an interpreted language; it's been honed by a bunch of clever people over the last few decades.
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by eggy 5y ago
I have a bunch of links to ML material for either APL or J. I don't know of any particular library for J. J is interpreted, so it is not as fast as other implementations. I am mainly using it to experiment on concepts and teach myself
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by eggy 5y ago
Before Python became ML's darling, there was Lush: Lisp Universal SHell by none other than Yann LeCun and Leon Bottouk[1], and I thought my Lisp knowledge was going to finally pay off ;) I've since moved on to J and APL. SBCL is a
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by eggy 5y ago
Here are but a few sources for some of the statements I made; there are plenty more: Obesity and COVID hospitalizations: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e4.htm Waning VE of vaccines (many mo
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by eggy 5y ago
You're cherry picking from people who think they had it. There are millions who know they've had COVID like myself, and I still have very high antibodies almost 9 months on. I am fit, do not have a comorbidity like obesity, hypert
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by eggy 5y ago
I use Paint.NET for a lot of quick tasks at work, and I have just begun playing with scripting it. It loads quickly, has nicer tools than just MS Paint, and it's getting better each year. I used to play with GIMP and Script-Fu, because
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by eggy 5y ago
Blockchain, not specifically crypto currencies, are also a means to operate anonymously outside of an authoritarian government. Sure there are gotchas with remaining anonymous, but I am sure China wouldn't want a blockchain-based, mesh
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by eggy 5y ago
Agreed. I had a tech come to my hotel room in Hong Kong and fix my Alien (Dell) computer. He replaced the screen and keyboard under warranty in 2016. I had a Dell that I dropped off for same-day service. I have a Thinkpad T430u I bought bac
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by eggy 5y ago
It looks interesting. I'll have to hook up a board this weekend and try it. I was just playing with Nerves [0], and trying to see if I could just use Erlang instead of Elixir, since I started learning Erlang using Gene Sher's &quo
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by eggy 5y ago
Video Toaster - a great piece of hardware/software! I had a Vic-20, C64, Amiga 1000, Amiga 500, and an Amiga 2000 with the Toaster. They were fun times indeed! I had friends doing commercial video work with them, and others doing &quot
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by eggy 5y ago
Correct. I am fortunate to have a good relationship with my ex-wife to this day; it has been great for our children too. I am one of the lucky ones!
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by eggy 5y ago
I had been quad skating since the 80s during the day for recreation, and then Sunday nights for dance skating, jamming, not figure skaing. Roxy would have skate nights too. It was a blast. I started blading in the early 90s, and would head
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by eggy 5y ago
I am also learning SPARK 2014, a subset of Ada, that is complex, but for me not too complicated. I find Rust complex and complicated, maybe others don't. I will probably stick with SPARK 2014 for my high integrity experiments with hard
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by eggy 5y ago
I realize the project is no longer being developed by the original group, but is there a recent fork by others or version of cyclone for 64-bit computers? I've given up on Rust for me personally, but I think it is a great PL and effort
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by eggy 5y ago
To expound on your bike helmet comment, growing up in the 70s skating, skateboarding, and biking, we didn't have protective gear. We quickly learned to fall and roll to prevent broken bones. I was rollerblading in NYC streets and Centr
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by eggy 5y ago
I played rugby in high school, and I was surprised at how much you don't hit your head intentionally like you do in American football. You use your shoulders, torso, and arms, or at least that is how we were trained. Sure, you hit your
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by eggy 5y ago
I'm a big fan of tangentstorm. I have been playing with J for years, and every time I experience a lull in my J pursuits, Michal comes out with some great video on or using J. I highly recommend watching his YouTube stuff, and checking
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Coding a Text Editor in J [YouTube](youtube.com)
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by eggy 5y ago
I agree especially since I started programming in 1978 and awk had just been created a year earlier. I did not learn of it until the late 80s with gawk, and sed much later. I forget when I first touched grep. I do remember using perl quite
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by eggy 5y ago
AWK seems to be having a renaissance, and I wonder if it is only because Perl sort of lost favor for a while to Python and others, while Perl 6 being renamed Raku added further confusion. Using options like 'perl -pie' gives you a
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by eggy 5y ago
When I was pursuing Forth, and about to give up on doing anything beyond a file munger I wrote, I discovered Sporth, and had a blast for at least two or three weeks and kept Forth on my radar! A lot of complexity from a few lines of Sporth!
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by eggy 5y ago
Sonic Pi is very accessible and a great front end for SuperCollider and livecoding music in general. Some others worth trying depending on your personal choice and bias for a particular PL: Euterpea - Haskell library for music creation [0].

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