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by erikj 9y ago
Rigetti Computing has a Github repository with a reference implementation for their quantum virtual machine and other stuff: https://github.com/rigetticomputing
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Finite Field Arithmetic, Chapter 2: Logical and Bitwise Operations(loper-os.org)
91 points by erikj 9y ago|15 comments
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by erikj 9y ago
Python lacks the most important feature of Common Lisp - defmacro.
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by erikj 9y ago
It's you who should take the "No true Scotsman" card back.
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by erikj 9y ago
I'm not sure if a country as large as the US can faithfully emulate Denmark.
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by erikj 9y ago
It's a shame they don't have parents who actually lived in the Soviet Union.
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by erikj 9y ago
You can use embedded Prolog to implement type inference in your compiler. AFAIK that's how it's done in the Rust compiler.
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by erikj 9y ago
Were there any successful attempts to design a brand new and complete OS API in the last decade?
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by erikj 9y ago
ARM chips have a much higher production volume so they are going to be much cheaper than RISC-V chips, at least for the foreseeable future.
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by erikj 9y ago
So WD is switching their hardware to in-house designed processors after purchasing a RISC-V developer, do I understand this press release correctly?
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by erikj 9y ago
Too often frameworks end up also changing the grammar, but doing it in a clunky unnatural way, shoehorning it into the language with tons of boilerplate code that could have been eliminated with a few simple macros.
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by erikj 9y ago
I don't know, where?
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by erikj 9y ago
As long as there is an always-on CPU with non-permanent firmware that has access to the microphone in my device, Fort Meade will find a way to hijack it and subvert this security model. I would rather not give them more attack surface.
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by erikj 9y ago
Always-on Siri is a very creepy feature, and who even needs it in a "Pro" workstation?
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by erikj 9y ago
Google is asking for that (or at least trying to remove Intel ME from their servers in the labs) AFAIK.
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by erikj 9y ago
JWZ seems to dislike Hacker News for some reason, judging by the redirect.
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by erikj 9y ago
Smalltalk was never owned by a single company since the first public release in 1980. Common Lisp was born in cooperation between Symbolics, Texas Instruments, Xerox, CMU and was never owned by a single company either. Neither of them exclu
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by erikj 9y ago
Is this a true quantum computer? The controversy around D-Wave was confusing.
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2017 LLVM Developers’ Meeting: “Porting OpenVMS Using LLVM”(youtu.be)
3 points by erikj 9y ago|0 comments
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by erikj 9y ago
There is also a writeup on how to run OpenVMS on SIMH VAXserver 3900, a more obscure thing than older Unix installations: https://vanalboom.org/node/18
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by erikj 9y ago
What was the PhD working on before joining your team?
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by erikj 9y ago
I guess people are just married to their customized Vim, Emacs, Visual Studio etc. setups which they are using for many years. These Smalltalk-related IDEs are too different and break a lot of old habits.
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by erikj 9y ago
They can still be shot in the face, stem cells won't help them with that.
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by erikj 9y ago
Sounds a lot like the name of the Nintendo's gaming console.
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by erikj 9y ago
Quake 3 Arena is still one of the best multiplayer shooters ever, so I can't agree with your statement.
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by erikj 9y ago
Is Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos hard enough?
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by erikj 9y ago
Lattice is the only vendor with an open-source toolchain: http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/
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by erikj 9y ago
The last CPU that was being developed at Symbolics is actually RISC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics#Sunstone The competitor LMI was also developing their next-generation Lisp machine RISC processor: https:&#x
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by erikj 9y ago
John C. Mallery owns the IP of Symbolics right now, as far as I know. Someone mentioned that he had plans to open source it, but it was a long time ago.
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by erikj 9y ago
I wonder if he really liked Lisp Machine Lisp or ZetaLisp.

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