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by eschaton 3y ago
What’s the actual utility of this for anyone that isn’t trying to replace native code with web pages? Is this ever going to be worth the no doubt massive investment it required?
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by eschaton 3y ago
Use native frameworks on each platform for which you’re building an application, with a cross-platform non-UI core.
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by eschaton 3y ago
It’s not better “in concept,” it’s worse. Not only is it a non-native API, it’s abandoning one aspect of even attempting to mimic being native in favor of “branding.” If someone insists that an app on the Mac should look the same as on Wind
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by eschaton 3y ago
Betteridge’s Law says “no.” Also any sort of real analysis can lay the blame squarely at capitalism itself, demanding ever increasing profit with ever decreasing margins ad infinitum.
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by eschaton 3y ago
You wouldn’t happen to have any docs on the T805 microcode, would you? There are relatively few Open Source Transputer emulators; the microcode has been dumped, a couple of people have figured it out and written closed-source emulators with
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by eschaton 3y ago
If you actually look at Xerox’s hardware, it’s quite a stretch to call Lisa or Macintosh “less powerful.” It’s kind of amazing what Xerox was able to accomplish on such underpowered systems; they did it largely by having multitasking micro
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by eschaton 3y ago
I ran some comparisons a few years ago between a SPARCstation 20 Model 60 (the system for which the BYTE UNIX Benchmark is calibrated) and Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10795324 An origina
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by eschaton 3y ago
Domain/OS was the final name of the system, it was originally called Aegis and had network transparency in the early 1980s .
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by eschaton 3y ago
1. If you don’t use a language feature in your code, your code shouldn’t pay the cost—no matter what else might be helped, enabled or prevented by that. To this day compilers let entire features like exceptions and RTTI be disabled entirely
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by eschaton 3y ago
It was really unfortunate that more wasn’t talked about or shown from the actual source release. The people involved in that deserved way more time than they got. (At least it wasn’t as bad as wasting the second half of the Alto event being
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by eschaton 3y ago
The “2001” monolith was heavily implied to have been explicitly buried. It was detected first as a magnetic anomaly, and when touched while exposed to sunlight it emit an enormous RF burst. In other words, it was specifically protected from
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by eschaton 3y ago
Objective-C++ was created to enable the creation of the Lotus Improv spreadsheet. The underlying spreadsheet engine was developed in C++ and bridging bidirectional via C to Objective-C for the UI was judged to be too inconvenient, and the d
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by eschaton 3y ago
POC isn’t really worth looking at as an Objective-C, its author was kind of a nut who long insisted that NeXT “ruined” Objective-C with its additions back in the early 1990s.
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by eschaton 3y ago
Nah, template metaprogramming really doesn’t fit with the language philosophy; every message-send generates (essentially) the same code because it needs to be handled at runtime time, so templates won’t buy you anything. However, the light
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by eschaton 3y ago
The poster you’re replying to appears to mount a some degree of defense of UK law in response to several comments here, though they also use a disparaging name for one of the prominent law firms. It’s hard to tell just what their point is,
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by eschaton 3y ago
If you have the code, an Interlisp system like the revived Medley, and the several papers Lenat authored about the design of Eurisko, it should be “just” a matter of putting the pieces together and figuring out how to get something running.
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by eschaton 3y ago
LLMs can’t find reasoning errors because *LLMs don’t reason*. It’s incredible how uninformed the average Hackernews is about artificial intelligence. But the average Hackernews never met a hype train they wouldn’t try to jump on.
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by eschaton 3y ago
“Home taping is killing the music industry! We’ve left the other side of this cassette blank so you can do your part.”
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by eschaton 3y ago
The popular phrase was “my culture is not a costume” at the time. I also remember a bit of encouragement to distinguish between native and native-inspired fashion on the one hand and mimicry and stereotyping on the other.
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by eschaton 3y ago
This is what happens when you confuse graphic designers with human interface designers.
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by eschaton 3y ago
Jupyter Notebooks are absolutely a form of REPL, the type pioneered by MACSYMA, cloned by Mathematica, and significantly enhanced by Symbolics Dynamic Windows and Common Lisp Interface Manager (which is basically just DW but for any Common
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by eschaton 3y ago
The reason 9600bps was The Speed for terminals is that with 10-bit framing (start/byte/stop) you could send an entire 80×24 screen in two seconds, while not overloading the (fractional-MIPS) host with interrupts or DMA when doing
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by eschaton 3y ago
Depends greatly on where you live. Furthermore, a lot of the same forces that are trying to get rid of end to end encryption are explicitly trying to take their parts of society back to that.
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by eschaton 3y ago
There wasn’t “out-of-band harassment,” there were people calling out his toxicity and unilateral negative changes that he kept doubling down on. And no matter how many contributions he’s made, it’s always been Supnik’s project.
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by eschaton 3y ago
He’s not “the new maintainer,” he’s “one maintainer” but he decided he knew better than everyone else. Hence why the official SIMH repository is at open-simh.
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by eschaton 3y ago
Except it’s not really, the traditional ASCAP/BMI royalty structure and reporting gives extremely heavy favor to the most popular music and everyone else gets basically nothing, while their royalty schedules for streaming amount to bas
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by eschaton 3y ago
Not every word that makes someone uncomfortable is a slur.
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by eschaton 3y ago
What the hell is with the “censoring” of perfectionism?
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by eschaton 3y ago
The thread is about collaborative applications.
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by eschaton 3y ago
Indeed, some of us were doing it many years ago in native applications, no HTTP involved, on hardware a fraction as powerful as the average smart watch.

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