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541.
by eschaton 4y ago
Four out of every eight hours a day in process-related meetings doesn’t sound very agile to me. I’ve done plenty of actually-agile development and it’s always involved one meeting at the start of an iteration to select the items to work on
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by eschaton 4y ago
The PC model worked because a lot of people put a lot of blood sweat and tears into making it work and then embraced the sunk cost fallacy to a degree only previously seen in politics and religion. Open Firmware—between the device tree syst
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by eschaton 4y ago
How are they NOT the BEST bits? With Open Firmware you can build Open Source systems that boot on hardware that you’ve not only never seen but never will see. Open Firmware + ELF can still be our future if we embrace it.
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by eschaton 4y ago
It’s simple: Everyone should use Open Firmware. It’s an IEEE standard, it works well, and device trees are already widely used. Just adopt the FORTH monitor too and embrace standardization.
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by eschaton 4y ago
Taligent had their own compiler and used something similar to what the ObjC 2 ABI uses for ivars for all member variables and functions to eliminate the fragile base class problem. “Using C++” may have been part of their problem, but not fo
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by eschaton 4y ago
The problem is that there has been over a century and a half of histrionic propaganda within the United States asserting that government can’t do anything right, government and regulation are the root of all societal problems, the only prop
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by eschaton 4y ago
Here I was hoping it would be an admonition to use tools like heuristic inference rather than just making ever-denser neural networks.
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by eschaton 4y ago
And which is also quite a bit more complex, compared to Open Firmware.
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by eschaton 4y ago
The ARM ecosystem is really hobbled by the lack of a standard boot loader and device tree mechanism, and the RISC-V ecosystem is heading down the same path. There are several good Open Source implementations of IEEE-1275 Open Firmware avail
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by eschaton 4y ago
The term NIMBY was originally intended to refer to people like this: A liberal who wanted all sorts of services—but not in _my_ back yard! That was to distinguish them from conservatives who were open about not wanting services at all.
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by eschaton 4y ago
Most Apple-deprecated API stick around rather than “just stop working in newer versions of macOS.” Binary compatibility is very well-maintained over the long term.
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by eschaton 4y ago
You’d be surprised! I have a lot of vintage hardware, and run a NetBSD server primarily as a way to boot it up over the network in either its original operating system or to run NetBSD. For example, I have some Sun-3 and Sun-4 (pre-SPARCsta
553.
by eschaton 4y ago
I am mocking assigning any nonzero probability to an AI apocalypse as delusional and based in science fiction rather than science.
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by eschaton 4y ago
Yes, because—accepting your premise—it’s an actual thing that was observed with a realistically-assigned probability by experts in the appropriate fields. The AI singularity that Yudkowsky cultists worry about is more akin to “What if there
555.
by eschaton 4y ago
Was any of the actual code or other artifacts of the work preserved?
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by eschaton 4y ago
Should they have ever existed in the first place, given that Usenet exists?
557.
by eschaton 4y ago
That depends entirely on your definitions when you’re dealing with a listener, especially a sophisticated one like the Symbolics Dynamic Listener or the CLIM Listener. If you want the forms entered to go through term rewriting before or as
558.
by eschaton 4y ago
Wolfram Language is essentially Lisp with M-expressions instead of S-expressions, coupled with a clone of MIT’s MACSYMA symbolic mathematics system built around term rewriting. Mathematica is the Wolfram Language plus a user interface simil
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by eschaton 4y ago
I can’t wait to see what the theories are for why nothing changes under Boudin’s replacement.
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by eschaton 4y ago
“Joke’s on your, I was only pretending to be a piece of shit!”
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by eschaton 4y ago
Yeah here’s the thing: Nothing good comes from giving benefit of the doubt to the kind of piece of shit who makes such claims.
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by eschaton 4y ago
How do you know this isn’t his opinion?
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by eschaton 4y ago
Hope this asshole never needs to work again. He’s just cost all of his prior employers many, many thousands of dollars in legal review of every hiring committee he’s ever been a part of, and potentially millions of dollars in discrimination
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by eschaton 4y ago
There are plenty of tools for getting exact matched to a design, PDF for example. That’s not what the web is for and every attempt to cram it into that role has just made it worse. Just because you can pound nails with a screwdriver doesn’t
565.
by eschaton 4y ago
I don’t think image, video, or audio support was a mistake. I think CSS and JavaScript and cookies and referers were. The web had rich text even before it had images, in the form of emphasis and strong emphasis, as well as a variety of othe
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by eschaton 4y ago
Giving so-called designers a bunch of tools to make every web page behave differently and taking the design choices away from browser and platform vendors absolutely was a mistake and you can see it really clearly when you look at applicati
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by eschaton 4y ago
“Branding” and “designer preferences” are bullshit that was specifically rejected by the design of the web in favor of information architecture and interoperability. Leave that shit in PDFs where it belongs and don’t bring it to web pages o
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by eschaton 4y ago
Why not just let the browser use what its developers feel are most appropriate for serif, sans serif, and monospaced fonts, and avoid specifying specific fonts at all? We’re talking about web pages, not a magazine.
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by eschaton 4y ago
Nah, you should build most apps using operating systems’ native toolkits, and stop trying to pretend web pages are applications.
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by eschaton 4y ago
Not at the moment and not in much detail, but I can say authoritatively that it’s changed since the NeXT days and over the years that it’s been part of Xcode, as one of the people who has made changes to it.

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