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Vintage Computer Festival West This Weekend(vcfed.org)
6 points by eschaton 7y ago|1 comments
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by eschaton 7y ago
Number one is more hubris than requirement.
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by eschaton 7y ago
There’s already a PowerLisp, it’s the original version of Corman Lisp for Macintosh.
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by eschaton 7y ago
When there are actually samples of his speech before and after moving to Texas, and when he was Governor of Texas versus President of the United States, it kind of lends more credence to the claim.
725.
by eschaton 7y ago
Honestly, based on my minimal experience fooling with Zmacs on my Lisp Machines, a non-GNU emacs with Common Lisp underneath is likely to be much better, especially if it can use a general purpose command system like CLIM’s.
726.
by eschaton 7y ago
The fundamental problem here is that the cost paid for a good does not directly include the cost to reclaim and/or sequester it. That cost is externalized, and so it winds up seeking a local minima, with serious adverse effects on the
727.
by eschaton 7y ago
The IRC protocol is entirely open. You can make extensions to do anything you want.
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by eschaton 7y ago
That was a general DEC-ism, not just a TOPS-10 thing.
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by eschaton 7y ago
Nope, most Mac filesystem APIs would interpret : in a name as a path component. There was even an equivalent to the current working directory. No system-supported :: traversal syntax though.
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by eschaton 7y ago
I think you mean “6502 gave us desktop (micro)computers.” Most 8080 and then Z80 systems of the mid-1970s used S-100 and were oriented around a separation of CPU and I/O, i.e. “Just plug a surplus terminal or teletype into a serial por
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by eschaton 7y ago
This does not make me think better of Carly Fiorina, it makes me think worse of Mark Hurd.
732.
by eschaton 8y ago
Yet. Don’t underestimate the lobbying efforts of industry.
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by eschaton 8y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s counting what religious Americans give to their church as “charity” though.
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by eschaton 8y ago
Thanks!
735.
by eschaton 8y ago
I can pick up in Mountain View immediately, cmh at mac dot com.
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by eschaton 8y ago
Why would you have ever written JavaScript to lazy-load images? The browser knows what’s on the page and can optimize its loading already. Don’t screw with that. This kind of assistance from the browser is why. Also, you don’t need to run c
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by eschaton 8y ago
> What other multi-billion dollar co is remotely comparable? Uber
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by eschaton 8y ago
I don’t understand why people think giving space and respect to odious beliefs is somehow virtuous. What it does is normalize those beliefs and enable them to propagate while simultaneously exhausting those who oppose them. See Sarte’s comm
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by eschaton 8y ago
The “holier-than-thou” part of the parent comment was calling Nvidia “anti-FOSS.” Nvidia is going to do what Nvidia is going to do, for their own reasons. Unless you have some hidden inside information you shouldn’t assume they’re doing it
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by eschaton 8y ago
And Nvidia has rules around access to its intellectual property. If Linux can’t follow them, Linux doesn’t get Nvidia’s code.
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by eschaton 8y ago
And someone called Nvidia not simply handing over their IP to the entire world a “childish tantrum.” Linux needs to get over itself and recognize that it’s part of a larger world, and that its “my way or the highway” attitude is unnecessari
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by eschaton 8y ago
It’s not just choices made by Nvidia, though, it’s equally due to choices made by Linux. Linux is trying to force its unique “all drivers are open source and in our tree” view of the world on everyone. Linux could stop doing this and start
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by eschaton 8y ago
Nvidia’s position seems to be that Linux needs to grow up and provide a stable driver API and ABI, and stop claiming anyone is a “bad actor” just because they don’t want to put their drivers under the GPL, make them part of the Linux kernel
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by eschaton 8y ago
Interactive plotting and “notebook” capability isn’t a property of a language so it’s fallacious to ask if Swift has it. (Or Python, or Julia, or Wolfram, etc.)
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by eschaton 8y ago
Virtualization doesn’t require VT-x or VT-d, those are just performance enhancement mechanisms for virtualization on 80386-derived CPUs. Most other 32-bit and 64-bit CPU architectures have supported virtualization reasonably well from the s
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by eschaton 8y ago
It wouldn’t surprise me if installing the latest NetBSD would Just Work on this hardware, SMP and all.
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by eschaton 8y ago
That’s because it’s a dogwhistle, not an actual argument.
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by eschaton 8y ago
This sounds like a variant of “it works in a homogeneous society,” which has long been a right-wing dogwhistle.
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by eschaton 8y ago
Two competing factors: (1) Organized crime is heavily involved in large scale construction and doesn’t even have the ethos of doing a good job at it like in some other parts of the world. All it’s about is funneling money from the municipal
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by eschaton 8y ago
Yes, you’d be taxing the poor at the expense of the rich even more than today’s tax system, since spending doesn’t scale anywhere near linearly with income. This is also why a “flat tax” is bad compared to increasing marginal tax rates. Rem

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