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by flembat 2y ago
It seems fairly normal to write lisp compilers in lisp, you tend to see them wrapped in a c shell sometimes, and to use c to talk to the system for io. It also seems easier to write the garbage collector in c than write it in the language b
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by flembat 2y ago
I understand this, to some extent, but I would rather learn Russian and get along with a new set of completely uncaring oligarchs, not that dissimilar to the ones we have now, than end all life on earth.
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by flembat 2y ago
In an environment that is already breaching the edge of sanity, AI hallucinations can only be an improvement.
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by flembat 2y ago
The point of the separation is economic, owners create and train models, and renters are charged to execute them on their edge machines.
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by flembat 2y ago
The original Oberon tiled interface where commands and menus are text that you run, that generate more text. This still exists in blackbox framework oberon/f which embeds text commands in documents. Personally I like the workspace like
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by flembat 2y ago
The reason the plan always fails is because the actual secret plan is just to get an extra discount, the plan may succeed if Microsoft stop doing that...
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by flembat 3y ago
There is space in the world for a difficult complex language that produces low level operating system and library code, we just don't need to be writing every application using it, since ordinary people should also be able to program c
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by flembat 3y ago
Just as well given that no two clocks in a modern town centre ever agree with each other.
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by flembat 3y ago
If we are adding a copilot key the keyboards also need additional hallucination warning LEDs.
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by flembat 3y ago
An interesting test would be for no one at all to make a donation..
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by flembat 3y ago
True, strange that everyone understands this about people, but hold computers to be an authority. Computers had this level of respect even when they spat answers onto a teletype and were called electronic brains whose thinking was represent
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by flembat 3y ago
I was excited for a while.. Reading the license FAQ is worthwhile, it discusses what seems to be the limited lifetime applicability of the no charge license. As a non lawyer, it is nice that it seems to be legal to write and run your own s
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by flembat 4y ago
Forth is extensible, it is not complete out of the box like a C compiler. Just extend it with named local variables and use them. There is no shame and unless you are on some rare and exotic stack machine, no performance penalty using local
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by flembat 4y ago
Windows is very satisfactory from a technical perspective, if they would only recognise that they do not own our computers...
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by flembat 4y ago
If you have been at work for a long time in the same kind of job role, you will notice that you do many more tasks than you used too, that you are expected to do more hours to cover gaps and the organization does not fully resource your tea
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by flembat 4y ago
This was real, my wife's mother bought us a cheap plastic red hoover for 127.00. I stayed on the phone for seven hours, hoover offered us one flight date in a weeks time, we got proper flights from London to New York on British Airways
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by flembat 4y ago
The fact that the UK government are at odds with the UK central bank makes markets nervous. How much worse would it have been if there was no intervention in energy and we had riots on the freezing streets this winter? As Macron said '
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by flembat 4y ago
I think we need to be more careful about fake meat. It is likely to be very processed food and who knows what the nutritional consequences of something invented last year are for your body. I agree with the ethics of not causing suffering t
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by flembat 4y ago
I agree it would be quite hard to get obese from eating a diet rich in meat, because protein is very satiating and expensive to digest. If you are obese, eating more protein (including meat) is a good idea, and doing a lot of strength trai
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by flembat 4y ago
At some point Microsoft (who no longer support the IDE) will also stop supporting the VB runtime, and companies will have no choice but to convert those old apps. I doubt if there will ever be a VB6 revival. I think they should focus on 100
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by flembat 4y ago
Including canals, which the author disclaimed for some reason. Here at least they have all kinds of aquatic and bird life.
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by flembat 4y ago
Trade moves goods where needed. Cornish tin was used by people that had no idea Cornwall existed. It is even possible that ancient Egypt had access to cocaine and tobacco.
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by flembat 4y ago
An article that explains why we should not have wasted the time to read it. And just gone for a walk instead.
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by flembat 4y ago
In 2022 an FPGA Amiga with shapeshifter still makes a very good 68K Mac. I use a vampire standalone system, a small system with a compact flash for a disk, it runs at 85Mhz and feels very like a real high end Mac of the 68k era.
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by flembat 4y ago
This recent bad luck is very similar to the bad luck that happens a lot to Iran, which seems interesting. Is there an unknown weapon system in use.
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by flembat 5y ago
UK Govt announces it will build nuclear reactors again for the nth time during transient energy crisis. Who believes these will ever get built? What we needed was a programme, not a project.
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by flembat 5y ago
It is rare to find a tomb with such wealth that has not been raided. Says team of tomb raiders.
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by flembat 5y ago
The ROM on my Amiga is from March 28th this year.
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by flembat 5y ago
Anyone else expect this to be about the Windows scheduler? It is a godawful shame, as Windows has the potential to be quite a good operating system for PCs, with just a bit more engineering effort and a bit less filthy gunk it could be grea
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by flembat 5y ago
If this transition is like the others the performance of Apple software and the operating system are going to increase with every new release for the next couple of years as they optimize it.

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