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by igouy 2y ago
Do you mean the "Rust" programs are assembly but the "C" programs forced them to be that way? https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
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by igouy 2y ago
> I don't consider the benchmarks game a worthwhile comparison because they're only writing assembly Do you mean the "Rust" programs are assembly? https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmar
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by igouy 2y ago
> Imagine trying to poke at an error stack trace resulting in the only editor you could use to fix it breaking with the only means of recovery going back (outside of the all-encompassing environment, mind you) to an older version. Imagin
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by igouy 2y ago
"Producing wrong data without doing anything obviously wrong!" [pdf] https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/courses/322-2013-sp...
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by igouy 2y ago
"Producing wrong data without doing anything obviously wrong!" https://doi.org/10.1145/1508244.1508275
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by igouy 2y ago
aka "This is why we can't have nice things"
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by igouy 2y ago
"Methods, our character-based Smalltalk, is now available for $79- It has all of the features of Smalltalk/V except graphics, rules, source-level debugger, and object-swapping. However, it supports color, includes the communicatio
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by igouy 2y ago
WeakArray? Ephemerons? 1997 "Ephemerons: A New Finalization Mechanism" https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/263698.263733 "Linked weak reference arrays: A hybrid approach to efficient bulk finali
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by igouy 2y ago
Over the past few weeks, I've been reading "How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology" by Philip Ball, and I was frequently reminded of Alan Kay's interest in biological systems. https://how-life-works
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by igouy 2y ago
"Our observations are derived from an experienced programmer using a Squeak/Smalltalk image as the primary environment for carrying out everyday tasks over a period of eight months." > experienced programmer So not actuall
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by igouy 2y ago
"In our environment, we implemented a central persistence mechanism called soup ..." If only there was some decades old persistence implementation... https://gemtalksystems.com/small-business/gsdevkit/ O
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by igouy 2y ago
BBC says — "Why are the BBC websites different outside the UK?" https://www.bbc.co.uk/contact/questions/help-using-bbc-servi...
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by igouy 2y ago
> only stores the compiled representation That seems to be a common misunderstanding. Smalltalk implementations are usually 4 files: -- the VM (like the J VM) -- the image file (which you mention) -- the sources file (consolidated source
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by igouy 2y ago
fyi the Cincom Smalltalk IDE New Class dialog shows these fields and checkboxes— Name: MyClass Superclass: Core.Object Instance Variables: anInstVar anotherVar Create methods: Accessors Initializer
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by igouy 2y ago
fwiw Lines-of-Code / Method (Digitalk V/286 image, 1989) = 7 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/74878.74904
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by igouy 2y ago
> median line count of methods Auto-generate getters and setters for every instance variable and that will drag the average down. (Maybe a lot of those getters and setters should not have existed.)
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by igouy 2y ago
> consistently 5-10x faster than similar languages like Python or Ruby https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... Python and Ruby have had steady increments of improvement over the last decade.
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by igouy 2y ago
As-it says in the Abstract you linked: "The 202.5–0.53∗age formula developed in the present study was the best in the studied population, yielding lowest mean errors in most groups, suggesting it could be used in more active individual
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by igouy 2y ago
> You are doing nothing that requires the formula to be precise. Exactly. My guess is that neither are most other readers and commenters here. (Any evidence to the contrary?) Meanwhile, what do those error bars tell use about "train
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by igouy 2y ago
I've already said that I have found it to be useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43083815 :so please explain why I haven't :-)
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by igouy 2y ago
"This page is taking too long to load."
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by igouy 2y ago
It provides perspective and a target training effort. I've done a good session if I push to 155 bpm. I don't need to worry about finger-sticks for lactate accuracy, because there's no-risk I'll do twice-a-day twice-a-wee
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by igouy 2y ago
It's been showing both for at-least 15 years (and before that claimed to be showing CPU secs, not Elapsed secs).
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by igouy 2y ago
As-it says in the Abstract I linked: "HRmax predicted by age alone may be practically convenient for various groups, although a standard error of 10.8 beats/min must be taken into account." Shall we say 150—190 95% CI for me?
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by igouy 2y ago
But what's your body age? https://hvemereldst.no/en/
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by igouy 2y ago
There are corrected formula. "HRmax was univariately explained by the formula 211 − 0.64·age, and we found no evidence of interaction with gender, physical activity, VO2max level, or BMI groups. ... Previously suggested prediction equa
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by igouy 2y ago
1) The Cardiac Exercise Research Group at the NTNU has a corrected HRmax calculator — https://www.ntnu.edu/cerg/hrmax — and a Fitness Calculator — https://www.ntnu.edu/cerg/vo2max — based on tread
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by igouy 2y ago
Maybe "Ruby Outperforms C" was bait for "Outperforming a C extension" which is about the relative cost of calling C from Ruby? https://railsatscale.com/2023-08-29-ruby-outperforms-c/
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by igouy 2y ago
https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Cuis-Smalltalk-Dev Download and search !Compiler in: ./Cuis7-0-main/CuisImage/Cuis7.0.sources :and you'll see the commented Compiler class source code: &qu
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by igouy 2y ago
Smalltalk-80 is not Smalltalk "as originally designed". (Moving goal posts.)

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