jdougan

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by jdougan 2mo ago
Smalltalk has #reject: which does that. You could, of course, just wrap a not around the test in the closure, but sometimes reject with a well-named predicate is easier to read. bsnpApproved := tvShows reject: [ :eachShow | eachShow hasNaug
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by jdougan 2mo ago
Ruby inject appears to be derived from Smalltalk #inject:into: #(1 2 3 4 5 6 7) inject: 10 into: [ :sum :each | sum + each squared ]. or from your example: someHash := myArray inject: (Dictionary new) into: [ :accumulator :item | ... ]. The
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by jdougan 2mo ago
The EMP effect depends on there being atmosphere to generate electrical fields from the bomb gamma flux. Being close enough and line of sight from the atmosphere can be sufficient to generate the effect in the nearby atmosphere. 400km is ap
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by jdougan 2mo ago
I'd love to see them go back all the way to the Apple I eventually.
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by jdougan 2mo ago
So, how can we get this unwound, or at least properly compensated?
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by jdougan 3mo ago
Smalltalk does something similar. Maybe that syntax would be better for him?
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by jdougan 4mo ago
And these extensions are for what use cases?
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by jdougan 5mo ago
I wonder if this could be practical for controlled environment devices like game consoles.
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by jdougan 5mo ago
I'm curious as to how time efficient that actually was.
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by jdougan 5mo ago
Humber encoding?
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by jdougan 5mo ago
Reminds me of the Xanadu Humber encoding.
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by jdougan 6mo ago
I was always partial to the “make Wednesday a second weekend” plan. No more hump day and 2 “Fridays”. Of course that is also 2 “Mondays”
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by jdougan 6mo ago
alternate futures where the 33bit versions of the i960 became the processor family of choice.
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by jdougan 6mo ago
If you go through old CS OS texts on the matter, they really didn't have the same understanding of capabilities then as the later object-capabilities (ocap) model would introduce. Typically they would show an access control matrix, not
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by jdougan 6mo ago
I'm seeing about 9 comments, all flagged dead. Do you have showdead on?
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by jdougan 6mo ago
At a guess, looking at his history, it's AI slop. Basic facts appear correct though.
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by jdougan 6mo ago
In some of the draft versions of ASCII the positions currently taken by underscore and caret were left arrow and up arrow respectively. As late as 1985 I used terminals (LanparScope) the supported the older draft.
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by jdougan 6mo ago
Being a full-time writer has always been a tough gig unless it is attached to an institution (but that can corrupt the writing). I'm not sure why anyone would think it wasn't tough. The author/poet/painter starving in a
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by jdougan 6mo ago
Nothing new under the sun. "Put that there" demo, 1982. https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/put-that-there-voice-... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyBEUyEtxQo
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by jdougan 6mo ago
Or for that matter, the magic that was a Tektronix storage scope terminal (and compatibles. At school there was a vt10x that had been modified to act like a Tek 4014 by some third party).
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by jdougan 6mo ago
Exactly. Most microcomputer BASICs were a live environment IDE, except done with a CLI.
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by jdougan 7mo ago
Hemingway's style had a lot of influence. It would not surprise me if text influenced by it is widespread in the LLM training corpus.
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by jdougan 7mo ago
Look up the WW2 FP-45 Liberator. A bad gun you could use to get a better gun. Theoretically you only need to use it once. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP-45_Liberator
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by jdougan 7mo ago
Smalltalk keyword message syntax seems to be in a middle ground
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by jdougan 7mo ago
Culturally they're not really the same organization. JPL has a different culture than Goddard, which is different than Marshall, etc.
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by jdougan 8mo ago
I'm still of the opinion that the right direction is something architectEd more like NeWS with better underlying language support. If you're going to break stuff make it a real improvement.
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by jdougan 8mo ago
Did they get the sulfurous compounds out as well?
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by jdougan 8mo ago
Did they do anything to fix the OpenSmalltalk VM lamentable keyboard input?
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by jdougan 8mo ago
Have you looked at the tooling in Genera or other lisp machines?
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by jdougan 8mo ago
In case you want to know more about them, they're called "Miller columns"

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