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by jdougan 1y ago
https://archive.ph/cvPbc
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by jdougan 1y ago
And the High Explosive Research project, where they did it again after the Americans cut them off the tech developed at Los Alamos.
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by jdougan 1y ago
I'd call them obsolescent, not obsolete.
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by jdougan 1y ago
I think, over the years since it was released, I've purchased SMAC about 5 times.
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by jdougan 1y ago
"broadly" does a lot of work in his statement. But as an old dude who has done these things, it isn't deeply different.
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by jdougan 1y ago
I'm pretty sure this isn't what we wanted when SSO was first being pushed.
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by jdougan 1y ago
Shortcuts often don't remove the need to take your hand off the mouse, so the cycle time can be slower. As the OP says, when you don't need to do bulk text entry the keyset can work better, especially if your editor is tuned fot i
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by jdougan 1y ago
Programming a Space Shooter in Squeak/Smalltalk (Also has links to Squeak By Example) : https://scottgibson.site/ShooterGame/ A gentle introduction to Pharo Smalltalk (From the Glamorous Toolkit) https:/&#x2
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by jdougan 1y ago
Recently: "Radio Astronomy Software Defined Radio (Rasdr) (radio-astronomy.org)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44134364
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by jdougan 1y ago
Huh? I wonder if he was hacked? Has there been any other drama recently?
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by jdougan 1y ago
That is, of course, the essence of Doug Engelbart's bootstrapping approach and the development of NLS. It can work just fine.
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by jdougan 1y ago
Obsidian also supports inline mermaid charts in markdown code blocks. One of those features I don't see mentioned much.
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by jdougan 1y ago
I wonder what the bounds-check overhead looks like on a modern machine for that code?
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by jdougan 1y ago
What is the issue with the system in Smalltalks?
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by jdougan 1y ago
Who could have imagined that making a button larger makes it faster to find! /s Can we just skip the next 10 iteration of improvement to material and get some pseudo-3d back now? Maybe a little tasteful woodgrain? Material 3 is better
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by jdougan 1y ago
I think Newspeak may have potential in this area.
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by jdougan 1y ago
Is that something like the memory protection scheme on the Newton OS?
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by jdougan 2y ago
(2 * pi * x) sin sqrt log
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by jdougan 2y ago
If you haven't seen Larry McVoy's issues with git, I think the list still has some weight. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40870840
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by jdougan 2y ago
There have been a number of passes at embedded Smalltalks. Eg. https://hackaday.com/2020/07/12/making-smalltalk-on-a-raspbe... Back in the day, Tek oscilloscopes ran ST on the metal.
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by jdougan 2y ago
Obligatory reference to John Shutt and Kernel whennever FEXPRs are mentioned.
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by jdougan 2y ago
Interesting. Summer 84/85 (maybe 85/86) I used a port of PCC to System/360 (done, I believe, by Scott Kristjanson) on the University of British Columbia mainframes (Amdahls running MTS). I was working on mail software, so I h
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by jdougan 2y ago
Along with D
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by jdougan 2y ago
“The Gold at the Starbow’s End” by Frederik Pohl is in that direction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gold_at_the_Starbow%27s_En...
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by jdougan 2y ago
Fexprs are very cool. RIP John Shutt
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by jdougan 2y ago
My hobby: asking LLMs to write essays "in the style of James Mickens" example: > Write a paragraph on spaghetti carbonara the style of James Mickens. > Ah, carbonara. A dish of such deceptive simplicity, it's
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by jdougan 2y ago
D language (Dlang). It is especially good if you are porting from C as the semantics are the same enough to rum a lot of code via copy and paste, or if not it will fail to compile.
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by jdougan 2y ago
> not aware of any language that provides this out-of-the-box, unfortunately. Smalltalk has this. Class "Symbol".
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by jdougan 2y ago
Might be a clip on tie.
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by jdougan 2y ago
Should be "(2014)"

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