jdougan

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   by jdougan 2y ago

   I think Lotus Improv was on to something.
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   by jdougan 2y ago

   Also: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262140539/a-small-matter-of-pro... Makes the observation that there are intermediate users that are a natural target for end-user programming.
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   by jdougan 2y ago

   There are firefox plug-ins that claim to support saving as mhtml, I have no experience with them.
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   by jdougan 2y ago

   .mht us alive and well. It is a MIME wrapper on the files and is generated by Chrome, Opera, and Edge's save option "Webpage as single file" and defaults to an extension of .mhtml. When I last looked Firefox didn't suppo
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   by jdougan 2y ago

   At least 2 ways: 1) In hindsight. Usually the truth/details eventually become available. This reqires them to be observant/curious enough to notice. 2) By bring close enough to the news item to have the story contradict your knowl
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   by jdougan 2y ago

   Frankly, I would expect that many of the States that are members are spying on the ICC internals.
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   by jdougan 2y ago

   " Everything is deeply intertwingled . In an important sense there are no "subjects" at all; there is only all knowledge, since the cross-connections among the myriad topics of this world simply cannot be divided up neatly.&
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   by jdougan 2y ago

   There is always .editorconfig [1] to setup indent if you have a directory of files. In places where it really matters (Python) I'll always comment with what I've used. [1] https://editorconfig.org/
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   by jdougan 2y ago

   Depends on which language you are writing in. Historically Smalltalk UIs use proportional fonts, and they work just fine.
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    by jdougan 2y ago

    I wonder if there is equivalent software for other 80s computers. I'd expecially like to see one that output Apple ][ graphics.
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    by jdougan 2y ago

    Interesting. I've been noodling around with a glyph string design that sounds a bit like Raku's. I'll have to take a look at it. Thanks!
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    by jdougan 2y ago

    I wish Swift grapheme oriented strings had been in the comparison. I think he blows off the grapheme level too quickly.
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    by jdougan 2y ago

    Do you have any sense regarding how helpful tcp_autocorking on Linux is (or isn't)?
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    by jdougan 2y ago

    Is the Linux tcp_autocorking setting sufficient? https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=171573285422908&w=2 tcp_autocorking - BOOLEAN Enable TCP auto corking : When applications do consecutive small
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    by jdougan 2y ago

    Do you have any idea why the final product of STEPS didn't actually use COLA? I assume there was some difficulty that there wasn't time to work around, but I haven't found what it was.
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    by jdougan 2y ago

    We used to joke that if you fed the IBM PL/1 compiler a blank file, it would compile a default program. Probably a matrix multiply.
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    by jdougan 2y ago

    Sadly, Dr. John Shutt died awhile ago. There is an obit on Lambda the Ultimate, but LtU appears to be down at the moment. https://web.archive.org/web/20230326092743/http://lambda-the...
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    by jdougan 2y ago

    Could always just try Inferno
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    by jdougan 2y ago

    7th Day Adventists
20. 200.▲
    by jdougan 2y ago

    How about if they were named "Baozi"?
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    by jdougan 2y ago

    You can build Gnu Make so it can work with Guile Scheme.
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    by jdougan 2y ago

    It works internationally too. eg. von Neumann, Teller, Wigner etc. All Hungarians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Martians_(scientists)
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    by jdougan 2y ago

    Also Inferno on DisVM, various Forths, and modern web browsers (especially running Lively JS)
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    by jdougan 2y ago

    I want a station that plays everything that was ever in the rock top 100 from around 1950 to around 2010. There has to be all kinds of great stuff that never gets played on "oldies" stations. Probably a bunch of duds too, but if t
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    by jdougan 2y ago

    That is an excellent paper. One of those things that is obvious in hindsight, but no one wrote it down clearly before.
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    by jdougan 2y ago

    There is a reasonable legal argument that says it shouldn't be, unless you are compensated for the time (at least under anglo-american legal theory). As it is, courts will often dismiss "unreasonable" no-compete clauses, but
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    by jdougan 3y ago

    If he has any advantage, it would be that he paid attention to what made PARC work well at the time, and what working well actually feels like, and might be able to do something similar. OTOH, you're right, he could be ossified. The pr
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    by jdougan 3y ago

    Do you have a reference to how this worked?
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    by jdougan 3y ago

    When everything is scoped dynamically, it is indeed a problem. If you only have a handful of things with a clear syntactic mechanism to indicate when they are being used? Much clearer. I impkemented a slow version of contexts in Smalltalk,
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    by jdougan 3y ago

    ISTR that Jon Blow has a built in context mechanism in Jai. (Some googling later) Yes, it does. Looks like it supports a stack of contexts and is used for stuff like allocators and loggers. https://jai.community/t/conte