jmorrison

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by jmorrison 1y ago
I have an admittedly resource-intensive, self-hosted, podman/docker-based slippy map product prototype. Briefly, it incorporates the nominatim geocoder, the valhalla routing engine, a map tiler, and PostGIS. One of its front-ends is
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by jmorrison 2y ago
Both SGI (who had no hardware texture mapping at the time) and 3dfx were explored at the time DARPA SIMNET was being developed. Delta Graphics (Mike Cyrus' and Jay Beck's company - of the Cyrus-Beck line clipping algorithm fame),
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by jmorrison 2y ago
You say, correctly I believe, "for virtual reality to count, there must be high stakes, real consequences..." Domains in which this is true, specifically domains for which "negative training" gets people killed, are prob
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by jmorrison 5y ago
Not sure that's it. Consider the difference in motivation between trying to figure out how: to get people to click on advertisements; vs prevail when people are trying to kill you. Source: was at BBN while DARPA pushed the Internet an
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by jmorrison 6y ago
I dimly recall one was supposed to figure out what TECO would do when one typed one's name in (followed by the double-escape). Never did figure out what mine would do - was too afraid to try.
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by jmorrison 6y ago
My worry re: #7 is that this, like the US volunteer military, decreases the cost (in bad PR due to human cost to one's own troops) to the point where starting a conflict feels relatively risk-free. Which would lead to lots more of the
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by jmorrison 6y ago
"Technical Debt" seems a trite, overly simplistic, if not downright misleading metaphor. No other engineering discipline uses metaphor (as does software "engineering"). They all use analysis. An in-all-ways superior, a
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by jmorrison 6y ago
It appears to be hard to predict the effect of the introduction of even a single weapon/platform into a complex conflict which consists of many, qualitatively different weapons/platforms. One of my career-defining "Aha"
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by jmorrison 6y ago
https://github.com/McCLIM/McCLIM Under active development. Turtles all the way down. Runs on Linux, Raspbian, etc. Runs under (at least) SBCL & CCL.
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by jmorrison 6y ago
I am using CL in pre-production to avail myself of its ability to compile & load at runtime. I haven't used Lisp in production in a while (dating back to Zetalisp!), and the decades of perspective lead me to some surprising conclu
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by jmorrison 6y ago
At upper-left, just under the picture of the book cover (and above the "Follow the Author"), there are a few thumbnails and a "See all Images" hyperlink you can click to get the typical pop-up gallery. You can see even
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by jmorrison 6y ago
A good and talented friend of mine produced a similar book: https://www.amazon.com/Willoughbys-World-Wonder-Stephen-Barn... Don't forget to click the "See all 9 images" link for what I hope you will find to b
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by jmorrison 7y ago
Would you please post the model numbers? I am overdue to upgrade. Especially interested if the motherboards have multiple LAN ports. Thanks!
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by jmorrison 7y ago
MA/NH, USA.
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by jmorrison 7y ago
https://drive.google.com/file/d/18p8-ip98iev9LW-Gtf0TMOJbfgY... Built with reasonably recent McCLIM and SBCL. At one point, had it running under CCL on one of my Raspberry Pi boxes (the 3, I think). Would have m
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by jmorrison 7y ago
I have one whose enclosing/host Mac II no longer boots (I changed the CMOS battery, which was the cause last time, but no joy). No local Apple/Mac repair shop I can find will even look at it. Does anybody know a boutique, antiqu
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by jmorrison 8y ago
When, oh when will we ever finally unlearn "worse is better?" It's hard enough writing good code without having to fight your tooling (non-orthogonal, non-homoiconic, non-malleable, non-backwards-compatible languages, some w
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by jmorrison 9y ago
Regarding (0): I am not sure what mechanisms for penalty would be better way than those currently in play (e.g., disuse/cloning in the case of open source, bankruptcy in the case of closed source, etc.). I believe Lehman formalizes the
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by jmorrison 9y ago
Sorry to not understand exactly what you mean by those two statements. Would you please clarify? I of course realize that people are not perfect (along any axis at all), but I think the importance of this work is highlighting: (1) software
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by jmorrison 9y ago
Haven't read anything ever, including the subject of this thread, and including any number of language-advocacy opinion pieces, and including software development methodology opinion pieces, that in any way compares with the empirical
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by jmorrison 9y ago
I kid you not that there are such things as "proposal schools" and proposal-preparation companies that teach you how to win as low bidder by being "minimally compliant." Then, when the customer finally understands what
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by jmorrison 9y ago
Thinking out loud: (1) The nameless model of reality I think is implied by "marginal cost of production is zero" simplifies away some essential aspects of reality (as explained by the late, great, RIP Manny Lehman model of "s
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by jmorrison 10y ago
I highly recommend "Charlie Munger On the Psychology of Human Misjudgement." PDF transcription here http://www.rbcpa.com/mungerspeech_june_95.pdf Explains a lot (he says, during Presidential Election season in the
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by jmorrison 10y ago
I am a longtime amateur player, and a youth club coach of about 15 years, having assistant coached a US National Youth Futsal champion team. (I also played pickup after work with PG in Cambridge Back In The Day - I wonder if he still plays
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by jmorrison 10y ago
Worked at BBN from 1983-1990, at the tail end of the NCP->IP/TCP "transition." Terrifically interesting stuff to work on, with loads of terrifically smart people to learn from. One of the legendary recruiters there (re
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by jmorrison 10y ago
I have an old MacIvory (Symbolics board set housed in a Mac II) which doesn't want to boot anymore. IIRC Googling indicated that the Mac IIs are like cars - they won't turn over if the motherboard battery is dead. I changed the
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by jmorrison 10y ago
I must confess to having a more cynical view than that. I dimly recall some quotation (I cannot recall enough of it to Google it successfully) about somebody being naked, covered in dirt, surrounded by flies, and thinking it's normal.
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by jmorrison 10y ago
In the late 80s I worked on (to the best of my knowledge) the first multiplayer/networked AI-based NPC system for DARPA SIMNET https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMNET . So M-A-N-Y stories! My most personal one was wh
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by jmorrison 10y ago
I was going to reply with a link to Manny Lehman's "FEAST" publication page, which (tragically - and I am not being cavalier) has seemed to disappear following his passing. I highly recommend chasing links starting from his
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by jmorrison 11y ago
Because in both the doctor and professor cases, the knowledge base is curated, history and experience (at least - I was tempted to add "and judgement learned therefrom") count for something. Alan Kay is right when he says softwar

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