jonjacky

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by jonjacky 5mo ago
Previously, 2023, 19 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35982037 There are updates in the last several months, so it looks like the project is still active.
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by jonjacky 5mo ago
Nice page design, so I will try to read the content.
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by jonjacky 5mo ago
Also pertinent and well-written, from the Vatican itself, including some quotes from Pope Francis: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu... ANTIQUA ET NOVA : Note on the Relationship B
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by jonjacky 6mo ago
"Keep cool, but care" - McClintic Sphere, ca 1959 (fictional jazz musician in V, the 1963 novel by Thomas Pynchon)
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by jonjacky 6mo ago
This is a remarkable, very unusual project. It looks well thought out and is surprisingly complete -- it even includes an end-to-end ML training and sampling program as an example! Is there a writeup somewhere that explains more about the
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by jonjacky 6mo ago
I'm getting a 404 on the repo. Possible alternatives: smolOS: https://smol.p1x.in/os/ https://github.com/w84death/smolOS/ upyOS: https://github.com/rbenrax/upyOS M
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by jonjacky 6mo ago
Starfleet Academy is some woke fever dream ... This is entirely in keeping with the Star Trek tradition. It had a multiracial cast and female officers in 1966, when that was quite unusual in a TV show.
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by jonjacky 6mo ago
Very interesting! FYI, other operating systems in Haskell: House, 2005: https://programatica.cs.pdx.edu//House/ HalVM, 2008: https://github.com/GaloisInc/HaLVM also HalNS network stack 2011:
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by jonjacky 7mo ago
Previously, 11 months ago, 282 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625474
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by jonjacky 7mo ago
Rob Pike, one of the Unix developers, observed people turning away from their philosophy back in 2001: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy http://herpolhode.com/rob/ugly.pdf "What Unix does well isn’t
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by jonjacky 7mo ago
A newer book, from 2016, ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer by Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestly, and Crispin Rope https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262334433/eniac-in-action/ An interesting revelatio
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by jonjacky 7mo ago
Another book that might have some similarities, apparently from 2020: https://aesthetic-programming.net/ Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox Also https://news.ycombinat
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by jonjacky 7mo ago
Mr. Hoare (yep not a Dr.) Hoare's undergraduate degree from Oxford was in Literae Humaniores , nicknamed Greats - ancient Rome, ancient Greece, Latin, Ancient Greek, and philosophy. In the US, this course of study is usually call
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by jonjacky 7mo ago
"There is an old saying: Once in your life you should build a house, plant a tree, and write an editor. I decided to start with the last one. ..." from Vip - Vi-Style Editor in PicoLisp https://picolisp.com/wiki&#x
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by jonjacky 7mo ago
Hastings affected the wider politics of Europe, not just England. For centuries before Hastings, England had been involved with Scandinavia, especially Denmark and Norway. After Hastings it was totally entangled with France, pretty muc
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by jonjacky 7mo ago
"so, what happened with kOS since 2014?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20251118 (2019) see especially https://gist.github.com/chrispsn/da00835bb122c42f429a084df83...
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by jonjacky 7mo ago
Thanks, I see. In your README you do briefly mention static vs dynamic, NMOS vs CMOS, and 6502 vs 65C02 but I didn't appreciate those could make a 3x difference in the transistor count. I agree it's a nice CPU design, and the who
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by jonjacky 7mo ago
Impressive project! But I have question: The Highlights section near the top of the README says: 13,844 SRAM-adjusted transistors (vs 13,176 for 6502 on same process) But the Wikipedia article on the 6502 says it only had 3,510 transistors
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by jonjacky 7mo ago
I wonder if such a small GPT exhibits plagiarism. Are some of the generated names the same as names in the input data?
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by jonjacky 7mo ago
Previously, six days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47102764
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by jonjacky 7mo ago
I'd be ok with it if it's possible to use all the insights and software from after that, we'd just be constrained by the hardware - the Amiga 4000, Apple Mac Quadra 840av 128 MB or a Pentium 66 MHz or the 486 DX2-66 with 64
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by jonjacky 7mo ago
How did you use Claude? How much guidance did you give it? Did you just write CLAUDE.md and stand back, Claude did all the rest? Or did you write some assembly language samples - like object.inc etc. - to get it pointed in the direction
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by jonjacky 8mo ago
Interesting project, so I'll comment. Have you benchmarked it against CPython? apython is still a bytecode interpreter, like CPython. And, CPython is compiled to machine code, as apython is assembled to machine code. So we wouldn
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by jonjacky 8mo ago
With efistub, isn't the built-in EFI firmware the bootloader?
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by jonjacky 8mo ago
I think after a day or two of full immersion in this environment, disassembling hex code would be mostly straightforward. Woz is said to have 6502 binary memorized. It doesn't really take much, you don't need to memorize it all.
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by jonjacky 8mo ago
There are none. It was not routine to make videos in 1961 - 1964. The Feynman Lectures website does have links to recordings of almost every lecture, but no video. BUT there are thousands of photos --- many photos of each lecture, showing
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by jonjacky 8mo ago
> Of course, they weren't available as free beer with source tapes. I think this was less important then, than people sometimes think. I recall those days. In the 1980s and 90s I worked as a scientific programmer in a university
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by jonjacky 8mo ago
They say right there that Fortran, PL/I, and Algol 68 were too big and complicated for Unix. Yes, if you are building a system, it is more productive to use a language that is built for purpose and pleasant to work with ("fun&qu
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by jonjacky 8mo ago
> I'm not sure what you mean by "coincidence" or "accident" here. I mean Unix had to be written in C, not in, say, Algol or PL/I or BLISS, high-level languages used to write other operating systems. I also
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by jonjacky 8mo ago
It is often said that C became popular just because Unix was popular, due to being free -- it just "rode its coattails" as you put it. As if you could separate Unix from C. Without C there wouldn't have been any Unix to beco

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