kragen

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1. 691.▲
   by kragen 1y ago

   A mechanical power switch can certainly be digital; the Harvard Mark I digital computer was made entirely out of mechanical power switches, actuated by solenoids (so-called "relays"). It depends on how you use it—as you say, by c
2. 692.▲
   by kragen 1y ago

   Rust compilers are an even bigger dependency than C++ compilers.
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   by kragen 1y ago

   I just compiled some C++ code using G++ under ulimit -v 108032, but it didn't use much of the STL. For a simple example program using iostream, vector, unique_ptr, and std::string, I needed more, but had success with ulimit -v 262144:
4. 694.▲
   by kragen 1y ago

   That was after the first 20 years of automotive computers, though, wasn't it, if only barely? WP says, "In the early 1970s, the Japanese electronics industry began producing integrated circuits and microcontrollers used for contro
5. 695.▲
   by kragen 1y ago

   Op-amps are absolutely, 100% analog in every sense; there's no need to limit this assertion with the nonstandard adverb "technically". The term "analog" was invented in the first place specifically to describe circ
6. 696.▲
   by kragen 1y ago

   That's wonderful to see!
7. 697.▲
   by kragen 1y ago

   Thanks for the Startpage rec! I've used them in the past but hadn't tried them as a way around Google's JS-wall.
8. 698.▲
   by kragen 1y ago

   Huh, somehow I had the idea that Raph Levien wrote it. The PNG here says corvid, Jeremy Henty, Johannes Hofmann, Jorge Arellano Cid, Rodrigo Arias Mallo (which is presumably you), Sebastian Geerken, and "other". It's good to
9. 699.▲
   by kragen 1y ago

   Yeah, but C++ compilers are pretty heavyweight. That said, rewriting a C++ codebase in C is about as likely as rewriting it in Java, so it wasn't a good suggestions.
10. 700.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    Thank you!
11. 701.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    This article is more about the development environment than it is about the programming language, so it would be misleading to focus heavily on example code. A UI screencast video would be much more helpful.
12. 702.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    Yes, I agree. I meant that you can edit code on the production web server so that the customer you're on the phone with sees their application start working. PG had the advantage that he could tweak the Lisp process for that specific
13. 703.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    > You’ve likely used powerful coding editors and terminals. Smalltalk is just different. You are in the running environment. I've experienced this a few different times: with Microsoft BASIC-80 (and GW-BASIC), with SBCL and SLIME,
14. 704.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    Hey, and now Apple and Google have set it at 30% again!
15. 705.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    I am amused to see no response to this comment in two days.
16. 706.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    I wonder if it's obsolete now that we have things like Wasm. I mean, in some sense, it's nothing new—the UCSD p-System, EUMEL, and Dijkstra's THE offered the same safety much earlier, just at a punishing performance cost. Al
17. 707.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    I'm glad my comment was useful! I was worried it might annoy you.
18. 708.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    I suspect kamaal meant that the people who hired you are cursing themselves for making such an expensive decision.
19. 709.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    No bugs were involved, just X11 functioning as designed.
20. 710.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    I originally posted it to a mailing list where we were discussing the issues: https://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/... He posted it on his website with my approval, presumably because he tho
21. 711.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    For arbitrary functions you usually want floating point, which solves the overflow problem in a different way.
22. 712.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    Shoulders of giants. Couldn't do that without somebody doing what Bunsen and Maxwell did
23. 713.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    "The system of peer review" in this context is the system where a scholarly journal editor sends your submitted paper out to other experts in the field to decide whether or not to publish it. This system came into use in the midd
24. 714.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    I have in fact cooked eggs at night by running water over them that was heated in such vacuum-insulated-tube collectors, then held in an insulated tank. This used to be an economical way to get hot water when PV was more expensive.
25. 715.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    You think that's better than the work that preceded peer review, by people like Einstein, Bunsen, Kelvin, Planck, Darwin, Maxwell, Mendeleev, Michelson, Steinmetz, Faraday, Davy, Haber, Tesla, etc.? Because I have to say I find the pr
26. 716.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    I'm guessing that PC-Hack 1.0, the ancestor of Nethack, contains a fair subset of curses, and pdcurses is from 01987 according to the bottom of https://github.com/wmcbrine/PDCurses/blob/master/docs&#
27. 717.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    Int 80h still works as well as ever on i386.
28. 718.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    Oh, wow! I really had no idea!
29. 719.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    Can't give details.
30. 720.▲
    by kragen 1y ago

    Worse: PVCS!