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by lebuffon 6y ago
Ummm.. Is that the language? Sounds like the preamble in the code generator. The equivalent Forth VM is just a handful of instructions also but one would not say that's the language.
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by lebuffon 6y ago
The changes noted for future: loop counters as arguments, returning multiple arguments sound a bit like re-inventing the Forth VM, which does things this way. Might not hurt to review some papers in that sphere that may have walked this gro
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Indeed. I participate in Atariage.com and the level of dedication is amazing. Are there groups for Win 3.1, Win95?
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Sounds like simplicity for the win. The complex house of cards we currently stand on seems fragile by comparison.
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by lebuffon 6y ago
One might say that the seminal work was: https://www.amazon.ca/Policemans-Beard-Half-Constructed/dp/0... Generated by Ractor a not very sophisticated "chatterbot" in 1984. Interesting to see the progress
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Innovation can be hard for entrenched businesses in Capitalist states as well. One could argue that large corporations are a form of totalitarianism. Witness big auto in the west struggle to keep up in the EV field. To your point "free
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Both are valid searches IMHO. Acknowledging the results of the search is also important. If we replace the DNA in a human OVA with different DNA we get a different person. I conclude therefore, that DNA plays a role in who and what we are,
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by lebuffon 6y ago
I am glad there are some promising alternatives under investigation. Dark matter had a smell of Aether to me since it was first proposed.
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by lebuffon 6y ago
From the top of another head: Banning DDT, Removing Freon from AC systems, mandatory seat-belts and airbags in cars, Residential ground fault detection outlets, Electricity system codes, Gas line codes, Building safety codes ...
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by lebuffon 6y ago
"Intel losing out to ARM designs is really Intel's choice at this point." Historically this seems to be the case most of the time. Market leaders miss the next iteration of their industry. The "Innovators Dilemma" i
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Marketing drives revenue so... 3
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by lebuffon 6y ago
After reading this it occurs to me that a key aspect of the real world that is missing in the digital variant is identity. When people believe they cannot be seen they are prone to doing things that they might not otherwise do. If one neede
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by lebuffon 6y ago
It may cause a "suspicious transaction report" to be submitted to FINTRAC but they receive a multitude of these reports from FIs and financial services companies daily. There is no guarantee that it would be acted on in a timely m
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Very cool. Digital archeology. Sounds like a new degree program for a school somewhere. Trowels not required.
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by lebuffon 6y ago
That has always been the case. George Washington and the cherry tree comes to mind. And so it began. Sometime near the end of the cold war I realized that the West's propaganda machine was in fact better than the Soviet version. Nobody
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Fascinating to me that it is humanly impossible for any individual to remember ALL the laws yet ignorance of the law is not a defence. :)
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by lebuffon 6y ago
"You could have a Forth without threaded code, I suppose." VFX Forth from MPE UK is a native code generator. It evaluates source code and emits inline code or calls depending what you tell the compiler to do. It can expand everyth
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Isn't having control of the program counter just a branch instruction? :)
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Electric commercial vans are such an obvious use case with real benefits. I am amazed it took so long. Spoke to a UPS driver who complained about his truck having a ~150 mile range on propane. That's a crime. With regen braking in a st
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by lebuffon 6y ago
I have found it dis-heartening that higher energy levels at the LHC have not opened new doors into reality. This simulation in which we find ourselves seems designed to obfuscate. :) This small aberration may give some clues... maybe... som
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Perhaps the co-opting of the word by popular culture has removed Dawkins' meaning from the vocabulary of the masses? That's a shame if so. It is a powerful concept.
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by lebuffon 6y ago
A simple optimization is to make a stack machine with the top of stack cached in a register. This can improve speed about 10% in general operation.
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by lebuffon 6y ago
Reminds me of "Let's Build a Compiler" https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/ circa 1995 And a new C version https://github.com/lotabout/Let-s-build-a-compiler
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by lebuffon 6y ago
As governments begin to lose tax revenue due to everything moving to digital platforms, running beyond their borders, the new politicians born in this century will figure it out. You can be certain of that. (Death and Taxes) Or perhaps some
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by lebuffon 6y ago
It was the World Series long before Canada was involved. :-)
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by lebuffon 6y ago
It might go back to Anglo-Norman (Frenchish) language: Apres midi Post midi
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by lebuffon 6y ago
That could be inconvenient in Australia no?
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by lebuffon 6y ago
"According to Hebrew time reckoning we are now in the 6th millennium. The Hebrew year count starts in year 3761 BCE, which the 12th-century Jewish philosopher Maimonides established as the biblical date of Creation." https:/
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by lebuffon 6y ago
I find it amusing that after the heliocentric debates in the middle ages, some ~500 years later we still struggled to admit that we are not the centre of everything. :-) Primates...
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by lebuffon 6y ago
I'm so old I remember when TIL meant Threaded Interpreted Language. :)

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