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by linguae 3y ago
To add, I believe the biggest factor in the death of the Lisp machine market wasn’t the software, but market shifts in the 1980s. For one, Lisp had a strong association with symbolic artificial intelligence, and during the AI boom of the 1
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by linguae 3y ago
Foreigners can get permanent residency, but for the most part they are not immediately eligible. They will have to spend a specified number of years on a residence visa before being eligible for permanent residency. In normal circumstance
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by linguae 3y ago
I feel the exact same way. After nearly a decade in industry, I want to transition away from corporate life and start my own small software company. It will not be a high-growth startup; instead it will be a bootstrapped business. The is
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by linguae 3y ago
As a first language, a lot of students face major stumbling blocks when they deal with pointers and manual memory management. It's hard enough learning how to program for the first time; I remember learning QBASIC as a ten year old fr
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by linguae 3y ago
I could think of two possibilities off the top of my head: 1. It’s easier to find developers who are skilled in the more popular languages. 2. Using a language is more than just its syntax and semantics; the ecosystem of tools and librari
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by linguae 3y ago
I agree. Fast food used to be cheap; back in the late 1990s I remember promotions such as 29 cent and 39 cent hamburgers and cheeseburgers from McDonald’s, 99 cent promo items from Taco Bell such as the introduction of the Gordita, Subway’
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by linguae 3y ago
Thus, the squeeze, sometimes literally. When costs rise faster than incomes, people are forced to accept a lower quality of life, such as longer commutes and living with roommates, both of which can be stressful. I understand that this is
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by linguae 3y ago
To make matters worse, renting often means dealing with annual rental increases. Since the pandemic started my apartment rent has gone up roughly 8% per year, compared to the annual 2-3% raises I get for good performance at work. Some peo
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by linguae 3y ago
There are instructions for installing the Lisa emulator on Linux: https://github.com/rayarachelian/lisaem-1.2.x
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Japan has all these things. The Tokyo metro area has quite affordable housing by global standards, and housing can be downright cheap in many cities outside Tokyo. Japan has affordable health care and comparatively lenient zoning laws. J
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by linguae 3y ago
One suggestion: if the mathematical preliminary section in Volume 1 of TAOCP is too difficult, you might benefit from the textbook Concrete Mathematics by Graham, Knuth, and Patashnik. Concrete Mathematics is essentially a gentler (but
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by linguae 3y ago
You bring up an interesting point: why don’t developers build walkable communities in the suburbs or exurbs, or even in brand new cities? It would be nice if a developer built a “Nuevo San Francisco” or even a “Nuevo Palo Alto” somewhere i
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by linguae 3y ago
I’m reminded of what Deming has said about performance reviews, going as far as to call it a “deadly sin of management.” For context, Deming was a famous statistician who went to Japan after WWII and introduced management techniques that b
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by linguae 3y ago
I feel the exact same way. I’m grateful for modern computers and what they can do, but I think the substrates of Lisp and Smalltalk machines make building flexible component-based software easier than the Linux, Windows, and Web ecosystems
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by linguae 3y ago
My understanding is that enough time had passed between the AI winter of the late 1980s and the rise of big data and deep neural networks in the 2010s to where a relatively tiny minority of modern machine learning practitioners came from th
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by linguae 3y ago
I agree; I found this to be true even 15 years ago during my college years. I went to a well-known regional university (Cal Poly San Luis Obispo) and noticed that the job outcomes out of college were different for those who did summer inte
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by linguae 3y ago
There’s a documentary that’s in post-production named “Message Not Understood: Profit and Loss in the Age of Computing” that chronicles Xerox PARC’s research on graphical user interfaces and personal computing and how modern personal comput
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by linguae 3y ago
I live in an apartment in Capitola and commute to Silicon Valley once to twice per week. Before interest rates spiked last year I thought about purchasing a home in the Santa Cruz Mountains, where home prices are considerably lower than ei
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by linguae 3y ago
This has been my strategy. I would rather be paid less working for a lower-stress company that treats my colleagues and me well than to get paid a higher salary working in a stressful, less respectful environment. With that said, I’m payin
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by linguae 3y ago
During the year I've cut back on eating out due to the very high prices being charged at restaurants, even fast food restaurants. The prices have escalated dramatically since the pandemic, yet my salary hasn't gone up to match.
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by linguae 3y ago
Yup, it seems that the "Apple tax" has gone up quite a bit since Apple shifted toward soldered RAM and storage for their products. You get excellent Apple Silicon chips with their performance and energy efficiency, as well as the
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What's even worse are the upgrade prices: $200 to go to 16GB and $400 to go to 24GB. Anything more than that requires upgrading to the M3 Pro model, which has a base price of $1999 and a base 18GB of RAM. Upgrading to 36GB costs an a
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by linguae 3y ago
I admit too that Facebook's ads are the most relevant and most tasteful from any site I've used. For example, from a Facebook ad I found out about battery-backed generators that are capable of charging an electric vehicle. Faceb
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by linguae 3y ago
Exactly. Just because a company sells something doesn't mean the majority of users want it that way. I would love for Apple to sell a laptop akin to the 2006 MacBook and MacBook Pro but with modern components, complete with removable
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by linguae 3y ago
This practice is becoming widespread in the Bay Area, and I saw this in Boston earlier this year on a business trip (and what made it worse was that the particular restaurant I ate at didn’t announce the fee in the menu; it wasn’t until I s
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by linguae 3y ago
Exactly. In principle I don’t mind advertisements; newspapers, magazines, and broadcast TV shows have ads, and I have no problem with them. I also don’t mind certain Web ads, such as the banner ads that were commonplace in the 1990s. Wha
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by linguae 3y ago
Windows has long had its detractors, yet during every upcoming Windows release when some controversial change causes some people to exclaim that this will finally be the year of the Linux desktop, most Windows users end up grinning and bear
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by linguae 3y ago
Non-soldered RAM also means that I can also take advantage of the general trend of declining prices instead of having to pay top dollar for maximum configurations upfront. For example, 32 GB is plenty for a laptop for me in 2023, but my ne
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by linguae 3y ago
That is definitely true. I currently live in a one-bedroom apartment near Silicon Valley; I can't afford to buy a house anywhere near the Bay Area unless I wanted to commute from Stockton, which has a very high crime rate. Conversely
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by linguae 3y ago
Interest rates in Japan are still very low, though if you're thinking about moving to Japan, it is difficult for foreigners to get mortgages through Japanese banks unless they have permanent residency or have a Japanese spouse, though

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