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by lokedhs 7y ago
I saw some video of the inside of the crew console for the SpaceX capsule. It's all touch screens as far as I can tell. That seems to me to be incredibly stupid. I'm sure it'll be very easy to access those controls when it&#x
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by lokedhs 7y ago
This may be a meme, but it's also very true (like all good comedy). It's truly represents how you start to look at Lisp code after a while: https://www.thejach.com/imgs/lisp_parens.png
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by lokedhs 7y ago
With a standard connector one can have standardised power bricks too, which may eventually lead to no need for power bricks at all.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Apple had engineers on the design team, but it's definitely not their invention. Even an Apple-focused publication agrees with that: https://9to5mac.com/2015/03/14/apple-invent-usb-type-c/
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I'd much rather see languages take advantage of characters outside of ASCII. There are already symbols such as ⇒ which could be used by a language. This is a nice feature of APL, and the derivatives such as J which use plain ASCII are
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by lokedhs 7y ago
If you yell insults at me, I will be offended. It doesn't matter if the words you use are "fuck off", "f*k off" or even "would you be so kind as to vacate the premises by the violent application of a large phal
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by lokedhs 7y ago
One of my applications is distributed through Appimage. It works really well. I really feel it should support containerisation in a similar way as Flatpak does. In my opinion, the idea that any application on your system can can touch all y
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by lokedhs 7y ago
The point is that a 64-bit integer is stable in the language I'm using (which is most languages). My opinion is that a serialisation format that explicitly makes something as fundamental as the representation of numbers unspecified is
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by lokedhs 7y ago
www.hörby.se You probably don't want to remove the dots on that one.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I agree with what you said about XML. But in its stead we have a lot of JSON which is several respects is even worse. The worst part of it is that it doesn't have a stable definition for numbers, making it impossible to guarantee you&#
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Are you sure it was in 1995? I joined Sun in 1997, and the E10k was launched a bit after that. According to Wikipedia it was launched in 1997 so it does line up. If I remember correctly, the system was bought from Cray after SGI bought the
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Borderlands 2 is native Linux so there is no need to use Wine. It would be interesting to see the difference in performance between running the native version and the emulated version.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Conservation of energy only applies to closed systems though. And an expanding universe (with or without dark energy) is not a closed system.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Since none of the McCLIM contributors use Windows, there have been very little work on a Windows backend. One idea has been to use a common low level interface such as SDL to implement a backend, which would then be very easy to get to work
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by lokedhs 7y ago
If you run everything in your Lisp image, on top of McCLIM then you have that experience. I kind of try to illustrate that in the video I linked. Every object is that is displayed is a Lisp object such as the individual parts of Maxima expr
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by lokedhs 7y ago
The McCLIM project implements this user interface and can be used today: https://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/ It's still a work in progress, but a lot of progress have been made recently. What is really ne
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by lokedhs 7y ago
The products being sold by vendors that accept these tokens still price their products in real currencies, and I'm assuming they immediately exchange it as soon as the transaction completes. With that in mind, accepting cryptocurrencie
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by lokedhs 7y ago
The Apollo Guidance Computer that was used for navigation and other control tasks in the moon missions also used bytecodes. The reason was to save space, as well as not having to constantly update the software as the hardware specs changed.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
There is a version on Playstation that's very good. You can switch between the original graphics or updated graphics by simply pressing a button at any time. It plays really well.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Bootloaders are interesting, and the one that impresses me the most is the one for the EDSAC. It's 31 instructions, and implements a relocating assembler that is used to load and assemble the program you want to run on the computer.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
So if I understand it correctly, Apple decided to move that complexity to the language itself? I was reading up on the rules for references in Swift, and it looks like a lot of complexity and lots of opportunities for introducing errors lea
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by lokedhs 7y ago
But didn't some version of Objective-C use a GC? My understanding was that the reason it didn't work well was because of issues with the language and not the libraries. So they could still have used a GC for Swift?
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Why was refcounting chosen? It seems to me it was only done because the designers were so used to C++ that they don't understand the drawbacks of not having it.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
That was the official support from Google. Kotlin had been around for a long time before that. I used to write Android applications using it before Google officially supported it.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Kotlin Native is nice, but its compile times are absolutely horrible. I guess some of this comes from Gradle, which is another mess in itself, but when it takes over half a minute to compile Hello World, there is a problem.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I saw this very post from theoldreader, reading the official RSS feed from ycombinator: news.ycombinator.com/rss
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Flatpak installs nicely on Arch. I have to admit that I haven't used Snap, so I can't say if there is much in the way of features that Flatpak doesn't provide.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I moved overseas 15 or so years ago, and when I left I felt that this tradition was already on the way out. As far as I understand, it's been going away even more since then, but I don't have much in the way of evidence. When I wa
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I've seen some games downloading assets after the application is started. Did you consider implementing it like that?
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Some do, but I agree it's much fewer.

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