lokedhs

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by lokedhs 7y ago
I was about to post the same thing. I could put this together in Common Lisp. I know precisely what CL technologies I'd use to do it, and perhaps after finishing the work I'd say "this wouldn't have been possible without
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Actually, when I read my original message, I can see how it can be mistaken for making the opposite statement. I usually try to be as clear as possible, but when it comes to that company I just don't see how anyone could be apologetic
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I don't know why you suggest I'm unaware. I'm completely in agreement with you. You might have thought I was making excuses for them. On the contrary, they clearly never designed a system to delete data because the mere idea
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Did you read the article? If you read between the lines is really tells you what they think of user's privacy. Apparently their systems was never designed to allow deletion of data, and they had to do investigations just to figure out
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Isn't this exactly the same restrictions that IBM imposes on licensees of the z/OS operating system? You can run z/OS just fine on Hercules (mainframe emulator) but IBM does not allow it, and for this reason no one does it. G
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by lokedhs 7y ago
That only works in the limit where n tends to infinity. I know there is a lot of garbage software out there, and sometimes it does feel like there is an infinite supply of them. But as bad as it is, it's still a finite number.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
“Nobody” is a bit extreme, don't you think? There are a lot of people building things with Lisp and you're dismissing their work out of hand. Just one example of a powerful software product written in Lisp: http://maxim
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I remember back in the early 2000's when everybody was complaining about Java. That it was “slow”, and “used a lot of memory”, and that its UI “is not native”. Now it's all JS and Electron and every single complaint people used ag
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by lokedhs 7y ago
It used to work in Wine. Then they made some change and since then it doesn't work anymore.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I think it's simply a case of not missing what you don't know. I got my first 10 Mb/s connection around 2000. At the time I found it to be as fast as I could possibly want. I mean, it's the same speed as the local networ
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by lokedhs 7y ago
The JVM, and any other runtime which allocates its heap up front. You could argue that's cheating, but it does give you predictable behaviour.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
That is solved by adding a reasonable amount of swap space. In practice the swap will never be used, but it's there as a buffer to guarantee that things will work if the forked process doesn't immediately exec.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I listen to the Twit podcast, which is usually very good. One thing they do, however, is to stop themselves from saying the word Alexa, and if someone accidentally does so, they beep it out. Why? Because they don't want to set off any
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by lokedhs 7y ago
After every large financial event you are going to find some person who predicted it. Since there is a nearly unlimited number of people making contradictory predictions at all times, you're also going to find someone making a correct
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I believe my renderer does a decent job though. You can see it in the video I posted. The equations in the documentation is renderered by the same code (which is not related to LaTeX, although since it's the reference implementation, I
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Another open source CAS one might want to look at is Maxima, which is based on Macsyma which was started in the 60's. Not many open source projects a history that long. The most popular frontend is wxMaxima which provides a nice user i
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Thank you. That does indeed make more sense.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Not just hidden. When using BCC, the information is never transmitted outside the sending server.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
> Think back to when the Chrome/ium team decided to hide > 'www' and 'm' from URLs and had to roll back that decision > pretty quickly. I cannot find the post where an engineer > indicated that in the
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by lokedhs 7y ago
What did you have problems with? I wrote the Emacs integration for GNU APL that provides a decent environment for it. All you have to do is to compile and install GNU APL from source, followed by loading the Emacs Lisp code. I created a vid
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Are you sure you're not thinking of the Atari Falcon? It was a 68030-based machine that had a 56k as well. It's not on the same chip though.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I'm not the parent author, but when I developed Android applications having the source to the widget libraries available to me me was incredibly valuable.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
This seems weird to me. I was working for Sun at the end of the 90's,and everybody was running Solaris on their machines. If McNealy or Zander was running something else, that would have been the exception.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
My Nexus 6P ia still sitting here with a bootloop. Apparently you could get compensated if you're in the US so I'm out of luck. And the compensation didn't happen until a lawsuit. At best, I'd consider Google hardware to
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Coming from a company that promised an API to post to G+, did nothing for years and then shut the entire service down. Background: I was the author of a mildly popular Google Buzz client.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
I don't even have a napkin to write on so this will be the most back of the hand of calculations. One floating point calculation for a human would probably take on the order of 2 minutes. That's 1/120 FLOP. Let's round i
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by lokedhs 7y ago
You can find the source code here: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/lisp15_fam... The same site has the sources for plenty of other versions.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
> But I don't think there's any reason to invoke EEE! until they have introduced a proprietary (i.e. closed-source) implementation of something and then added non-standard extensions. That would be WSL wouldn't it? Their g
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by lokedhs 7y ago
Yes, of course. As long as you do something. Just ignoring it because it's assumed it'll never happen is just bad design.
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by lokedhs 7y ago
But there can be collisions, at least in theory. And as we can see, in practice too. Not checking for collisions because you trust that an RNG returns unique values is a fallacy and should be avoided. Especially since it's so easy to d

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