mepian

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by mepian 3y ago
That hysteria wasn't caused by the ignorance of Russia's population. Everyone knew about the disaster for a long time. I know this because I lived there until recently.
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by mepian 3y ago
As someone born in Russia, I can assure you that since the 1980s everyone in Russia became well aware of Chernobyl. In my oblast there were furious protests against the construction of a nuclear power plant, and Chernobyl was likely their m
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by mepian 3y ago
I'd really like to uninstall Edge and never be pestered about switching to it as the default browser ever again.
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At least 3 Russian journalists and activists poisoned abroad since fall 2022(meduza.io)
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by mepian 3y ago
This is a different, competing project that also aims to become the successor of C++.
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by mepian 3y ago
And another one is Hylo, formerly Val: https://www.hylo-lang.org/ The CppCon talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws-Z8xKbP4w
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Xerox PARC: A Metaobject Protocol for C++ (1995) [pdf](dl.acm.org)
2 points by mepian 3y ago|0 comments
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CLOS: Integrating Object-Oriented and Functional Programming (2004) [pdf](dreamsongs.com)
122 points by mepian 3y ago|87 comments
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Russia launches its first Moon mission since the 1970s(arstechnica.com)
3 points by mepian 3y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
This is such a Microsoft thing to do. DOS compatibility will haunt us for the rest of this century at least.
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Co-founder of Russian tech giant Yandex condemns ‘barbaric’ war(theguardian.com)
5 points by mepian 3y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
Common Lisp certainly isn't "pretending that it doesn't have a type system", this is the chapter about it in the language's specification: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/B
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by mepian 3y ago
How is your work affected by the end of the switching (Tofino) division, are there other users of Barefoot's tools inside the company? I hope I'm not asking anything confidential here.
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WWDC 1994: Apple Dylan [pdf](opendylan.org)
8 points by mepian 3y ago|1 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
Look up the boards that use the Lattice ECP5 chips, I think these are the largest FPGAs that have a fully open toolchain: https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr You'd need to learn some digital design for any FPGA boa
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by mepian 3y ago
Apple's UI is based on Display PDF since macOS 10 (Mac OS X, using the old branding), this is the royalty-free replacement for Display PostScript of OPENSTEP and NeXTSTEP which became the foundation for post-9 macOS after Apple absorbe
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by mepian 3y ago
It's one of the most entertaining movies I've seen in years, I recommend it wholeheartedly.
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by mepian 3y ago
What are you working on now?
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by mepian 3y ago
The closest thing to what you want is Dylan, which was originally created by Apple: https://opendylan.org/ But parentheses aren't really that bad, after a while you get used to them and start seeing the actual structur
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Putin's spox: Our election is not democracy, it is costly bureaucracy(nytimes.com)
2 points by mepian 3y ago|1 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
Many years later Sony wanted to add a second Cell CPU to their PlayStation 3 to be used as a GPU, but ended up abandoning that idea and using Nvidia's actual GPU instead.
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by mepian 3y ago
Did NeXTSTEP have any support for threads and their synchronization? POSIX introduced its thread model around the time Apple absorbed NeXT.
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by mepian 3y ago
I thought that's what the upvotes are for.
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by mepian 3y ago
I find it much more appealing than any of the modern "flat" UIs. GNUstep's prototype NeXTSTEP popularized this grey 3D look in the early 90s.
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by mepian 3y ago
Scheme is actually one of the ancestors of Common Lisp, not its descendant: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node5.html
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Google's Project Zero on Arm Memory Tagging Extension(lwn.net)
2 points by mepian 3y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
I was expecting something as large as the PDP-11.
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by mepian 3y ago
I haven't seen it before, and it's quite interesting and fun. I chuckled at the "lion food" entry. Thank you for sharing it!
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by mepian 3y ago
They still haven't published the source code for their Skybox project, I wonder why. Unless I missed it in their repository? https://github.com/vortexgpgpu
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by mepian 3y ago
My employer is getting closer: https://www.hpcwire.com/2023/06/28/mlperf-training-3-0-showc...

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