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by mepian 3y ago
Discord's search is astonishingly horrible. Users have been complaining for years about it, and it's not improving. This alone disqualifies it from being useful as documentation.
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Rust for Morello: Always-On Memory Safety, Even in Unsafe Code(drops.dagstuhl.de)
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by mepian 3y ago
Let me get this straight: Microsoft is taking credit for the feature Common Lisp had since the early 1980s? https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node103.html I suspect that even Common Lis
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by mepian 3y ago
Human beings were already eclipsed in the middle of the previous century, when the early digital computers began to do arithmetic better than any human can do.
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by mepian 3y ago
Can't have a thread about Russia without some whataboutism, just like old (USSR) times.
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The LISP 2 Project (2017)(ieeexplore.ieee.org)
61 points by mepian 3y ago|13 comments
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Arc: Ideas People Have Sent Us (2002)(archub.org)
1 points by mepian 3y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
Yes, "5 nodes in 4 years" is the rallying cry of the company right now.
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Former Sega president Irimajiri speaks out about the Saturn and the 32X(mdshock.com)
12 points by mepian 3y ago|1 comments
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Russian computer company Yadro has left OpenPower Foundation to focus on RISC-V(3dnews.ru)
5 points by mepian 3y ago|1 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
In their twilight years Symbolics implemented their own DEC Alpha assembler in Common Lisp to aid the development of their Lisp machine emulator: http://pt.withy.org/publications/VLM.html You can still find its leaked
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by mepian 3y ago
Maybe he's still hoping to use it to implement his "wish": http://web.archive.org/web/20011107164802/www.ai.mit.edu/peo... "Wish List: a knowledge-based operating system running on a MIMD
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by mepian 3y ago
He developed a well-known web server for Genera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CL-HTTP
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by mepian 3y ago
See my other comment in this subthread.
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by mepian 3y ago
I meant SBCL specifically, not Common Lisp in general. They could have been using LispWorks or Allegro CL instead, but they aren't.
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by mepian 3y ago
It's definitely good enough for Google: https://lisp-journey.gitlab.io/blog/yes-google-develops-comm...
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by mepian 3y ago
This is more than a rumor: Gary Palter is one of the last employees of Symbolics who wrote the emulator in the first place, and he communicated with the owner. He co-authored this article about the development of the emulator: http:/&
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by mepian 3y ago
Yeah, I was a bit disappointed when I read the article. I mean, technically it is a Chinese operating system, but releasing yet another Linux distro is not very news-worthy by itself.
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Owner of Symbolics Lisp machines IP is interested in a non-commercial release(hachyderm.io)
230 points by mepian 3y ago|143 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
I was expecting it to be related to Bell Labs' Inferno: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)
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by mepian 3y ago
Symbolics Genera was pretty much what the author talks about: http://bitsavers.org/pdf/symbolics/software/genera_8/Genera_...
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Gerald Sussman – Artificial Intelligence: A Problem of Plumbing? [video](youtube.com)
17 points by mepian 3y ago|1 comments
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Opening up Intel's Device Modeling Language (2022)(community.intel.com)
67 points by mepian 3y ago|6 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
How do you know the LoC number? Have you worked on it?
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by mepian 3y ago
You can play with another early Xerox GUI called Interlisp in your browser: https://interlisp.org/medley/using/running/online/ It was being developed in parallel with Smalltalk-80 (and earlier versions o
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Buran-Energia 1988 – Soviet Space Program [video](youtube.com)
2 points by mepian 3y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
I guess you would be relieved to learn that this civilization died decades ago, and the destroyed Buran orbiter is its tombstone.
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by mepian 3y ago
I remember trying to read the first tome of Landau and Lifshitz in my first year of studying at the physics department and instantly bouncing off. The textbooks of Irodov, Savelyev, and Sivukhin were much more approachable.
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Mastodon has reached 13M accounts(mastodon.social)
27 points by mepian 3y ago|6 comments
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by mepian 3y ago
I remember reading somewhere that while the developers of ArcaOS have the rights to continue the development of OS/2, they didn't obtain the source code. So they have to patch their changes into the old OS/2 binaries instead

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