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by mepian 4y ago
It's exciting that Google specifically requires memory tagging support and the J extension (Standard Extension for Dynamically Translated Languages) from RISC-V processors that are going to run Android: https://youtu.be&#x2F
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‘Everyone is looking for options’: Russian women fly to Argentina to give birth(theguardian.com)
9 points by mepian 4y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 4y ago
Looks like a mix of Scheme and Common Lisp. Lisp-1, but with nil and defmacro. I'm not a fan of calling your own language just "LISP", it's rather confusing as it's not the original LISP. Maybe NishioLisp would be a
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Vladimir Nesterov, Russian Angara rocket designer, dies mysteriously(standard.co.uk)
2 points by mepian 4y ago|0 comments
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by mepian 4y ago
It's happening on January 19th: https://twitter.com/bitsavers/status/1607935736518701057
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by mepian 4y ago
Why is this post flagged?
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by mepian 4y ago
Non-square pixel graphics systems were quite common back then.
608.
by mepian 4y ago
By the late 90s capitalism was already there, even Microsoft was already dominating.
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2022 Medley Interlisp Annual Report(interlisp.org)
45 points by mepian 4y ago|11 comments
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by mepian 4y ago
You can get SBCL for free with no limitations which actually beats Lispworks on performance AFAIK: https://www.sbcl.org/
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by mepian 4y ago
Allied Irish Banks is still using Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX at the same time, according to a job posting I've seen.
612.
by mepian 4y ago
I like this explanation: https://gigamonkeys.com/book/introduction-why-lisp.html
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Amazon agrees deal with Games Workshop to create Warhammer TV series(theguardian.com)
1 points by mepian 4y ago|1 comments
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Epic is turning off online services and servers for some older games(epicgames.com)
5 points by mepian 4y ago|2 comments
615.
by mepian 4y ago
The margins in the printer industry must be razor-thin, that's why.
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by mepian 4y ago
Intel is still using FIB for silicon debugging.
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by mepian 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language
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by mepian 4y ago
Why did you write it in quotes? Cork is their European HQ that employs more than 6000 people (and used to be a manufacturing facility before Apple outsourced manufacturing to Foxconn), not just some shell corporation that exists solely for
619.
by mepian 4y ago
I'm surprised this book wasn't mentioned here first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers:_Heroes_of_the_Compute... The first part of the book describes MIT's Project MAC and AI Lab, from the TX-0 to th
620.
Who are the Russian security forces upholding Putin’s brutal regime(opendemocracy.net)
7 points by mepian 4y ago|1 comments
621.
by mepian 4y ago
It doesn't parrot Putin's lies, so from this perspective I guess you could call it "one-sided". It does mention the agreements again 16 posts later, the background is really important here.
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by mepian 4y ago
About those Minsk agreements: https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1583459564950724608
623.
by mepian 4y ago
Any reason why Common Lisp is not considered?
624.
by mepian 4y ago
PowerPC, not POWER: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIM_alliance
625.
by mepian 4y ago
I was thinking more about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMEbus
626.
by mepian 4y ago
It was indeed successful at killing PA-RISC, high-end MIPS, and Alpha, because their owners (HP, SGI, Compaq) abandoned them for Itanium.
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by mepian 4y ago
The "Khrushchev’s mistake" part.
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by mepian 4y ago
Here are some interesting historical examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wo
629.
by mepian 4y ago
Half-Life 2 was not delayed because it was leaked, it was delayed because it was pretty far from being complete. You can read about this in The Final Hours of Half-Life 2.
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by mepian 4y ago
At this point there are no dedicated video cards, there are throughput-oriented multicore floating point coprocessors that sometimes include video interfaces.

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