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811.
by mepian 8y ago
High-end chips like Ryzen and Tegra are not manufactured in the People's Republic of China actually.
812.
by mepian 8y ago
Deep Stalin would be a more appropriate name.
813.
RMSbolt – An implementation of the Godbolt compiler-explorer for Emacs(gitlab.com)
91 points by mepian 8y ago|9 comments
814.
by mepian 8y ago
I'd suggest to consider a different name, Mono is already used by a big project related to programming languages: https://www.mono-project.com/
815.
F-35 fighter jet: Programme suffers first crash(bbc.com)
2 points by mepian 8y ago|0 comments
816.
by mepian 8y ago
The Lisp machine emulator for x86-64 that runs Genera is easy to setup if you care to google around. The current owner of Symbolics displayed interest in open-sourcing Genera a few years ago but nothing happened since then.
817.
by mepian 8y ago
Modern displays don't use cathode ray tubes, and in VR the optics between the display and the eyes focuses the latter as if the display was a lot more distant that it really is, so these recommendations are less relevant here.
818.
by mepian 8y ago
You'll probably like this Mastodon instance, it's about video game development: https://mastodon.gamedev.place
819.
by mepian 8y ago
I suspect that the gunship was simply programmed to shoot the closest hostile entity, which happened to be the player's rockets. This kind of emergent behavior is actually quite common in gameplay programming. In any case, machine lear
820.
by mepian 8y ago
Here's a similar older project done at MIT AI Lab, another Scheme CPU called the Scheme86: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6468
821.
by mepian 8y ago
I wonder what Jim Keller has to say about this, wasn't he hired to oversee the introduction of the 10nm manufacturing process?
822.
Ex-Valve employee describes internal politics at 'self-organizing' companies(pcgamer.com)
484 points by mepian 8y ago|159 comments
823.
by mepian 8y ago
Is this the first actual use of nuclear propulsion? I'd prefer it to be space exploration, but such technologies always end up in military toys first.
824.
by mepian 8y ago
I don't think there are any serious threats to Putin inside Russia right now. All "legal" political parties are under his thumb, and the "illegal" ones (mostly Alexei Navalny's followers) failed to display sign
825.
Global PC shipments grew 1.4% in Q2 2018, first increase in 6 years(venturebeat.com)
2 points by mepian 8y ago|0 comments
826.
by mepian 8y ago
The PARC was (contrary to the popular myth) a huge success for Xerox, as the laser printing technology invented there turned out to be a great money maker for the company.
827.
by mepian 8y ago
Two years is not a large gap for a game company that employs ~300 people and allocates some employees to the development of hardware and Steam. Valve is not as big as Sony or even Nintendo, and a lot of people don't seem to be aware of
828.
by mepian 8y ago
>haven't shipped a game in years The Lab was released in 2016, Artifact recently went to beta.
829.
by mepian 8y ago
This distinction also exists in Russian, though not in single words: белая зависть translated literally as "white envy" and черная зависть i.e. "black envy".
830.
by mepian 8y ago
I wonder how intelligence services around the world are planning to combat the rise of these allegedly "unhackable" communication networks.
831.
by mepian 8y ago
It was rather popular in Russia for a while.
832.
by mepian 8y ago
"Everything I've been able to learn about the language is that it was designed for a non-register based hardware that never caught on" That's a silly thing to say, especially when two of Lisp's primitive operations,
833.
by mepian 8y ago
Vim with slimv.
834.
by mepian 8y ago
A dumb programmer who writes C is like a monkey with a grenade, it's irresponsible.
835.
by mepian 8y ago
I don't expect anything good to come out of this for the current IRC users. Hopefully they aren't going to play the embrace-extend-extinguish game in the long run to steal the name for their own proprietary protocol.
836.
by mepian 8y ago
It's actually a first-person RPG.
837.
by mepian 8y ago
Allegro and Lispworks are proprietary with product support provided by the vendors, SBCL and Clozure are opensource. Allegro and Lispworks have their own IDEs and some proprietary libraries bundled in (e.g. CAPI which is probably the best o
838.
by mepian 8y ago
Common Lisp has at least four high-quality implementations (Allegro, Lispworks, SBCL, Clozure), and this is a fairly large language (thousand something pages of the ANSI specification + two chapters of AMOP) that is about as popular as Hask
839.
by mepian 8y ago
>Apple chips famously have Imagination GPUs Not anymore, Apple switched to in-house GPUs recently.
840.
by mepian 8y ago
In 2012 Kalman Reti, the last Symbolics hardware and software engineer, mentioned that John C. Mallery (of CL-HTTP fame) acquired the IP from the probate and was thinking about open-sourcing everything. That was a while ago, so I guess the

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