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by mmjaa 8y ago
I'd like to do this, but with Lua. Anyone wanna join?
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Its actually what Visix Vibe used to be. In computing we are constantly re-inventing things we threw away..
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I totally agree with you - prejudice is the #1 enemy of the positive networker. I would add this: Learn to experience things from the perspective of the other person with whom you are attempting to network without giving up too much of your
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by mmjaa 8y ago
This is the violent language of the usurper and invader: be grateful for what we bring you, for what you had before was inferior. Honestly, very disrespectful. I think you've proven the reasoning behind keeping these recordings restri
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>You have little control who comes into your life outside your 1st and maybe 2nd degree of separation. I have not found this to be true, personally. I've established my own network over 30 years by having an attitude entirely oppos
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I like the idea, but I don't think government needs to get involved. Seems to me to be a perfectly reasonable service for a commercial entity to provide ..
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by mmjaa 8y ago
What part about Sugru, Inc., isn't a chemical company?
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I use this stuff from 3M that is absolutely vile-smelling but delivers the same results as Sugur, for about 1/5th the cost. It comes in these little rolls, with an inner core material and an outer material, which somehow manage to co-e
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I wish they'd pushed harder to become a key part of the Maker scene .. I really wonder what a 3D-printer that used Sugru as its base material would be like. Probably prohibitively expensive in comparison with the ABS materials, but th
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I see dialects in the current zeitgeist changing, at rapid clip, in groups of literate people all the time. It happens in tech, with programming languages - which, face it, fundamentally all describe the same thing, just using different cu
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Dialects are established collectively. If I like your new word/dialect, I use it. That is the consensus. Wars are established collectively. Nobody fights a war as an individual - always as a group. Just like language and dialects a
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by mmjaa 8y ago
There is no doubt that people don't want to have new language and culture forced on them. There is also no doubt that people enjoy creating new language, and thus new culture. The strife comes when there is no agreement. The Austrian
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Oh, in fact I think it goes both ways. I don't think its either/or. The drive to create a unique cultural identity separate from other, existing identities: a cause of war. The drive to create non-unique cultural identities: als
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by mmjaa 8y ago
It seems to me that Europeans will use any excuse under the sun to fork language, branch and create a new dialect. If one Austrian village has brown goats, and the other white, or if there is a lake between them, or maybe a mountain, or if
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I found it infuriating to read this article and realise there was no mention of Dad. Maybe his absence is an overlooked part of it? As a father, I do chores with my kids, and the trope that only mothers and house-wives do chores is really t
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by mmjaa 8y ago
.. making money rather than going into debt. Plus there's the uncomfortable fact for academics that the state of the art is often pushed forward in industry, and written about in academy. So, sometimes, the job is really, really good.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>It might be more interesting to design new software that has more of that just-for-fun feel to it - although it’s not obvious what that would look like today. PICO-8: https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Definitely - thanks for the kind thoughts. This is precisely the sort of thing that motivates me to write assembly code again. ;) In fact, a couple of the more elite Oric hackers are working on a Wolfenstein-like release for the Oric .. th
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Could be both, I think.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Seems like the Iranian shredded-paper-reassembling technology that they developed after the CIA was kicked out of their country, might be kind of useful now .. maybe some sort of technology swap could be made, hmm..
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Yes, you sure can. Anything you can do in Objective-C or Swift, you can do in Lua.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I sure can! Check out this great collection of games for the Oric-1/Atmos, released in the 21st Century, which nevertheless would have blown several thousand users' minds if they had've been released in the 80's. Title
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I agree with the author on all points, except one: there isn't any reason not to just use Lua for everything. Yes, thats right. Lua for everything. Lua on iOS, Lua on MacOS, Lua on Linux. Lua on Windows. I absolutely love the freedom
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Its been really interesting for me to observe this re-focus on older technology, having been involved in the retro computing scene for the last few decades .. it has grown and grown, to the point where there are now titles being released fo
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by mmjaa 8y ago
"Privileged, candied elite" is just one end of the scale, yo. There are "Privileged, hard-working elite" too, in case that part wasn't clear. It really doesn't matter, if you've got the will to work, is
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Well, perhaps there is a chance for us to learn from history, still, and quit assuming that there is One Way™ for human civilisation to proceed/progress. Those who have the technical skill to go to Mars, are probably among the first ex
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I have been working productively as a systems software developer for 32 years. I do not have a degree; I'm a high-school dropout. I've built systems you've probably used, and/or may still be using. The #1 technical lev
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I believe the answer is that we must teach our children to be multi-lingual, at all costs, and eschew any and all cultures which, on the basis of the value they place on their own language, render other cultures words 'inferior'.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
From the Journal of Anthropological Society of South Australia: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:e4nc6Ke... There are a few other studies out there on this issue .. quite revealing. EDIT: a nice quote wh
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by mmjaa 8y ago
If we didn't have heavily entrenched imperialist tendencies that allowed us to destroy so-called "inferior cultures" at will, we'd probably have learned a lot more from our fellow man than we have. The Australian aborigi

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