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by musicale 4y ago
As a tangent, p-code is like an ancient version of wasm or java bytecodes, though its interpreter (the p-machine) was simple and compact enough to fit on 8-bit machines. Smalltalk also used bytecodes. The nice bit is that once you implement
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by musicale 4y ago
I'm not an expert on the Lisa or Pascal, but my understanding is that Lisa Pascal did compile natively (vs. p-compilers) and was based on the UCSD Pascal dialect (which introduced units), and that Clascal (and later Object Pascal) exte
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by musicale 4y ago
> What language is this, and how would someone build/load it? In a Lisa emulator running Lisa Workshop, Apple's UCSD Pascal/Clascal-based development system for the Lisa. Technically you could potentially port Pascal and&#
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by musicale 4y ago
This is fantastic. Wasn't the original Lisa source code famously lost by Apple?
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by musicale 4y ago
A USB to Lightning cable has worked consistently for me for charging my iPhone (and iPad, Apple keyboard and trackpad, etc.) for the past decade or so.
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by musicale 4y ago
> two macbook pros IIRC the second one you plug in charges the first. You can also charge from a single MacBook Pro that is plugged into a power adapter, in a daisy-chain or star topology.
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by musicale 4y ago
Apple laptops can charge each other; I believe the second one you plug in charges the first. I haven't tried a feedback loop however. A possibly more useful scenario that I've seen when power outlets are scarce is daisy-chaining m
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by musicale 4y ago
If the app was actually usable for 18 days in January, it doesn't make sense for users to ask for a full refund for the January subscription charge. Wouldn't a fair solution be to offer a partial refund, proportional to time that
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by musicale 4y ago
> about 2-3 example lecture problems that they walk you through My thinking on this may be evolving. I used to think that you would learn more figuring out things for yourself. There may be something to that, but now I am thinking that h
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by musicale 4y ago
Videos, video games, and internet-delivered information have largely replaced books as recreation for children and adults. For me personally, most of the offline reading I do is either work or work-adjacent, and when I try to read fiction i
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by musicale 4y ago
> Meritocracy showers opportunities on the lucky, rather than the needy or the deserving or even the highest leverage. Advocates of meritocracy seem to forget that it wasn't coined as a positive term.
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by musicale 4y ago
The most useful feature to me would be for Python to have long-lived standard editions of the language the way other programming languages do. For example, clang and gcc can still compile C89 programs.
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by musicale 4y ago
Still waiting for household cleaning robots that can navigate complicated environments and put things away without damaging them.
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by musicale 4y ago
> Measuring individual developer productivity is impossible without also creating perverse incentives that destroy business value. Probably should be printed at the top and bottom of every page of every performance review.
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by musicale 4y ago
> The number of pull requests and/or work items completed Good idea in an environment such as an assembly line where the same tasks are repeated over and over. Probably useless in a software development project where the tasks are d
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by musicale 4y ago
The main reason you're not getting promoted is because it would cost the company money. A secondary reason is that promotions are usually at odds with maintaining your boss's position in the status hierarchy. > Maybe you'r
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by musicale 4y ago
Gmail's spam filter is biased against email.
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by musicale 4y ago
PL/I-based Multics had few if any buffer overflows.[1] C-based Unix/Linux and other systems continue to have many. Segmented memory and a stack that grew up rather than down also helped. [1] https://www.acsac.org/2
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by musicale 4y ago
It's disappointing that we seem to be OK with abusing internet infrastructure for copyright enforcement purposes. Is there any evidence that doing so is of any benefit to the public?
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by musicale 4y ago
1 pound = 240d divides evenly by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 16, 20, etc.. And it's good for practicing arithmetic. ;-) [The Wizarding Currency of the Harry Potter series was presumably a parody of this but based on 1g = 17s*29k = 49
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by musicale 4y ago
Is Wizards really Chaotic Neutral (as per the article) or more Selfish Neutral tending towards Chaotic Good?
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by musicale 4y ago
Acclaimed writer criticized tennis player for bad writing.
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by musicale 4y ago
> "Hey, $COACH, what do you plan to do to win this game?" "Well, after analyzing hundreds of hours of video of the opposing team, we've pretty much decoded their play-calling signals. We're also going to monitor
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by musicale 4y ago
Logging - for debugging or for other purposes - is a very useful tool.
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by musicale 4y ago
Have people forgotten The Little JavaScripter? "Because of this deep similarity, all of the functions in The Little Schemer can be written in JavaScript." https://www.crockford.com/little.html (HN readers may also
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by musicale 4y ago
Great point, but it seems like it would be a huge pain to have to change all of the spell and monster lists and D&D-specific terms from the SRD into generic equivalents. On the other hand, claiming copyright or trademark on D&D term
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by musicale 4y ago
As much as management (and some staff) might believe otherwise, time spent at desks or in meetings is not directly proportional to work output or quality, and it's easy to go beyond the point of negative returns.
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I have found many abstract-type paintings (and non-abstract for that matter) to be much more interesting in person, where you can experience the actual scale, texture, colors, multiple viewing angles and perspectives, reflections/inter
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by musicale 4y ago
TUIs are great and underappreciated in my opinion. Another thing I wish were used more is character-mode graphics such as line-drawing, semigraphics, and various unicode symbols; I also wish more terminal emulators supported inline images -
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by musicale 4y ago
> This keeps people coming back for a new phone every 2 years as the cost to repair a new one rises up above the replacement cost I might replace my 2016 iPhone this coming fall, but the Apple-induced reason has nothing to do with repair

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