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by musicale 2y ago
> Can you successfully transfer data over unreliable connections? Validating LLM output is probably not as easy as computing a checksum or CRC.
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by musicale 2y ago
I like how your emulator (like RunCPM) can work with native directories and files. It's much more convenient than messing around with disk images.
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by musicale 2y ago
> Heathkit-branded PDP-11 The idea that you could save money by soldering together your own PDP-11 system from parts, and that there was a company that actually sold the kits (as well as assembled versions), is terrific. And today (assum
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by musicale 2y ago
> There's no reason to repeat the mistakes Intel made in the 01970s today. We know how to do better! CP/M, WordStar, and Turbo Pascal were/are pretty good though! As you suggest, someone really should port an open source F
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by musicale 2y ago
QDOS had the advantage of being able to reimplement the CP/M-86 design rather than starting from scratch. There were lots of disk operating systems created for 8 and 16-bit machines, as well as a number of BASIC + DOS type systems. But
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by musicale 2y ago
> Get Apple Pascal up and running in some kind of emulator on my Mac, so I can experience it again I wonder if Lisa Pascal will run in a Lisa emulator... > Build a p-machine emulator, in Rust Probably a p-code interpreter and/or
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by musicale 2y ago
And don't forget -fbounds-safety, which is in Apple's clang/llvm and perhaps other versions. https://clang.llvm.org/docs/BoundsSafety.html
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by musicale 2y ago
> reliable LLM applications add that to the list of contradictory phrases (jumbo shrimp, etc.)
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by musicale 2y ago
> the store manager kept putting those PCs up at the front of the store. The district manager would come back and make him put it in the back It's interesting and sad that RadioShack somehow managed to succeed and fail at least twic
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by musicale 2y ago
> A lot of what used to be consumer electronics exists on everyone's smartphones. No more clock radios, walkmans, boomboxes, tape decks, VCRs, DVD/CD players, landline phones, etc. I would bet Bluetooth speakers have essentiall
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by musicale 2y ago
> An argument, though, is an exchange of ideas that ought to surface insight and lead to a conclusion No it isn't. https://python.mzonline.com/sketches/argument/
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by musicale 2y ago
Among other notable books (The Practice of Programming is one that I like.) And he coined the term "Unix". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan
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by musicale 2y ago
I have had mixed results with iTunes Match. I like the idea of it, and it's good when it works, but Apple never really sorted out the streaming vs. sync-to-library thing. Most of my old playlists seem to have broken. Album art often ge
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by musicale 2y ago
> thealexandrian.net Not to be confused with the (also very awesome) Alexandria RPG Library, which often comes to events like PAX: https://alexandriarpg.org I doubt there is much funding for it (though I dream of universities
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by musicale 2y ago
> Serious gambling in most industries like casinos, NFTs, F2P and PTW games I appreciate the accurate framing here. > NFT/F2P game studio owned by a large slot machine maker I wonder how common this is. I also wonder about the im
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by musicale 2y ago
> Post-1974, however, D&D has been extremely reactive in its design. It largely does not innovate, but its massive gravity means anything it refines is reflected back into the industry in a massively disproportionate way D&D is i
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by musicale 2y ago
"Wouldn't it make life easier for us at Apple if we added all of our product name capitalizations like iMac, iPod, etc. into the autocorrect dictionary? Marketing would probably love it too." -Someone at Apple, probably, circ
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by musicale 2y ago
Via dang's recap (... - Current Status -): "People who are still trying to refer to the article are unaware of the capabilities of current Pascal (Delphi/FPC) implementations." https://wiki.freepascal.org&#x2F
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by musicale 2y ago
Kernighan probably disliked PL/I as well, but it had better memory safety than C; Multics was never plagued with buffer overflows. Pascal implementations typically support index and range checking, while Ada provides even more extensiv
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by musicale 2y ago
Indeed. And we only had to wait ten years for them, from Go 1.0 to 1.18.
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by musicale 2y ago
If you want a laugh, find out how much the people who actually do the work (grad students and postdocs) are paid out of a typical university research grant. Typically grad students are also only paid for 20 hours of work per week; the other
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by musicale 2y ago
I guess the comparison here is mainly for fun and food for thought, but I think the answer is that it depends on your use case. If there's a system that you are enthusiastic about and want to be able to develop code for, then that is p
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by musicale 2y ago
It's something that people dump on everything, so yeah. Also makes things smell/taste a bit like Pepsi.
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by musicale 2y ago
The current life + 70 year (or 95 years after publication for works for hire) copyright regime is excessive, and contrasts with the copyright clause in the constitution (limited time, promoting progress.)
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by musicale 2y ago
> I did as best I could to devour the library. You'd have to devour the library of congress, and every public scientific paper, and most of the text on the internet. Likely much more than you could read in a lifetime. Then you&#x27
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by musicale 2y ago
The go mistakes that tend to bother me the most are things like gc pauses, lack of first-class named and default arguments, lack of exceptions, lack of subrange types, etc. I usually avoid them by not using go. Or waiting until missing feat
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by musicale 2y ago
It can be shock to discover how little the company as an entity, and its upper management in particular, actually values you (or any other employee.) Employees are indeed cogs in a megacorp, and the relationship is transactional. The compan
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by musicale 2y ago
Does Google (or whoever is making these decisions) think that layoffs are in the long-term best interest of the company? If so, are they correct? Or is it related to the possibility that Google may have to divest itself of Chrome due to ant
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by musicale 2y ago
> Parents ... should have the freedom to take care [of] their kids I wonder if there is a path to making this possible for more people?
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by musicale 2y ago
And "computer".

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