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by ralphc 1y ago
What, if any, advantages that VSAM, IMS or DL/1 have over the SQL databases we're more familiar with here?
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by ralphc 1y ago
I knew TS's type system went too far when I saw the 8 queens problem solved in just the type system, not the actual language. Me, I just want to get stuff done, not fight my type system. And that was even before someone wrote DOOM in T
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by ralphc 1y ago
I'd like to have a look at those, have a github link?
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by ralphc 1y ago
Why Vue over the other JS frameworks?
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by ralphc 1y ago
I don't know if Wordpress has any kind of customizability or scripting, but it's now possible to add Lua scripting, natively, to an Elixir application. If that's handy it's something to consider. https://news.
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by ralphc 1y ago
I get having to use old software, but why did they pick Windows 95 and not NT, which is more robust?
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by ralphc 1y ago
Don Knuth finally sells out https://nerocam.com/DrFun/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200002/df20000210.jp...
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by ralphc 1y ago
Erlang figured this out so much you've described the BEAM. You can have hundreds of thousands of small "processes" communicating through BEAM mailboxes on a modern machine. Elixir has protocols and macros, improvements on Erl
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by ralphc 1y ago
Would your 1000 core CPU do well on neuroevolution?
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by ralphc 1y ago
Let me point you to Prodigy Reloaded, https://github.com/ProdigyReloaded . We're reviving the Prodigy server and as many cache files as we can find, using Elixir as the backend language. It's not merged yet but I&#
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by ralphc 1y ago
How much modern security do I need to write & print a term paper or church bulletin on my own computer?
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by ralphc 1y ago
What's your proposal for a "compromise" language between programmer productivity and performance, especially for multiple threads and CPUs? Go, Rust, a BEAM language?
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by ralphc 1y ago
I'll start off admitting to not digging into the article yet, but is this something that can be broken up and done in parallel? I'm an Elixir fanboy so I try to parallelize anything I can, either to speed it up or because I'm
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by ralphc 1y ago
My line is, the three things Elixir has over Erlang is protocols, macros, and a syntax that doesn't summon Cthulhu.
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by ralphc 1y ago
If “A bird with a 10-gram brain is doing pretty much the same as a chimp with a 400-gram brain,” as the article says, what does this say about dinosaurs, which appear to be the ancestors of birds but are larger creatures? What was their int
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by ralphc 2y ago
This talks about unattended installs yada yada. I go to CostCo, I buy a Windows 11 laptop, I turn it on. Does this xml file help me with this? I've done the "no internet" trick before, but does that still work?
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by ralphc 2y ago
Last night I saw an interview with the US Treasury Secretary and one of of the "DOGE bros", Sam Corcos. He is tasked with modernizing the IRS's computer systems. Some of the highlights included him saying that this modernizat
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by ralphc 2y ago
They should check for a tiny spaceship being built out in the supply shack.
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by ralphc 2y ago
It's still a good idea to look at an Erlang book like this one. Kind of like natural languages, it's handy to be able to read Erlang even if you don't or can't write it. There's a lot of older literature, Erlang, pr
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by ralphc 2y ago
One of my favorite pastimes on my TRS-80 and TRS-80 color computer was to type in a simple basic program that would poke random values into random memory addresses and see how long it would take to crash or do something else. Sometimes the
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by ralphc 2y ago
I've been a shortwave listener for over 30 years. I remember listening to Radio Israel when Saddam was sending scud missiles into Israel and the radio was directing people into shelters, real time. One thing I'd like to see, espec
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by ralphc 2y ago
Whatever the waxing and waning that Smalltalk has had over the years, it's going to wane big time unless it can incorporate AI coding into their environments. Coding without it is going to seem ancient, soon.
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by ralphc 2y ago
I'm 63, retired in 2017 when I was 55. I now work on projects that interest me in languages that interest me. As a senior senior I'm excited by AI in my editor, it's automating the boring parts and I mainly just get to think
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by ralphc 2y ago
Are all the CUDA tutorials geared towards AI or are there some, for example, like regular scientific computing? Airflow over wings and things that you used to see for high-performance computing would be fun to try.
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by ralphc 2y ago
The conventional wisdom around here is that Lisp (and Smalltalk) are looked upon so fondly because they were so far ahead of what else we had back then, both in terms of the language and development environments, but other languages have ca
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by ralphc 2y ago
Are there any implementations, of either Prolog or other declarative languages, that try to parallelize parts of their search, then have multiple cores or even a GPU take the problem to speed up solutions?
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by ralphc 2y ago
Can you give some examples of the prompts you used to get Claude to generate the old-enough code?
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by ralphc 2y ago
Is there a way to slow down the animation, including editing anything in the web source? I'm having a little trouble following it.
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by ralphc 2y ago
How does it handle serial to TCP connection? I'm using DOSBox now, you can configure a serial port to turn into a TCP connection.
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by ralphc 2y ago
I forget which one, but there's a Larry Niven science fiction story that uses this as a plot point. Our hero takes advantage of the sun blocker spot on the villian's plane or ship by approaching in the line of sight of the planet&

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