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811.
by rjsw 4y ago
I use Common Lisp because applications run faster than those written in Python or Ruby and are easier for me to write than if I was using C++.
812.
by rjsw 4y ago
There is a section of the Preface on "Configuring Your Development Environment", seems pretty complete to me.
813.
by rjsw 4y ago
I don't care about the Liberal Democrats' manifesto pledges. I do care that they enabled the Conservatives to impose austerity.
814.
by rjsw 4y ago
TBF, middle names cause problems in France too.
815.
by rjsw 4y ago
France also has CATIA from Dassault Systems.
816.
by rjsw 4y ago
Amazon have them [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWS_Graviton
817.
by rjsw 4y ago
The word came from a specific [1] event, people were not getting randomly thrown out of windows. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestrations_of_Prague
818.
by rjsw 4y ago
If you want a 64bit RISC-V CPU then look at the Ox64 [1] from PINE64. [1] https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/Ox64
819.
by rjsw 4y ago
You could do a trial build of an in-order Rocket RISC-V core [1] to see how much space it takes up. [1] https://github.com/chipsalliance/rocket-chip
820.
by rjsw 4y ago
Doesn't work if you live next to an AirBnB, all the recycling bins will contain random waste.
821.
by rjsw 4y ago
Tesco [1], a bit of rice flour too but no wheat. [1] https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/273927062
822.
by rjsw 4y ago
At least one big UK supermarket has onion bhajis just made from gram flour. No idea what restaurants do.
823.
by rjsw 4y ago
I have an 8" disk drive, can't remember where I got it, not used it though.
824.
by rjsw 4y ago
Common Lisp has unless too, I use it where it makes sense.
825.
by rjsw 4y ago
Sources were not available for MSDOS and Windows.
826.
by rjsw 4y ago
You could buy commercial UNIX for the i386 in 1985, worked well, I ran one version on my home PC before switching to 386BSD 0.1 in 1992.
827.
by rjsw 4y ago
There is a reason [1] why Solar is only generating a small fraction of installed capacity. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night
828.
by rjsw 4y ago
The 1x1GBe port on your system is the controller built in to the SoC. It supports jumbo frames so you can do full size packets over PPPoE if your ISP can handle that.
829.
by rjsw 4y ago
The name might be appropriate. A tool that delivers really good bullshit could be just what managers want.
830.
by rjsw 4y ago
I have been on two tours of the A380 final assembly building, the last time was with senior Airbus people so got basically the customer tour walking round the aircraft. Have seen Belugas flying and on the ground at Toulouse.
831.
by rjsw 4y ago
This thread is about a kernel DRM driver written in Rust, writing any DRM driver requires a lot of knowledge about how the rest of the DRM subsystem and the kernel works.
832.
by rjsw 4y ago
I would not want someone writing kernel code who can't understand what the rest of it is doing.
833.
by rjsw 4y ago
I thought there was a story of Richard Feynman going round Oak Ridge and realizing that they were getting close to a critical mass of stuff stored in adjacent rooms.
834.
by rjsw 4y ago
No supply of them in the UK either. Are other ARM single-board computers easier for you to buy in India? I have several from Pine64, CubieBoard and Hardkernel that work well.
835.
by rjsw 4y ago
The IBM info on that wiki page may be fine but at least one of the cards listed as a clone is not.
836.
by rjsw 4y ago
Why not use an existing Lisp implementation that has a good compiler? Or just run Mezzano [1]. [1] https://github.com/froggey/Mezzano
837.
by rjsw 4y ago
The PDP-10 was not RISC by any definition.
838.
by rjsw 4y ago
The MIT Lisp Machine microarchitecture looks pretty much like RISC. Pipelined load/store with a single instruction size and lots of registers. EDIT: the instructions are three-address too.
839.
by rjsw 4y ago
Wiki says [1] that the heavy blasters were Lewis guns, the main Stormtrooper weapons were Sterling submachine guns. Light sabres were the battery holder for a photographic flash gun. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bl
840.
by rjsw 4y ago
The effects of it are still working through the UK economy. The one group that had a valid, if selfish, reason to vote for it was people in low paid jobs. Employers are complaining that they can't recruit but don't want to increas

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