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by scroot 3y ago
I took one of the last voyages of the RMS St Helena (the only way to get there prior to 2016) and stayed on the island for 10 days. AMA
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by scroot 3y ago
The dot-com is the real one, the dot-org is the satire
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by scroot 3y ago
Someone needs to leak one of the early development versions of Hypercard 3, which was supposed to be some kind of heavy integration into the newest version of Quicktime
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by scroot 3y ago
Another very satisfied Kagi user here. It's totally worth the money, and a great example of the kinds of services that are possible if you're just willing to pay a little for 'em
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by scroot 3y ago
The market share of these services in the EU might end up being affected by the passage of the Digital Services Act and its sister bill the Digital Markets Act
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by scroot 3y ago
Pulling hard for kagi. Great services are worth paying for. Loving my family plan!
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by scroot 3y ago
Seconded. It's way better than Google these days, has customization features, and is 100% worth paying for.
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by scroot 3y ago
If you can get your hands on the book they published about it (titled "Rekursiv") you should give it a read. It's written in a fun style and is actually quite interesting
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by scroot 4y ago
> The js ecosystem gets a lot of hate but the power of some of the browser tooling As a JS developer, this is what really irks me: we have this powerful, interactive, live JS-enabled environment (the browser) that also holds our applicat
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by scroot 4y ago
There are a lot of causes. One is that the community itself is fractured, in part due to "personalities." Another is that some of the more modern standards are simply not yet implemented in any of the open Smalltalks (things like
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by scroot 4y ago
Lots of talk about "fiddling with configs" here, but in my experience it's like a slow evolution over time: you adjust things here and there as you need them. That's a malleable system. It's not a constant tinkering
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by scroot 4y ago
The lack of mac support is tragic. It means I can't use guix at work, where I might benefit from it the most.
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by scroot 4y ago
For you Emacs heads, restclient-mode is pretty good https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el
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by scroot 4y ago
Anything with chilies of any kind -- hot peppers, bell peppers, what have you -- none of that was available outside of what is today Mexico/Central America before 500 years ago. So the "traditional" foods that have these are
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by scroot 4y ago
> Just doing nothing sounds awesome. It's not. It's crap. Imagine having to sit at a workstation for months and years, having to be "present" with nothing to actually do but make some some BS stuff to appear busy. Eve
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by scroot 4y ago
> There's not a lot of "end user" there. The Alto and Smalltalk systems are from a time when there wasn't such a strong bifurcation between end-users and "programmers." That was intentional.
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by scroot 4y ago
Would really appreciate if someone could get SK8 running in one of these environments!
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by scroot 4y ago
Dude I use emacs most of the day precisely because I want to escape all the unixy nonsense as soon as I can and simply deal with a malleable, reactive environment.
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by scroot 4y ago
I'm still hoping that some hero out there has a copy of HyperCard 3 alpha on a computer somewhere, and might be willing to upload it...
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by scroot 4y ago
> The 1996 WWDC session Hypercard 3.0: The Phoenix Rises was electric. Here's a report from that session, complete with a response from the awesome Kevin Calhoun. http://folkstream.com/muse/teachhc/hc3.html
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by scroot 4y ago
ATG sounds like it was an incredibly creative little group, and it's a shame such a thing was more or less disbanded (along with letting HyperCard die, etc). SK8 in particular looks like it was very interesting. Someone needs to write
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by scroot 4y ago
The world needs to know more about HyperCard 3. I wish some kind person would throw a development version up online for us plebs to explore. It would be great to know and see what it was going to be all about!
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by scroot 4y ago
> Of note is that the LoN effort was championed by Japan and China. I didn't know that! What a missed opportunity. I spent many months buried in archives reading old Esperantist magazines from around the world (Revuoj) to try to pie
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by scroot 4y ago
One of the more interesting parts of the Esperanto story is that right at the moment when world organizations were starting to take it seriously (in this case, the defunct League of Nations), the movement split between the users of Ido -- a
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by scroot 4y ago
Or Squeak, which also has Git support
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by scroot 4y ago
There is also the Smalltalk Zoo [1], where you can try several of the old systems which have been reimplemented in Lively: [1] https://smalltalkzoo.thechm.org/
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by scroot 4y ago
Yes, but I think it's an updated 2013 version and it also includes the specification of his "RISC5" (not RISC-V, btw) processor he designed just for the purpose of running Oberon on an FPGA
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by scroot 4y ago
The Oberon book (by Wirth, updated in 2013) is excellent in that it describes the entire Oberon system, from the processor on up in a single volume. https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/PO.System.pdf
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by scroot 4y ago
I would love to see a demo of SK8. I've never been able to get it to work in any of the classic mac emulators. If anyone out there has experience with this I think the community would benefit from some videos
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by scroot 4y ago
It would be nice if the authors of this genre of blog post explicitly outlined what they think education is and what they think it should be for.

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