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by scroot 4y ago
> Apple took resizable overlapping windows from Xerox; in return, Xerox got shares in Apple This is sort of backwards. Xerox already had taken a stake in Apple before any of the demonstrations (and, in part, this is why the demonstration
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by scroot 4y ago
`Transcript show: 'Hello, World'` Not especially complex syntax. It just doesn't have a lot in common with languages with Algol-like syntax
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by scroot 4y ago
My understanding is that the optimizations haven't been implemented yet in the VM, but that this initial step is to enable the new bytecodes. Could be wrong.
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Squeak 6.0 Released(squeak.org)
6 points by scroot 4y ago|0 comments
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by scroot 4y ago
Would be great if we could get a somewhat stable version of SK8 running in an emulator. I tried to do this last year and couldn't get it to work right. But, of course, I was never a SK8 user and had no idea what I was doing.
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by scroot 4y ago
They've been keeping it close to the chest, I think. But their browser exists and I believe is called Arc.
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by scroot 4y ago
Neil Postman used to say that we live in an era that is awash in information overabundance but simultaneously starving for wisdom. One of the immediate and great potential use for this kind of AI (ie, Skinner Boxes for computation) is to he
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by scroot 4y ago
> I don't know that there wasn't some initial implementation "coded in BASIC" — Smalltalk 71 Dan has said/written before that the "first pass" -- which was done in like a weekend or something -- was don
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by scroot 4y ago
Dude, we got banned from AOL for life after I popped into a mod chat room and started pretending I was one of them. Stupid! But I wanted to play a dangerous game...
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by scroot 4y ago
This is what I'm wondering. These are in some ways simpler systems as well, because containerization is "baked in"
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by scroot 4y ago
Whoa dude! I was just asking about this last year. Is the idea to have Squeak as the actual desktop environment?
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by scroot 4y ago
It's true in the main, but orgs like TTS (tts.gsa.gov) and 18F (18f.gsa.gov) are really changing things. Library of Congress also has a labs group.
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by scroot 4y ago
Cool. Now let's get the Library of Congress or NARA -- which are natural homes for this kind of thing -- to implement the public option free of profit-driven cruft.
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by scroot 4y ago
I have a 2012 MBP and two other machines running Linux. I'm not talking about retina displays at all (I don't have one). The rendering difference is noticeable. "Uncomfortable" is exactly the word I would use.
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by scroot 4y ago
I have to agree here. Font rendering in Linux is across the board noticeably worse than macOS. I still can't quite understand why.
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by scroot 4y ago
There is also just the simple issue of how many people are working on these systems. Right now there is an Opensmalltalk VM change in the words -- SISTA -- that has the potential for a 3x speedup of those systems. But it's largely the
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by scroot 4y ago
Why does web search need to have a business model at all? Why can't we just provide the Library of Congress funding to run something like it? Google got its start as a library project, after all, and it's the natural place for suc
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by scroot 4y ago
> * I don't actually know if there are programming practices that center around managing moments in time. I can't even think how that would work, but I would be very interested to know if there are any :) There was a live, 3D,
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by scroot 4y ago
Cuis is a really interesting incarnation. It's quite stripped down, and Juan, the creator, has done a lot of work to simplify things as much as possible. He has even stripped down Morphic and has an early working version of its "s
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by scroot 4y ago
This system was designed to be used primarily with CRT based displays, so back in the day it wouldn't have "looked" as pixellated even though these things were definitely defined that way.
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by scroot 4y ago
If this kind of thing becomes the norm, what will the DALL-E 200 train itself on? At some point it's going to be sucking its own exhaust.
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by scroot 4y ago
Barry Cunliffe is a great scholar. Europe Between the Oceans is another great example.
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by scroot 5y ago
> One reason they work so well is that Smalltalk treats methods as objects, not just as functions defined in some file. So a change-set knows it contains specific versions of specific methods. That is not possible in a typical git-enviro
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by scroot 5y ago
I think it's not about HFCS specifically, but rather the norm that was established by the availability of cheap (via a subsidized corn industry in the US) sugars that could be placed in anything. As far as I understand, HFCS does not h
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by scroot 5y ago
Some of these new systems should definitely be lisp machines of a kind, though not direct clones of Genera. We need something more "of the times." In reality, there are only a few things people expect of their computing systems, b
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by scroot 5y ago
Leaving the specific idea of the Lisp Machine aside, today there we have a tremendous advantage over the past when it comes to creating the kind of full, self-consistent systems Lisp Machines -- and systems like Smalltalk or Oberon, etc --
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by scroot 5y ago
If the computers of the future make use of advances in non-volatile memory, it might change this picture.
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by scroot 5y ago
> Pharo is more of a research experiment than anything practical than can be used to engineer complex systems, I know I tried. It comes with many flaws, first and foremost being a lack of vision (often seen in academia) that significantl
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by scroot 5y ago
It appears so! Having re-written the GIF implementation for Pharo and Squeak, I can tell you that it gets a little more complicated due to dynamic bit sizes of codes and things like that. LZW, which was meant for strings, is cleverly applie
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by scroot 5y ago
I have been using restclient-mode for years and really like it, but had never heard of verb -- thanks for the link!

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