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by sedachv 5y ago
That is probably referring to System Management Mode (privilege level/ring -2) and Intel Management Engine (privilege level/ring -3). Two very terrible things.
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by sedachv 5y ago
http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/14719
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by sedachv 5y ago
> I'm sure that the old lispers have fairly extensive lists of fundamental issues and improvements. There are two public lists where specific proposals are collected: https://cliki.net/Proposed%20ANSI%20Changes htt
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by sedachv 5y ago
> Will it happen? Almost certainly not, though I would like nothing better than to be proven wrong about this. At this point it is about consensus among implementations. phoe got package local nicknames into all implementations, and that
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by sedachv 5y ago
> and GTK is required only on Linux You can build GNU Emacs for X with Lucid instead. Motif too, but that is getting removed soon.
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by sedachv 5y ago
> for a long time certain Lisp/Scheme folks would gatekeep about how a language wasn’t a Real Functional Language if it wasn’t homoiconic and didn’t have fancy macros This never happened. You are confusing functional with the 2000s
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by sedachv 5y ago
I strongly recommend adding a schema validator to anything that generates XML. ATOM¹ has a nice schema available² that you can use at the end to check the whole thing (I use xmllint³, since it is in a lot of package repositories). Another n
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by sedachv 5y ago
> How did you find a good PT? The poster unfortunately did not. "Needling" aka "dry needling" aka "Western acupuncture" is re-branded acupuncture. Like acupuncture, it is quackery and an unsafe scam. Even th
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by sedachv 5y ago
Common Lisp is the best calculator because it handles rational and complex numbers, and transcendental functions over them, correctly.
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by sedachv 5y ago
> As a software hack, there's always Shift Parentheses On any PC keyboard, just swap parentheses with square or curly brackets. That is way more useful even if you never program in Lisp. One of several things the Lisp Machine keyboa
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by sedachv 5y ago
With the proper gateways you can literally use e-mail for everything: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/internet-services/access-via-email/ https://archive.org/details/internetbyemail00shir http
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by sedachv 5y ago
https://notmuchmail.org/ https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html https://www.gnus.org/
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by sedachv 5y ago
Sure. My email address is in my profile: vsedach@oneofus.la
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by sedachv 5y ago
I am not talking about hypotheticals or museums, I am talking about actual running systems. I know the most active restorer of Symbolics systems in the US. His biggest problem is finding enough consoles and keyboards. Why don't you try
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by sedachv 5y ago
They are just not. The Honeywell switches feel like crap IMO. There are no cursor keys. A 104 key Unicomp has better switches and better ergonomics, and just as many function keys - the only thing missing is a 5th (Symbol) modifier key. All
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by sedachv 5y ago
> I don't know how a hardware description language could implement a Lisp variant btw. https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6334
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by sedachv 5y ago
See also this bit of Internet history: https://web.archive.org/web/20000815202656/http://world.std....
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by sedachv 5y ago
> If one would do runtime JIT compilation with runtime statistical information, it could very well a speed improvement. Or you could just be wasting cycles on profiling overhead and recompiling things for no reason. > A JIT could comp
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by sedachv 5y ago
There is actually a very good reason why many people have already replaced fish consumption with algal farms: bioamplified and persistent environmental pollution, particularly mercury. The only unique nutritional value of fish is in long-ch
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by sedachv 5y ago
> SBCL has two interpreters, IIRC. You can configure SBCL to use an interpreter. SBCL's original "interpreter" is %simple-eval, which just calls the compiler. SB!EVAL was added sometime around 2008, but as you point out it
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by sedachv 5y ago
> If compilation is explicit, it's not a JIT. You have machine code generation at run-time, you can then make arbitrary decisions for when to do the code generation. Explain how this is not a JavaScript JIT compiler when you run it
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by sedachv 5y ago
Two people (you and moonchild) reply to my statement that ECL uses a C compiler as a JIT, and come to the exact opposite conclusions about what a JIT is. I think people are really confused about this topic. Again, look at the code and expla
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by sedachv 5y ago
> No, but new javascript programs are frequently loaded. This is probably what confuses a lot of people into thinking that program distribution has anything to do with JIT. JavaScript is the only programming language for which the main m
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by sedachv 5y ago
> A JIT compiles as the code is run, while an AOT compiler compiles before the code is run By that definition using the REPL or loading source files in SBCL qualifies as a JIT. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyna
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by sedachv 5y ago
> Most of the elisp code you run is largely static. It does change And JavaScript programs almost never change after a website is loaded. That has nothing to do with whether the programs are compiled. > you only have to recompile a fe
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by sedachv 5y ago
> I don't think ECL uses GCC as a JIT; most common lisps use an incremental AOT compiler, which is different https://gitlab.com/embeddable-common-lisp/ecl/-/blob/develop... What is the difference
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by sedachv 5y ago
> you wouldn't want to actually use that for any of the same cases as a traditional jit Well the most high-profile project using libgccjit right now is Elisp (feature/native-comp GNU Emacs branch, which by all indications will
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by sedachv 6y ago
GNU CLISP had GNU Lightning added as an option for compiling its VM bytecode in 2008. IMO a bad decision - more maintenance burden; code can now have subtle different bugs whether run in the CLISP interpreter, CLISP bytecode VM, or CLISP by
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by sedachv 6y ago
Get the real deal: https://www.pckeyboard.com You can get an APL keycap set for your existing Unicomp keyboard, or do a custom order for any of their models. They will even print you custom keycap sets: https://www.pc
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by sedachv 6y ago
> it's not as easy to control the processes that go through the VPN. It should be possible with network namespaces or tagging packets with cgroups but it's a pain to get it all set up. OpenBSD routing domains make this really e

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