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by sovietswag 3y ago
Good reference for that: https://jameshfisher.com/2016/11/27/c-k-and-r/ This was also used to implement variadic functions like printf before varargs, see https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.
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by sovietswag 3y ago
Needs to mention afplay for playing audio! You can easily use this to make a command-line MP3 player. Others have mentioned the “say” utility for speech synthesis. There is a lot you can do with it, it supports the TUNE format, which allows
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by sovietswag 3y ago
There was a comment here earlier explaining how many modest/humble/non-confrontational/etc qualities portrayed as reflections of good character in this article by PG come from a place of privilege. I think it’s gone now, does
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by sovietswag 3y ago
It wasn't just any editor, it was Niklaus Wirth ;).
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by sovietswag 3y ago
On the idea of being stuck in a local maximum of graphical interfaces, see the concept of “wheel of reincarnation” by Ivan Sutherland. http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland... Rob Pike’
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by sovietswag 4y ago
https://archive.is/0Jojw
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by sovietswag 4y ago
In a historical retrospective on timesharing[1], Fernando Corbato (of Multics fame) mentioned that he considers VisiCalc (a predecessor of Excel) as a novel and important form of programming (he called it 'declarative'). [1] http
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by sovietswag 4y ago
Further down this rabbit hole: "The Web of Alexandria" by Bret Victor, http://worrydream.com/TheWebOfAlexandria . ---- > Vannevar Bush's "library of a million volumes, compressed into one end of a desk
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by sovietswag 4y ago
Cool... this post reminds me of Fravia's "enemy tracking" essay from his pages of reverse engineering: https://www.darkridge.com/~jpr5/mirror/fravia.org/enemy.htm . If you've never browsed
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by sovietswag 4y ago
An interesting idea from the Soviet Union: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/God-Building
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by sovietswag 4y ago
Very endearing post :). I’m keeping a collection of computing holy wars that I come across if anyone wants to check it out: https://josh8.com/blog/wars_of_computing.html I’ll add a footnote to this post, it captures th
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by sovietswag 4y ago
I was surprised to see nothing about Japan’s funneling of money into 5GL programming language research (having to do with AI and ... IIRC Prolog). - https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1080343&seq... -
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Is the Future of Energy Renewable? (2020)(maryannhorton.com)
2 points by sovietswag 4y ago|6 comments
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by sovietswag 4y ago
We grow up in a world in which it seems like we already know the answers to all of the questions, like we have already arrived at our destination. That's not true, and Things Can Be Different. This blog post describes an unanswered que
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by sovietswag 4y ago
Isn't this experiment a bit bogus? Extrapolating a terminal emulator's behavior to represent a machine's latency /in general/... what if the terminal emulator just sucks? Dan Luu is of course aware of this but he&#x
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by sovietswag 4y ago
This actually happened with my friend's laptop. They were using a physical camera cover for a while and it was fine, but one day the laptop fell (not very hard) and the screen LCD cracked right down the middle (half the screen was gree
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by sovietswag 4y ago
Many of us who like learning and view educational positively should read this: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/anonymous-toward-the...
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by sovietswag 4y ago
lol "the presenter".... who was Ken Thompson
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by sovietswag 4y ago
> oh well, grug end up at good company anyway and rob pike dress habit increasingly erratic, so all work out in end, but point stand: logging very important! beautiful...well done....