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by stew-j 4y ago
It looks like this Scheme might eventually have good interop with Common Lisp: https://github.com/lisp-mirror/airship-scheme https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13868549 As for using it: > This sec
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by stew-j 4y ago
Little Chatroom on the Prairie, MMXXII "Yore a poo-poo face, Laura, shut-up. I'm an idiot and this is my Internet." @WillyOlesonXXII "Don't you try to josh me, Willy Oleson, I know durn well there ain't ever
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by stew-j 4y ago
I think my friend might have known that in 1985. I just figured it out this morning, and by now all the good hedge fund manager jobs are taken.
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by stew-j 4y ago
From the OOPSLA paper abstract: > techniques inspired by genetic programming with domain-specific knowledge to effectively undermine plagiarism detectors. My creaky memory of CS Theory makes me suspect that, ultimately, Mr. Turing's
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by stew-j 4y ago
To be fair, I know you didn't have much context. I had to look up "tech bro": https://www.wired.com/story/stop-calling-everyone-tech-bro/ Tech bro does not describe me (I agree they should have an
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by stew-j 4y ago
I'm not sure how it would be done, there might not even be enough existing code to train it on, but I would like to try out Copilot for code-based CAD models in something like OpenSCAD. I've never tried it at all, but thanks for
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by stew-j 4y ago
I might have missed it today in your articles or comments here--it's been a hectic day--but has there been some study of just how different code would be given that the students are using the same text from questions? Is there randomi
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by stew-j 4y ago
On your advice, we just agreed to watch it separate rooms with no discussions at supper. No more calling Mrs. Oleson the meanest person that ever lived, in jest, that is OVER (we both are guilty of this one). We are going to enjoy it even
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by stew-j 4y ago
Not every one, just Star Trek TOS. :) We're about even though, every time she sees a horse on screen she says "Why can't I ride a horse to work instead of driving our 20 year old Mazda?" Having lived in Kansas, Colorado
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by stew-j 4y ago
Although some of their time was freed up by not having to diagnose issues with CI pipelines on the cloud, or writing meta-manager code to tame Slurm :)
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by stew-j 4y ago
Thank you for a civil, intelligent conversation. I had never thought about the "asymmetry" of putting control codes with the character codes in ASCII--it does seem illogical now that you point it out. :) Languages like Ido aren&#
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by stew-j 4y ago
My wife and I are watching the "Little House" TV series on DVD again currently. She is getting tired of hearing me joke, "Doesn't that part of Minnesota look strangely like Southern California?" She read the books
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by stew-j 4y ago
Guess how I learned query/replace in Emacs in 1985? My friend who copied my Pascal programming assignment is now a director at a $1B hedge fund. I'm the founder of a series of scrappy, ramen noodle startups. I guess it's th
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by stew-j 4y ago
The Internet is an easy target for blame, but in fact in the past month I found a number of people whose thinking (at least on some specific topic) was near to mine through Reddit discussions (and now you, it seems): https://www.
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by stew-j 4y ago
Yes, I was surprised to see marketing, even criticism of their own previous products, in a programming guide. Once past the "history lesson" the book is actually very good--with concrete examples on building an operating system a
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by stew-j 4y ago
> I don't believe we should store text as characters Could you briefly elaborate? [edit] I read the article on your HN link. I didn't quite "get it". Program text gets in the way, let's replace it with [?]. Dr
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by stew-j 4y ago
After a cursory look I found it interesting. Homoiconocity of assembly language isn't something I had thought of--although I have been working on a higher level S-expression based assembly that is lowered to more concrete assembly for
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by stew-j 4y ago
More fun facts from "Programming the 80386", Crawford and Gelsinger (chief architect and designer of the 386 respectively), 1987, pp. 1-2 "The 4004 was quickly enhanced to the 8008. These devices, very trivial by today'
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by stew-j 4y ago
This is, in spirit, what Solvespace does--although like the other reply here says with extruded 2D. From https://solvespace.com/tech.pl > The core of any parametric CAD program is its geometric constraint solver. and &gt
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by stew-j 4y ago
> we're working on the clean API problem developing what we calling the Modular Object-Oriented Solidity Engine (MOOSE) MOOSE meet Tovero the horse. I guess everybody's gone from this post, but for posterity, it might be worth
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by stew-j 4y ago
The point of which, looking back at this comment, is that I'm older than BRL-CAD. :)
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by stew-j 4y ago
My gateway metal idols were Tony Iommi, Randy Rhoads and Edward Lodewijk Van Halen, all of whom I got to see in concert. And I'm going to just going to say it, "1984" was one of my favorite albums (although not really metal,
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by stew-j 4y ago
BRL-CAD was open-sourced in 2004. MIT Scheme was released as free software in 1986 after being started somewhere near 1979 (which was about the time I started programming in Basic, using the TRS-80 and Apple II). The initial revision of t
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by stew-j 4y ago
I also had a kind of Seinfeld "soup nazi" story. When I was an undergraduate studying electrical engineering at Columbia in the late '80s, my friend and I were commiserating in the dorm about our girlfriend problems. I was
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by stew-j 4y ago
They used to call me "Costanza" when I worked in aviation, because I would occasionally take a nap in the comfortable seats in the mockup jets at the Customer Service Center. That was back when I wore suits, and one time a group
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by stew-j 4y ago
Running Scheme on logic gates: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/6042
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by stew-j 4y ago
I prefer my female-fronted metal to be "glam", not the inferior "symphonic power". I actually owned a couple of her LPs in the '80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lita_Ford Since our tastes ar
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by stew-j 4y ago
> It looks like your e-mail was the victim of my paternity leave 10 years is generous paternity leave. :) Seriously though, no hard feelings, separating the wheat from the free software chaff takes time--ask me how I know. > interacti
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by stew-j 4y ago
Thanks, that makes sense--maybe operate 16 in parallel? Logic (human) still probably wouldn't stop me from trying if I had one laying around--what the chip would do outside of the design discipline, that is. :)
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by stew-j 4y ago
Another interesting fact: The BRL of BRL-CAD is the Ballistic Research Laboratory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic_Research_Laboratory which developed, along with the Penn, the first general-purpose digital com

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