talismanick

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   by talismanick 7mo ago

   The semantics don't map onto modern languages: it's verbose assembly, with business logic consisting of GOTOs between segments of million line codebases with debug-evolved behavior encompassing a spec (e.g. translate between ancie
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   by talismanick 2y ago

   > remember that our usual constant known as time is part of a varying field in GR ...and so you have to pick an appropriate underlying vector field you call time to cancel this out and get back the invariant, throwing a wrench into calcu
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   by talismanick 2y ago

   You're talking about E=mc^2, which follows from special relativity. That was revealed in 1905; 1915 marked the advent of general relativity, where energy conservation no longer holds. The time translation invariance which gives rise to
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   by talismanick 3y ago

   > Futumura projections (eg truffle, rpython) Pretty sure RPython/PyPy dropped partial evaluation in favor of a metatracing JIT: https://www.pypy.org/posts/2018/09/the-first-15-years-of-pyp...
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   by talismanick 4y ago

   ojalá que laputa no los haya embarazado!