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by uticus 3y ago
If Firefox stops being a supported codebase, would Rust popularity be another domino to fall? Since it is the largest (and probably best known) Rust project in the world.
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by uticus 3y ago
> SMIC was advertising that it had found a way to produce more advanced chips using dated equipment. It would take longer than Huawei’s previous supplier, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, it would cost more, and it might not w
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G3 (Strong) Geomagnetic Storms Now Likely on 01 Dec with a Full Halo CME(swpc.noaa.gov)
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by uticus 3y ago
> Later Old Norse Scandinavian written sources call a raider a vikingr and a raiding expedition of such people a viking. For Scandinavians, the word “viking” is something you did rather than what you were. This concurs with a book I read
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by uticus 3y ago
The SUVI composite truly looks like a composite right now. Like someone gave the instrument a few good whacks on the side while it was imaging. Not reassuring when checking to see how bad things are...
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by uticus 3y ago
Agreed. If security needs to extend past domain, you are not using the web in the way the web supports. I appreciate interesting solutions that bend the rules of the underlying technology, but (1) the web needs to be treated as if it is wha
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by uticus 3y ago
> The point of JWT vs opaque tokens is that you can just inspect the token itself to derive permissions without hitting any sessions in DB, right? No. Focus on “token” instead of “JWT.” JWT is just a standard.
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by uticus 3y ago
> Probably not a winning way to design a networked OS in today's Internet environment. I wonder. I know this is safely in imagination world, but if I were to have a system like this connected to the Internet, and there were others w
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by uticus 3y ago
Fascinating. > Genera is your whole environment; it encompasses what you normally think of as an operating system as well as everything else - system commands and all other activities. From where you look at it, there is no "top-lev
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by uticus 3y ago
That helps, thank you. Based on what I've seen with Smalltalk, and playing around with the online Interlisp environment [0], I was under the impression an underlying OS was not a necessity [1]. [0] https://online.interlisp.o
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by uticus 3y ago
"First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?" - Contact
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> Developers from Fuji Xerox wrote a portable VM in C to run the environment on different host platforms, called Maiko. I'm always confused by the relationship of C and Lisp(s). Here the VM is written in C. Yet elsewhere there seem
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by uticus 3y ago
At an emotional level I get this and can sympathize. But at a rational level... what would be shortcomings of a Lisp programming environment or Smalltalk image, versus Win/Mac/*nix? Perhaps I had better specify: apart from softw
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by uticus 3y ago
Yes but I think there's a point: hardware horsepower is undoubtedly capable of handling such workloads. I'm not knocking on Logic, but for 'fun' projects especially I find it impossible to believe that the hardware lis
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by uticus 3y ago
At my old job non-technical people would navigate about as well as they would with a mouse and a graphical-based interface, because the graphical interface didn't provide any additional value. For those people it took the same time wh
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by uticus 3y ago
> The idea of a language that can progressively gain features was (to the best of my knowledge) pioneered by Racket. Interesting, I did not know Racket had those connections, although I dabbled with Dr. Racket [1] a while back. It's
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by uticus 3y ago
Following up on my own comment. Others also show changes to text-based code when changes are made to graphical-based [1], but I haven't seen any that allow working backwards, so that clicking or changing graphical highlights and shows
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by uticus 3y ago
> To me, block coding is too far removed from regular coding for kids to make the connection...provides a much clearer transition path for students to Python/JS/Java. Personally I wonder what the ultimate goal is. I appreciate
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by uticus 3y ago
Agreed. I mean really in the spirit of get er done the AS400 is the pinnacle of UI for these sorts of things. I've worked with other things, even WinForm apps, Access things, Excel sheets that were turned into portable apps, and of cou
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by uticus 3y ago
As someone who suffers from this allergy, I'll chime in with 2 additional thoughts: It's not just that UI development is more ambiguous, it is the fact that it is difficult to make text-based code fit it. This is doubly (or maybe
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by uticus 3y ago
I used to think mathematics was about counting. Now I know better: it's about perspective.
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by uticus 3y ago
+1, amazing resource.
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by uticus 3y ago
The numbers are just outside comprehension. We can comprehend a dollar, or a hundred dollars, in the hand. We may be able to imagine (or have seen) a room full of a couple tens of thousands of dollars. But to extrapolate one, to 32 trillion
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by uticus 3y ago
> may have different ramifications for the government than for an individual I can only agree ramifications look different when an inappropriately narrow timespan is in focus. Thinking through history, what nations have been able to ulti
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by uticus 3y ago
Of course, devil's advocate would point out COBOL in 60s was written with a lot more focus on lasting in general. They didn't largely have the same general attitude of 'we iterate quickly with our script kiddies' as is p
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by uticus 3y ago
Sorry, but 'Fallacy of Composition' is just a theory. (Disclaimer: I happen to disagree with it.) Ultimately the way these ideas about economic theory are approached is a lot more philosophical/religious-based (for the Atheis
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by uticus 3y ago
appreciate this viewpoint. not trying to defend the large 'disconnected jumbled mess' that is military spending, but headlines (and large percentage of armchair commentators) make it sound like 'see, told ya so!' when in
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by uticus 3y ago
asking about state-level debt gets into philosophical (and I would argue even religious) territory very quickly, but to answer your questions: 'why...it is okay for the federal government...' federal govt in US is following genera
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by uticus 3y ago
Corn and soybeans are the wrong comparison. Ignoring the huge industry focus on optimizations for corn/beans, a more true comparison would still be against a large-scale vegetable grower. The standard 1-acre lot of corn or soybeans pro
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by uticus 3y ago
ChatGPT is another layer. Human -> ChatGPT -> high level programming language -> lower level language / IL / assembly -> microcode -> circuit. ChatGPT will not only survive, it will get bigger as long as all those l

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