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by vdupras 11mo ago
What I mean by a penalty of threaded code isn't related to whether words are implemented in native code or not. For example: : square dup * ; is going to generate a square word that does 2 calls, regardless of whether "dup" a
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by vdupras 11mo ago
There is no middle ground. Mentioning "Greater China" isn't neutral. It's precisely the idea of considering "Greater China" as neutral that is de facto siding with the PRC. No, this is Apple being confident t
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by vdupras 11mo ago
There are options, yes, but the path to options that could be said to compete with, let's say, C, is narrow. If you use Indirect or Direct (ITC, DTC) threaded code, there's no way out: you're going to call every word. You can
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by vdupras 11mo ago
american: you're the historical quirk! canadian: no, you're the historical quirk! native american: you're both historical twerps.
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by vdupras 11mo ago
I've never written Forth as part of a team. I suppose it's difficult with an average team. But then I try to imagine what a small team of good Forth programmers could do and I'm thinking it would be a quite powerful team. If
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by vdupras 11mo ago
This challenge comes with rewards. Forth has superpowers that can't be found elsewhere. But its definitely not for everyone. I'd say that the status quo of Forth being an obscur niche is fine, just fine. If you need convincing, if
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by vdupras 11mo ago
That's what I would call the "Forth challenge", that is to grow out of stack juggling. When you look at the Forth code of a beginner, yes it's full of stack juggling, of "@" and of "!". When you look
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by vdupras 1y ago
Calling it "the best" is assuredly shortsighted. One only has to go back a little while in history to find very effective ways to tax the ultra rich. The one big caveat is that choosing one of these ways require a bit of historica
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by vdupras 1y ago
Oh, that's what you get by being unaware of the cellphone brands. I was all excited thinking "hey, they found a way to hack phones through, I guess, screen firmware by setting a special sequence of pixels? How frakking cool!"
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by vdupras 1y ago
It's kind of like antisemitism. It used to be about Jews, now it's about Israel.
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by vdupras 1y ago
So, is it time to wish for TACO?
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by vdupras 1y ago
I think the broad idea isn't to directly, for example, program a floppy disk drive (to boot a PC from BIOS) driver from such a front panel (a gargantuan task), but to gradually bootstrap your way up there. For example, you could build
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by vdupras 1y ago
It's not a crime if the state allows it, right?
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by vdupras 1y ago
Fortunately, they're copycats , plural, so it won't be a hegemonic force.
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by vdupras 1y ago
America is in terrible shape. The world without it as the World Police/Bully is not necessarily worse.
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by vdupras 1y ago
I'm not arguing that humans are not adaptable, I'm just pointing out a fallacy in your original argument. Whether humans are adaptable or not is another matter.
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by vdupras 1y ago
You wrote "humans are good at adaptation, case in point, mass extinction survival". I reply "they weren't human then". The relevance is direct.
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by vdupras 1y ago
Drew's moral grandstanding is at odds with HN culture, so of course it's never going to be well received here. And to a point, HN is right to reject it because it's pointless: fascism is obviously coming and nothing can stop
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by vdupras 1y ago
Yes, obviously, but our ancestors weren't human then.
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by vdupras 1y ago
Yeah, I wouldn't have phrased it like in the article either. What I'd say is that Forth is more about naming processes than variables.
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by vdupras 1y ago
No, I'm arguing that having more "blocking" time is not a function of time (early days of programming), but a self-inflicted choice. Yes, choosing C in the 80s meant self-inflicting yourself with "blocking" time, bu
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by vdupras 1y ago
Certainly, but that depended on your own choices in technologies. This condition is not time-dependent. You can inflict yourself the exact same condition by choosing Rust.
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by vdupras 1y ago
That is both a sweeping generalization and plainly wrong. The "much earlier" days of programming had blazing fast compilers, like Turbo Pascal. The "earlier" days had C compiler that were plenty fast. Only languages like
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by vdupras 1y ago
Is 2C by 2050 twice as bad as 2C by 2100, or is it worse? How "off the chart" are we w.r.t the worst of the worst predictions made by IPCC in their latest reports? It seems to me that nowhere in any prediction did anyone say that
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by vdupras 1y ago
Absence of necessary urgent change tend to inspire doomerism.
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by vdupras 1y ago
I might be going further than most, but my personal take is that it happened when Woz stopped being involved: https://lists.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos-discuss/%3CZ4p_GHsw5arWG... The rest is just a downhill trend.
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by vdupras 1y ago
I'm sure there was such experts weighting on the future of Soviet Russia in 1989. 50 years. How myopic do you have to be to even try to answer that question, especially framed thus? Six years ago, someone trying to predict how the wo
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by vdupras 1y ago
Our collective future has "mediocrity" written all over it. And when you think about it, LLMs are pretty much, by design, machines that look for truth in mediocrity in its etymological sense.
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by vdupras 1y ago
What is unusual is for gold to perform better than stock indexes, which it has been doing by a significant margin in the past year.
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by vdupras 1y ago
It's 20% of the execution time. All these instructions use the same number of cycles.

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