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by whartung 2y ago
Someone probably knows this in more detail, and I can easily get the magazine wrong. But I’ll share the anecdote, maybe it’ll ring someone else’s bell. Back in the day, talking 40s to 50s, Analog published a letter to the editor that was “f
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by whartung 2y ago
I have two Tesla Powerwalls in my garage, and they (among other things) do just this. I look at the size of those, and the size of a random Tesla, and I can easily see two of these shoved into the baseboard of a Tesla, much less the larger
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by whartung 2y ago
Well I'm on a forum run by a UK company, hosted in the UK, and we've talked about this, but they're staying online. And, no, they're not a multibillion dollar company. I don't see our moderators needing to do any mo
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by whartung 2y ago
And those that have passed, are not necessarily universal. For example, Californias (I think) only applies to electronics, not cars. The John Deere "thing" is still a "thing" in California. The CA law is mostly about iPh
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by whartung 2y ago
Little anecdote sort of along this line. Early 80's, in college, we had the Cyber mainframe, and PDP 11/70. The Cyber was used for computer classes (comps sci [Fortran, Pascal], infosystems [COBOL]), engineering classes (SPICE, Ae
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by whartung 2y ago
Ages ago I worked at a DoD contractor. I was in a special projects department. The overall company was broken up into divisions, essentially the west coast facility was its own division, the midwest, east coast had its own division. They ar
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by whartung 2y ago
The hardest part (IMHO) about getting a simple language running, particularly for beginners, is the “expression”. Mostly for your typical algebraic style infix expressions with precedence. Just getting the grammar straight on the naturally
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by whartung 2y ago
I'm sorry, as I don't know. I mean, I don't even know what you use to write "windows" applications anymore. But are the stock frameworks that slow to justify rewriting the toolkit? I am under the impression that wri
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by whartung 2y ago
Being insolvent is not enough of a trigger. They can be perfectly solvent and simply decide they don’t want to play anymore, take their ball, and go home. Or they can be acquired and the new owners can tell the community to pound sand. Fina
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by whartung 2y ago
Can this shell do this (in some form): (lisp expression) | <unix command> | (lisp expression)
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by whartung 2y ago
One reason Delphi was productive was that it was a "real language" with a decent object model (more so than VB). You had a simpler display environment of drag and drop "stuck" components vs dealing with layout managers,
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by whartung 2y ago
So if I have a Java program using the AWS libraries and I run it under this thing, it can decode the HTTPS AWS payloads going to Amazon? How does that work with the AWS certs? How does the program not reject whatever this tool is doing to p
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by whartung 2y ago
Maybe someone can answer how this is done. Simply, the mad crushing dash to get the last bit of committed inventory. Ticketmaster has 50,000 General Admission Taylor Swift tickets and 1M fans eager to hoover them up. This is a crushing load
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by whartung 2y ago
Moria (now Angband) was originally on VMS, written in VAX Pascal. We remember it well because it was distributed as a single, large file, and our 11/730 just choked and died trying to compile it. The MicroVAX was much better at coping
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by whartung 2y ago
Honestly it was a bit disconcerting watching him test ride that thing. He should have been at least wearing a bicycle helmet. We saw a couple of stumbles and get offs, and, were the software more nefarious, he could have likely easily been
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by whartung 2y ago
It should be noted you can see the curvature of the earth in the photo. As I understand it, that was one of the perks of the Concorde in that in flew so high that the passengers could see this as well.
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by whartung 2y ago
How does this capture all of the keyboard events?
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by whartung 2y ago
At the moment, I'm looking forward to it. Let the bot deal with the ads, the cookie banners, the upsells, "newsletters" and all of the other web BS we deal with. The bot clicks through the front door of the website, just like
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by whartung 2y ago
This is what I do as well, but looking forward at all of the other platforms just made me hang my head. For a "cross platform, portable system" it was just...ugh. These are hobby projects. I struggle enough to make progress on the
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by whartung 2y ago
This was almost two years ago, and at the time it was highlighting its centralized download service.
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by whartung 2y ago
I did, but at the time it was touted more as a centralized service that I wasn’t really interested in. Maybe it’s better now.
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by whartung 2y ago
I absolutely agree on the JVM platform, an uber jar file is really quite easy to use and deploy. You don't need to do JLink for JavaFX. FX requires binary libraries, but you can make "platform specific" uber jars (and, probab
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by whartung 2y ago
It creates MacOS packages, Windows MSI, and Linux bundles. Those are all "installers", right?
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by whartung 2y ago
When I released my last Java project, I came out with a MacOS DMG, a Windows EXE installer, a Windows MSI installer, and a Fat Jar for Linux. Now we have MacOS ARM, MacOS x86, Linux ARM/x86, Windows ARM/x86. Even for a basic &quot
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by whartung 2y ago
MLB StarCast generates ~7TB of data per game. I assume the bulk of that is video from the high speed cameras.
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by whartung 2y ago
Chicken Scheme makes very nice, tidy binary executables. "Hello World" is just 27K on Ubuntu.
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by whartung 2y ago
This reminds me back in the day when I was writing a DSL for a project. Since the data we were getting was sourced from an RDBMS, I wanted NULL to be a first class concept in the DSL, with similar traits. Early on, I simply made any express
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by whartung 2y ago
This may fall in the "you think you do, but you don't category", but I've always wanted a Smalltalk (or similar, not that picky) with a persistent virtual memory. That is, the VM is mapped to a backing file, changes pers
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by whartung 2y ago
I don't understand what this new functionality is. I'm still on 17.x, and if I ask it to show me pictures from Angels Stadium, I get pictures from Angels Stadium. Mind, I have no idea how it "knew" I was at Angels Stadiu
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by whartung 2y ago
GUPTA SQLBase was another popular embedded database. We had it in an application written in C.

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