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by whartung 3y ago
I would think this would be old news. "Cat, get off of the table." "I'm not on the table, I'm on the placemat." Cat logic.
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by whartung 3y ago
One of the reasons I like to watch "Colombo" is that it was essentially filmed in Los Angeles and around Southern California. It's an ad hoc capture of the southland in the early 70s. I like to reference IMDB to try to see if
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by whartung 3y ago
First, congrats to the Pharo team, I mean they do a lot of work. But a singular testament of Pharo is that it this amazing environment, with all this heritage, tickling many of the more popular "CS folk" buttons. It's an acti
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by whartung 3y ago
The big question I have is are the keys device/browser specific? Seems to me I need to be able to log in with a password from any place (my phone, my machine, my office, my wifes phone, her laptop, my friends laptop, etc.). I mean, who
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by whartung 3y ago
Rust the language is certainly more difficult than the Smalltalk language. The language isn't the issue. You have Smalltalk the language, which is this [] big, and Smalltalk the environment and class libraries, notably the GUI system,
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by whartung 3y ago
My understanding is that it will share with the Metrolink station already in Cucamonga. Also there are already plan for a major bus hub for the regional area in Cucamonga as well. The magic that makes this work is that the right of way is d
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by whartung 3y ago
My Harlan Ellison anecdote comes from trying to a get a book signed. My friend, S, had a “signed” Ellison book. My other friend, G, was going to try and get it signed at a local convention. Finally tracking Harlan down, my friend saw his ch
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by whartung 3y ago
We don’t feed the birds directly, but we do have a fountain the local birds greatly enjoy. We make it a point that algaecide we use is bird safe. From finches to crows, they all seem to enjoy the running water in our ad hoc birdie bidet. On
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by whartung 3y ago
The confluence of happenstance that occurs to make this a reality is pretty amazing to witness. Unfortunately it starts with the passing of Douglas Lenat. But that enabled Stanford to open up their 40 year old archive, which they still had,
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by whartung 3y ago
I normally dabble with CLISP (notably because of its built in readline), and if I could SOMEHOW get it to build with SSL, I'd play with it more. This is what I stick at the top of my Lisp files when dabbling. (defun l () (load
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by whartung 3y ago
Common Lisp hasn’t changed a whole lot since 2021. And it supports Apple Silicon, and it even has, apparently, a Mobile runtime. I imagine that’s ticking the boxes for most of their users, and they’re not in the endless “security update” t
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by whartung 3y ago
1-2-3 was 3rd generation. VisiCalc, while groundbreaking, was quite crude. Its fundamental utility outweighs its lack of sophistication. It was quite 1.0, and once the cat was out of the bag, it was hardly secret tech. There was at least Su
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by whartung 3y ago
Yes. Apply common sense. Especially considering the state of Lisp back in the day, not to mention the utter lack computational power that a 1MHz 6502 has. It’s not even worth considering the concept of them writing in some high level proto-
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by whartung 3y ago
Are the foundries shutting these down because they’re such low density compared to what they could be making today? Simply they have to maintain essentially obsolete equipment in order to make the devices? Certainly it could be just raw mar
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by whartung 3y ago
Does this version use the GPU on recent Intel Macs? I know folks have been looking into it, but don’t know if it works yet. As is, it works but the performance doesn’t make in particularly usable on the last model of the Intel iMac.
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by whartung 3y ago
At my library you can check out sewing machines and power tools as well. And CA libraries have access to courses on Coursera.
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by whartung 3y ago
It interesting that they compile into the UCSD P-Code. Arguably, why not. It’s specifically designed to execute Pascal. Why reinvent the wheel. One of the most interesting p-code instructions is LOD. This get the value of a local variable.
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by whartung 3y ago
No mention of Zoomracks? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoomracks Usually the go to early example of a zooming UI.
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by whartung 3y ago
I've been a casual user of Emacs forever. But I never gelled with it. I've always found its complexity a bit overwhelming. I learned the few things I needed. Things like read and write files, arrows to move, pgup, pgdown, ^S, ^R,
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by whartung 3y ago
Nice way to incrementally add capabilities to an existing app. Back in the day, with Java JSP, there was a tag library called DisplayTag, which handled tables. It did a similar thing for in place paging, albeit a bit more brute force. All J
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by whartung 3y ago
Perhaps the policy changed. Storing stuff takes space and effort. Cataloging even more so. Making it available to others is a jump in magnitude. Eventually, it can become untenable. Organizations like this tend to not lack donors. What they
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by whartung 3y ago
Don’t need a new client to put Thrall on the throne in Stormwind. If they can do events like Battle of Undercity, or that event where you bring in Onyxias head, I bet you could script a cool assault on Stormwind and put Thrall on the throne
563.
by whartung 3y ago
But why is this so performance bound, particularly for just a couple of users? I mean, sure, if you're hosting 1000 of your closest friends, I can see the potential issues. But for you, and a small party, it shouldn't be that awfu
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by whartung 3y ago
They. Them. Not just they, but capital They. Everyone knows who They(tm) are, especially Them.
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by whartung 3y ago
A nice note to not put anything you don't want other folks to see in software, even in testing. We wrote a system for a client once. And there was a particular functionality that I had to iterate over quite a bit, trying to nail down e
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by whartung 3y ago
> How that works when you hit a car at 15 mph I cannot say. Bicycle and motorcycle helmets are primarily designed for the vertical drop, not the horizontal. If we recall our basic physics, impacts have a vertical and horizontal component
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by whartung 3y ago
With MS-BASIC on CP/M, if you saved the file using lowercase, BASIC would not upshift it, and the CPP commands could not act of the resulting files. You’d have to fix it by removing the file within BASIC using the built in command (KIL
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by whartung 3y ago
And they used to have a GUI dev tool designed to make writing things like the widgets easier. Its name eludes me however.
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by whartung 3y ago
I take it that simply dropping the saw (and then braking it afterward) is not fast enough to reduce injury? I saw a demo of another safety saw, which was using very sophisticated monitoring systems. It was essentially dropping the saw if it
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by whartung 3y ago
So, I read this as a “discrete logic network” “card” rather than “discrete logic” “network card”. All set to learn what a discrete logic network was.

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