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by whartung 3y ago
The README says it was written in MDL. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDL_(programming_language)
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by whartung 3y ago
Adding video is apparently quite difficult. Apparently it's straight forward to breadboard a legacy CPU today and get serial I/O, which solves many ills. But getting video is a large wall to scale. There have been several video so
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by whartung 3y ago
To be fair, I have not tried a modern version. But the way that I use a modern terminal, I probably would not care for smooth scrolling. Simply, I would not want anything hindering the dumping of information to my screen. I am no longer rat
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by whartung 3y ago
The original 1992 book is longer. As mentioned earlier the code generation chapter is smaller because the RISC CPU is much simpler than the original. But, also, the original, I think, has much more source code. I don’t know if the original
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by whartung 3y ago
Back in the early days when I was working on a PET 2001, I wrote a routine to slow down the printing of text, so that it would look like it was coming from something akin to a 300 baud system. I wanted to make it look like a "real comp
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by whartung 3y ago
We had smooth scrolling on the VT-100. I hated it. I found it far too slow, even on low baud rates. The line was there, and you’re just waiting for it to materialize. This was a far different experience from watching the cursor crawl across
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by whartung 3y ago
Interpreted BASICs (such as BASIC-PLUS on DEC, MS-BASIC on micros) big benefit at the time was speeding up the develop cycle by working with source code in RAM, and running directly from it, thus skipping the edit/load cycle across cru
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by whartung 3y ago
Speaking of that, if you were ever curious how computers do floating point math, I think the first Oberon book explains it in a couple of pages. It’s very succinct and, for me, one of the clearest explanations I’ve found.
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by whartung 3y ago
Well, I’ll tell you what. I did sit through a Taligent presentation at COMDEX for 20-30 minutes and have no real memory of it other than it happened. But I distinctly recall the first time I saw a NeXT machine.
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by whartung 3y ago
For the curious where this came from, it’s from a FIG (Forth Interest Group) publication. FIG publications typically consisted of a colored card stock cover stapled to a stack of photocopied pages. This was how they produced their famous FI
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by whartung 3y ago
My first CGI was using Informix-4GL. If you're familiar with 4GL, you might emote "you what!?". It was a very crude tech demo, it was the hammer I had and shortest path the database data, and it was not a good fit. But that&#
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by whartung 3y ago
It can be defended against. The detail is that the only way to harden those defenses is to toss it out in the world and let folks poke holes in it. This was an extremely complex exploit. It was complex because of all of the defenses put in
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by whartung 3y ago
Indeed. This was my favorite part of the video. The discussion of the problem and SAT part are interesting, but when it delves into the sidereal time aspect, it just flies off into a direction where never saw coming and presented some fasci
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by whartung 3y ago
I did not have this experience. We had a pair of them, TI Explorers, in our office. I spent several hours over different days "fiddling" with them, and made no progress. The single person that could use them, was not a generalist
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by whartung 3y ago
So, as a contrived example, with RAG you make some queries, in some format, like “Who is Sauron?” And then start feeding in what books he’s mentioned in, paragraphs describing him from Tolkien books, things he has done. Then you start makin
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by whartung 3y ago
I actually remember a couple of diagrams in a science book way back in elementary school, so we’re talking 70s here, showing the Big Dipper today and what it would look like in 50,000 years. It was a kind of weird feeling as a young boy “se
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by whartung 3y ago
Tell you what, I’m opting in to Santa.
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by whartung 3y ago
Please explain how to do it!
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by whartung 3y ago
I've always wanted a Smalltalk VM that did this. Eternally persistent VM, without having to "save". It just "lives". Go ahead, map a 10GB or 100GB file to the VM and go at it. Imagine your entire email history (ever
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by whartung 3y ago
There are lots of examples on YouTube. Naturally, they make this all look easy! And, it seems to me, that it can be, indeed, "simple", but I wouldn't call it "easy". It's just a bunch of techniques. Follow some
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by whartung 3y ago
I have not looked at these specifically, but can give a simple example. You're probably familiar with how the maps look in Lord of the Rings. If you notice, the mountains have a look to them, a schematic representation of essentially t
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by whartung 3y ago
There's that old adage that Man used to worship cats, and that cats still think that's true. I'm not positive the cats are wrong. I mean, consider the Internet. ARPA invented the Internet. And, it's clear that the Intern
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by whartung 3y ago
In the movie "The Right Stuff", Gus Grissom is not portrayed in a very positive light, particularly regarding the incident with the hatch blowing after splashdown on his Mercury capsule. Grissom asserted that the hatch "just
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by whartung 3y ago
From the article they seem to be cognizant of this issue. > The mDL offers a quick and secure identity-check at airports, without handing over your phone.
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by whartung 3y ago
No, NNTP is a TCP protocol. Early USENET moved messages over systems like UUCP. NNTP is to USENET what ActivityPub is Mastadon. USENET is a confederation of cooperating peers, currently using NNTP, but it could be any mechanic to move the m
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by whartung 3y ago
$20, a half hour of your time, and a Walgreens coupon will give you a hard copy backup of a large stack of photos not much larger than a hard drive that can live in a drawer or shelf for years without worrying about capacitors leaking or an
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by whartung 3y ago
Apple routes all of them. Company sends message to Apple. Apple sends the message to your phone. App on phone delivers the message to you.
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by whartung 3y ago
The fundamental problem is accumulation and correlation of, for lack of a better term, “public private data”. Phone records, credit card statements, toll road data, cell tower data, etc. is not “our” data, it’s the assorted companies data.
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by whartung 3y ago
Here are my curiosities about BASIC history. * When did the MS style tokenized, interpreted BASIC start? By this I mean, in MS BASIC, you have tokens that are evaluated. You enter text, the system tokenizes it, then when you run it, the int
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by whartung 3y ago
In the top 50, I've see Night Agent (give it a 7), Luther (6-7), Extraction 2 (6). I've heard good things about Beef, and maybe Kaleidoscope. Kaleidoscope is novel because it's an 8 episode heist show that, in theory, can be

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