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901.
by whartung 3y ago
My favorite place I found Kermit was in the HP-48. We used 48s for data Cokely and Kermit to transfer the data to PCs. The fact that Kermit existed on the 48 was part of the Aha moment deciding to use them for the project.
902.
by whartung 3y ago
It doesn’t help that their entire catalog is reduced to three songs continually recycled on Classic rock stations. I’ve seen every tour since Power Windows (‘86). All of them have been clever, funny, very professional, and respectful to the
903.
by whartung 3y ago
I’ve been fortunate to see all of those bands, on the recent tour and years ago on a Prog Nation tour. Animals I need to listen some more too, not something I can pick up on in a single pass. This isn’t uncommon. I think DT is actually real
904.
by whartung 3y ago
The problem is vocabulary. There's no mistake that there's a lineage from, say, C to JavaScript. Nor the lineage along the line of S-expression languages. But when folks speak of JavaScript, or Java, they never refer to them as &q
905.
by whartung 3y ago
My most productive time working on DB applications was when I worked with a code generator. You laid out the entry screens, specified the tables and columns, fired off the generator and magic happens. You could slam out a basic maintenance
906.
by whartung 3y ago
It's curious that 'c' and 'u' are in such large compartments, especially compared to 'e' and 't'
907.
by whartung 3y ago
I looked at those titles and wondered if ChatGPT just made them up.
908.
by whartung 3y ago
After some very quick butchery, WebKit turns out to be about 30M of it, just so you know next time you're at a party and it comes up during a drinking game, or something. I wonder how hard it would be to write a simple ("simple&qu
909.
by whartung 3y ago
This sounds pretty nice. In Lisp, this would be considered a "tree shaker" (mind I don't know how they're plan to use this). Currently, we rely on the Java Module system to make reduced runtimes. It works, but is necessa
910.
by whartung 3y ago
While there's a lot of truth to this, arguably the "done-ness" of a project has little to do with the project itself, but the intentions of the author. I have a project on the brink of release. I'm tossing it over the wa
911.
by whartung 3y ago
Indeed. Take a look at the Fig Forth Installation Manual, which has the source code to Fig Forth, in Fig Forth. The source is listed as Forth screens. http://archive.6502.org/books/forth_interest_group/fig_forth...
912.
by whartung 3y ago
There’s folklore, I don’t know where I heard it, or if I just made it up, so take it with a grain of salt. But the story is the Chuck Moore, when he wrote ColorFORTH, essentially started with DOS, DEBUG, and a floppy drive. And from this sp
913.
by whartung 3y ago
But the ICBMs did. They also had star trackers to help them navigate, and they needed more robust maps than just the Sun and Canopus, since they had to be able to fly 24hrs a day, 365 days a year. Different problem space.
914.
by whartung 3y ago
"Encrypted". That's really funny. A favorite anecdote of Voyager. Paraphrasing, "You carry around more computing power in your pocket than what is on Voyager. I'm not talking about your phone, I'm talking about
915.
by whartung 3y ago
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to visit Goldstone, up in the California desert on Fort Irwin. It's not open to the public very often. I got to visit most everything there, including the 70m telescope. It was just a cool space
916.
by whartung 3y ago
The Voyager that's flying now is not necessarily the Voyager that was launched. The hardware is the same, but they've updated, patched, and rewritten the software that's running in it throughout the years. I'm not sugges
917.
by whartung 3y ago
It should also be noted that by spec symbols in the system package (like + and such) should not be redefined. This offers “unspecified” behavior and lets the system make optimizations out of the box. Outside of that you can selectively opti
918.
by whartung 3y ago
It’s the issue. The ever popular syntax issue continues to haunt it. CL has had no real “unknown unknowns” for a very long time. While folks who newly discover it feel they found the gold idol in the jungle cave, the cave is, in truth, well
919.
by whartung 3y ago
Look up Kaveh’s CL tutorial videos on YouTube. They’re really good.
920.
by whartung 3y ago
I honestly don't know how someone could do much of anything in a "single window" on a 27" iMac screen. (Anything beyond, say, watching a movie or the like.) On a laptop, sure, to a point. But these drive in theater style
921.
by whartung 3y ago
I think the premise here is that a 4xx is an “expected” server issue, which the code may be able to handle (i.e. retry) whereas a 200 followed by a parse error is an “application problem” that they’re not prepared to handle. A 200 may mean
922.
by whartung 3y ago
It can also act as an incentive for the student to do better if they know there’s actually a college program waiting for them.
923.
by whartung 3y ago
SICP, as a book, is very nice. It's a great size, not too big, light and nimble to carry around. Many books, notably text books, are pretty big and ungainly. But SICP is just a really nice package. (Mind, I have not seen the paperback,
924.
by whartung 3y ago
Just know what you’re getting into. A friend of mine was an EMT and studied and tested to become a Paramedic. He did that for two years and left the field completely, and won’t talk about it. Paramedics are the real frontline of trauma and
925.
by whartung 3y ago
Looks fine on my iPhone. Font is a bit small for me, but turning the phone sideways fixes that, or using the Reader mode. This is in stark contrast to sites that use the PRE tag and don’t wrap. Notably things like their mailing list archive
926.
by whartung 3y ago
Has anyone used any of these sims to try model what a city may be like with autonomous vehicles. Or, specifically, for lack of a better term, a city(s) where all transportation is done through a ride sharing system, including autonomous veh
927.
by whartung 3y ago
Hardware Security Module. A tamper resistant piece of hardware that does key management as well as encryption services. Essentially once a key is installed (or generated) it never sees the light of day again.
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by whartung 3y ago
It's funny, having recently watched the Boba Fett series on Disney. At one point, there's Luke Skywalker. But it's the young Luke Skywalker, not the current Mark Hamill. It was a synthetic Luke we were seeing on screen. Mark
929.
by whartung 3y ago
I caused physical damage to my hand with Diablo 1 and all the incessant clicking (vs the "hold to attack and keep attacking" mechanic in D2 and D3). I had some good times in D2, played it pretty deeply until I got to the Physical
930.
by whartung 3y ago
Will Apple still support SMS? Will users be notified that they’re “suddenly” dropped down to a less secure channel or will the simply have to pay attention to the text color and actually know what they mean?

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