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by whartung 3y ago
Perhaps adrift a bit of the main topic, but curious if anyone with more than cursory experience with any of the mainstream browser front end frameworks and JavaFX could briefly compare and contrast them. I do not consider myself a front end
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by whartung 3y ago
> And it is that entire stack which the SME, as the party that places it on the market, is liable for. This has been a nit of mine as others cry out how I'm a "NIH" curmudgeon for not importing some library because I need,
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by whartung 3y ago
It annoys me that none of the gas stations I use have the "tap to pay" that actually works. They seem to have the sensor on the pumps, but they never work.
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by whartung 3y ago
> the current fleet of IT workers don’t really grok anything beyond A and PTR. Part of this, though is also who is "in control" of the server. Most of the times, DNS is on the other side of the bastion, managed by Network Ops,
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by whartung 3y ago
I cannot speak to DuskOS, I don’t know anything about it. While historically Forth has been “its own OS”, it’s a kind of crummy one. Especially for anything a modern reader might think of when they think of an OS. I mean, for sure, what do
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by whartung 3y ago
Because most semantics manifest through syntax. Syntax is how the programmer communicates their intent and gets access to the semantics of the underlying system. A contrived case is the construction and use of lists built of CONS cells in l
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by whartung 3y ago
It’s arguable how much, if any, Forth is in PostScript. It is, indeed, a stack based language, but that’s pretty much where the similarities end. There’s more to what makes a Forth a Forth than a parameter stack. More discussion at https:&
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by whartung 3y ago
Do you have this issue of where you start in on something, you’re making progress, there’s velocity, the work seems cogent, and then...it’s gone. Whatever point you had, whatever drive was there, is just gone. The wind has calmed and the sa
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by whartung 3y ago
I have two notable pieces that stand out from my father that I consider heirlooms. One is actually a gift, souvenir he gave me. The other just something of his I took when he passed. The first is a Plankowner belt buckle he received from th
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by whartung 3y ago
I'm not a beer guy, but as I understand it many craft beers are actually made through contract brewers. That suggests that beer can be, well, "reduced" to a recipe that can be replicated. I've heard that Samuel Adams use
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by whartung 3y ago
I have heard of it, but did not look into it. As I understand it's rather big (deployment, memory), yet limited (in terms of the widget set). In fact, I hear a lot of hot and cold with Racket, and have for some time. Enough to be off-p
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by whartung 3y ago
I was looking for something along this line a while ago. Closest I saw was SVG support in emacs, but for whatever reason, I couldn't get it to work, and it really wouldn't have been adequate anyway. For those questioning the judge
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by whartung 3y ago
With my limited use cases, I've found multipass to be really comfortable. Was really easy to get into and make work. I'm not passionate about Linux distros, so Ubuntu is fine for me.
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by whartung 3y ago
Runtime, multi-method dispatch is probably the singular thing that stands out as "missing" from other systems. I don't miss it a lot, but there have certainly been times when I have. I also enjoyed the ability to not be locke
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by whartung 3y ago
This all happens because the person doing the work "knows what they're doing". They "know" exactly what they're doing. And they "know" that whatever prompts that come up are there as part of the proce
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by whartung 3y ago
And to be fair, Oracle has been a remarkably good steward of Java. It's truly amazing how fast and far Java has come since the Java 7 and Java 8 days. It's been on a rocket sled of development, while still being shockingly well be
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by whartung 3y ago
Is there any detail as to what the chip did before the change, and no longer did after? Did Intel change the spec of the chip, or was IBM leveraging undocumented behavior?
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by whartung 3y ago
It’s funny because back in the day these were these kind of discussion points thrown around in the Lisp forums when folks would balk at “executable sizes”. Specifically about how C leverages the “free” runtime of the OS while Lisp has to bu
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by whartung 3y ago
My only real forays with Perl in anger was back with the original camel book and Perl 4. The secret sauce was the ability to persist the associative arrays to a dbm file. Even though I worked on a lot of Unix boxes doing assorted data proce
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by whartung 3y ago
“This Carolina Chocolate is amazing! I just keep coming back!”
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by whartung 3y ago
I bet there is a valid argument that there’s nothing here of any commercial value anymore. The industry has gone beyond “catching up” to surpassing the values of the Lisp Machine and Genera. Any grand ideas of this era have been considered,
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by whartung 3y ago
What's some examples of the code changes that you made? And did you just do repeated disassemblies of the functions to see that it was using the correct instructions, or did you do some benchmarking to show your changes were actual imp
953.
by whartung 3y ago
The brutal truth of it is that while there is beauty in the craft, in the end shipping is what matters. Getting things in front of the people that need them. There's a nice concept in theater that says, effectively, "if you blow a
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by whartung 3y ago
AQ of 200 this morning in the IE. Fontana pumped explosives into the air for 4-5 hours last night. Spectacle to watch, but this morning, combined with just normal atmospheric conditions, it was about 1/2 mile visibility all over the va
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by whartung 3y ago
Wasn't there some kind of issue with a leap second sending machines (Linux machines?) off the deep end years ago (and all about the same time)? Conceptually, if you're running a mix of OSs, then there's much less chance of so
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by whartung 3y ago
> in that case, pretend I wrote "grammarless" Gonna call you out on that as well. Forth, sure. Forth is...Forth. But Lisp is not grammarless. Smalltalk is not either. The Lisp reader, notably Common Lisp, is a non-trivi
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by whartung 3y ago
> It basically went like: "I am root" "Yes, you are root" :) How prescient! Advanced AI, way back then!
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by whartung 3y ago
Well, regarding this, I can’t speak to the theory behind it. But as a general rule, specifically when it comes to programming, I’ve always advocated that when presented with an example, someone should type the code in and not copy paste it.
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by whartung 3y ago
That's the expedient field repair, but what happens to the motherboard afterword? They're under no obligation to replace your motherboard with a "new" one, so it's possible that it goes back to the repair depot for
960.
by whartung 3y ago
Well CP/M was a mixed bag. It was case sensitive and the command line upshifted everything. However programs like MS-BASIC would allow you to create files with lower case names that were then unmanageable from the command line.

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