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  1. there is also "computer architecture: concepts and evolution" by blaauw and brooks which also uses apl throughout.

    https://search.worldcat.org/title/Computer-architecture-:-co...

  2. have been using linux ever since i got my first personal computer.

    our customers all run linux in production too, so it's very easy and natural to develop and test the software in its usual environment (although i wish my laptop had eight times the ram to match).

    my ide is linux: https://plan9.io/cm/cs/upe/

  3. great to see thunderbird joining evolution in supporting ews among free software email clients.

    evolution has been keeping me sane whenever i needed to use ews for years.

  4. doesn't the same argument apply to ordinal dates? i see some people on hn also using longnow-style five-digit years, but i really can't see the point.

    did the crossing of the rhine take place in 00406, 0406, or 406? what extra information do the two former styles convey?

    also, what about the year 100000?

    we are somehow doing just fine without leading zeroes for other quantities.

    there is an argument to be made about e.g. iso8601 datetime formats that need to be lexicographically sortable; but i don't see any of the longnow fans using anything like those.

  5. > Making a brochure. You need a photo of a happy family.

    do you really?

    > you don't quite know what the panels need to look like.

    look at your competition, ask your users, think?

    > Most people know they can't fly a plane

    this isn't how llm products are marketed, and what the tfa is complaining about.

  6. > as long as you remember what you've built

    yes! like any craft, this works only if you keep practising it.

    various implementations of k, written in this style (with iterative improvements), have been in constant development for decades getting very good use out of these macros.

  7. indeed. with how good and cheap/free decompilers have gotten over the years my preferred way to read abstraction-happy c++ and rust code is to compile it with optimisations and debug symbols and then read the decompiler output.
  8. > Zoom works but doesn’t stick.

    perhaps try using a user agent that remembers your settings? e.g. firefox

  9. or ghost in the shell
  10. perhaps it's a trivial observation that people tend to conflate the programming language in the strict sense (syntax, semantics, compiler implementation etc.) with its standard and/or community libraries and tooling.

    of course these are very important, but perhaps i'm just a language nerd/pedant who gets confused when an article about a programming language tends to be about async i/o libraries.

  11. bonus: soviet star wars posters: https://www.fanthatracks.com/news/collecting/star-wars-poste...

    (the bbc seem to have lost the body of their original article)

  12. > an athlete said I'm looking to go a little faster and farther with the aid of a powered device

    isn't that a time-honoured tradition at tour de france?

  13. haven't had a chance to try this myself, but i've been told e70's joystick simply needs disassembly and cleaning (perhaps with a judicious application of wd-40).
  14. i had forgotten about this technique when i was at the excellent https://tnmoc.org recently, looking at their sgi irix exhibit featuring a webcam.

    the latency of the camera feed on the crt screen was unbelievable even (especially?) by modern standards!

    after a minute of pure wonder i remembered about overlays. still mighty impressive.

  15. > If you sit down and write out what you might want a robot to do for you: a lot of tasks end up being kind of wet.

    yes, but i thought this wasn't that kind of article.

  16. great, thanks!
  17. the author (either of the blog or its software) would do well to consult https://www.petefreitag.com/blog/rss-autodiscovery/

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