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That reminds me of how I had had to cross compile a Linux kernel with a special USB patch to install a system on my Bondi Blue iMac.

I had a dream as a kid that my parents had finally bought a Color Macintosh. Imagine how heartbroken I was when I woke up. That MacUser issue for the Mac II was basically torture.

Imagine you find yourself making TC $1M+ a year owning some beloved piece of software. Do you A) tell your management hey it's absolutely perfect as is, let's just chill, leave it …

I'm really pleased how wildly all the other commenters are misunderstanding this. I was counting on this concept as competitive advantage. But since the algorithm isn't going to su…

You should read a little book called Games People Play . Focus particular attention on the section on the game "Indigent." This isn't a resource allocation problem, or rather, it i…

This postulates that policy is set by consensus. Now I haven't done any scientific polling, but my informal anecdotal experience is so overwhelmingly to the contrary that I'm comfo…

> To build a theorem prover you need to take away some capability (namely, the ability to do general recursion - the base language must be total and can't be Turing complete), not …

This is all of them, properly speaking. Incidentally, this is pretty much what Algol 60 was designed for and why to this day many academic papers use it or a closely related pseudo…

How much of Mythos’s internals will researchers be able to recover from the flood of patches?

I've felt for a long time that the field relies rather a bit too hard on absence of evidence being evidence of absence.

SillyMUD branches will always have a special place in my heart. Who doesn’t love leveling up in Sesame Street?!

I meant more that symbols are a data structure with function and value slots. Last I knew strings, interned (which is also a Lisp reference) or not don't have that.

That’s really not true for Lisp. Ruby, like its predecessor Perl, is one of the finer examples of Greenspunning and shows a lot of Lisp influence. Unfortunately I can’t read the ac…

This has been true in the USA since approximately 1965, at least. Analysis has shown the general public has absolutely no say in policy making; literally everything is for this or …

Has there been a supply chain attack with an LLM conduit yet? Because that would be spicy and is assuredly possible and plausible too.

Asynchrony, parallelism, concurrency, and even deterministic execution (albeit as a degenerate case) are all just species of nondeterminism. Dijkstra and Scholten’s work on the sub…

Some people get literally high when running. Some don’t. The get high types invariably posture as if they have more dedication or willpower. Funny stuff.

It took decades to gut American consumer manufacturing. Anyone who thinks it can be brought back without pain is deluded. But nevertheless, it’s worth that pain. As the Chinese are…

Given that we basically use the same technique for censuses today, the ancient ones probably weren’t especially less reliable.

Next do ticks.

> You can’t avoid parentheses Well, you can with reader macros, assuming you’re willing to consider an init file that you only look at when you write sufficiently avoidant. It’s no…

Have you seen LOOP[1]? That example barely scratches the surface too. As for being able to make words mean different things and break grammatical strictures; that’s called poetry w…

Canonically indented Lisp reads an awful lot like Python. You don’t read the braces, you read the indentation.