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Leo Brodie's "Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Language and Operating System for Beginners and Professionals" is well-suited for any level student. It's quite fun and m…

I love how egregiously bad CDE looks compared to Windows. Whoever made that call, dios mio.

Also, the images were ruinously far off from what they intended to convey. Dude, just draw a picture by hand & take a picture of it.

Is there any sense in buying (out-of-the money) put options, to make sure you can taste some of that sweet lucre that your overlords are getting?

The good stuff landed in Java 8, so you left the party too early. From Java 8 on it has changed direction completely (less OO + JavaBeans, more functional + ADTs). It feels like a …

I could not help but notice the PCB color scheme. Black on white had to be deliberate. Nicely played.

Before that, page-mode terminals used to move to first field on a subsequent line (like a line-based ) and sent the page only on or . This made for quick navigation w/ zero ambigui…

I use it similarly, but I add spots for side x side as well as left, center, right. I only use Hammerspoon for this and a couple tiny things, but it's completely worth it for this …

The "no taste" quote makes no sense given that Susan Kare did the many of the significant icons in Windows 95. She did the same for the Mac.

Does Rice's theorem cover this? > [ all non-trivial semantic properties of programs are undecidable ] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice's_theorem Found here: From Sumatra to Panam…

That's the basis for my critique of CSS. There were plenty of other layout systems extant at the time CSS was cooked up. How CSS could have delivered such an incomplete and broken …

Thanks for this. It's pointless to argue, but I wonder if shifting from 32 to 64 bits, instead 128, would have seen faster uptake. Aside, isn't embedding MAC addrs in ones IP addre…

Cat constructed from block: Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics, U+1400 to U+167F U+14DA ᓚ CANADIAN SYLLABICS LA U+160F ᘏ CANADIAN SYLLABICS CARRIER YO U+15E2 ᗢ CANADIAN SYLLABIC…

I would look to the UCSD p-System as a precedent to the JVM. Both are byte-code interpreted VMs. Gosling used the p-system earlier in his career, prior to joining Sun. https://en.w…

mod_php was distributed w/ Apache httpd, so it was "already installed". mod_perl needed to be installed manually, so it posed immediate friction, if not a complete freeze-out, depe…

Yeah, FFM adds many quality-of-life features - scoped lifetimes being a standout. If you just want an arena interface, ByteBuffer has been there since Java 1.4 (2002). It also does…

Not sure what you mean by "primitive support". Java 22 added FFM (Foreign Function & Memory). It works w/ both on-heap & off-heap memory. It has an Arena interface. https://openjdk…

That was my first reaction. It's not like Java is terribly slow, so rewriting it in a slightly faster language seems like an empty exercise.

I've often wondered if PostScript or PDF contained the roots of a very good config language. Perhaps it simply is (PDF docs at least) but nobody regards it as such. My guess is the…

Ah, you're right: $10K/yr + $0.15/unit. I was thinking more of a BOM part that already did HDMI, making it a no-brainer. Just speculating.

I would find the product more compelling in a puck form factor (sans kbd). I can't imagine missing the extra key labels. That would make it significantly smaller, more robust, & le…

My favorite in this vein: The Parable of the Two Programmers , by Neil W. Rickert. Sums things up nicely. https://c00kiemon5ter.github.io/code/philosophy/2011/10/30/T...

OK, I'm lost here. Why is there a 1:1 correspondence between the two?

You forgot `- 2^11` for the surrogate pairs. Gee, why isn't Unicode 2^21 code points? To understand the Unicode code point space you must understand UTF-16. The code space is defin…