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I have an admittedly resource-intensive, self-hosted, podman/docker-based slippy map product prototype. Briefly, it incorporates the nominatim geocoder, the valhalla routing engine…

Both SGI (who had no hardware texture mapping at the time) and 3dfx were explored at the time DARPA SIMNET was being developed. Delta Graphics (Mike Cyrus' and Jay Beck's company -…

You say, correctly I believe, "for virtual reality to count, there must be high stakes, real consequences..." Domains in which this is true, specifically domains for which "negativ…

Not sure that's it. Consider the difference in motivation between trying to figure out how: to get people to click on advertisements; vs prevail when people are trying to kill you.…

I dimly recall one was supposed to figure out what TECO would do when one typed one's name in (followed by the double-escape). Never did figure out what mine would do - was too afr…

My worry re: #7 is that this, like the US volunteer military, decreases the cost (in bad PR due to human cost to one's own troops) to the point where starting a conflict feels rela…

"Technical Debt" seems a trite, overly simplistic, if not downright misleading metaphor. No other engineering discipline uses metaphor (as does software "engineering"). They all us…

It appears to be hard to predict the effect of the introduction of even a single weapon/platform into a complex conflict which consists of many, qualitatively different weapons/pla…

https://github.com/McCLIM/McCLIM Under active development. Turtles all the way down. Runs on Linux, Raspbian, etc. Runs under (at least) SBCL & CCL.

I am using CL in pre-production to avail myself of its ability to compile & load at runtime. I haven't used Lisp in production in a while (dating back to Zetalisp!), and the decade…

At upper-left, just under the picture of the book cover (and above the "Follow the Author"), there are a few thumbnails and a "See all Images" hyperlink you can click to get the ty…

A good and talented friend of mine produced a similar book: https://www.amazon.com/Willoughbys-World-Wonder-Stephen-Barn... Don't forget to click the "See all 9 images" link for wh…

Would you please post the model numbers? I am overdue to upgrade. Especially interested if the motherboards have multiple LAN ports. Thanks!

MA/NH, USA.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18p8-ip98iev9LW-Gtf0TMOJbfgY... Built with reasonably recent McCLIM and SBCL. At one point, had it running under CCL on one of my Raspberry Pi boxes…

I have one whose enclosing/host Mac II no longer boots (I changed the CMOS battery, which was the cause last time, but no joy). No local Apple/Mac repair shop I can find will even …

When, oh when will we ever finally unlearn "worse is better?" It's hard enough writing good code without having to fight your tooling (non-orthogonal, non-homoiconic, non-malleable…

Regarding (0): I am not sure what mechanisms for penalty would be better way than those currently in play (e.g., disuse/cloning in the case of open source, bankruptcy in the case o…

Sorry to not understand exactly what you mean by those two statements. Would you please clarify? I of course realize that people are not perfect (along any axis at all), but I thin…

Haven't read anything ever, including the subject of this thread, and including any number of language-advocacy opinion pieces, and including software development methodology opini…

I kid you not that there are such things as "proposal schools" and proposal-preparation companies that teach you how to win as low bidder by being "minimally compliant." Then, when…

Thinking out loud: (1) The nameless model of reality I think is implied by "marginal cost of production is zero" simplifies away some essential aspects of reality (as explained by …

I highly recommend "Charlie Munger On the Psychology of Human Misjudgement." PDF transcription here http://www.rbcpa.com/mungerspeech_june_95.pdf Explains a lot (he says, during Pr…

I am a longtime amateur player, and a youth club coach of about 15 years, having assistant coached a US National Youth Futsal champion team. (I also played pickup after work with P…

Worked at BBN from 1983-1990, at the tail end of the NCP->IP/TCP "transition." Terrifically interesting stuff to work on, with loads of terrifically smart people to learn from. One…