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Must be his browser settings, his may not be putting tabs to sleep. I am under 3 GB on a Linux machine with just browsing.

No. It's the fact that it is a great 12 year old machine that makes it notable. I would not be surprised if it was usable as a 20 year old machine. These things are comfortable and…

I got mine for $100, about 4-5 years ago. Only 1 USB port seems to work. Great keyboard, only 720p screen, did not upgrade the HDD. Works great as a secondary machine. I expect to …

The glaring omission in the article is Visual Basic for DOS. It had a visual TUI designer in DOS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vDpzoYgNd0

Even Visual Basic for DOS had a TUI designer. Wasn't addressed in the article.

I used it. The user experience is not remotely close to Delphi, but it has WYSIWYG. The closest Python had to Delphi was Boa Constructor, but it stalled quickly, decades ago.

VB5/6 had native code compilers. Performance wise, the gap was reduced. But it still was only object based and not full OOP, VCL was much better in all respects, so were the GUI bu…

Same. I learnt VB because VC++ with MFC was too complex for what I needed it for then. Hated VB after seeing Delphi.

I liked Delphi's anchors. They were extremely simple, visually defined, and met all of my layout needs.

> Of course there can be language extensions like C++ Builder did for C++ but they'd need to maintain their own compiler (or fork). This is exactly what I hope would happen, except…

VB6 was primitive compared to what Delphi gave us. It had live design time data binding, visual form inheritance etc. VB and VC++ were primitive compared to that. VCL vs MFC? No co…

Sure, not in the traditional sense. Since it does not make small standalone libraries, even though possible, I would not make a native extension with it. But juliacall works fine f…

What does a modern Fortran bring that Julia does not? Small binaries?

Nim/Julia, IMO. However.... Nim is unlikely to go mainstream. It's not the next Rust and not for technical reasons. Julia won't budge Python out of the top slot anytime soon, altho…

With the right distro, 4GB with just a HDD is quite fine for Chromebook style usage.

They seem to have edited out "open-source" now. Still, a free for personal use model is better than none. Hopefully, we will soon have some adaptation from Llama 2 that matches it,…

I am using a 12 year old Thinkpad as a secondary device. I don't see why it won't last me another 10. It runs a responsive and quite good looking modern Linux desktop environment f…

I'd take a Delphi/Lazarus UI over most Electron apps. They started fast, took little RAM or disk space, used very little CPU, had fast response times, supported standard UI convent…

The best IMO was in Delphi. Lazarus captures that spirit well today but is mostly unknown. Netbeans GUI builder was more powerful than VB's in some ways but just made simple things…

VB 5 and 6 were where things worked. They both had native compilers.

Me too. But it just was never enjoyable creating those UIs. I have tried almost all of them. The closest Python had to VB was Boa Constructor. It never really took off. https://boa…

I don't disagree with most of that. I studied a fair amount of science, including psychology and cognitive science. I know you can cause unusual states with meditation and you have…

Fine. I accept that the Army contracts everything out. In which case, my point is that you were ascribing scientific credibility to the Army because they make stealth bombers and I…

> The very fact that functional brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been created demonstrates the brain is indeed a transceiver. That is not a sound argument. I think you can see…

"You humans"? Have you been meditating so hard that you are now hallucinating yourself as beyond human? I can't say I am surprised. I studied cognitive science. I know cognitive bi…