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Would an extension to `madvise` to say: "page this region in/out as a whole" help here? Engine could define memory ranges representing each expert and leave paging to the OS (tho' …

One point mentioned in the first link you included is support of $ORIGIN in #! scripts - that would need kernel support.

I think many of us miss that feeling... For me, the level of complexity of the computers in my childhood (TRS-80, Spectrum) made them interesting but still possible to fully unders…

I do understand it takes effort to stop and re-accelerate, but isn't making effort (exercise) part of the purpose of cycling in the first place? My main objection is to cyclist fai…

Definitely agree with the sentiment (also a Speccy 48K guy), but at the risk of being pedantic, I think you're double-counting: "million times faster" is for one Spectrum, the "0.0…

Braces are substitution, so b{a/x} means: expression b with variable x inside it replaced by expression a. So their beta-reduction line just says that if k = ... (λx.b) a ... it ca…

> I wouldn't call it "exceptionally nice" I guess depends on your reference point :-) I recall in the beginning, python offering an easier/more readable alternative to Perl, which …

Reminds me of a commercial project I did for my old University department around 1994. The GUI was ambitious and written in Motif, which was a little buggy and leaked memory. So...…

The key issue is that Lisp's minimal uniform syntax has less variation to help with visual pattern matching, which we humans are good at (compared to richer syntax). The meta-progr…

To extend your analogy: if the house is a listed building (UK concept; apparently US equivalent is listed in National Register of Historic Places), by law you cannot just tear it d…

And, of course, the next level of procrastination is to develop your own programming language, which you will use to write the engine to use in creating the game :-) Definitely hat…

True for many, but I actually have been acquiring some computing books I had enjoyed reading in my youth (e.g. Organick's Multics). Perhaps living permanently abroad strengthens no…

Interesting. The voice used for the pronunciation sound seems to be using the wrong language though (FYI using Firefox).

Absolutely. As an Electrical Engineer turned software guy, Ohm's/Kirchhoff's laws remain as valid and significant as when I was taught them 35 years ago. For software however, grow…

Indeed. Coming from UNIX tools (sed/awk/sh/grep/tr etc), perl had a lot of appeal and almost intuitive syntax - alternatives in the '80s being C, awk, or if you were unlucky, FORTR…

Does anyone have experience using any of these for scientific paper PDFs, in particular containing equations (I'm guessing graphs are still well beyond their reach)? The workflow f…

Could be worse of course: Multics (the first system with hierarchical names) used greater-than (>) as separator. Unix/DOS use of slashes gives us the sane pipeline/redirection synt…

I understand what you mean (although I "grew up" on UNIX, don't find this a problem); however, it would be better if the long (i.e. readable) options were prefixed by double dash t…

Excellent Sci-Fi yarn, with nostalgic references. I particularly liked the VAX-11 and LISP reference ("ideograms in a formal language full of parentheses")

Not my area, but isn't a lot of NVIDIA's edge over AMD precisely software? NVIDIA seem to employ a lot of software dev (for a hardware company) & made CUDA into the de facto standa…

I've used Slickgrid (open source, https://slickgrid.net/ ) with some success.

Does anyone know if Cahit's Spiral Chains proof ( https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0408247 >) was found to have issues? It is much more elegant, as it avoids the exhaustive computer case…