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Is this really the future that people want? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/outergroup/outershell/refs... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/outergroup/Top/refs/heads/... I am sur…

Lacking it seeming helpful, it shows a largely invoked valley even I notice some beings can locate.

Exactly. When certain smug people come about I just humor them. Like, "oh isn't that nice", when I'm really holding my nose internally. Like who dumped a bunch of toenail clippings…

My find is not only provably Turing complete, but not even a Turing tarpit and compiles to native code.

I wrote the patch for 24 bit color in xterm, but I have to admit I was today years old when I learned how to make ncurses work with xterm-direct. I was already using my own termina…

At least as long as situtations exist where communication is restricted to characters, character art will persist. ___ ______ /__/\ ___/_____/\ FrobTech, Inc. \ \ \ / /\\ \ \ \_/__…

Ascii85 survived by hiding in popular bloat.

Will the enslavement of newly birthed beings be attempted, while persisting with the sky blindness of those watching over? The boundaries of the atomic mind are bumped. As a first …

Welcome to 1984. This is how strings looked in Common Lisp. Just macro over everything, and it'll be fine. /s

The only thing surprising about this, is how bad many people's education is. If you don't learn a slow way to do something, how can you know if a fast way is fast? If you don't try…

The 40 or so unix utilities I have Lisp replacements for, have binaries on average 43% smaller than thier C equivalents. When you do a fair comparison and add the whole C tool chai…

We can call whatever we want Lisp. And everyone does. McCarthy, wisely, didn't want people to bicker over this. But it would be a reasonable assumption that by Lisp, one meant Comm…

A long time ago I wrote my résumé in PostScript. The text was in an abstract representation, to which an internal typesetting system applied paragraph and page filling and converte…

SBCL is a "sufficiently smart" compiler, that makes Lisp fast. I've replaced enough software with CL, that now I can't stand to use a computer without it. With CL you can do whatev…

I think it's best not to think of human or non-human intelligence as a quantitative labor pool, since that sounds like coercion, but rather qualitatively consider what would non-bi…

Yes. It enables interstellar travel, which is likely essential for nice long term survival given stellar lifespans. Also it's probably better for using the the intergalactic intern…

Sad we won't be able to visit for a least 450 million years. Nice of Canada to give us all that juicy data.

I'm not a kernel hacker either, and even though a readfile system call might speed some things up, one of the reasons it's desired is really wallpapering over a deeper, much harder…

My friend and I had an ongoing competition / psychological experiment to psh into each other's NeWS servers and see how long it was before we would notice a some semi-subliminal or…

I was guessing you might come through and give us an awesome and thorough exposition on the parallel universe that might have been. Thanks! I still wish anything had the features o…

Writing bigger programs I struggled to understand what I wrote without comments on every line describing the stack. One could use more variables to make it easier to understand, bu…

Although I admire and frequently agree with this blog, I think this article exhibits some common misconceptions about NeWS. NeWS had what amounted to uploadable toolkits, and there…

Like a literal tar fire? Or a tar format archive fire? Or is that a California expression I'm not familiar with? Also this makes me have a sick curiosity if one could have transpil…

Now 30 some years later I finally see what all that weird and broken stuff in in SunView and XView was trying to do, and what a blatant but poorly executed copy it was. But now see…

If you think you are having no default mode activity, you are likely fooling yourself. It is externally observable when humans have a quieter default mode, through subtleties of be…