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This! So long as OP is under 40.

I agree with you on Brexit, austerity. But you can always find an expert briefing in yr direction cf Walters, Lawsom, Thatcher

This comment is wild :) In Europe we send our best athletes into athletics, not sport. Athletics is track and field, which reduces to speed, strength and endurance. Sport - footbal…

Richard Gabriel: Worse is Better

Sounds like desk strat RAD work is moving to LLM gen code at JS. My recentish experience of that kind of work has been Athena at JPMC and Quartz at BoA; both Python with functional…

So, to summarise, consistency is the virtue of a narrow mind?

Catholic Social Teaching: 19th C origins. An alternate base to Marxism for social justice.

Yep, "enterprise" sales will kill ya. And when you do "close" you then get beaten up by "vendor mgmt". And when you finally get the invoice in, it's the finance dept and 90 day ter…

Is C++ the most heavily documented programming language? If so, these docs could form the most detailed description of a subset of possible software ontologies for Von Neumann arch…

Strongly agree from an Emscripten C++ wasm pov: it's key to minimise emscripten::val roundtrips. Caches must be designed for rectilinear data geometry, and SharedArrayBuffers are t…

Jupiter Ace: a ZX80 with a Forth ROM. Inspired me to port an 8080 FIG Forth listing to the Camputers Lynx back in 83.

Are they finding the numbers least likely to be used on lottery tickets?

By "procession", do you allude to the filioque clause? Agreed on difficulty of translation as I follow Quine so think a language as a whole is the unit of meaning as opposed to any…

No mention of Imperial College's psychedelic programme and it's recent findings re neuroplasticity.

Flat plane or cross plane? Cross plane cranks necessitate an asymmetric firing order, which produces the wonderful burble from US V8s. Flat plane is more common in Europe - think F…

Yep; nothing genuinely new since Xerox Alto in 73. Mouse, GUI, TCP/IP, Smalltalk 72.

Allusive and romantic. My view is to see data as geometry, not poetry. Rectilinear data is cache friendly.

Love the Freak Brothers references; two US counter cultures that do cross pollinate. Z80MC RAM & ROM seem v generous compared to the ZX81 I used to cut my asm teeth, wobbly RAM pac…

In the 19th Century British Foreign Office the Napoleon Technique was called "masterly inactivity". For instance "the Russians are threating Afghanistan, so we must move troops up …

Also useful for cache locality, a more recent trend. But I guess that's just another slighlty diff case of tight mem; this time in the cache rather than RAM generally.

Neat summary of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Riding!

Also UK style outsourcing eg Capita, Serco and recently Tata Consultancy Services fubaring JLRs infra.

Sounds positively monastic, in the best way. Your magnum opus rendered as glorious coding codex is surely preordained. I'm reminded off Cyril Connolly's Pram in the Hallway. We are…

Cf GBP exit from the ERM inc Soros

I saw that demoed at Notts Micro Computing Club in the early 80s. IIRC a Microwriter was used to drive input for an Acorn Electron.