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I remember someone writing a rant against having the list in firmware and managed automatically by the drive. If the list was on the host side, your software could route around the…

Robert Silverberg's novel "Shadrach In The Furnace", published in the 1970s, had a mention of some data being transported on a "billion-bit bubble chip". In retrospect, that's ente…

Article describes try/finally as a hack to get the effect of defer, but it looks to me like it's the other way around? Try/finally is more traditional, in one form or another.

I thought VTune would let you see into it to some extent.

Headline: "Steven Pruitt, who is widely regarded as the most prolific Wikipedia editor, has made more than six million edits to the site, and, by extension, has quietly shaped the …

> Aiming for the Sun They hope to avoid melting by doing the launch at night.

Seems to be a multi die module.

Why does this exist? Is something wrong with MicroPython? Even if it's somehow better, why is MicroPython not even mentioned in the github page? Why does the feature matrix not say…

The domain name is motherless.com if that's what you wanted to know. It's a porn site.

This looks silly. It's about a Go subset with no GC and various other restrictions that make it map onto C. But then you have most of the problems of C. It's unclear what the advan…

This is a paywalled thing that's bloaty in the visible portion and then hits a subscription block before the interesting parts. Bah.

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I'm unfamiliar with Coalton but the Blub article describes the proverbial smug Lisp weenie. I'd agree with you that #notalllispers.

> If you squint enough, JS is a lisp.. Yes, that is true. I'm not big on the idea that Lisp is defined by parentheses. The implementation strategies are another way to look at it. …

You can wrap parentheses around anything and call it Lisp, but I specified Common Lisp and pg's article clearly wasn't contemplating anything like Shen. Surface syntax is near irre…

Sadly, this looks like AI slop. Maybe it means the AI's are getting the idea though. Next thing though, is that they will find ways to weaponize it.

I've wanted for quite a long time to write an Android app like that. Use Kiosk mode (basically a locked down home screen) to turn the Android phone into a dumb phone.

> Your wording sounds like it implies that Lisp "got stuck" somewhere in the past, no? Pretty much. See pg's famous "Blub Paradox" where he sees Lisp as the top of a tower of lesse…

I mentioned this already but you might like: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/wadler87....

Wadler's old article comparing Miranda (a Haskell forebear) to Scheme might be a better place to start. https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/wadler87....

See Cardelli's breakdown in his famous article "Typeful programming": http://www.lucacardelli.name/Papers/TypefulProg.pdf Page 52 perhaps.

Lisp generally has precise GC, which I'd say makes it light side. It's even relatively type-safe if you count runtime type-checking. Highly reliable systems are written in Erlang, …

This looks scary. Website is way too slick and it says something about being a Chrome side-something? Ah someone said vibe code, and I guess that explains the slickness and images …