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What is MQTT ?

Is there something like an Extract-SPICE tool that takes a circuit and gives you back a text rendering of it ?

I’m curious why the author’s comment is grayed out. Is this tool suitable for any other story system ? It might be a lot of work to extract the Vampire the Masquerade dependency an…

What genre do you think would be best ? Zork was basically fantasy Dungeon & Dragons. Infocom in their day had science fiction and several other kinds of games

There is a book named the Byte book of Pascal that has an APL system written in Pascal. Has anyone read it ? A link: https://archive.org/details/the-byte-book-of-pascal/ Starting o…

So maybe we can read more than just one installment

Since computational biology is all about simulation, do the chloroplast, the mitochondria, and now the nitro-last, have definitions that could be actively simulated ?

This is an exciting development. Does writing Llama.cpp mean that it is using any object oriented Lisp code ?

Those unfamiliar with M/MUMPS are not aware of some of the built in features that have not been adopted by other platforms. M allows one to code in a very terse language (an artifa…

There is some discussion here about text user interface versus terminal user interface. There is also the term CHUI for Character User Interface that is contrasted with TUI.

I like how Loreline transpiles to multiple languages. I wonder why a transpire to Inform 6 or Inform 7 has not already been done as it seems an easy conceptual leap. Perhaps I don’…

This was written in 2008. Has Ur-Scheme received any love since then ?

Does ghostty support single duplex ? I couldn’t find out. Also, does it support visible control characters ? EXACT EMULATION ? 3270 ? VT-105 ? VT-220 ? VT-320 ? VT-420 ? SIXEL ? NA…

I know this a nice square grid, but how do you make a hex grid, (not the hex in the drop down) or even a page of some other tessellating shape ?

What is the Oxford flowers dataset ? Where is it available ?

Does the SMILE (or Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System) code have an EBNF definition ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplified_Molecular_Input_Lin... Claims there is a co…

To quote from the page: id: flags type: u1 This seems to say flags is a sort of unsigned integer. Is there a way to break the flags into big endiaN bits where the first two bits ar…

So if the vibes are wild, I’m not a hippie but an AI ? Cool. Is that an upgrade or &endash; or not ?

What tool do you use to make such a video ?

I think the fact that the line protocol for DEC VT terminals is as the ANSI X3.64 standard is why the issue hasn’t been addressed or modernized See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

I know branch prediction is essential if you have instruction pipelining in actual CPU hardware. It is an interesting thought experiment re instruction pipelining in a virtual mach…

I think Common Logic ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Logic - ISO/IEC 24707:2007) would be a good addition to any effort trying to add a semantic layer to any database. Thi…

I really enjoyed seeing the tools that provide an MS-DOS ecosystem. I didn’t know there was an open source version of the Watcom compilers and a 16-bit library to support them.

What are the issues re the SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE ? Description: https://opensource.org/license/ofl-1-1 Also https://openfontlicense.org/ All licenses: https://opensource.org/licens…

penalizing the web spider for scraping their site