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I have the sinking feeling that you upvoters are actually upvoting the content of these quotes rather than my intention in quoting them, which was to highlight their absurdity. ;)
What's absurd? Sounds bang on
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That's a fair point. A few of us have been discussing a modified Varvara spec that limits the system to a smaller amount of memory (e.g. 32k, 16k, or 8k). I think with a spec like that it would unlock many implementations that are not currently practical.
I think a more important consideration for currently produced microcontroller hardware is the ability to run from ROM, because then you can load your program into relatively abundant Flash instead of the much scarcer RAM. Some way of using virtual memory (take a look at Forth's approach, which doesn't require hardware support but doesn't work for code, only data) would also make a big difference. All of this doesn't…
Does anyone know if they're able to support themselves purely on donations via Patreon, etc., or if they need to do contract work, too?
I believe that at least one of them worked for Meta before they embarked on this journey and I believe that they basically used the big tech money to FIRE. They've been able to them supplement and transition their income with the games and apps they've produced as well as related income from their 100rabbits work, as well as having minimized living expenses and no children. None of this is meant to be judgement or in…
It's remarkable how good you have to be at tech to be low tech and low maintenance.
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100r's Uxn/Varvara aspires to be that, but that's not the same thing as succeeding at it. AFAIK the smallest computer with a full Uxn/Varvara implementation is a Nintendo DS [correction! Game Boy Advance], which is faster than the Sun workstation I was using in the 90s (though it has less RAM). You probably aren't going to get it running on an eZ80-based TI calculator, for example, or an Arduino UNO. It's a good firs…
I'm not sure that's true. I have an eZ80-based emulator for the AgonLight2 that is already running well enough to run some real (console-based) ROMs: https://git.phial.org/d6/uxn-ez80/ (I'm new to eZ80 assembly so the project is going slower than it otherwise might.) The AgonLight2 has 512K of RAM and a 20 MHz CPU which is more than enough for Varvara. I agree that 8-bit computers of the era (e.g. Pet, Apple 2, C64,…
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> the first attempt good enough to criticize. Ooh, I like this phrase.
From Wiki: http://found.ward.bay.wiki.org/view/good-enough-to-criticize > Alan Kay described the Macintosh as the first personal computer good enough to be criticized. It was a serious step toward Kay's Dynabook. Not perfect, but in the right direction. In this 2017 interview Kay explains how he came to his vision and how it has been completely lost in mobile devices since. https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-a…
> Jobs always admired Kay, who in 1984 famously told Newsweek that the Mac was the “first personal computer worth criticizing.” Just before Jobs was fired from his first stint at Apple in the ’80s, he’d been pushing an effort to get the Dynabook built in Cupertino. The two would talk on the phone every couple of months until Steve’s passing, and Jobs invited him to the unveiling of the iPhone in January, 2007.
> Collapse won't be addressed by buying a Prius, signing a treaty, or turning off the air-conditioning. The biggest problem we face is a philosophical one: understanding that this civilization is already dead. The sooner we confront this problem, and the sooner we realize there's nothing we can do to save ourselves, the sooner we can get down to the hard work of adapting, with mortal humility, to our new reality. > T…
I have the sinking feeling that you upvoters are actually upvoting the content of these quotes rather than my intention in quoting them, which was to highlight their absurdity. ;)
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I have the sinking feeling that you upvoters are actually upvoting the content of these quotes rather than my intention in quoting them, which was to highlight their absurdity. ;)
It seems your sinking feeling has been confirmed to be true. I'm in the camp that upvoted and am now confused why you're find the concepts absurd. I doubt this is your first encounter with a frank presentation of leftist thought, so it is the popularity that gives you the sinking feeling, or something about the ideology itself?
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It seems your sinking feeling has been confirmed to be true. I'm in the camp that upvoted and am now confused why you're find the concepts absurd. I doubt this is your first encounter with a frank presentation of leftist thought, so it is the popularity that gives you the sinking feeling, or something about the ideology itself?
Both are pretty terrifying to me, yeah.