SA9G

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by SA9G 4d ago
so.... horses have memory and their memory guides their behavior. Yep.
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by SA9G 4d ago
My Subaru needs an oil change every 6 months... it takes a few minutes. It does NOT remind me and I don't have to reset a computer. Life is simple, life is good. My more $$$ German car needs a service once a year. It reminds me. Th
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by SA9G 6d ago
They left out "autoheadslap", the sharp pain you get whenever anyone mentions Nvidia and you smack your forehead as you remember cancelling your massive buy order back when it was $110 and had not split yet!! It is often accompan
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by SA9G 7d ago
Ah yes... the image of the attractive young woman saying NO! Deja vu... again and again :-)
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by SA9G 10d ago
I have befriended a crow. I leave it food and sometimes it greets me. Other times, no so much. I am not sure how it thinks and what it feels, it is a bird. What if the crow became a raven, then a raptor? Powerful claws, sharp beak, and
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by SA9G 11d ago
Competition perhaps... but CS has not gone away! There is still joy in doing something well and in learning, even if the market will (perhaps for a time) not reward you well for it. Resist Skynet!!
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by SA9G 11d ago
And there is joy in solving problems!!
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by SA9G 11d ago
Health is obviously first, you have nothing without it. But real joy is wanting to do something, something that is important to you, and being able to. Without desire there is no joy... just a slow countdown.
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by SA9G 13d ago
The nuclear powerplant operator dilemma reminds me of the design flaw in "self-driving" cars that want a human to take control when things go wrong. A human who is not driving is not paying attention and lacks the spatial awarene
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by SA9G 25d ago
We should immediately deactivate all particulate filters and DEF injectors on large trucks!! Problem solved :-)
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by SA9G 25d ago
My first language, 1980 in CMU, was Pascal... quickly followed by LISP in CS/AI courses and C for EE courses. I was a big fan of MacLisp at the time, the MIT version that GLS worked on (could see his comments all over the sources). O
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by SA9G 26d ago
I love the "Tornado" term and "software debt"... worked with a few over the years, fixed the bug but broke the paradigm. Well articulated wisdom.
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by SA9G 28d ago
Biggest problem in working at home: neighbors giant barking rodent!
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by SA9G 29d ago
Lower and lower S/N on the internet.... and businesses adding to the N so they can charge for the S. If enough become aware of this, they will vote with their $$ and Amazon (et al) will lose market share. But sadly the TicToc generat
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by SA9G 1mo ago
If by "bold" you mean daft, then you are right :-) Mark/Sweep GC is easy, well contained, and simple to test. RefCounting affects everything, obviously does not work for circular refs, and is an incredible pain to test/
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by SA9G 1mo ago
Yes! That is why the 3rd line says: "...or to see sample code (Intro 1)." You just had to click on "Intro 1".
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by SA9G 1mo ago
No (scripting) language with 2 parameter lists, the second all Var (to use the Pascal syntax). I could have included a Var keyword instead to differentiate, but a) that would complicate the variadic nature of scScript parameter lists and b
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by SA9G 1mo ago
So you want to generate C code instead of ByteCodes.... and then compile the C? I suppose, if you broke out the runtime memory management (and a few other things) into a library. But I am not sure why you would.... If you want pure speed,
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by SA9G 1mo ago
May Odin smile upon you :-) And thanks for not laughing at my art!!
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by SA9G 1mo ago
You could run C that way... but scScript is a scripting language using C-like syntax with features designed for scripting. For example, it provides dual variadic parameter/arg lists. Turns out having "in" (pass-by-val) and
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by SA9G 1mo ago
I wanted to write a love note to C... and if you hate it, it is all my fault.
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by SA9G 1mo ago
Capital needs a safe harbor, so there is always demand for treasuries.... But on the other hand, we all know these debts will never get repaid, just traded and rolled over into the next batch of bonds. Government will also do all it can t