Samis2001

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by Samis2001 4y ago
In the case of houses, I would think in most cases there's less conflict between prettiness and efficiency, for things like furniture there's much less space for the aesthetics to make a given piece more or less functional or effi
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by Samis2001 4y ago
The SmallInteger limitation is probably because as an optimisation they stored them as immediate values rather than generic objects, and Squeak shares this limitation (the newer Spur format extends this to one or more additional types depen
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by Samis2001 4y ago
There have been very extensive changes since 2002, yep, such as a much improved interpreter, a JIT, a replacement of the original object memory format which incidentally supports faster become and most recently a new bytecode set.
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by Samis2001 6y ago
Even broader is the one in the drafted repeal of the Fixed-Term Parliaments Act, the scope of (b) being particularly worrying - what exactly counts a related purported decision? 'A court of law may not question— (a) the exercise or pur
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by Samis2001 7y ago
By what metric of 'better'?
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by Samis2001 7y ago
....JavaScript?
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by Samis2001 8y ago
There have been systems that take this approach such as fabricate.py ( https://github.com/brushtechnology/fabricate ) and tup ( http://gittup.org/tup/ ).
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by Samis2001 8y ago
It would be even better if Kallithea or RhodeCode adopted the UI style shared by GitHub/Gogs/Gitea and friends. Then we could have the best of both worlds - good, well-known UI but with software that isn't as closely coupled
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by Samis2001 9y ago
Not the author, but the kernel is Multiboot compliant. See: https://sortix.org/man/man7/installation.7.html 'If you wish to dual boot, you need an existing operating system with a multiboot compliant bootload
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by Samis2001 9y ago
For this area, my ideal world is one where both the BIOS and UEFI are dead, replaced by something that is inspired both by OpenFirmware and coreboot.
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by Samis2001 9y ago
Assuming the tagged reference or capability system was built, wouldn't it need software to take advantage of it? If it's not actively used, no real point having it over more block pointer space - and I doubt significant amounts of
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by Samis2001 9y ago
Why?
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by Samis2001 9y ago
It's not publicly owned but the market is way less dysfunctional than in the US - aside from the few fiber & cable ISPs, a single phone line allows you to choose from a reasonably broad selection of ISPs.
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by Samis2001 9y ago
Python's a modern stack in any reasonable definition of the word. Just because it doesn't use $TRENDY_LANGUAGES doesn't make it 'not modern'.
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by Samis2001 9y ago
If you're talking standards, then platform-specific advantages mean precisely nothing.
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by Samis2001 10y ago
Here's the problem with that idea: How do you convert your abstract high-level description into a set of specific operations? First you need to parse your specification, and parsing natural language is already hard. Secondly, you have
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by Samis2001 10y ago
An addition to this list: http://www.pawfal.org/dave/index.cgi?Projects/Scheme%20Brick...
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by Samis2001 10y ago
Elsewhere on the internet (without resorting to seedier places like torrent sites) you can find versions of SunOS 2.x/3.x/4.x as well as Solaris 1.x, 2.x, 7.x and 8.
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by Samis2001 10y ago
I'm a fan of Smalltalk, particularly the small Cuis variety. Anyway, you may be interested to know that Pharo either has or had a MOOC about learning and building things with the language. Additionally, there is an updated book I belie
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by Samis2001 10y ago
They seem to have recognized this..5 or so minutes later.
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by Samis2001 10y ago
This is the type of site which is a really interesting idea but finding it half-way through sucks somewhat :(
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by Samis2001 10y ago
Related to RedPower: OpenComputers. While it does come with Lua as the default OS / platform but it has support for arbritary computing architectures - both real and fake. I'm not sure if any has matured to the point of RP2 though
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by Samis2001 10y ago
Eh, socialism and communism may seem to offer better end results but the difficulty of implementation without being exploited / converting to another ideology is evidently hard, perhaps impossible.
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by Samis2001 10y ago
For the OODB, perhaps Squeak's Magma? http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2665
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by Samis2001 10y ago
No kidding. 'Recent DNS Attacks' mentions 2007 in the description. I wonder if it's still active.
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by Samis2001 10y ago
I was expecting that to be a quote from a book or a story and was surprised that it wasn't. Good job, it's scarily plausible. Especially in the UK.
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by Samis2001 10y ago
I don't think such a system would be a technocracy - it would seem to be more along the lines of a Corporatocracy ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporatocracy )
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by Samis2001 10y ago
I feel your pain due to a different reason. After seeing how the major Linux UI toolkits support consistent theming of all the programs using them, original styles/themes be damned, the lack of a consistently-applied theming system&#x2
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by Samis2001 10y ago
This directory seemingly contains both a copy of the Alto OS and a Smalltalk-80 image/changes file. Not sure which file is the VM executable though. http://xeroxalto.computerhistory.org/Indigo/BasicDisks/Small
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by Samis2001 10y ago
Is there any particular reason why you linked to Smalltalk-76 vs say, -78 or -80

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