bear8642

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by bear8642 3mo ago
> In the middle 70s it was COBOL, when COBOL'74 came out it became king of in-house programming for IBM I thought IBM were still focused on APL in the 70s…
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by bear8642 3mo ago
> "[Phoenix] repackages off-the-shelf semiconductors into devices that are virtually identical to the phased-out chips." I'm slightly surprised that _virtually_ identical chips are allowed. I expected truly identical chi
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by bear8642 3mo ago
Thanks for sharing that!
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by bear8642 4mo ago
> AI is not delivering 10x shareholder value, anywhere. A bit facetious, but I'd expect Nvidia and the like providing the "AI equipment" to have a 10× share value at least…
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by bear8642 5mo ago
How so? I'm struggling to see how Roger's manipulation of the expressions without executing each line validates Dijkstra's point...
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by bear8642 5mo ago
For a smaller example, try the J Incunabulum[0] various explanations are available [1][2] It's been discussed here before too. [0] https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum [1] https://bl
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by bear8642 6mo ago
> I'd argue a 50% hit to performance [...] is ... quite the regression Indeed! Especially if said regression happens to impact anything trade/market related...
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by bear8642 6mo ago
> daily drivers (ppc64le, Apple silicon) How come you're running ppc64le as a daily driver?
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by bear8642 6mo ago
> the only relevant big-endian architecture is s390x The adjacent POWER architecture is also still relevant - but as you say, they too can afford a support contract.
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by bear8642 7mo ago
oh, thanks! I didn't know that Prolog was still used commercially.
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by bear8642 7mo ago
Likely because whilst it didn't work out commercially, the ideas smalltalk, prolog and other more esoteric languages (forth, apl) focus on are themselves very interesting.
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by bear8642 8mo ago
> Humans trust. Their systems should too. And indeed as Thompson showed, you've got to trust at some point... https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/R209/Reflections-Trus...
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by bear8642 8mo ago
> Good science fiction where the aliens are very alien are hard to come by I feel this is one of the reasons I liked Fire upon the Deep with the group mind based Tines
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by bear8642 9mo ago
Cool story - thanks for sharing it!
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by bear8642 10mo ago
This is exceedingly nasty. Well Done!
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by bear8642 10mo ago
more the names then the functions themselves
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by bear8642 11mo ago
They sort of did with the Cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(processor)
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by bear8642 11mo ago
huh, can you not use the Xkb APL symbols file? I thought that compose definitions as well as the shifted layout…
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by bear8642 11mo ago
Right, thank you! I recognised the " as rank but got confused by the _ reading https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/under , it seemed to be 'rank negative' and didn't see what that did. &g
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by bear8642 11mo ago
> Vs=: 4r3p1"_ * ] ^ 3: What's the "_ for?
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by bear8642 11mo ago
Average is zero empty =. 0$0 NB. zero length array +/empty 0 #empty 0 0%0 0
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by bear8642 1y ago
Yep, the office has a p9 box and normally the only times it's needed rebooted is after a power cut. Very solid boxes!
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by bear8642 1y ago
> PRs are emails to your team and to your future self. Indeed! I've found many point on this discussion answered by the linux kernel idea of mailing lists where a change is discussed then approved, often with feedback acknowledged
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by bear8642 1y ago
Remember, simple is not the same easy
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by bear8642 1y ago
5 characters? I thought it was normally six 6bit characters?
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by bear8642 1y ago
> Sometimes it is called a fluent-interface in other languages. Where've you heard it called that? I've normally heard tacit programming
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by bear8642 1y ago
>Sorry, I'm not sure I understand what `.split(None)` would do? Reading the docs [0] it seems `.split(None)` returns an array of the indivual characters without whitespace - so something like [c in list(s) if not whitespace(c)] [0]
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by bear8642 1y ago
> How is it to read and write? Fairly straight-forward once you've learnt the character set. See here for details: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Typing_glyphs
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by bear8642 1y ago
If you want some excitement, 9front might be fun :) Thinkpads tend to be well supported
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by bear8642 1y ago
> simply making a normal OS look like a virtual machine Or perhaps the other way around? That is making VMs totally unaware they've been virtualised, as I believe IBM's lpars work…

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