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by goodthink 24d ago
Sounds like a good application of mesh networks.
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by goodthink 1mo ago
> The energy and compute needed to train an LLM to be an order of magnitude more reliable – e.g., wrong 3% of the time instead of 30% – is 10^20 times what the current frontier models require. And the energy they require to be 30% wrong
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by goodthink 1mo ago
Help/Useful Expressions has some EToys instructions. The Squeakland images stopped getting upograded when Squeeak went 64-bit (I think). You can get a "halo" on any object, click the Inspector icon (the eye) and create an eto
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by goodthink 2mo ago
https://newspeaklanguage.org/webIDE
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by goodthink 2mo ago
I learned this reading Life Extensions by Dirk Pearson and Sandy Shaw 1981. L-Cysteine is available from raw eggs. Ever heard the saying "Here's egg in your beer"? Trouble is the egg does not float in beer, you have to guzzle
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by goodthink 2mo ago
I rewrote Chucks [American] Football Pool in Newspeak! Having a hard deadline of Sept 1st, I wasn't sure three months would be enough time. In Newspeak, it took all of three WEEKs to get it to it's current state. One of the best f
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by goodthink 3mo ago
[NO-AI] [ https://newspeaklanguage.org ] 1) Using Chrome's Isolated Web App technology and the afforded TCPSockets in the browser, I am resurrecting an ancient, windows desktop only, TCP protocol for connecting to * from web
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by goodthink 4mo ago
Net Operating Losses (NOLs) in one year can offset taxes owed in future years. It works for personal taxes too if it's a "casualty" loss.
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by goodthink 4mo ago
US Government contractors have a requirement for average hours worked, by salaried workers, to be no more than ~40 hours / week (might be < 50). And they get audited for this (and other requirements) annually. Twenty years working f
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by goodthink 4mo ago
I bought $5 worth of Claude API tokens the other day because Newspeak [0] is implementing an API interface in the IDE. I work with Newspeak every night building all kinds of crazy stuff, from the raycasting tutorial to an IndexedDB interfac
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by goodthink 4mo ago
Isolated Web Apps - Resurrecting ancient TCP protocols using TCPSockets in the web browser (Chrome) with Newspeak.
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by goodthink 6mo ago
With all of the big deal being made about viewing the far side of the moon, you would think they would have performed the mission when the moon is _new_ so the far side would be illuminated...
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Ask HN: How much did you spend on AI last month?
1 points by goodthink 7mo ago|4 comments
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by goodthink 8mo ago
1. Newspeak, Smalltalk 2. Smalltalk's code browser can be tedious, Newspeak's IDE is more coherent. TCPSockets, tools 3. Smalltalk's Seaside framework for server side web, Newspeak for clients.
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by goodthink 8mo ago
https://github.com/newspeaklanguage/newspeak https://github.com/croquet/croquet
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by goodthink 8mo ago
Reading this book brought me a better understanding of "the expression problem" and the use of the visitor pattern as its solution. This led me to (finally) grok the use of Class _Heirarchy_ Inheritance[0] as a solution not requir
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by goodthink 8mo ago
> Subversion works ok over webdav, it has done it for decades. Thank you!!!!
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by goodthink 9mo ago
Not Self the language? https://selflanguage.org
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by goodthink 9mo ago
I call bullsh*t. None of those IDE's had any such feature.
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by goodthink 9mo ago
I upvoted but, there is no link to your product.
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by goodthink 9mo ago
LIVE literate programming, now that is something else: https://youtu.be/i8zkG5OBYSQ?si=2Mz0QCO8za5knlgq
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by goodthink 10mo ago
Basic Auth My blog: https://chalculator.com/blog Use Credentials: User: croquet Pass: yadayadayada Pain in the butt, links won't work without the creds, but they only need to be entered once. Also, my blog comes comple
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by goodthink 10mo ago
I get a 404
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by goodthink 11mo ago
If you love the keyword syntax of Smalltalk, the reflectivity, the incremental compilation, live debugging in the environment, check out https://newspeaklanguage.org for theSmalltalk experience in the web browser. This is my fav
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by goodthink 11mo ago
Ask the QA people on the team if they have problems with him. Get a different manager involved...
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by goodthink 11mo ago
Three score and seven years old. How old are you? Good insane or bad? lol I can't infer it from the comment. Here are links to my 3D, multiuser, "coin-toss as a service" apps: https://chalculator.com/gaas&#x2F
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by goodthink 11mo ago
I have yet to see any bots figure out how to get past the Basic Auth protecting all links on my (zero traffic) website. Of course, any user following a link will be stopped by the same login dialog (I display the credentials on the home pag
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by goodthink 11mo ago
And now for something completely different: https://newspeaklanguage.org Nothing else compares.
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by goodthink 11mo ago
My advice to little sites: Basic Auth stops bots dead in their tracks. The credentials have to be discoverable of course, which makes it useless for most sites, but it's not that inconvenient. Once entered, browsers offer to use the sa
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by goodthink 1y ago
I always remember this: https://spectrum.ieee.org/smalltalk He knew a good thing when he saw it. Too bad he only wanted the overlapping windows.

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