jksmith

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by jksmith 18d ago
Barely related, I decided to move on. Linux has been weaponized for self-promotion. So I'm happy just working with Beastie these days.
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by jksmith 3mo ago
I use the Franz Allegro toolchain exclusively.
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by jksmith 3mo ago
Now that I'm out of the corporate tyranny and have my own company, I use lisp for everything. There's certain satisfaction in writing config files and persisting data directly in s-expressions. Any json requirements are triggered
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by jksmith 4mo ago
MSFT won't sign non-disclosures, but they have policies regarding not using your data to train their models. Just trust them if you want to use azure -except for that rogue employee part I guess.
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by jksmith 5mo ago
I personally don't know anything about LispWorks except for the name. My pref for Franz is the commercial quality and the toolchain. If you have forgotten your graph fundamentals, Allegro Graph will make you want to get back into it. V
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by jksmith 5mo ago
Franz Allegro toolchain.
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by jksmith 5mo ago
Use python or whatever to build the llm, use lisp to explore and infer from the edges of what the llm has to offer. I don't do anything but lisp these days. Been waiting my whole career to be at this point. I'll never "write&
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by jksmith 6mo ago
It was something like screen: array[1..80,1..25] of byte absolute $B800:0000; So, just use all the extended ascii to assign chars to cells to draw boxes for screens, buttons, tables, whatever. Instant update.
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by jksmith 6mo ago
Vasellating. TurboVision was awesome, but it was pushing the boundary of TUI, which in my mind was great for moving hard copy to computer entered use case. To wit, hard copy on your right side, you transfer data to app without looking at sc
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by jksmith 7mo ago
1. Attack surface for agents is tantamount to a virus. 2. Any way for an agent to touch something is a potential compromised vector. 3. The mitigation is controlling the blast radius. 4. Sandboxing capability will have to be
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by jksmith 9mo ago
Windows is a horse that is becoming less and less rideable. Be great to get this to build on ReactOS as just a hobby or side effort.
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by jksmith 9mo ago
So is theft. Depends on who has the most guns.
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by jksmith 9mo ago
You're not getting what I'm saying. Before this technology, the concept of property rights could not be defended, depending on the attacker. This tech allows that, even if it is just for one use case.
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by jksmith 9mo ago
Did you read the paper? There exists a technology that has purely enforceable property rights. What is that actually worth? I don't know. Yeah yeah, I've read the arguments about liquidity issues, shutting down the rails, making i
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by jksmith 9mo ago
How many degrees of separation is this from adult regulation? Want to provide age information to a site so you can look at porn without any guarantee that information won't be used for additional profit? That's a real thing in the
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by jksmith 9mo ago
Aside: The 1.3B investment in UHC suggests BH thinks Obamacare will be around for awhile. That, or reversing healthcare costs will not happen for the time being.
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by jksmith 1y ago
Exactly. So let's expand. A good reason to have AI everywhere is that it is capable of giving you a fair answer for just about anything. So ask it to do some data analytics stuff, like what Tableau or PowerBI can do. It can provide may
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by jksmith 1y ago
"An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age." Heavy opinion: Combined with AI, there is a story for unified app development. Something like Ada for the L1 and trust reciprocation, then something that creates app domain vocabulari
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by jksmith 1y ago
I think the bias noose has tightened a lot over the years, so we don't avail ourselves to experiement like we used to - no chance for critical mass now that the profession has become so commoditized. It was wide open when I first start
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by jksmith 1y ago
Forgive, but that smells of youth and recency bias. How do you judge lisp and k/qdb? Is C# the best language? Is Nim anachronistic? How would you write a desktop app using your exact same codebase on Win, Linux, Mac? That would be Free
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by jksmith 1y ago
The popularity contest.
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by jksmith 1y ago
It failed because the C family is far superior - in mindshare and commodity dev experience. Ada may end up with a win to some degree if it plays to a narrative that all software needs to be mission-critical, no matter what the domain. Maybe
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by jksmith 1y ago
Comment generator: "Concerns about privacy invasions, adware, and forced updates in Windows are pushing users away. Many users are fed up with Microsoft "urging users to train their AI for free"." 1) Windows chatting beh
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by jksmith 1y ago
Well, I don't have the rights to bundle anything with windows, nor would I want to. All you'd need is a thin player to reproduce a TUI screen if done in FPC, and it wouldn't be limited to Windows. All I'm suggesting is w
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by jksmith 1y ago
That was the toolchain that my company used. Turbo vision was a Borland product, back when Philippe Khan was running the company. We were that ahead of the curve for "shrinkwrapped software development" at the time. That legacy, D
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by jksmith 1y ago
My first company out of uni was a company that sold a tv advertising application written in dos. It did all the reports, put together spot advert packages, measuring reach and frequency, cost per point, etc. Used Neilsen ratings for data. T
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by jksmith 1y ago
This is just a "because I wanted to" project. And I get that; done a lot of those myself just to understand what the hell was going on. But the rewrite of turbo vision into FPC and compiling to half a dozen targets has been aroun
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by jksmith 1y ago
Awesome. Thanks for posting. I miss my modula-2 so much I wrote a bunch of editor macros for Lazarus that allows me to write slightly modula-2 like code in the editor.
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Rockwell Automation introduces major breakthrough [video](youtube.com)
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by jksmith 1y ago
MSFT Dynamics 365. It's a low/no code platform.

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