johnlorentzson

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by johnlorentzson 23d ago
In Sweden we tell that same story but with a nail instead of a rock. "Cooking soup on a nail" is a somewhat common expression here.
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by johnlorentzson 2mo ago
A pair of smart modems should certainly be able to connect, but it's very likely they would only be able to negotiate a fairly low speed. The classic 300 baud Bell 103 modulation can probably work perfectly fine even over early 2010s S
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by johnlorentzson 2mo ago
As far as I know calling free is optional with Fil-C. It can prevent situations where some memory is no longer needed but isn't freed due to some remaining pointer to it sitting around somewhere, but it's not required. The GC will
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by johnlorentzson 2mo ago
Typically, for development, one will start a clean image in the morning and load it up with a combination of newly compiled code and automatically cached previously compiled code. This is mostly invisible to the user unless something goes w
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by johnlorentzson 1y ago
That sounds about right. (Just to clarify, what I was referring to with "did not exist at the time" was specifically Self's JIT and its new techniques.)
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by johnlorentzson 1y ago
With regards to performance, Craig Chambers's thesis on the Just-In-Time compiler for Self proves pretty definitively that a language as (or more) flexible as Smalltalk can be very performant without losing any dynamic properties. It c
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by johnlorentzson 4y ago
That sounds about right. It's very easy to make something resembling a Lisp, and even easier to call the result a Lisp.
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by johnlorentzson 4y ago
DOOM was definitely made with DOS in mind, but it also ran on NeXT from the beginning. It's pretty portable actually. Since you cited Fabien Sanglard, I guess I should mention that his book about DOOM's source code (Game Engine Bl
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by johnlorentzson 4y ago
The Build engine's source code isn't enough to port any game running on it, since Build was made as a library (I believe most developers using Build in the 90s didn't have access to the source code). Also, wasn't there a
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by johnlorentzson 4y ago
Dan Weinreb (one of the founders of Symbolics) wrote a rebuttal to this article in 2007. The comments are also worth reading. https://web.archive.org/web/20121107150708/http://danweinreb...
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by johnlorentzson 5y ago
It's wonderful when I have to show my ID before I can watch a video of the funny man saying fuck (I'm not kidding, that's sometimes but usually not enough to get it automatically age-restricted).
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by johnlorentzson 5y ago
Why not? That's how proper English text is written. Of course there are many programs that can't handle it properly (or handles it inconveniently) so in practice it might be problematic at times, but otherwise I see nothing wrong
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by johnlorentzson 5y ago
Using the Symbolics Document Examiner was the best manual reading experience I've ever had
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by johnlorentzson 5y ago
The only notable thing they share is that they were both written in Lisp.
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by johnlorentzson 5y ago
HexstreamSoft is one guy who decided to piss off just about everyone he could in the Lisp community, then his Twitter account got locked and everyone stopped caring.
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by johnlorentzson 5y ago
S-expressions aren't inherently more difficult to read than JSON, it's just a matter of getting used to it.
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by johnlorentzson 5y ago
Even the best Unix shells are a mere toys in comparison to what Lisp machines were doing in the 80s. I don't wanna say that using a Lisp machine was "life changing" or anything but let's just say I don't like Linux
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by johnlorentzson 5y ago
Season 2 started off better but quickly deteriorated (shortly after lots of positive reviews were in), and I completely forgot about Season 3 after I'd heard it existed.
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by johnlorentzson 5y ago
I don't think anything has ever disappointed me quite like Star Trek Discovery did.
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by johnlorentzson 5y ago
Paper can be moved
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by johnlorentzson 5y ago
I agree with your conclusion but I don't think it can just be extrapolated like that.
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by johnlorentzson 5y ago
There are videos that are age restricted because of swearing. Porn isn't the issue here (especially since it's not allowed on YouTube even with age restrictions).
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by johnlorentzson 5y ago
This is mainly a thing in the EU
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by johnlorentzson 5y ago
Hearing the funny man say fuck now requires ID, wonderful.
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by johnlorentzson 6y ago
I've only seen this survey on r/lisp, so it's likely that only people involved in that community have answered.
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by johnlorentzson 6y ago
Firefox is far from perfect but it seems to be the best thing out there for now.
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by johnlorentzson 6y ago
Can't say I'm a fan of them using the name Looking Glass. Looking Glass Studios may have gone bankrupt twenty years ago but they're still much more famous than this one.
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by johnlorentzson 6y ago
"I'm the only one who can understand this important code" seems like good job security to me
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by johnlorentzson 6y ago
No, CSS is for the website designer to design the page. The point is that every page should conform to the users preferences automatically.
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by johnlorentzson 6y ago
"rescuing"

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