jules22

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by jules22 3y ago
Must be his browser settings, his may not be putting tabs to sleep. I am under 3 GB on a Linux machine with just browsing.
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by jules22 3y ago
No. It's the fact that it is a great 12 year old machine that makes it notable. I would not be surprised if it was usable as a 20 year old machine. These things are comfortable and they last.
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by jules22 3y ago
I got mine for $100, about 4-5 years ago. Only 1 USB port seems to work. Great keyboard, only 720p screen, did not upgrade the HDD. Works great as a secondary machine. I expect to use it for at least another 5 years, likely more. I love old
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by jules22 3y ago
The glaring omission in the article is Visual Basic for DOS. It had a visual TUI designer in DOS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vDpzoYgNd0
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by jules22 3y ago
Even Visual Basic for DOS had a TUI designer. Wasn't addressed in the article.
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by jules22 3y ago
I used it. The user experience is not remotely close to Delphi, but it has WYSIWYG. The closest Python had to Delphi was Boa Constructor, but it stalled quickly, decades ago.
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by jules22 3y ago
VB5/6 had native code compilers. Performance wise, the gap was reduced. But it still was only object based and not full OOP, VCL was much better in all respects, so were the GUI builders. The component ecosystem was much better, despit
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by jules22 3y ago
Same. I learnt VB because VC++ with MFC was too complex for what I needed it for then. Hated VB after seeing Delphi.
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by jules22 3y ago
I liked Delphi's anchors. They were extremely simple, visually defined, and met all of my layout needs.
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by jules22 3y ago
> Of course there can be language extensions like C++ Builder did for C++ but they'd need to maintain their own compiler (or fork). This is exactly what I hope would happen, except this time with Rust or Go. They don't need to
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by jules22 3y ago
VB6 was primitive compared to what Delphi gave us. It had live design time data binding, visual form inheritance etc. VB and VC++ were primitive compared to that. VCL vs MFC? No contest. The API was powerful, fast, great to extend by inheri
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by jules22 3y ago
Sure, not in the traditional sense. Since it does not make small standalone libraries, even though possible, I would not make a native extension with it. But juliacall works fine for Python and R. Quite seamless.
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by jules22 3y ago
What does a modern Fortran bring that Julia does not? Small binaries?
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by jules22 3y ago
Nim/Julia, IMO. However.... Nim is unlikely to go mainstream. It's not the next Rust and not for technical reasons. Julia won't budge Python out of the top slot anytime soon, although it should in many scenarios past simple s
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by jules22 3y ago
With the right distro, 4GB with just a HDD is quite fine for Chromebook style usage.
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by jules22 3y ago
They seem to have edited out "open-source" now. Still, a free for personal use model is better than none. Hopefully, we will soon have some adaptation from Llama 2 that matches it, fairly soon.
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by jules22 3y ago
I am using a 12 year old Thinkpad as a secondary device. I don't see why it won't last me another 10. It runs a responsive and quite good looking modern Linux desktop environment from a HDD and I am not even using 40% of the RAM I
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by jules22 3y ago
I'd take a Delphi/Lazarus UI over most Electron apps. They started fast, took little RAM or disk space, used very little CPU, had fast response times, supported standard UI conventions. Today, we have endless options. But most are
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by jules22 3y ago
The best IMO was in Delphi. Lazarus captures that spirit well today but is mostly unknown. Netbeans GUI builder was more powerful than VB's in some ways but just made simple things complicated.
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by jules22 3y ago
VB 5 and 6 were where things worked. They both had native compilers.
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by jules22 3y ago
Me too. But it just was never enjoyable creating those UIs. I have tried almost all of them. The closest Python had to VB was Boa Constructor. It never really took off. https://boa-constructor.sourceforge.net/Screenshots&#x2
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by jules22 3y ago
I don't disagree with most of that. I studied a fair amount of science, including psychology and cognitive science. I know you can cause unusual states with meditation and you have a right to. Choosing to experience an out of the body
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by jules22 3y ago
Fine. I accept that the Army contracts everything out. In which case, my point is that you were ascribing scientific credibility to the Army because they make stealth bombers and I was arguing that the engineering expertise is a.) not perti
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by jules22 3y ago
> The very fact that functional brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been created demonstrates the brain is indeed a transceiver. That is not a sound argument. I think you can see why anyone would disagree.
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by jules22 3y ago
"You humans"? Have you been meditating so hard that you are now hallucinating yourself as beyond human? I can't say I am surprised. I studied cognitive science. I know cognitive biases. I also know how meditators around me ar
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by jules22 3y ago
If it's around for 3000 years, show the plentiful "non-physical evidence". If you still need to talk about the "possibility", it's just flim flam BS. If you think testimonies are evidence, and are making appeal
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by jules22 3y ago
Quite possible. We might also be talking about different kinds of meditation. Mindfulness meditators seem to have a healthy attitude. TM meditators start talking psychic things pretty quickly. The people around me are all TM types.
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by jules22 3y ago
According to wikipedia: "Hoffman notes that the commonly held view that brain activity causes conscious experience has, so far, proved to be intractable in terms of scientific explanation" That's just a fringe position. It ma
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by jules22 3y ago
The esoteric/mystical stuff always turned out to be little more than woo. So all the more reason to do "research" in a rigorous way. Individual research ends up little more than making up things. It cannot really be called &q
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by jules22 3y ago
> Philosophical concept that emerged during times when western people were still stacking shit like rocks on top of each other And which European historian furnished you this tidbit?

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