larsbrinkhoff

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by larsbrinkhoff 24d ago
This is xorshift. https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/xoroshiro-36/blob/master/xo...
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by larsbrinkhoff 27d ago
It's both.
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by larsbrinkhoff 28d ago
LLMs adopted phrases from humans. But now humans adopt phrases from LLMs.
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by larsbrinkhoff 28d ago
Xorshift-36 for the PDP-10, with help from Sebastiano Vigna. https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/xoroshiro-36
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by larsbrinkhoff 2mo ago
This says PDP-7. https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld/comments/56tkt8/what_prog...
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by larsbrinkhoff 3mo ago
Then maybe also give a nod to the LINC, showing DEC a small 12-bit computer could be made.
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by larsbrinkhoff 3mo ago
BASIC was developed on GE mainframes.
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by larsbrinkhoff 3mo ago
Chaosnet was inspired by the experimental 3 Mbits/s Ethernet in use at Xerox PARC at the time. Experimental Ethernet has a 8-bit node address; Chaosnet has 16 bits, of which 8 is network and another 8 is the node. The Chaosnet data r
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by larsbrinkhoff 3mo ago
Chaosnet in active use, mostly on emulators: https://chaosnet.net/ Lispm, PDP-10, PDP-11, VAX.
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by larsbrinkhoff 3mo ago
Yes, and in Ethernet frames as EtherType 0x0804.
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by larsbrinkhoff 5mo ago
"Her barbell is a special women's barbell." FYI, it was probably just a regular women's weightlifting barbell. They are somewhat lighter, and have a thinner grip. Maybe she's serious about her weightlifting traini
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by larsbrinkhoff 5mo ago
By the way, I also coded a QR symbol generator in PDP-10 assembly language. https://github.com/PDP-10/its/blob/master/src/lars/qrcode.8
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by larsbrinkhoff 5mo ago
I hand drew this on a whiteboard. It was a lot more work than I anticipated. http://lars.nocrew.org/tmp/qr.png
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by larsbrinkhoff 5mo ago
The LINC minicomputer operating system LAP6 came with a 4x5 font, but it didn't have lower case.
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by larsbrinkhoff 6mo ago
It's built into the Unix terminal driver. Control-U is the default, but it can be changed with e.g. "stty kill". Libraries like readline also support it.
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by larsbrinkhoff 6mo ago
Just type Control-U once.
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by larsbrinkhoff 6mo ago
https://twitter.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/2028903268265672728
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by larsbrinkhoff 6mo ago
Jonathan Blow: "It’s about a compiler written in Python FFS."
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by larsbrinkhoff 7mo ago
https://www.sbcl.org/history.html https://cmucl.org/doc/cmucl-history.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_Lisp
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by larsbrinkhoff 7mo ago
SBCL has been in the works since 1980.
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by larsbrinkhoff 7mo ago
Source: "The Invention of Forth", by Chuck Moore. https://colorforth.github.io/HOPL.html
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by larsbrinkhoff 7mo ago
Emacs is needed because it provides Emacs Lisp.
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by larsbrinkhoff 7mo ago
Forth was invented before Moore worked at NRAO. Granted, it was gradually expanded from a very small interpreter, so it's hard to say exactly when it became "Forth" as we mean it today.
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by larsbrinkhoff 7mo ago
Sorry, I don't know anything about Emacs graphics. Some people confuse me with larsi, but I'm not that guy.
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by larsbrinkhoff 7mo ago
Lisp dialects have diverged quite a bit, and it would be a lot of work to bridge the differences to a degree approaching 100%. 90% is easy, but only works for small trivial programs. I say this, having written a "95%" Common Lisp
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by larsbrinkhoff 7mo ago
Having read that, I'm even less convinced it's not more than a toy.
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by larsbrinkhoff 7mo ago
I don't see how unexec would help with "decoupling the core from Emacs" since the core is written in Emacs Lisp.
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by larsbrinkhoff 7mo ago
I think misinterpreting the "el" as Spanish is fun. In that vein, your game could be called ElCiudad.
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by larsbrinkhoff 7mo ago
Portability across Lisp dialects is usually not a thing. Even Emacs Lisp and Common Lisp which are arguably pretty close rarely if ever share code. You could make a frontend for dialect A to run code from dialect B. Those things have been
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by larsbrinkhoff 7mo ago
How would it be run without Emacs? You might point out that there are things like elisp.lisp that purports to run Emacs Lisp in Common Lisp, but I'm not sure that's viable for anything but trivial programs. There's also some

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