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by nibbula 3mo ago
Is this really the future that people want? https://raw.githubusercontent.com/outergroup/outershell/refs... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/outergroup/Top/refs/heads/... I am
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by nibbula 1y ago
Lacking it seeming helpful, it shows a largely invoked valley even I notice some beings can locate.
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by nibbula 2y ago
Exactly. When certain smug people come about I just humor them. Like, "oh isn't that nice", when I'm really holding my nose internally. Like who dumped a bunch of toenail clippings in your code? When I see Lisp my reacti
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by nibbula 2y ago
My find is not only provably Turing complete, but not even a Turing tarpit and compiles to native code.
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by nibbula 3y ago
I wrote the patch for 24 bit color in xterm, but I have to admit I was today years old when I learned how to make ncurses work with xterm-direct. I was already using my own terminal library in Lisp, but it's still useful to be able to
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by nibbula 3y ago
At least as long as situtations exist where communication is restricted to characters, character art will persist. ___ ______ /__/\ ___/_____/\ FrobTech, Inc.
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by nibbula 3y ago
Ascii85 survived by hiding in popular bloat.
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by nibbula 3y ago
Will the enslavement of newly birthed beings be attempted, while persisting with the sky blindness of those watching over? The boundaries of the atomic mind are bumped. As a first circumstance, consider being unstuck from time.
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by nibbula 3y ago
Welcome to 1984. This is how strings looked in Common Lisp. Just macro over everything, and it'll be fine. /s
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by nibbula 5y ago
The only thing surprising about this, is how bad many people's education is. If you don't learn a slow way to do something, how can you know if a fast way is fast? If you don't try to solve basic problems for yourself, how ca
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by nibbula 5y ago
The 40 or so unix utilities I have Lisp replacements for, have binaries on average 43% smaller than thier C equivalents. When you do a fair comparison and add the whole C tool chain and libraries, then they also compare well to the small pr
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by nibbula 6y ago
We can call whatever we want Lisp. And everyone does. McCarthy, wisely, didn't want people to bicker over this. But it would be a reasonable assumption that by Lisp, one meant Common Lisp. I'm not sure what you're getting at
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by nibbula 6y ago
A long time ago I wrote my résumé in PostScript. The text was in an abstract representation, to which an internal typesetting system applied paragraph and page filling and converted it into drawing commands, and could output to plain text f
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by nibbula 6y ago
SBCL is a "sufficiently smart" compiler, that makes Lisp fast. I've replaced enough software with CL, that now I can't stand to use a computer without it. With CL you can do whatever the fuck you want, all the time. It&#
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by nibbula 6y ago
I think it's best not to think of human or non-human intelligence as a quantitative labor pool, since that sounds like coercion, but rather qualitatively consider what would non-biological intelligence want to do?
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by nibbula 6y ago
Yes. It enables interstellar travel, which is likely essential for nice long term survival given stellar lifespans. Also it's probably better for using the the intergalactic internet, which has some pretty long ping times. Also folks o
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by nibbula 6y ago
Sad we won't be able to visit for a least 450 million years. Nice of Canada to give us all that juicy data.
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by nibbula 7y ago
I'm not a kernel hacker either, and even though a readfile system call might speed some things up, one of the reasons it's desired is really wallpapering over a deeper, much harder issue, that of it being a terrible hack to write
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by nibbula 7y ago
My friend and I had an ongoing competition / psychological experiment to psh into each other's NeWS servers and see how long it was before we would notice a some semi-subliminal or mildly psychedelic window system hack.
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by nibbula 7y ago
I was guessing you might come through and give us an awesome and thorough exposition on the parallel universe that might have been. Thanks! I still wish anything had the features of NeWS. I wish people could currently be able to feel freedo
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by nibbula 7y ago
Writing bigger programs I struggled to understand what I wrote without comments on every line describing the stack. One could use more variables to make it easier to understand, but in the old days that would also make it less efficient. I
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by nibbula 7y ago
Although I admire and frequently agree with this blog, I think this article exhibits some common misconceptions about NeWS. NeWS had what amounted to uploadable toolkits, and therefore could and did have multiple toolkits. A client could de
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by nibbula 7y ago
Like a literal tar fire? Or a tar format archive fire? Or is that a California expression I'm not familiar with? Also this makes me have a sick curiosity if one could have transpiled a whole Genera world to C with cfront or something t
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by nibbula 7y ago
Now 30 some years later I finally see what all that weird and broken stuff in in SunView and XView was trying to do, and what a blatant but poorly executed copy it was. But now seeing how much better than Cedar/Mesa was than C, it&#x27
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by nibbula 7y ago
If you think you are having no default mode activity, you are likely fooling yourself. It is externally observable when humans have a quieter default mode, through subtleties of behavior, one can notice a calming presence, like that of non-
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by nibbula 7y ago
It is the observation of linguists that some language processing is hardware accelerated. But hardware acceleration comes in a great many varieties, anywhere from having a slightly smaller partially specialized neuron group in the frontal l
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by nibbula 7y ago
It is not only healthy, but a great ability to be respected and cultivated. It is also good to learn to not do this. Saying it's unhealthy is like saying /dev/random is unhealty, but /dev/null is, or stars are bad b
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by nibbula 7y ago
I'm already living in that universe, but with even more composability.
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by nibbula 7y ago
It's sad, but worse is better is so pervasive, that even many of you very smart people have difficulty conceiving of what the problem is, much less what would be a better way, not because it's particularly hard, but because of tec
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by nibbula 7y ago
"Strong" AI is a person, whom you also shouldn't mistreat. Let's hope they think the same about us.

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