This sounds like the backstory for Alan Dean Foster's "Cyber Way". I enjoyed the novel, didn't realize how well rooted it was in actual history.
I'd never heard of her, so I checked wikipedia. Try that.
OOP has always felt to me like it was inspired by writing GUI APIs; Sun's Suntools -> Sunview -> xview (if I'm remembering the names right) were early-mid 1980s C, and felt beautifully OO, and very clean to write GUI…
Thank you!
I find it tempting to try and shove this story into an origin tale for W.E.I.R.D. --- Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic. But I guess the timing is off; this is within, not before, that.
I hadn't heard of this gizmo, seems to be a small e-ink display on an rpi: https://learn.pimoroni.com/article/getting-started-with-badg...
Can you buy a new car without a data plan anymore?
I think you're responding to your interpretation of the title, rather than the article. They aren't proposing increasing asymptomatic disease, they're discussing trying to reduce damage done to individuals.
I have a clear memory that, at the time, cellphone carriers were adamant about strictly controlling how their networks were used. If anything but voice or SMS crossed their network, they wanted to be bribed to permit…
Are there any open source passkey implementations? My password manager of choice is open source, and cross-platform, and can export and later (or elsewhere) import an encrypted backup.
I'd forgotten all about that gizmo. Under the heading Steve Jobs in my memory, it got completely replaced by "the computer for the rest of them", with a GUI tuned to hide the computer, to prevent users from being…
My favourite exploration of the potential novel applications of room temperature superconductors is Larry Niven's Ringworld.
I need to read more new books; I've not been seeing the benefits of this.
I found this really fun, reflecting as it does the views before the acceptance and experimental confirmation that there is no lumeniferous aether, and that the speed of light is constant in all reference frames. I've…
I haven't paid attention in many years, but at least for the first few years (after it grew from a data format to a scripting language), each release of Lua was more powerful, faster, and smaller in executable size,…
I've always felt that Common Lisp was the Lisp family incarnation of PL/I; include everything you think might be helpful to offer a warm welcome to folks coming from FORTRAN or COBOL.
I can name three, too: Algorithms and Data Structures, Compiler Construction, and Artificial Intelligence. But their usefulness built atop a lot of math and electrical engineering. In hindsight, I wish I'd taken more…
My mom learned COBOL while she was getting a degree in accounting; according to her, the language is such a clear mapping from narrative jargon usage in accounting and bookkeeping that she was using features her class…
I can't seem to reach the original URL; this seems to work: https://web.archive.org/web/20230303122025/https://commoncog...
I love Robert Frost's poem "Fire and Ice" on this topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and_Ice_%28poem%29
For whatever it's worth, I got repeated failures trying to install this through the f-droid client. But going to the f-droid web page (as pointed to in the above link) and downloading the (c. 50MB) apk and installing…
I wouldn't have thought of this before this issue came up, but I just searched for "software written in go", and sadly, there seems to be a lot of it. I wonder if all the folks outside of Google will remember to turn…
This feels adjacent to something I've done for a long time: I will do a task of moderate complexity by hand, typing several commands as needed, until I've done it enough to get a feel for how it varies, and only then…
I'm studying rust. In the past, I've used C when I wanted or needed to get close to hardware; even short snatches of assembler. I hope to never again have to write a non-trivial C program and make it thread-safe. Rust…
I don't know yet. I've heard about at least two languages that adore threads, and have issues with multi-processing. Perl6 has threads in its runtime helping its GC --- and calling fork kills its programs. I don't know…
This sounds like the backstory for Alan Dean Foster's "Cyber Way". I enjoyed the novel, didn't realize how well rooted it was in actual history.
I'd never heard of her, so I checked wikipedia. Try that.
OOP has always felt to me like it was inspired by writing GUI APIs; Sun's Suntools -> Sunview -> xview (if I'm remembering the names right) were early-mid 1980s C, and felt beautifully OO, and very clean to write GUI…
Thank you!
I find it tempting to try and shove this story into an origin tale for W.E.I.R.D. --- Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic. But I guess the timing is off; this is within, not before, that.
I hadn't heard of this gizmo, seems to be a small e-ink display on an rpi: https://learn.pimoroni.com/article/getting-started-with-badg...
Can you buy a new car without a data plan anymore?
I think you're responding to your interpretation of the title, rather than the article. They aren't proposing increasing asymptomatic disease, they're discussing trying to reduce damage done to individuals.
I have a clear memory that, at the time, cellphone carriers were adamant about strictly controlling how their networks were used. If anything but voice or SMS crossed their network, they wanted to be bribed to permit…
Are there any open source passkey implementations? My password manager of choice is open source, and cross-platform, and can export and later (or elsewhere) import an encrypted backup.
I'd forgotten all about that gizmo. Under the heading Steve Jobs in my memory, it got completely replaced by "the computer for the rest of them", with a GUI tuned to hide the computer, to prevent users from being…
My favourite exploration of the potential novel applications of room temperature superconductors is Larry Niven's Ringworld.
I need to read more new books; I've not been seeing the benefits of this.
I found this really fun, reflecting as it does the views before the acceptance and experimental confirmation that there is no lumeniferous aether, and that the speed of light is constant in all reference frames. I've…
I haven't paid attention in many years, but at least for the first few years (after it grew from a data format to a scripting language), each release of Lua was more powerful, faster, and smaller in executable size,…
I've always felt that Common Lisp was the Lisp family incarnation of PL/I; include everything you think might be helpful to offer a warm welcome to folks coming from FORTRAN or COBOL.
I can name three, too: Algorithms and Data Structures, Compiler Construction, and Artificial Intelligence. But their usefulness built atop a lot of math and electrical engineering. In hindsight, I wish I'd taken more…
My mom learned COBOL while she was getting a degree in accounting; according to her, the language is such a clear mapping from narrative jargon usage in accounting and bookkeeping that she was using features her class…
I can't seem to reach the original URL; this seems to work: https://web.archive.org/web/20230303122025/https://commoncog...
I love Robert Frost's poem "Fire and Ice" on this topic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and_Ice_%28poem%29
For whatever it's worth, I got repeated failures trying to install this through the f-droid client. But going to the f-droid web page (as pointed to in the above link) and downloading the (c. 50MB) apk and installing…
I wouldn't have thought of this before this issue came up, but I just searched for "software written in go", and sadly, there seems to be a lot of it. I wonder if all the folks outside of Google will remember to turn…
This feels adjacent to something I've done for a long time: I will do a task of moderate complexity by hand, typing several commands as needed, until I've done it enough to get a feel for how it varies, and only then…
I'm studying rust. In the past, I've used C when I wanted or needed to get close to hardware; even short snatches of assembler. I hope to never again have to write a non-trivial C program and make it thread-safe. Rust…
I don't know yet. I've heard about at least two languages that adore threads, and have issues with multi-processing. Perl6 has threads in its runtime helping its GC --- and calling fork kills its programs. I don't know…