There is something else here to feel sad about, which is bigger than the effect of AI on the lives and careers of individual programmers. In the last eighty years or so, humanity has created something called 'Computer…
In 1000 years, people speaking what they will call English won't be able to understand the English we are writing today, any more than you can understand the English of 1026 -- it was a different language then, now…
This guy lost me right at the beginning. He says that we write software in English because the USA won World War II with the help of the Colossus computer to break codes. Then he shows a picture of ENIAC, and suggests…
The Xanadu proposal dates from the mid-20th century so it includes a quaint assumption from that era: people expect to be paid for the work they do. What, people are supposed to spend hours typing at a computer for no…
... Ted Nelson’s 1974 manifesto, Computer Lib/Dream Machines, extolling the vision of Project Xanadu hypertext. Computer Lib/Dream Machines was not about project Xanadu, it merely mentions it on a few pages. I recall…
I looked at the linked repo at https://github.com/machdyne/zeitlos/tree/main, just skimmed a few of the Verilog HDL files and C program files. There is a ton of work here! The files are rich with block comments that…
What hardware have you run the UEFI version on? Can you assume that pretty much any computer these days provides UEFI firmware that supports ThoreauBASIC, or might some computers provide only a cut-down UEFI that…
Maybe that was https://github.com/TYDQSoft/UEFIPascalOS
Thanks, this is helpful.
I am curious how you built your BASIC as an EFI application. I didn't find any source code or build instructions in the downloads. I am investigating whether it would be feasible to do something similar for Python.
Possibly pertinent: Principia Mathematica Maps and Table Site (PM-MATS): https://principia.lib.uiowa.edu/about.html - more description in my top-level comment in this page.
Principia Mathematica Maps and Table Site (PM-MATS): https://principia.lib.uiowa.edu/about.html "The goal of this project is to make clear structural connections between different parts of Principia and to make…
I was flirting with the idea ... Plus some insanely cool ideas ... The problem is that as beautiful as programing in that sound, we're not even coding anymore, AIs will take the fun of it. We've come to this. The mere…
It looks surprisingly Mac-like, except the font kind of spoils the illusion.
Previously: Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908271 9 days ago, 182 points, 104 comments
From the article: "... Working a corporate job had enough drudgery to begin with, but the last year it has become more necessary than ever to have a place of accomplishment which is simple and fun. ... Having a project…
John Von Neumann and Norbert Weiner: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death by Steve Heims (1982) Out of print but libraries have it. Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Weiner, the…
Here's a simulation in Lisp: https://josephoswald.nfshost.com/circuit-sim/woz-machine-hw-...
I wonder what a hobby OS would have looked like it if it assumed nothing, that is, as a thought experiment ... There are some hobby OS projects that do this. The best known example is Terry Davis' TempleOS.…
"Did you take that test yourself?"
Curlie is the successor to DMOZ: https://curlie.org/docs/en/about.html But Curlie doesn't appear in the website linked in the parent post.
Grugs are a different species: https://grugbrain.dev/
In Elif Batuman's 2017 novel The Idiot, about a naive Harvard student, her not-really-a-boyfriend Ivan, a math student, enthuses to her about Emacs. The book is set in 1995. I enjoyed the book. It got good reviews and…
https://sites.gatech.edu/alexburgin/on-self-respect-by-joan-... Dramatic sepia photograph contrasts with understated gray text on light gray background with lots of empty space.
https://dfns.dyalog.com/n_sudoku.htm Explanation of Sudoku in APL. Lots of information, absolutely no clutter. Entire page is nothing but text in a single precise sans-serif typewriter font, the same size and strength…
There is something else here to feel sad about, which is bigger than the effect of AI on the lives and careers of individual programmers. In the last eighty years or so, humanity has created something called 'Computer…
In 1000 years, people speaking what they will call English won't be able to understand the English we are writing today, any more than you can understand the English of 1026 -- it was a different language then, now…
This guy lost me right at the beginning. He says that we write software in English because the USA won World War II with the help of the Colossus computer to break codes. Then he shows a picture of ENIAC, and suggests…
The Xanadu proposal dates from the mid-20th century so it includes a quaint assumption from that era: people expect to be paid for the work they do. What, people are supposed to spend hours typing at a computer for no…
... Ted Nelson’s 1974 manifesto, Computer Lib/Dream Machines, extolling the vision of Project Xanadu hypertext. Computer Lib/Dream Machines was not about project Xanadu, it merely mentions it on a few pages. I recall…
I looked at the linked repo at https://github.com/machdyne/zeitlos/tree/main, just skimmed a few of the Verilog HDL files and C program files. There is a ton of work here! The files are rich with block comments that…
What hardware have you run the UEFI version on? Can you assume that pretty much any computer these days provides UEFI firmware that supports ThoreauBASIC, or might some computers provide only a cut-down UEFI that…
Maybe that was https://github.com/TYDQSoft/UEFIPascalOS
Thanks, this is helpful.
I am curious how you built your BASIC as an EFI application. I didn't find any source code or build instructions in the downloads. I am investigating whether it would be feasible to do something similar for Python.
Possibly pertinent: Principia Mathematica Maps and Table Site (PM-MATS): https://principia.lib.uiowa.edu/about.html - more description in my top-level comment in this page.
Principia Mathematica Maps and Table Site (PM-MATS): https://principia.lib.uiowa.edu/about.html "The goal of this project is to make clear structural connections between different parts of Principia and to make…
I was flirting with the idea ... Plus some insanely cool ideas ... The problem is that as beautiful as programing in that sound, we're not even coding anymore, AIs will take the fun of it. We've come to this. The mere…
It looks surprisingly Mac-like, except the font kind of spoils the illusion.
Previously: Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908271 9 days ago, 182 points, 104 comments
From the article: "... Working a corporate job had enough drudgery to begin with, but the last year it has become more necessary than ever to have a place of accomplishment which is simple and fun. ... Having a project…
John Von Neumann and Norbert Weiner: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death by Steve Heims (1982) Out of print but libraries have it. Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Weiner, the…
Here's a simulation in Lisp: https://josephoswald.nfshost.com/circuit-sim/woz-machine-hw-...
I wonder what a hobby OS would have looked like it if it assumed nothing, that is, as a thought experiment ... There are some hobby OS projects that do this. The best known example is Terry Davis' TempleOS.…
"Did you take that test yourself?"
Curlie is the successor to DMOZ: https://curlie.org/docs/en/about.html But Curlie doesn't appear in the website linked in the parent post.
Grugs are a different species: https://grugbrain.dev/
In Elif Batuman's 2017 novel The Idiot, about a naive Harvard student, her not-really-a-boyfriend Ivan, a math student, enthuses to her about Emacs. The book is set in 1995. I enjoyed the book. It got good reviews and…
https://sites.gatech.edu/alexburgin/on-self-respect-by-joan-... Dramatic sepia photograph contrasts with understated gray text on light gray background with lots of empty space.
https://dfns.dyalog.com/n_sudoku.htm Explanation of Sudoku in APL. Lots of information, absolutely no clutter. Entire page is nothing but text in a single precise sans-serif typewriter font, the same size and strength…