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…
https://www.datagubbe.se/short/ Header, body, trailer panels with three complementary background shades that soften the large black sans-serif typography.
What project was that? via this discussion in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22729461 (2020) I found: Writing an OS in Rust: Async/Await (2020) https://os.phil-opp.com/async-await/ Blogging about Midori:…
Particles accelerating in a cyclotron at sufficiently high energy reach relativistic speeds. You have to account for their relativistic mass increase to get the cyclotron to work. Figuring this out was a big issue in…
I haven't seen it mentioned here or in the obituaries, but Peter started the RISKS Digest in 1985 partly in response to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, "Star Wars") which proposed a space-based anti-ballistic…
Previously, 2023, 19 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35982037 There are updates in the last several months, so it looks like the project is still active.
Nice page design, so I will try to read the content.
Also pertinent and well-written, from the Vatican itself, including some quotes from Pope Francis: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu... ANTIQUA ET NOVA: Note on the Relationship Between…
"Keep cool, but care" - McClintic Sphere, ca 1959 (fictional jazz musician in V, the 1963 novel by Thomas Pynchon)
This is a remarkable, very unusual project. It looks well thought out and is surprisingly complete -- it even includes an end-to-end ML training and sampling program as an example! Is there a writeup somewhere that…
I'm getting a 404 on the repo. Possible alternatives: smolOS: https://smol.p1x.in/os/ https://github.com/w84death/smolOS/ upyOS: https://github.com/rbenrax/upyOS MicroPythonOS: https://micropythonos.com/…
Starfleet Academy is some woke fever dream ... This is entirely in keeping with the Star Trek tradition. It had a multiracial cast and female officers in 1966, when that was quite unusual in a TV show.
Very interesting! FYI, other operating systems in Haskell: House, 2005: https://programatica.cs.pdx.edu//House/ HalVM, 2008: https://github.com/GaloisInc/HaLVM also HalNS network stack 2011:…
Previously, 11 months ago, 282 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625474
Rob Pike, one of the Unix developers, observed people turning away from their philosophy back in 2001: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy http://herpolhode.com/rob/ugly.pdf "What Unix does well isn’t what…
A newer book, from 2016, ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer by Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestly, and Crispin Rope https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262334433/eniac-in-action/ An interesting revelation here…
Another book that might have some similarities, apparently from 2020: https://aesthetic-programming.net/ Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox Also…
Mr. Hoare (yep not a Dr.) Hoare's undergraduate degree from Oxford was in Literae Humaniores, nicknamed Greats - ancient Rome, ancient Greece, Latin, Ancient Greek, and philosophy. In the US, this course of study is…
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…
https://www.datagubbe.se/short/ Header, body, trailer panels with three complementary background shades that soften the large black sans-serif typography.
What project was that? via this discussion in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22729461 (2020) I found: Writing an OS in Rust: Async/Await (2020) https://os.phil-opp.com/async-await/ Blogging about Midori:…
Particles accelerating in a cyclotron at sufficiently high energy reach relativistic speeds. You have to account for their relativistic mass increase to get the cyclotron to work. Figuring this out was a big issue in…
I haven't seen it mentioned here or in the obituaries, but Peter started the RISKS Digest in 1985 partly in response to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI, "Star Wars") which proposed a space-based anti-ballistic…
Previously, 2023, 19 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35982037 There are updates in the last several months, so it looks like the project is still active.
Nice page design, so I will try to read the content.
Also pertinent and well-written, from the Vatican itself, including some quotes from Pope Francis: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docu... ANTIQUA ET NOVA: Note on the Relationship Between…
"Keep cool, but care" - McClintic Sphere, ca 1959 (fictional jazz musician in V, the 1963 novel by Thomas Pynchon)
This is a remarkable, very unusual project. It looks well thought out and is surprisingly complete -- it even includes an end-to-end ML training and sampling program as an example! Is there a writeup somewhere that…
I'm getting a 404 on the repo. Possible alternatives: smolOS: https://smol.p1x.in/os/ https://github.com/w84death/smolOS/ upyOS: https://github.com/rbenrax/upyOS MicroPythonOS: https://micropythonos.com/…
Starfleet Academy is some woke fever dream ... This is entirely in keeping with the Star Trek tradition. It had a multiracial cast and female officers in 1966, when that was quite unusual in a TV show.
Very interesting! FYI, other operating systems in Haskell: House, 2005: https://programatica.cs.pdx.edu//House/ HalVM, 2008: https://github.com/GaloisInc/HaLVM also HalNS network stack 2011:…
Previously, 11 months ago, 282 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43625474
Rob Pike, one of the Unix developers, observed people turning away from their philosophy back in 2001: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy http://herpolhode.com/rob/ugly.pdf "What Unix does well isn’t what…
A newer book, from 2016, ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer by Thomas Haigh, Mark Priestly, and Crispin Rope https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262334433/eniac-in-action/ An interesting revelation here…
Another book that might have some similarities, apparently from 2020: https://aesthetic-programming.net/ Aesthetic Programming: A Handbook of Software Studies Winnie Soon and Geoff Cox Also…
Mr. Hoare (yep not a Dr.) Hoare's undergraduate degree from Oxford was in Literae Humaniores, nicknamed Greats - ancient Rome, ancient Greece, Latin, Ancient Greek, and philosophy. In the US, this course of study is…