Gregory's Server
VΓ€gen mot en minimal Forth arkitektur.pdf
https://leahneukirchen.org/blog/archive/2020/04/brute-forthing-minimal-programs-for-stack-arrangements.html
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The great blindness explosion of 2024 caused by cheap amazon eclipse glasses.  @neauoire I've been expecting something like this since I saw where the path of totality was.  @neauoire Back in school I made my own, which probably wasn't my smartest move. Two pieces of glass from welding goggles, a red gel filter and a blue gel filter, glued on sunglassed "borrowed" from my sister. Tested it with various strong lamps. Also only did one side, the other was covered up just in case and used it more no more than like 10 seconds at a time. Still not exactly a good idea. I have gotten a lot more careful since then... Falling in love with @wryl's Modal language, a simple string replacement engine that exists beyond programming paradigms, and allow your code to mimic other languages.
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 :mocking: Combinatory logic, lisp processor or concatenative language, using only string rewrites. This is going to keep me up at night. @neauoire excellent recommendation, thanks I had read her book before, but only after listening this podcast I have the feeling that she was the Hari Seldom of our time. Did not know that her book was so controversial at her time and her enemies used the same arguments as climate-sceptics do nowadays. Wanda is a Forth-like, "concatenative" programming language that's arguably not concatenative at all, nor even "stack-based", because it's based on a string-rewriting semantics. For those of you that couldnβt make it to Ianβs talk here is a video of the presentation. /talk.asx <__< "thanks" I often get asked what other systems like Uxn there are out there, so I made a list or relevant small virtual machines and ISAs. Some people think that Pico-8 is its closest neighbor, but it's in fact quite distant:
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Since version 3, TeX has used an idiosyncratic version numbering system, where updates have been indicated by adding an extra digit, so that the version number asymptotically approaches Ο. The current version of TeX is 3.141592653; it was last updated in 2021. Thanks @typeswitch for the discovery.
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 @neauoire  @neauoire @typeswitch and it will reach pi when Donald Kunth dies, when every bug will instantly be considered a feature.  βYeah but this is the most convoluted Rube-Goldberg way of doing something Iβve ever seen.β We got the new thicker chainplates from the metal fabricator, they look excellent, we've strengthened the deck around where they go through.
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Got our new chainplates from the machinist! Helped @rek making the splash page a bit more responsive, check it out! > He went away from the basement and left this note on his terminal: "I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season." Is this
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 @neauoire Honestly, not enough software takes into account broken or partially broken input devices. Eg.: my PinePhone's GUI crashed when I was attending Function and I couldn't log in on the terminal because the Linux login prompt doesn't have support for showing my password and the typematic delay on the hardware keyboard was set too low.  Typical officer shit here. West Point has computer labs; the cadet could have just gone and used a working machine. Instead, the cadet made other people do a bunch of work to make up for the consequences of their own carelessness. This is why enlisted people make sure there's always an adult NCO following any West Point graduate around to protect them from themselves...
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@neauoire Nu kΓΆr vi!
@neauoire there's something haskell-ish in the way the `--` token separates "what must be pulled" from "what will be pushed ...
(if I understood those expressions properly)