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mepian··on T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97°F
I read the headline in Celsius and thought that they were a bit too hot.
mepian··on Japan's book scene is moving from bookstores to libraries
Ancient Rome also had slavery.
mepian··on Maak.el: Lisp machine command runner in Emacs, infinitely extensible and Scheme
What does it have to do with the Lisp machine?
mepian··on Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics
Pretty much all of graphics research now revolves around machine learning, whether it’s neural networks or something like Gaussian splatting.
mepian··on When Russia Colonised California
Starovery (Old Believers) maybe?
mepian··on NASA abandons orbit-boost attempt to rescue Swift space telescope
Blogspam, here’s the source: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-updates-next-steps-fo...
mepian··on KisakCOD – Open-source reimplementation of Call of Duty 4 Multiplayer
It's derived from Jedi Academy's source code which is licensed under GPL.
mepian··on The myth of Snow Leopard
FreeBSD is definitely not a "GPL OS", the license is right in the name!
mepian··on Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts
A/UX predates Xserve by 14 years.
mepian··on Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS
I'm pretty sure this is just the mod SDK as well.
mepian··on Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS
That repository is not the engine, it's just the code for the client.dll/server.dll binaries that contain game-specific logic and some other tools.
mepian··on Developer gets Half-Life running at 30 FPS on a Nokia N95
Didn't Valve release a huge update to Half-Life in 2023 (i.e. 6 years after the linked comment was written)?
mepian··on Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)
Is it Tasha?
mepian··on I keep bouncing off the Scheme language
> I do wonder what a language with the same “taste” and minimalism as Scheme but embracing the actor model would look like.

There is Spritely Goblins: https://spritely.institute/goblins/

mepian··on Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp
You haven't seen the Lisp subreddit then, there is a post complaining about having to learn Emacs at least once every week or so.
mepian··on Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp
There is an explanation in the blog: https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/

> However, the above is a tall order for someone just wanting to dip their toes in, to see if they have any interest in Coalton or Common Lisp. A couple hours on the weekend is easily sunk into getting configurations right, and the right subsystems installed, and the right paths setup, just so the first line of code can be executed.

> mine is not Emacs. It aims to eliminate all of that, and be a Coalton/Lisp-first development environment, whose only job is to be a Coalton/Lisp-first development environment. But more than that, it needs to be accessible. A non-programmer should find it easy to download, install, and run mine with nothing more than a download link.

mepian··on Amiga Unix (Amix)
OpenLook is nice but it's a bit of a shame it doesn't have its own version of Workbench.
mepian··on Germany joins European partners with troop deployment to Greenland
A base becomes useless pretty quickly if it can't be resupplied, I suspect there is enough hostile AA around it to ensure that.
mepian··on GOG's new owner can't stand Windows either: 'It's such poor-quality software '
There is the Heroic Game Launcher that also interfaces with the Epic Games Store.
mepian··on Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep
At least one of the lead developers of Étoilé moved on to CHERI.
mepian··on Gershwin-desktop: OS X-like Desktop Environment based on GNUStep
Haiku is not related to Étoilé.
mepian··on Z2 – Lithographically fabricated IC in a garage fab
It's not technologically feasible unless plastic aka flexible ICs take off.
mepian··on The lost cause of the Lisp machines
Azul Systems was making Java machines a while ago.
mepian··on An opinionated critique of Duolingo
When did they add that? When I was trying to learn Japanese 6-7 years ago Duolingo didn’t have anything for either kana or kanji…
mepian··on Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012)
I remember reading or hearing somewhere that this was a one-off thing, but I can't remember where.

EDIT: Another comment mentioned Chet Faliszek, he was probably the source.

mepian··on AI is a Junior Dev and needs a Lead
Juniors usually learn on the job.
mepian··on Intel Foundry demonstrates first Arm-based chip on 18a node
Intel demonstrated a RISC-V chip called Horse Creek two years ago.
mepian··on Intel Foundry demonstrates first Arm-based chip on 18a node
Probably directly from Arm? https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1614/...
mepian··on Meta Is Going to Let Job Candidates Use AI During Coding Tests
> higher than Qualcomm

That’s a pretty low bar for a software company.

mepian··on Shutting Down Clear Linux OS
The laid off employees will move on to a new full-time job, your fork will have to find maintainers somewhere else.
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