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rjsw··on Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout
Hoka was founded by former Salomon employees, why would they want to move from Annecy?
rjsw··on Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests
At least one traditional UK bank requires a selfie and a passport scan.
rjsw··on Benchmark: CadQuery vs. OpenSCAD for agentic CAD work
There was a blog post from a couple of days ago that had been initially flagged, it seemed to me to have a good overview of AI for CAD, will try to find the link.
rjsw··on I refuse to let SPICE die
We could speedrun this and just call every product "the thing".
rjsw··on How the Chorleywood Bread Process transformed British bread
Supermarket bread in France is also industrial.
rjsw··on Version control second coming
People complained about having to use ClearCase back then, it wasn't just the price that was wrong with it.
rjsw··on Ancient cave art suggests first known humans in Ireland walked over from Wales
There was an ice sheet starting just north of this area, it would have melted at 10°C.
rjsw··on Just Bury Your Trash
I have been using the same mug for 50 years.
rjsw··on Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit
A related argument could be whether the output of an LLM that has been trained on GPL code should also be considered to be under a GPL licence.
rjsw··on 25,000 Lbs. Of Chicken Products Recalled in 5 States: USDA
TBF, there are current problems with imported chicken products elsewhere.
rjsw··on A curmudgeon tries a language server
Interlisp-D was more image based.

You could type something in to the repl then add it to a file later.

There was a structure editor that worked on the s-expression of a function, including any comments as they were represented as a special form within that structure.

  (* This is a comment)
See section 7 of the introductory guide [1].

[1] https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xe...

rjsw··on A curmudgeon tries a language server
Even the original MIT Lisp Machine was designed around editing source files, there were "compile the current function" keybindings and menu options in the version of Emacs for it.

You could also type an individual function into the repl then pretty-print it to a file but that typically expands out any read macros that you may have used.

rjsw··on I keep getting flagged for AI, but I suck at writing. How can I solve this?
I think you will find that a technical audience is much more tolerant of imperfect English than you seem to expect.
rjsw··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
The level of border controls hasn't changed, only the technology used to implement it.
rjsw··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
The new EU regulation on Digital Product Passports may have similar effects on small businesses.

I was expecting that they would build the "passport" on top of existing design standards but that doesn't seem to be the case, the recent webinar on it doesn't go into much detail though.

rjsw··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
People don't want complete integration.

If I go into the Carrefour in Sallanches (FR) then I will buy a completely different set of products to those that I would buy in the Carrefour in Aosta (IT), the two are 80km apart, I have shopped in both multiple times.

I don't think the supermarket example really maps across to the subject of the linked article.

rjsw··on How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
There are ALDI stores in France, I don't know which ALDI without looking it up. Carrefour has stores in Italy and Spain.
rjsw··on Over 5,200 Ebola cases recorded in Congo
Before COVID, I had thought that bushmeat [1] could be the route that spread Ebola to Europe, people smuggle it in their luggage.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmeat

rjsw··on Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent?
In the equivalent AMD/Xilinx parts (Zynq), you connect up all the hard IP macros using the FPGA fabric.
rjsw··on Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent?
The article doesn't mention anything about what FPGA image is loaded into the thing.

My guess would be that you can choose how to connect the CPU cores to the cache controller, you might want to run the CPUs independently.

rjsw··on What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x
Douglas Adams captured this in "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency", a VCR watches TV for you and an Electric Monk believes things for you to save you the effort of doing it yourself.
rjsw··on CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s
The TMS 34010 was also available at that time and could support high resolution screens and accelerated graphics, the article states that it was an Intel graphics card though.
rjsw··on CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s
Is your idea that NeXT machines had more sharp edges than other computers so would make it easier to collect blood?
rjsw··on Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga
From reading the linked page, they both compile to bytecode not native instructions.

There are open source Common Lisp systems for the OG Macintosh that compile to native instructions that could probably be ported to AmigaOS.

Cambridge Lisp contained a native code compiler and was available on AmigaOS.

rjsw··on Ruby 4.0 Universal RCE Deserialization Gadget Chain
I have to use several gems that download and compile C sources from github at install time.
rjsw··on Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7
I use Common Lisp at work.
rjsw··on AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Review: 3D V-Cache Gaming Performance for Less
Other countries have computer shops too.

The one where I bought the components for my current desktop has those CPUs listed, the 7800X3D is only £5 more than the 7700X3D.

rjsw··on The Psychology of Software Teams
Not just first-year. I don't think psychologists ever lose their urge to perform experiments on any people they meet.
rjsw··on Firefox 153.0 Beta
Does it work with the DRM stuff that can be in a PDF?

I have a PDF that I can't view at all.

rjsw··on HMD Touch 4G
Some of HMD's KaiOS phones can be hotspots too, I have a 6300 4G that I use for that.
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