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It’s not truly fair to call it an esolang given that it was used by mainframe customers for decades. It’s more like a less popular product than COBOL…

From the related story on the same site (not able to trademark the designs): https://www.guitarworld.com/music-industry/fender-legal-ruli...

The ruling comes 17 years after Fender was famously unsuccessful in its attempts to make its Stratocaster, Telecaster and Precision guitar body shapes a trademark in the US, decades after the designs were first produced.

That litigation process lasted five years, and demonstrated that countless companies had used the body shapes that Fender had sought to trademark. In the end, the courts ruled that the Stratocaster shape was “so common that it is depicted as a generic electric guitar in a dictionary”.

Maybe they just have bad lawyers and Anthropic has good lawyers…

Yes.

I agree with you on the Ideapads; the only reason to buy is on price: I bought a new one with Pentium Silver CPU and 4Gb RAM for $150 on sale and added 8gb RAM and installed Linux. With external keyboard and monitor it works great!

Such a system with 4GB is eminently useful for many applications; I have an old Acer Chromebook I installed Linux on and have it sitting in the corner quietly and coolly emulating a VAX system with performance equivalent to a Vaxstation 4000/60 or so.

The story on this is that it has 50 sounds that it makes; competing units with less than about 50 sounds, the animals get used to and don’t view the wolf as threatening after a while. However with 50 sounds the animals do not get used to it and they are scared away.

The Raspberry Pi and probably other versions of Dyalog APL has all the characters visible across the window and is interactive with a REPL.

I’m kind of confused, in that Israel is not that big in terms of population, about 10 million people; how much data and cloud do they need?

The state of Pennsylvania is 13 million; would MSFT losing PA do them serious financial damage?

It depends on how you want to treat the internal (not seen by user or compiler) decoding that both AMD and Intel are doing; some would argue that these CPUs are RISC chips that decode x86 and x64 instructions into their own RISC implementation.

A shabby NYC apartment in the 1940s could be rented for $30/month. So producing just 1 bill a day would be enough to meet the rent.

Not mentioned is that Gemini does a pretty good job of writing Go in my experience of using it to generate utility scripts, and a friend’s use of generating an internal website for using a corporate API.

This is a poorly supported take, once you factor in the productive parts of the economy.

If you have a lot of farmland in a red state and the profits are reported in a blue state, then counting the reported profits on the corporate balance sheet will give a distorted picture of what is happening.

Look at e.g. General Mills, based in a blue state, but a great deal of what they buy are ag inputs from red states.

Note as well that a screenful of user-entered checked/constrained text, meant for some form of database query or insert, meant just one interrupt to the mainframe CPU; and all the info was there in an easy to parse format. Very low use of resources.

Mardi Gras actually originated in Mobile, Alabama; and it is celebrated with big parades and "krewes" all along the Gulf Coast, at least as far as Pensacola, Florida.

I have an Acer Chromebook with Celeron N3060 CPU and it runs the SIMH VAX emulator with 64MB for the VAX at the same speed as a Vaxstation 4000/60 and likely the disk is much faster.

I like OpenVMS and am slowly learning more about it; no reason to wait until you see those hit eBay :-)

He famously doesn’t believe in God, but he believes in Claude?

Have you seen an increase in usage of the L1 and is that being scrutinized by USCIS more than before?

I wonder if EWD would have had the same opinion if he were alive today, with every Unicode font having the APL characters immediately available on the screen.

Did he feel the language design was bad, or would having TTF fonts being able to show "rho", "iota", "grade up" have removed one or more of his objections?

From what I have seen, not too much, though vehicles might have a higher rate due to impounded cars etc.

They are trying to make a moat where no possibility of creating a moat exists.

It’s a huge mistake at the level of IBM trying to reestablish dominance over PCs by making MicroChannel the new standard; this failed horribly and cost IBM its market leadership and reputation.

MCA was technically better at the time, but the industry responded with EISA and VLBus which led to PCI and today’s PCIe.

Even before ATI was acquired by AMD they had driver support problems.

When I was working for a Unix commercial graphics software company, the CTO told me how bad the information he received under ATI’s NDA was: different revisions of the same chipset had contradictory register settings, so the driver had to identify the revision before writing a value to the write-only configuration registers. The same chipset might need a 0 or a 1; writing the wrong values could crash the driver.

Killdall viewed it as a serious question, at the least.

More accurately, “the assembly language programmer Tim Paterson has always claimed that he did not look at the implementation”.

That Kildall later decided that turnabout is fair play, is not that surprising…

However my point is that now, everyone can assess the source code for themselves.

Now the debate over whether Gary Kildall’s claim of CP/M code being included in the first version of DOS can be examined in full; since the assembler code is available for scrutiny.

The setting is there, somewhere, I agree; but no one can tell you how to change it or what the implications might be.

So unless I want to dig into their YAML files that are not documented…

I can tell you how vendors deliver a software solution that runs on Kubernetes: very poorly.

The needed tweaks, the ability to customize things, basically goes to zero because the support staff is technical about the software, but NOT about Kubernetes.

I am not joking: a recent deployment required 3x VMs for Kubernetes, each VM having 256 gigabytes of RAM; then a separate 3x VMs for a different piece. 1.5TB of RAM to manage less than 1200 network devices (routers etc. that run BGP).

No one knew, for instance, how to lower the MongoDB (because of course you need it!) resource usage, despite the fact that the clustered VMware install is using a very fast SSD storage solution and thus MongoDB is unlikely accelerate anything; so over 128GB RAM is being burned on caching the results coming back from SSDs that are running at many-GB/s throughput.

I reject the idea outright because I have no desire to negotiate with crocodiles over my being eaten last :-)

It is not trustworthy full stop. A simple amendment passed the next year can change it.

A friend is an organic farmer in Saskatchewan who has been buying specifically older mechanical only tractors; after a heart attack that will require him to sell off his farm, he’s finding lots of potential buyers.

If you didn’t inform people ahead of time, it’s probably not “scheduled”…