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CPython is written in C, did running it on Risc-V take more than a recompilation? Were there any surprises? Yes of course it needs testing and RISC-V in the CI stack, but I'd expect fairly smooth sailing.

Meanwhlie Grok and other AI bro bots non-consensually scrape everything.

$65, out of stock, store link: https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5papermono-with-lora-nfc-...

I would also like to see manageable amounts of update traffic. In the old days I had De Lorme street maps of the whole US. It was sold on a CD-ROM so the whole dataset was at most 700MB. It didn't have updates. I also have paper maps (Thomas Guide) of my local region in my car, from the 1990s, and they're still perfectly good in most places. Roads don't move around THAT often. But I have Organic Maps (predecessor of Comaps, maybe I should switch) for just some parts of California and that by itself is more than 1GB of updates EVERY MONTH.

Really seriously, if I go to someplace out of my area I might download that place's map of 500MB or whatever, but then I probably want to just leave it on my phone in case I go there again, no updates needed. I'd like an install for the entire US to be no bigger than say 100GB (my phone "only" has 256GB of storage), and maybe I want monthly updates for my local region of 200MB/month, then perhaps annual updates for everything else unless marked as being of special interest. Plus manual update on demand for wherever if I think I might travel there.

Could the comaps vs organic maps situation be explained please? tx

I mean why not? There was a math guy who wanted wider viewership for his calculus lectures than he was getting on youtube, so he started uploading them to a porn site and built up a steady audience and income there.

Added: did web search, maybe this is the guy, not sure.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/math-tutor-video-lessons-por...

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/v3e8ye/i_am_changhsu_...

Oh here's another one:

https://www.unilad.com/community/zara-dar-pornhub-machine-le...

That one mentions that Pornhub pays around 2.5x as much per view as Youtube pays, so it's an obvious win.

I have the 2023 5G Stylus and it's great, has almost everything I want in a phone. It's now even supported by LineageOS though I haven't switched over. Something like it with Graphene would be fantastic.

Hmm maybe I meant i.redd.it .

   Banks varied in their philosophy of interest rates, minimum monthly payments, and so on. None of that mattered to Bud. What mattered was what they would do to him if he got into arrears, and so after he had allowed a decent interval to pass pretending to listen very carefully to all this crap about interest rates, he inquired, in an offhanded way, like it was an afterthought, about their collection policy. The banker glanced out the window like he hadn't noticed.
   The soundtrack segued into some kind of a cool jazz number and a scene of a multicultural crew of ladies and gentlemen, not looking much like degraded credit abusers at all, sitting around a table assembling chunky pieces of ethnic jewelry by hand. They were having a good time too, sipping tea and exchanging lively banter. Sipping too much tea, to Bud's suspicious eye, so opaque to so many things yet so keen to the tactics of media manipulation. They were making rather a big deal out of the tea.
   He noted with approval that they were wearing normal clothes, not uniforms, and that men and women were allowed to mingle. "Peacock Bank supports a global network of clean, safe, and commodious workhouses, so if unforeseen circumstances should befall you during our relationship, or if you should inadvertently anticipate your means, you can rely on being housed close to home while you and the bank resolve any difficulties. Inmates in Peacock Bank workhouses enjoy private beds and in some cases private rooms. Naturally your children can remain with you for the duration of your visit. Working conditions are among the best in the industry, and the high added-value content of our folk jewelry operation means that, no matter the extent of your difficulties, your situation will be happily resolved in practically no time."
   "What's the, uh, strategy for making sure people actually, you know, show up when they're supposed to show up?" Bud said. At this point the banker lost interest in the proceedings, straightened up, strolled around his desk, and sat down, staring out the window across the water toward Pudong and Shanghai. "That detail is not covered in the brochure," he said, "as most of our prospective customers do not share your diligent attention to detail insofar as that aspect of the arrangement is concerned."
   He exhaled through his nose, like a man eager not to smell something, and adjusted his goatee one time. "The enforcement regime consists of three phases. We have pleasant names for them, of course, but you might think of them, respectively, as: one, a polite reminder; two, well in excess of your pain threshold; three, spectacularly fatal."
   Bud thought about showing this Parsi the meaning of fatal right then and there, but as a bank, the guy probably had pretty good security. Besides, it was pretty standard policy, and Bud was actually kind of glad the guy'd given it to him straight. "Okay, well, I'll get back to you," he said. "Mind if I keep the brochure?"
   The Parsi waved him and the brochure away. Bud took to the streets again in search of cash on easier terms.

Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age

What did they do with i.reddit.com? That still works for me too as far as I know. But as long as I remember, it's needed some awful looking session identifier.

It still works for me. Maybe they are still rolling out the change.

Interesting. I wonder if there has also been any recent progress on the Legendre constant. Kidding.

BASIC was higher level (or anyway, more batteries-included) than C. You could probably do this game in 131 lines of javascript straightforwardly.

You can rely on it now in gcc and clang, in the sense that they support a [[musttail]] attribute that tells the compiler to report an error if a call can't be TCO'd. The language doesn't guarantee TCO but can implement it at its option. If your program uses the attribute and still compiles, it means it has compiled with proper TCO.

GCC has had TCO since the 1980s I'm pretty sure. Since then it's been extended to work in more contexts.

Oh! You mean like ebay.

I remember someone writing a rant against having the list in firmware and managed automatically by the drive. If the list was on the host side, your software could route around the bad sectors and minimize the total amount of seek time during a program run. But with the drive managing bad sector redirection, you could never predict read latency since any read could get re-routed to a spare sector by the drive, adding latency outside your control. Everything still became automatic though.

You could buy disk packs with no bad sectors back then if you wanted that ("bit error free"). They cost extra but the premium wasn't all that high. Of course they could still develop bad sectors later.

Robert Silverberg's novel "Shadrach In The Furnace", published in the 1970s, had a mention of some data being transported on a "billion-bit bubble chip". In retrospect, that's entertaining in 3 ways: 1) bubble memory didn't go anywhere, and 2) a billion bits is no longer an unthinkable amount of data, 3) solid state memory (which we'll take to include bubble chips here) still hasn't surpassed rotating memory (hard drives, tapes) at least in cost per bit. Maybe someday but not yet.

Article describes try/finally as a hack to get the effect of defer, but it looks to me like it's the other way around? Try/finally is more traditional, in one form or another.

I thought VTune would let you see into it to some extent.

Headline: "Steven Pruitt, who is widely regarded as the most prolific Wikipedia editor, has made more than six million edits to the site, and, by extension, has quietly shaped the raw material that every major A.I. chatbot was trained on."

I haven't read the article yet (will do so later) but my immediate reaction as someone who was active on wikipedia for a while, is that people with that many edits usually have been running unauthorized bots doing so-called "cushion straightening" (making formatting tweaks etc). If you run an authorized bot, you're supposed to use a separate account for it, and then the edits get counted for the bot account instead of your personal one. Even if you manage to make 6 million edits non-robotically they're usually insubstantial. And there's a long dreary history on Wikipedia of unauthorized bot operators claiming their edits were made by hand, thus bypassing the bot policies. The modern-day version of that (on and off of wikipedia) is claiming that your text wasn't written by an LLM.

The beginning of the article did say that the person had mostly been fixing typos and stuff like that. Anyway the real brains of Wikipedia are the people who write the articles, and they tend to have edit counts in the many thousands, but not in the millions.

> Aiming for the Sun

They hope to avoid melting by doing the launch at night.

Seems to be a multi die module.

Why does this exist? Is something wrong with MicroPython? Even if it's somehow better, why is MicroPython not even mentioned in the github page? Why does the feature matrix not say anything about coroutines, async def syntax, etc? It does mention other stuff like the match/case statement.

The domain name is motherless.com if that's what you wanted to know. It's a porn site.

This looks silly. It's about a Go subset with no GC and various other restrictions that make it map onto C. But then you have most of the problems of C. It's unclear what the advantages are supposed to be. Rust or Ada seem way preferable, depending on the application area.

This is a paywalled thing that's bloaty in the visible portion and then hits a subscription block before the interesting parts. Bah.

I'm unfamiliar with Coalton but the Blub article describes the proverbial smug Lisp weenie. I'd agree with you that #notalllispers.

> If you squint enough, JS is a lisp..

Yes, that is true. I'm not big on the idea that Lisp is defined by parentheses. The implementation strategies are another way to look at it. That doesn't capture it either, but it's an angle to try.

You can wrap parentheses around anything and call it Lisp, but I specified Common Lisp and pg's article clearly wasn't contemplating anything like Shen. Surface syntax is near irrelevant though.