rausr's comments

On: Programming languages used for music

[rausr]

I recently tripped over Dogalog (live-coding with prolog-like code), which could be an addition: https://danja.github.io/dogalog/

On: The closer we look at time, the stranger it gets

[rausr]

I'm only slightly disappointed that this is not the "Someone Else's Problem" version of SEP.

On: Using an Array of Needles to Create Solid Knitted Shapes

[rausr]

crochet, sir. croquet is a game with balls and mallets ;)

[nicolailolansen → rausr]

He knows what he said. Now can we have an automated machine for balls and mallets please!

[srean → nicolailolansen]

Are you Daniel Craig :) ?

On: The lost cause of the Lisp machines

[rausr]

Although Portacle isn't being maintained any more (at least as far as the main developer was concerned last time I looked a few months ago).

[cess11 → rausr]

More information here:

https://github.com/portacle/portacle/issues/182

In 2020 they went full-time on developing the game Kandria.

They're still active:

https://shinmera.com/projects.html

https://shinmera.com/bio.html

On: We put a coding agent in a while loop

[rausr]

> the agent actually used pkill to terminate itself after realizing it was stuck in an infinite loop.

Did it just solve The Halting Problem? ;)

On: Machine Code Isn't Scary

[rausr]

I enjoyed having to reload everything from tape (compact cassette tape - ie the kind of thing you'd use with a home computer in the early eighties), after a crash due to my poor code. I think the term used then was "character building" ;)

[chopin → rausr]

One of my first C programs wrote straight into the BIOS memory (1989 iirc). The machine froze and refused to reboot. We had to remove the BIOS battery to reset the BIOS. Luckily, the battery wasn't soldered to the main board.

On: "Do you not like money?"

[rausr]

Money is more often than not an impediment to doing or achieving things (especially these days when the ultra rich are trying to hoover it all up themselves to enable power).

Imagine if money did not exist, and things were decided on actual merit? "Poor" people with good ideas might - dare I say it - do things that improved the world for everyone! ;)

There'd be many ways of achieving this, so I'll not bait people with C or S words.

On: The Siren Song of Little Languages

[rausr]

I work in the same building as Urban Mueller (creator of BF). He told me the point of BF was to implement a compiler ;)

[jhonsrid → rausr]

You can write a program that takes BF code as input and outputs valid C source that would execute it in less than 20 lines of well formatted ANSI C using nothing more than putchar, getchar, while, pointer inc/dec and dereference, so I can imagine a full compiler for it would be super simple too.

(Though I bet an optimising compiler would be a _little_ more complicated) ;)

[InDubioProRubio → rausr]

He told me its there to import geometry from standard formats into marching cubes and then octrees.

On: Show HN: TeaTime – distributed book library powered by SQLite, IPFS and GitHub

[rausr]

I'm slightly disappointed that this is not the Tea-Time that formed the comms/sync protocol used in the Croquet VR system (on Squeak Smalltalk) some years back. :)

On: Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager

[rausr]

All the text in the Desktop is in French for me. Is that because I'm in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, and it's somehow geo-locating incorrectly?

[riedel → rausr]

For me only the advertisement in the webpage was geolocalized: in Germany everything was in English except the ad was in German