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>I think it maybe undersells the importance of the REPL a bit. Howo? Or would you agree that value is perhaps a more suitable word than importance ? For me I think these articles have such a ten…

Considerably better than most such articles that I have read on this but I think if the Forth community wants to get people into Forth it really needs to stop talking about how it can fit in a boot se…

I think this is the official J implementation as it stood in 1990 when this paper was originally published, it kept being developed but not this document which describes it. Perhaps someone else knows…

That example is what got me to start learning J which I have always found to be unreadable, much prefer my array languages to have their non-ascii symbols. A few nights playing with J and learning was…

>The myth is comforting because it moves agency from fallible humans and flawed organizations to an impersonal "mysterious region" of the map. I think the myth is comforting simply becaus…

The short term can be an eternity. A 30 second glimpse into something other than what I understand as existence is probably the only reason I am alive today.

Do we need laughing gas when we have headlines like this? Edit: yes, I know, just pointing out the great humor of the headline which I don't think was lost on the author.

Like most things in life, it all averages out. 'There's these three statisticians gone duck hunting,' he said. He paused. 'They're like statisticians by trade.’ 'I'm…

You took an adversarial position; I put in the hour or two required to make the jobs of those with thankless jobs, easier. Perhaps you tried to work with them at the start but your terse post does not…

In my one encounter with them I sent them a message detailing the issues I was experiencing along with what I had done to remedy the problems and the results. They emailed me asking for clarification …

>Nothing beats D's ImportC What does it offer over Zig's translate-c?

After turning into a shutin during the shutdowns, my mom is finally starting to go out into the world again because of AI breaking the illusion of the internet having any semblance to reality.

Is this a meta joke?

As I learn Zig I am realizing that what Zig is is what C++ should/could have been had C++ not anchored itself to C; that tiny change from "all valid C is valid C++" to "you can use…

I find trackers to be in the same category you put live coding into, probably DAWs as well, but many people do some amazing things with all three. In the more academic computer music world there is a …

I have killed a laptop and a phone because of this but this was in extreme cold when getting down around -40, temps the vast majority of people avoid spending any amount of time in. Despite killing tw…

Biosphere - Shenzhou and Cirque, Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of The Stars of the Lid are favorites of mine. I would also include everything by Microstoria which is not ambient but it works to …

I have been working through this over the past week. It is doing the job and mostly stays on point, avoids the informative asides and humor that seems to plague many such works. Some things are not ex…

Christmas Story and A Charlie Brown Christmas.

I don't think C is missing anything from Algol 68, but, FLEX and slices would be nice, although Algol's slices are fairly limited but even its limited slices are better than what C offers. A…

That task would be beyond my skills, as I said, I am just a hobbyist. I think it would be interesting to see what would result from going back to one of those early foundational languages and developi…

I think what C is missing is everything that people fall back onto clever use of pointers and macros to implement. Not that I think C should have all those things, Zig does a decent job of showing alt…

Personally, I think the whole C tangent was a misstep and would love to see Algo 68 turn into Algo 26 or 27. I sort of like C and C++ and many other languages which came, but they have issues. I think…

Novel is considerably more complex than just new and even new is more nuanced; your new car could be as old as the Colpitts oscillator. Novel carries with it the unfamiliar and how that unfamiliarity …

Passive circuits have been novel for a long time now, or at least very very quaint. It is hard to put much stock in a coil when it is banal to walk around with 100 billion transistors in your pocket. …

My VCOs which lack temperature compensation are oscillators built from basic components. The closest I have to oscillator on an IC these days, are the VCOs in my Moog Prodigy which use a quad OPAmp an…

Being able to enjoy and find worth in the process regardless of the outcome is bad? Are we man-children if we don't treat everything as if it were as serious as cancer? I'm not really sure w…

Temperature sensitivity only matters in polysynths where you don't have easy access to per-oscillator tuning. It is not difficult to build an oscillator with better pitch stability than a guitar,…