Posts by dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz
 (DIR) Post #B47a06Oy7BPzuofUWm by dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz
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       @Gargron Horrors! Those bastards!Fight for your rights.
       
 (DIR) Post #B47szgkJOtktTUAS7k by dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz
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       @Gargron In the actual literature, pre-machine translation, it was well-established that translation amounts to authorship, with the clear example of poetry -- translating poetry into a new language is absolutely an act of authorship, not a mechanical act.It may be somewhat less true of other kinds of works, but now we're talking about degree, not of kind.Admittedly LLM translation is pretty handy sometimes when there's no other translation alternative, but we must be prepared for it to fail utterly at times -- like other uses of LLMs.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4F1OLAAwQwbW3FaYy by dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz
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       @skewray @AmenZwa "Rejected" seems extreme of them.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4F1OLWVbOoCdJhQNE by dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz
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       @skewray @AmenZwa Yeah, at worst I expected "wontfix", so -- good points> The fundamental issue is that the x87 architecture belongs in a museum.No argument there. Getting past all the obvious counter-arguments, we arrive at Arm, but billion devices or not, it's proprietary, which brings us to RISC-V, which I don't follow closely, but people seem to keep saying that it's not ready for various reasons.I dunno. Life sucks and then you die.P.S.> the only modern processor with 128-bit IEEE floating point is the IBM POWER9I suppose I'm a little surprised by that.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4F1OM99HjiWZ9mHbM by dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz
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       @skewray @AmenZwa > "x87" refers to the x86 floating point co-processor, which used 80-bit floating point.Yes.>  Long double is 10 bytes long and stored in a 16-byte space with 4 zeroed-out bytes.*That* I did not know. I guess I've never actually laid hands on it. (Edit: of course I've used 80 bit, I meant I've never noticed those memory layout details)But you know, the GNU multiprecision libraries are optimized to hell and gone, beyond the ability of mere mortals to add further optimization. You might get the speed you want just from that.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4F1WGHEzXL6g9KfFA by dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz
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       @ChuckMcManis @skewray @AmenZwa Huh!At several removes I knew they were there (because I'm a busybody I suppose), but I certainly never thought of the emacs connection.And I only know of JOVE from history books! Very memorable acronym. Like the similarly-named JOVIAL (Jule's Own Version of the International Algorithmic Language).
       
 (DIR) Post #B4pfpujxlVItX5FZGS by dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz
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       @Forestofenchantment @bajax @screwlisp "Thumbless Programming for Dummy Cats"
       
 (DIR) Post #B5E7AzKBHF8iO5VChE by dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz
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       @thephd Unless my old knowledge has become obsolete, C++ requires indefinite lookahead which implies 2 passes, with the first pass possibly being in a separate executable and possibly called "C++ preprocessor", which could easily be "cp", especially since the ancient C preprocessor always preempts the name "cpp".
       
 (DIR) Post #B5GAy25mSoIRL7lSQi by dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz
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       RE: https://burningboard.net/@alison/116398569601114171@thephd Related, if not actually usable for your purpose: https://mathstodon.xyz/@alison@burningboard.net/116398569654266561RT: https://burningboard.net/users/alison/statuses/116398569601114171
       
 (DIR) Post #B5GQb4dSRNifpjah7I by dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz
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       @itsfoss Yes, they're renaming the kernel Slopix (tm)
       
 (DIR) Post #B5NUDtWtKG4AeTRS8e by dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz
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       @thalia > I now have my own Utah teapot!Great collectible!!!
       
 (DIR) Post #B5NizHsW0vb58Y36H2 by dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz
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       @azonenberg A for effort!The next logical step is to upload yourself into...wait, I've lost track  of this @thalia
       
 (DIR) Post #B5fK7EOvpEoUf1BJ2W by dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz
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       @thephd Ok, but if and only if you get the matching t-shirt.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6P9HYiwxVjaMWQJiS by dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz
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       @robpike Just like democracy: if the billionaires don't want it, who are we to complain?
       
 (DIR) Post #B8xQZu4XgHkeqB5M2a by dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz
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       @itsfoss Nope. Slackware in 1993, Linux 0.99.I waited until someone created a SCSI driver, then when one was available in beta I took the plunge.I also organized its other users (we were all on a mailing list) to get together and buy the driver author (search indicates that would have been "Drew Eckhardt" with "Eric Youngdale") an early optical drive as a thank you. It was a cool mini-project.I suppose the title of this article is one of those things deliberately phrased to provoke many disagreeing responses.P.S. search indicates there were 600 (six hundred) sites on the World Wide Web by December 1993 -- they used to announce lists of the latest sites to join.My browser was NCSA Mosaic (released March 1993), which was the first widely used graphical browser.The first search engines appeared around then (W3Catalog and Aliweb).
       
 (DIR) Post #BAEkGoEXVTWdt98OMS by dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz
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       @itsfoss Yes, but that's political, it's rich fascists rushing to support a fascist developer who injected politics into his software discussions.