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The Princedom of Pontecorvo was a short-lived client state of France during the Napoleonic Wars.
Napoleon took it from the Papal State after becoming King of Italy, created it as a princedom and made one of his Imperial Marshals the Prince of Pontecorvo.
The Marshal, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, was soon headhunted by the Swedish establishment to become Karl XIV Johan, the new King of Sweden, and gave up the princedom. His dynasty formally rules Sweden to this day.
Pontecorvo today has a population of ~13000, the same size population as the bunch of towers on top of a shopping mall where I live.
@clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 I've just checked¹ and in 1861 Pontecorvo already had ~9k inhabitants, and since then it didn't have a big growth like other Italian communes, so maybe it was at least already around this “big” in the time of the principate.
Looks like a perfectly reasonable size for a mostly independent entity inside geographical Italy 😁
What? we're not in the 12th century or whereabouts? details 😁
¹ it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontecor… (in Italian, but it's a graph)
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It’s amazing to me that folks have such a hard time with the very basic concept of “follow the money.”
This isn’t rocket science, people. Where/who you get your money from matters. The people who you surround yourself with matters. The success criteria you adopt matters.
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Depending on the hardware, there might be some "messy" parts (drivers).
And from a security perspective, the hardware question becomes relevant (since we have e.g. PC mainboards that run a separate operating system in the background).
Especially for driver stuff, there would be a need for at least assembler as a second language.
@wakame Not if it's an actual Lisp-in-hardware Lisp machine.
I mean, typically Lisp machines do have a bootstrap layer written in another language, but the simplicity of the core of Lisp means that they don't have to. You can implement implement each of the between five and ten primitive functions (depending on implementation) in hardware as single instructions.
I agree.
(I was implicitly taking the perspective "how could we realize this on currently available hardware".)
@wakame Yes, indeed. But future hardware probably doesn't look an awful lot like modern hardware. I think we're going to need way more parallelism -- and pure functional languages (of course classic Lisp is not pure functional, but pure functional subsets are easy) are excellent for exploiting massively parallel architectures.
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The Connection Machine - CHM Revolution
The Connection MachineParallel processing relies on making connections: coordinating multiple processors for a single task. Our brains do that too. Danny Hillis at MIT based his CM-1 on that human model.www.computerhistory.org
Source-Code/DOS Oberon System 3 Release 2.0/ASCII/EtherNet.Mod.txt at main · Project-Oberon/Source-Code
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I get where you're coming from, but for example if we look at gopher.linkerror.com/0/phlog/2…
The ways FreeBSD and linux see keyboard interactions as working diverge in the first place.
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I read [the chapter on perma computing](perma.computer:70/0/letter.txt) and I can't sign it
Ah, yeah, at the time I wriggled a bit against the blanket ban on basically the research of LLMs (or w/e I didn't read it recently), recently echoed by Gentoo's blanket ban on "any NLP associated code generation", though I feel that that ended up aging well, didn't it. I will read it again. I'm very predisposed to agree with my community there already though.
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For your low-level and optimized things:
Blackbox Component Pascal
blackboxframework.org/
For scripting with a fast interpreter, which can also compile to optimized machine code:
Open Euphoria
openeuphoria.org/
BlackBox Component Builder / Component Pascal
Оpen-source IDE for Component Pascal programming language.blackboxframework.org
Time to bring this up again. Ever heard the term "sea lioning"? This is the origin of the term:
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Fear of publically committing to a deadline you might fail to meet
And
Fear of not finishing anything because you didn't publically commit to a deadline
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One of kid's classmates had a surprising anti-gay opinion, so he's been asking around a bit where people stand. Thankfully, that kid seems to be the outlier.
Made me remember that time half a life ago when I accidentally "came out" to a friend ... I admitted my interest for a woman with an ambiguous nickname and hilarity ensued.
My friend's response was so overwhelmingly excited and supportive that I promised that if I ever discovered I was gay, I was sure to go to him first with the news. 🥰
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@clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 This reminds me a recent incident where another kid in my child's 4th grade class (9-10 years old) started asking his classmates which side of the Israel-Palestine conflict they were on. 😬
The problem wasn't so much that they asked but that they offered only two sides, which is highly reductive view of this conflict.
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Resting my phone upright on my keyboard and screen, and mere seconds later trying to move my laptop cursor onto the phone screen.
Security issues aside, would be neat if screens and their devices actually worked like this, like they do in stuff like Trek, you just grab objects and fling them in the geographic direction of other screens.
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You can do exactly that on Mac/iOS, if you're in Ventura or some such, and turn on Airplay.
All I can do on my older system is copy/paste between them, or I could screen share it.
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FUNARCH 2024 - Call for Papers | Functional Architecture
The Second ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Functional Software Architecture - FP in the LargeFunctional Architecture
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LXQt is often overlooked but it is snappy and modern. And PCManFM is just a great file browser!
I have been building browsers for 30 years now. First Opera and now Vivaldi. My estimate is that more than 1 billion have used one of my browsers or both. Have you?
Feel free to share your story!
#Vivaldi #Opera #Browser #Android #iOS #Windows #Mac #Linux
- I have used both (55%, 352 votes)
- I have used Opera (20%, 128 votes)
- I have used Vivaldi (9%, 63 votes)
- I have used neither (14%, 94 votes)
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I am co-founder and CEO of Vivaldi. Sadly I am not contributing much on the coding side anymore. I did more of that at Opera, where I was also co-founder and CEO until 2010.
A brief overview of the streams repository.
streams
Public domain federated communications server. Provides a feature rich ActivityPub and Nomad communication node.Forgejo: Beyond coding. We Forge.
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I was reminded by @pluralistic today that as a word, Luddite has been used and abused badly historically. So we need to reclaim it -- I want an "I'm a Luddite" sticker for my laptop, Luddite tech workers t-shirts etc. Time to get creative.
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It's also true that many #hacking tools, platforms, courses etc. could use some help in the #accessibility department. It's a neverending vicious circle.
Enter my new twitch channel, IC_null. On this channel, I will be streaming #programming and #hacking content including THM, HTB and who knows what else, from the perspective of a #screenReader user.
What I need, is an audience. If this is something you reckon you or anybody you know might be interested in, drop the channel a follow or share this post. Gimme that #infoSec Mastodon sense of comradery and help me out to make this idea an actual thing 😀 twitch.tv/ic_null #tryHackMe #streamer #selfPromo
ic_null - Twitch
ic_null streams live on Twitch! Check out their videos, sign up to chat, and join their community.Twitch
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Kid, suddenly, while we're on a walk:
"I want to learn Lua now"
Any good and fun interactive Lua tutorials out there? He enjoyed Scratch because in a visual language everything is discoverable, so he could teach himself while staying within the tool and only going to YouTube when something was extra tricky.
He found some promising tutorials within Roblox itself, but they turned out to have internal consistency issues, like asking you to create a local variable without first having explained the concept and syntax.
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As a guiding principle, the notion that 'bees don't waste their time explaining to flies that honey is better than shit' has helped me filter out a lot of opinions.
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Look, USians, I don't want to step into your internal politics, but you see, 45 years ago, we spaniards had the occurrence to write in our constitution that the head of state (the king) has immunity from prosecution for anything they do while they are in the job, and now we have an ex-king with a Wikipedia page that includes a "alleged corruption" section 55 paragraphs long.
And it's only "alleged" because he can't be taken to court even with the piles of evidence that exist.
Just saying.
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>"It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.” - Franz Kafka
"Hi! I recognize you! You're the guy who came in here two years ago to meet [colleague who doesn't work here anymore] and could speak a bit of Cantonese! You're living upstairs in Tower XX, right?"
Sales people have superpowers.
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Went to a restaurant. Went again, for a second time, some decades later. Same proprietor:
"Hello, haven't seen you for a while."
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"This location has really convenient access to the wet market. Do you go to the wet market?"
"No. I guess I should. I should eat more fresh vegetables."
"But you said you cook??"
"I cook stuff I get from the supermarket."
"Hah! Yeah, you Westerners are like that."
Real "tok tok, these Romans are crazy" moment. 😅
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It was more than usual, but cooking for two adults and two children adds up
2kg of that was rhubarb that's being cooked into compote for longer-term storage
Created a fan edit of #threebodyproblem Tencent adaptation which was called "Three Body" and 22 hours long.
Fan edit is 6 hours long, and called "THREE-BODY DISEMBIGGENED".
It is presented in 3 parts, each of about 2 hours in length.
Feedback is welcome!
THANK YOU @Gordon Mcdowell for creating disembiggened.com/
I enjoyed the Netflix adaptation of The Three-Body Problem and I was looking forward to seeing Tencent's version of it, which book fans have said is closer to the books.
The production values, cinematography and acting are very good. The pacing is slow, but I don't mind that very much. I can take my time, and I appreciate a story that spends time on details and peripheral threads.
I just find it very emotionally exhausting to watch. After two hours of ominous music, cold sweat, frantic development of photographs, visualizations (or hallucinations?) of pool balls flying through space, etc, I'm not sure I can push myself through another 20 hours of this.
I have not watched your six-hour edit yet, but I am already grateful it exists.
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