Notices by Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe), page 4

@rootwyrm @thegibson My old insurance company here in Singapore provided coverage in every single country in the world, with one exception, the US.

That should tell you something about how broken the US system is.

@vertigo I learned OpenGL at version 1.x, and I wrote some nice stuff with it.

Then a few years ago I decided I wanted to write a game, and started using OpenGL ES, and was quite painful.

Then I took a quick look at Vulkan and decided I didn't want to deal with it.

Is there a library that sits on top of Vulkan that gives me an API as simple as old OpenGL?

@codewiz
Well, you could have dinner at Swissotel. There is a restaurant on top that should have a view over the track.
@sohkamyung

Today's blockchain nonsense.

Who owns the mapping from name to IP under this proposal?

https://diode.io/distributed-infrastructure/Why-DNS-on-Blockchain-is-the-next-step-after-DNS-over-HTTPS-19231/

@njoseph I think I understand what you're saying. Are you saying that the difference here is the motivations of the author of the code? If the developer is doing the work with the express purpose of helping a corporation rather than him or herself, then this is a very different thing, compared to the case when the developers are working based on their own requirements?

@thomasfuchs Did you use those services back in the day? I knew of Compuserve, but the prices were so ridiculous that I never paid much attention to it.

Even my use of regular BBS'es cost me a lot of money. And I only ever called locally.

@thomasfuchs
Fair enough. But I believe my point still stands. The actual difference was much smaller.

There is of course no denying that after the iphone, every other phones started looking like and go the same thing, for better or worse.

@thomasfuchs
To be fair though, I think that device way 10 before the iphone. Also, the first iphone was terrible and lacked lots of features other phones around that time had.

@ekaitz_zarraga @grainloom I decided to duckduckgo the IBM documentation a bit. This is a nice one, Java integration on z/OS.

In the JCL script at the end, note how everything (even comments) which absolutely must not be lowercase is uppercase. History is strong in this world.

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.iean500/bldprgms.htm

@ekaitz_zarraga @grainloom It's historical. Remember that SQL has some roots in COBOL and the IBM mainframes.

On the mainframes, almost everything is in upper case.

Also, I work in the financial industry, and there you can see a lot of use of upper case.

@aparrish My only complaint about the game is that the combat felt a bit unbalanced. It was too easy for me to progress too far into the game with too weak weapons.

Then I figured out that I needed to get a bow with blast arrows and all of a sudden combat was too easy.

But, that may just be how I played the game. I also agree with what others said in this thread.

@tfb @schaueho @bremner @technomancy @klaatu I've been told that used to be something people did in the past. Especially on the Lisp Machines.

But yes, I think it's been proven that having the image be the state of the code, rather than files that can be used to rebuild such state is not a great idea.

@phessler
What did they say after you replied with that statement?

@onepict
Indeed. I changed ISP's because my old one had terrible IPv6 support. They used 6rd,which is quite bad. The new ISP have me a /48 which should be standard.

@onepict Wow. I've seen some stupid suggestions, and this one is right up there. Why do some people spend so much time trying to avoid moving to IPv6?

@xj9 @dtluna Most implementations of Common Lisp are natively compiled. The screenshot should help show what it does.

@tfb @bremner @technomancy @klaatu I've been playing around a bit with Pharo, and the image development idea, while nice in theory does break down. I think this is a reason why Lisp have moved away from it.

That said, you can bootstrap your application from sources in the same way when using Pharo. It's what I've done in my experiments, but it doesn't seem to be the way the community in general works. I'd love to hear from more experienced smalltalkers how they actually work.

@onepict That sounds good, but is there any effort in trying to rein in companies' use of this software?

@tfb
I don't think anyone argues that Emacs is perfect. I'll happily admit it's not even close. There simply isn't anything else that is better that I can switch to.
@technomancy @klaatu