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The way it should be, but often isn’t.

@jbob You know, after @stman comments, I'm thinking again about what you said. I was interpreting "general-purpose computers" too narrowly. If we use them right, FPGAs could open up what we think of as general-purpose computers. Instead of a handful of very fast, power hungry CPU cores, we could have a sea of logic specialized in the moment for the task at hand. That's something I've long wanted to see, but for some reason never thought of as "general-purpose", but why not?!

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Dynamic typing was a mistake.

Have you heard of Zeer cooling? It's a method for refrigerating food without electricity in arid regions using evaporation.

PDF: https://movement-verein.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/informationen_projekte_clay_pot_cooler_2014_en.pdf

alt-right in a nutshell

Trying to rewire the breadboard #Z80 based on a "bus-centric" approach - always dedicate a rightmost breadboard to the system bus for each functional block. At the expense of more board space and more wires, it should be easier to debug and build, let's see how it goes. #retrocomputing

Revolution is indeed a violent process.
-- Emma Goldman

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whoever came up with the idea of marketing food to depressed people: fuck off

We must fight authority and privilege, while taking advantage from the benefits that civilisation has conferred. We must not destroy anything that satisfies human need however badly -- until we have something better to put in its place.
-- Errico Malatesta

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WASI aims to bring cross-platform, sandboxed executables using webassembly as the base to non-browser systems https://github.com/CraneStation/wasmtime/blob/master/docs/WASI-overview.md

It's also ocap-based so there's some hope for security actually working.

However Ben Laurie (who worked on Capsicum) argues that since we have something resembling a clean slate, why try to build it on a broken POSIX'y type design? (Article also talks about how and why containers continue to break their own sandboxing) https://medium.com/@benlaurie_18378/how-to-ruin-a-perfectly-good-container-d33250fca595

Guile 2.9.2 is out!! 4 times faster than 2.2 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2019-05/msg00030.html

Happy 5-25!
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