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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_BASIC

"Tiny BASIC was designed by Dennis Allison and the People's Computer Company (PCC) in response to the open letter published by Bill Gates complaining about users pirating Altair BASIC, which sold for $150. Tiny BASIC was intended to be a completely free version of BASIC that would run on the same early microcomputers."


The left has called every Republican presidential candidate a Nazi/fascist/authoritarian since Ronald Reagan.

this is far too broad of a generalization. just like it would be too broad of a generalization to declare all conservatives to be maga.

if we’re to believe trump he declares people to be “extreme leftists” who are clearly not even leftists.

so i find it highly unlikely that the entirety of “the left” called every republican presidential candidate these things.


Doesn't matter what the left said previously, what matters is that the Trump Administration is behaving in an autocratic manner. Godwin's law has been abused online since forever, but you can just draw a comparison with Putin's ascent to autocratic rule in Russia.

#TeamSutro



On the subject of "world map of a particular item," there is The Guinness Map, a very accessible map of all the world's pubs that serve Guinness ale on tap:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42406157


The article references the "Oh-My-God particle, the most energetic particle yet encountered. Here's the late John Walker's excellent piece on that:

https://fourmilab.ch/documents/OhMyGodParticle/


> These calculations involve some elementary but easy to mess up algebra and some very demanding numerical calculations for which regular IEEE double precision is insufficient. If you'd like to double-check these results, be sure to use a multiple precision calculator with at least 30 significant digits of accuracy.

So you're saying my iPhone built-in calculator app is going to have problems....?

Time to whip out dc on the terminal.


> So you're saying my iPhone built-in calculator app is going to have problems....?

Your Android phone's built-in calculator app, however, will not. :^)

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3385412.3386037



Or ChatGPT to output Julia code


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> Which defaults to float64, which is IEEE precision, exactly what the article warns about…… I mean, seriously?

It has native support for arbitrary precision operations. RTFM.


That was indeed excellent reading, thank you.


>Steve Wozniac created a small VM just to manage 16 bit Integers (see the his Byte magazine articles).

It was called SWEET16: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWEET16

A BYTE Magazine article by Wozniak: http://amigan.1emu.net/kolsen/programming/sweet16.html

Porting Sweet 16 by Carsten Strotmann (with source code) http://www.6502.org/source/interpreters/sweet16.htm


Support for sequent calculus is built into Mark Tarver's Shen language; here's the relevant chapter in his Book of Shen: https://shenlanguage.org/TBoS/tbos_228.html


Its author is quitting his job to work on it full time: https://jank-lang.org/blog/2025-01-10-i-quit-my-job/



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