goodthink
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Newspeak is the pinnacle! https://newspeaklanguage.org
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Comment · 5 days ago
Aye, neigh sayers even
Comment · 22 days ago
Basic auth worked for me. Locked down everything but the home page. Put the credentials on the home page. No more shipping my assets to nowhere hundreds of times a day. Of course, I had _zero_ traffic other than bots...nowadays I have given up putting my crap out there for no one to see.
Comment · 1 month ago
Writing TCP protocols for Isolated Web Apps in Newspeak.
Way out of my wheelhouse, loads of fun, No AI.
Comment · 2 months ago
Sounds like a good application of mesh networks.
Comment · 2 months ago
> The energy and compute needed to train an LLM to be an order of magnitude more reliable – e.g., wrong 3% of the time instead of 30% – is 10^20 times what the current frontier models require.
And the energy they require to be 30% wrong is already astronomical.
Comment · 2 months ago
Help/Useful Expressions has some EToys instructions.
The Squeakland images stopped getting upograded when Squeeak went 64-bit (I think).
You can get a "halo" on any object, click the Inspector icon (the eye) and create an etoys script from there.
Also, under Extras/Themes and Colors there is a Set Etoys Mode option. You can try that but, it didn't work last night.
Lastly, files.squeak.org/etoys has a 6.0beta image you can download. Drop the image/changes into SqueakJS [1] (that is the only way to run a 32bit image).
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
I learned this reading Life Extensions by Dirk Pearson and Sandy Shaw 1981.
L-Cysteine is available from raw eggs. Ever heard the saying "Here's egg in your beer"? Trouble is the egg does not float in beer, you have to guzzle the entire thing to get to the egg.
If you want to avoid a hangover consume some raw eggs and orange juice BEFORE drinking. Vitamin C is another component needed to manufacture Acetaldehyde-dehydrogenase.
Life Extensions is a great compendium of anti-aging focused biological studies. Much of it regarding antioxidants. 50 years ago.
Comment · 3 months ago
I rewrote Chucks [American] Football Pool in Newspeak!
Having a hard deadline of Sept 1st, I wasn't sure three months would be enough time. In Newspeak, it took all of three WEEKs to get it to it's current state.
One of the best features is the fact that it's local ONLY. It uses IndexedDB (Newspeak library written by yours truly) to persist the data, meaning zero backend headaches. It also makes it usable by the masses where the Seaside version had many problems in this regard.
Chrome only. No Clod.
https://chalculator.com/primordialsoup.html?snapshot=ChucksF...
Comment · 4 months ago
[NO-AI] [https://newspeaklanguage.org]
1) Using Chrome's Isolated Web App technology and the afforded TCPSockets in the browser, I am resurrecting an ancient, windows desktop only, TCP protocol for connecting to * from web applications. All Newspeak, all the time.
2) Re-writing my friends football pool in Newspeak. The Squeak/Seaside version has served him well for more than a decade but I've grown tired of the setup. My VPS server got hacked recently affording the impetus to try another iteration. Storing all the data locally in IndexedDB, using my own Newspeak library for that API.
* While I have no problem being "left behind", I refuse to actively assist others in "getting ahead".
Comment · 5 months ago
Net Operating Losses (NOLs) in one year can offset taxes owed in future years. It works for personal taxes too if it's a "casualty" loss.
Comment · 5 months ago
US Government contractors have a requirement for average hours worked, by salaried workers, to be no more than ~40 hours / week (might be < 50). And they get audited for this (and other requirements) annually. Twenty years working for one such entity has made me grateful for it. Interesting enough work, low stress; lots of bureaucratic type stuff to deal with.
But I go home at 5pm every day.