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Re:A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp on Saturday July 18, 2026 @03:05AM (#48955878)
For those who are interested in common lisp

There is a very nice IDE called Mine

https://coalton-lang.github.io/20260424-mine/

its vital for them to have self validation for exponential rsi.. and this human distillation of human in the loop debugging ai models is needed even though they have judge models handling parallel speculative execution.

labs have parallel speculative execution. they spawn hundreds of agent branches, validate them internally with AI judges and only show the user the successful result.

free users are using sequential single-turn generation. the model requires and waits for the human to debug, fix and re-prompt.

by forcing a human to act as validator. they are capturing high value correction trajectories (Bad Output --> Human fix). They are using your cognitive labour to train judge models and validator agents needed to automate the internal verification step, eventually closing the loop for fully autonomous recursive self-improvement.

human in the loop debugging isn't a bug; it's the necessary training signal for the self-validating agents required for exponential recursive self improvement. With new 'distilled judge' models landing in 2026, this article means that they might have gathered enough data. we might be in the final phase..

Re:Palm OS User Interface Guidelines [pdf, 2003] on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:37AM (#47178126)
For user interface designers. A sincere request to consider these old interfaces like Palm OS, IBM CUA, Mac System 6 for a modern Linux GUI.

The simple black and white interface reduces cognitive load and decision fatigue. Modern UI like skeumorphic, material, drop shadows, 3d interface, aero, glass etc are high cognitive load for some individuals.

A text heavy interface and GUIs that are explicit, not implicit and learnt through discovery is easier for me.

A link to the an article. The picture shows that the IBM CUA works for both terminal and Windows 2.0 type GUI in simple black and white.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-cua-today-enduring-legac...

Re:System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4 on Saturday November 29, 2025 @05:38AM (#46086547)
It would be great if somebody tried to create an opensource version of Rhapsody DR2 that ran on X86 baremetal.

Would not even need to be binary compatible. Source compatible API would be enough.

Rhapsody DR2 is more like Classic Mac than any current MacOS.

Re:System 7 natively boots on the Mac mini G4 on Saturday November 29, 2025 @05:04AM (#46086393)
It was because of QuarkXPress and Photoshop. In the same way WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3 were dominant for business computers.

Wish someone would try to create native MacOS classic on x86 hardware.

There are so many Unix or Linux ABI compatible kernels like the recent Moss written in rust.

Re:Charles Moore Fireside Q&A [video] on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @11:53AM (#46059485)
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/optimizations-fo...

From the website; Optimizations for windowed games improves gaming on your PC by using a new presentation model for DirectX 10 and DirectX 11 games that appear in a window or in a borderless window.

When these optimizations are used, games that originally use the legacy blt-model presentation can use the newer flip-model presentation instead (if the game is compatible). This results in lower frame latency and lets you use other newer gaming features; for example, Auto HDR, and variable refresh rate (for displays that support it).

It is checked by default. Hope it helps.

Think it can be used for lockstep computing.

Also seems to be a way to bring microkernel benefit to Linux. Isolate system services.

Re:WWDC25: macOS Tahoe Breaks Decades of Finder History on Tuesday June 10, 2025 @12:04PM (#44238447)
The old Finder logo is a clever ambiguous image. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguous_image

The new Finder logo has so much meaning symbolically for me. It actually has a very ugly meaning to me.

I felt that it is the end of the road for me. My first Mac was a Powermac 7300/200.

btw, nobody ever mentioned that the red close button is next to the minimize button. This is similar to the close button being next to the maximize button on Windows. Just reversed.

On Mac OS classic the close window button is on its own. I really miss Mac OS classic.

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