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My son has CIs, and while he's probably unlikely to get these as upgrades, I did also find myself worrying somewhat about these exact scenarios:

  Also, what if you need a new battery? What if the device malfunctions and you need to turn them off? What if the lithium battery gets damaged and catches fire?

I did have a digital sampler that connected to the back of my Spectrum. I even laboured through writing a digital-delay program in assembler for it.

> Don't forget this is a text editor, not an IDE or some general purpose automation harness

It's more correctly a Lisp execution environment with a text editor added as a bonus ;)

heh, I know that username. I came to the same conclusion. (I hope all is well with you, Yannick)

I remember that well (because my manager at the time was asking me afterwards "why were you up at 2 in the morning restarting services?" and didn't believe my answer :( )

Yes, I re-read again, and I think you are correct. Thanks!

I must admit to being somewhat confused by the article's claim that Rust and C++ emit bytecode. To my knowledge, neither do (unless they're both targeting WASM?) - is there something I'm missing or is the author just using the wrong words?

EDIT: bramhaag pointed out the error of my ways. Thanks bramhaag!

We've got Check Point Firewalls at work, and during updates I see lots of .tcl in the web UI.

> Is "clown GCP Host" a technical term I am unaware of, or is the author just voicing their discontent?

The term has been in use for quite some time; It is voicing sarcastic discontent with the hyperscaler platforms _and_ their users (the idea being that the platform is "someone else's computer" or - more up to date - "a landlord for your data"). I'm not sure if she coined it, but if she did then good on her!

Not everyone believes using "the cloud" is a good idea, and for those of us who have run their own infrastructure "on-premises" or co-located, the clown is considered suitably patronising. Just saying ;)

I recently tripped over Dogalog (live-coding with prolog-like code), which could be an addition: https://danja.github.io/dogalog/

I'm only slightly disappointed that this is not the "Someone Else's Problem" version of SEP.

crochet, sir. croquet is a game with balls and mallets ;)

Although Portacle isn't being maintained any more (at least as far as the main developer was concerned last time I looked a few months ago).

> the agent actually used pkill to terminate itself after realizing it was stuck in an infinite loop.

Did it just solve The Halting Problem? ;)

I enjoyed having to reload everything from tape (compact cassette tape - ie the kind of thing you'd use with a home computer in the early eighties), after a crash due to my poor code. I think the term used then was "character building" ;)

Money is more often than not an impediment to doing or achieving things (especially these days when the ultra rich are trying to hoover it all up themselves to enable power).

Imagine if money did not exist, and things were decided on actual merit? "Poor" people with good ideas might - dare I say it - do things that improved the world for everyone! ;)

There'd be many ways of achieving this, so I'll not bait people with C or S words.

I work in the same building as Urban Mueller (creator of BF). He told me the point of BF was to implement a compiler ;)

I'm slightly disappointed that this is not the Tea-Time that formed the comms/sync protocol used in the Croquet VR system (on Squeak Smalltalk) some years back. :)

All the text in the Desktop is in French for me. Is that because I'm in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, and it's somehow geo-locating incorrectly?