Notices by Elias Mårtenson (loke@functional.cafe)

@skinnylatte And to be clear to anyone not familiar with Singapore housing, this is supposed to be the cheap apartments.

Condos are much more expensive.

@allison @ezio yes, 2.5.1 was the first version that was production grade, especially with the later patches.

I do remember that to get that Solaris 2.0 beta to run we had to dig out some really old hardware in the lab. Thankfully we had shelves full of it.

@allison @ezio Sorry, I didn't. Me and a few other colleagues did play around with getting old stuff that we found running, like a version of Solaris 2.0 beta that we found on a CD (it was terrible). I also remember coming across a CD with Sun Nextstep.

But I don't think I ever heard about Spring.

@allison @ezio Specifically, they named the new product Solaris 2.x, with the underlying operating system named SunOS 5.x. The BSD-based SunOS versions were retroactively renamed Solaris 1.x, with the underlying OS called SunOS 4.x.

This is indeed very complicated, and most people just kept calling the old system SunOS and the SysV-based one Solaris.

Source: I was working for Sun around the time when Solaris 2 because usable.

@siege This one perhaps? https://shop.nocco.com/product/nocco-caribbean-bcaa/

@rysiek @djsundog I'm in the market for a new TV as well, and I wonder if there exists a 4K, HDR TV that is not smart.

I've been casually looking around, and so far not much luck. I was even looking for the kind of commercial grade stuff, but those are generally not HDR.

@ghostdancer @sv1 @rysiek @djsundog true. That's what I did with my old TV. But at the same time, it's kind of a matter of principle.

@clacke I agree, and I don't even like it. 😀 I have tried it though. Everybody should try it at least once.

@skinnylatte I'm a bit tired of going to the same places for lunch. Do you have lunch recommendations in Singapore for next week?

(I'm actually not joking, if you have a favourite near CBD let me know :-) ).

@xgranade @mcc have you read the Common Lisp spec? 😀

To be fair, the spec is very good, but they are also very explicity not giving any special significance to 8-bit bytes. And this is in paid of the spec being written decades after 8-bit bytes being standard.

https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_ldb.htm#ldb

@koakuma give people Finnegans Wake and tell them to read it in a couple of months.

Then check in with them a year later when they have gotten to the fourth page.

@briankrebs I know there are applications that can do this on Android. The API allows applications to manage messages for you, which I don't believe is allowed on the Iphone.

When I search, I see several applications that claim to do this, but since I've never tried any of them, I'll refrain from recommending any.

@juliobiason you can use Sygic, can't you?

I went out biking, even though it was raining. Well, it stopped and I found myself at Punggol Park. It has a nice little pond with turtles.

@alcinnz not really, but the opposite was common. The Apllo AGC did this for example. The registers were just addresses in memory.

Another example that took it even further was the Burroughs architecture which didn't even have registers at all. Instead it used a stack architecture.

@alcinnz the MIPS architecture had this. I don't think it was ever used much. An operating system picked and endinanness and stuck with it.

@atomicpoet That's not enough money though. They need billions, not mere hundreds of millions.

@alilly @alcinnz @wizzwizz4 for ideas, you may want to read this paper: http://metamodular.com/lispos.pdf

@chucker @fox I wouldn't worry too much about juniors, they can always learn. I'm more worried about senior developers who has a decade of experience with nothing but web development who think that's the pinnacle of UI technology.

@fox "But it's modern". What really baffles me isn't even the rush to build new applications based on Electron and other similar technologies. What's really absurd is that companies that has fully functional native applications are ditching them in favour of horrible web applications.