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New comment by edfsadfer in "Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80"

edfsadfer — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:55:44 +0000

Cuis is an environment derived from Squeak as I understand it with all the "clutter" removed. So it is really a cut-down Squeak. Just as Pharo was a cut-down Squeak originally.

For me it was easier and quicker to get something done in Cuis than in any other Smalltalk (Squeak, Pharo, VA, Dolphin).

New comment by edfsadfer in "Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80"

edfsadfer — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:44:05 +0000

Same VM as Squeak and Pharo so just as fast but a bit lacking in libs but this is an opportunity to contribute to open source for me.

Currently using it to build a mostly static website (with Pocketbase & lighttpd). A good experience all round.

Why Scheme?

edfsadfer — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:03:36 +0000

Article URL: https://goeteia.dev/why

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49721960

Points: 3

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New comment by edfsadfer in "How much oil-market buffer is left?"

edfsadfer — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:03:30 +0000

"There is now very strong incentive to develop alternatives that bypass what Iran can effect, which is exactly what’s happening. It will take a while for the infrastructure to come online, but as the months and eventually years go by, Iran will find its biggest lever for control rapidly diminishing even if the war was stopped now. Likewise, the move to EV’s will likely accelerate."

I am old enough to have lived through the oil shocks in New Zealand. It got so bad the government rolled out an alternative fuel system network of compressed natural gas. Many fuel stations had installed the tanks and pumps and many cars were converted to it. NZ has gas deposits enough to meet all its own demands.

As soon as the oil shock was over it was all ripped out and we all went back to oil.

Sources: NBA has no evidence Ballmer funneled money to Leonard via sponsors

edfsadfer — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 22:42:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.espn.com.au/nba/story/_/id/49639157/nba-la-clippers-aspiration-investigation-steve-ballmer-kawhi-leonard

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338674

Points: 2

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New comment by edfsadfer in "US President hid in catering cart for secret flight in Turkey amid Iran threat"

edfsadfer — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:37:50 +0000

But not in a Jeep Rubicon. Piece of junk will break down as soon as it sees water

New comment by edfsadfer in "Ask HN: What will be the Chernobyl or Bhopal scale industrial disaster of AI?"

edfsadfer — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:24:37 +0000

I work in a large finance company. If rogue AI deletes databases it will take at least a week at my company to get the minimum functionality up. Backups are done daily so a whole day's worth of changes is potentially gone. This will affect 10s of billions of dollars and up to a million people directly

New comment by edfsadfer in "Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk's Racist Commentary?"

edfsadfer — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:26:45 +0000

1) He does stuff we like that benefits us personally; 2) He is one of us and expresses our own opinions; 3) We are afraid of speaking out against him

A mystery virus started killing horses, then humans, in 1994

edfsadfer — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:56:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/03/hendra-virus-australia-sentinels-book-extract-animal-to-human-disease-spread

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49150360

Points: 11

# Comments: 3

New comment by edfsadfer in "A Erlang style pure Scheme Webserver and further"

edfsadfer — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:05:40 +0000

There is also Swish for Chez Scheme https://github.com/becls/swish. About 10 years old now