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New comment by stevedekorte in "Jsonrepair: Repair Invalid JSON Documents"

stevedekorte — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:37:02 +0000

I've found this handy for repairing AI generated JSON.

New comment by stevedekorte in "Formatting code should be unnecessary"

stevedekorte — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:46:54 +0000

Io (http://iolanguage.org) can work this way, as the message tree (maybe including comments - I don't recall) is what the interpreter used to evaluate the code and is accessible at runtime. However, it didn't store the choice of terminator (newline vs return) or indentation info (though it would be easy to add), so the pretty print of the message tree might look different depending on the source conventions.

New comment by stevedekorte in "Nobody cares"

stevedekorte — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 20:07:45 +0000

But street lights don't have to use harsh 3000 kelvin LEDs, there are warm light LEDs (2400-2700 kelvin). For example, these lights are widely available for home, yet most people just buy the 3000K LED bulbs because (IME) it doesn't occur to them that there is a strong aesthetic (and health) difference between these colors. i.e. They don't care.

New comment by stevedekorte in "Show HN: Lfi – a lazy functional sync, async, and concurrent iteration library"

stevedekorte — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:50:30 +0000

Looks useful and powerful. Nice work!

New comment by stevedekorte in "I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop"

stevedekorte — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:26:09 +0000

It’s great that this can run on a laptop but FWIW, llama 70B model is no where near “GPT-4 class” in my own use cases. 405B might be, though I haven’t tested it.

New comment by stevedekorte in "Oasis: A Universe in a Transformer"

stevedekorte — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:39:53 +0000

How are state changes consistently tracked?

New comment by stevedekorte in "What should a logo for NeXT look like? (1986)"

stevedekorte — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:42:56 +0000

Congrats! I have strong nostalgia for the ones I worked on and owned in the 90s. Using those machines felt more like living in the future than any tech I've experienced since, including the iPhone.

New comment by stevedekorte in "Dynamic translation of Smalltalk to WebAssembly"

stevedekorte — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:11:18 +0000

"In JavaScript, neither weak references... is generally available". I think that was true with the old weak collation classes, but doesn't the newer JS WeakRef provide proper weak references?

New comment by stevedekorte in "Dynamic translation of Smalltalk to WebAssembly"

stevedekorte — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 15:18:01 +0000

Great to see work like this being done. Javascript is often a "good enough" language, but an efficient Smalltalk (or Self) language with support for things like system images, become:, coroutines, and other advanced features would open up a lot of advanced programming techniques like fast portable images, transparent futures, cooperative concurrency without async/await on every call, etc.

New comment by stevedekorte in "The Cell Programming Language"

stevedekorte — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 18:01:58 +0000

At first, I though this was a link to another cool language with a very similar name: http://www.redwoodsoft.com/~dru/cel/

New comment by stevedekorte in "Apple developer boycott of Feedback Assistant"

stevedekorte — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 17:21:23 +0000

I've run into many of the problems mentioned with Apple Feedback and gave up on using them many years ago. It's pretty disheartening when you spend a bunch of time getting an OS crashing bug to reproduce in a small amount of code to submit in a bug report for them to neither confirm that they can repeat it, or consider it worth fixing.

New comment by stevedekorte in "StableStudio, an open-source release of DreamStudio"

stevedekorte — Wed, 17 May 2023 16:34:52 +0000

Can it be used via an API?

New comment by stevedekorte in "The Io Language"

stevedekorte — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:39:53 +0000

Enjoying the discussion. Here’s a related paper: https://docplayer.net/137462966-Towards-jit-compilation-for-...

New comment by stevedekorte in "The Io Language"

stevedekorte — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:46:44 +0000

That might be right, but I'm not familiar enough with early Smalltalk to say. Self was a bigger inspiration than Smalltalk.

New comment by stevedekorte in "The Io Language"

stevedekorte — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:44:53 +0000

Fixed, thanks!

New comment by stevedekorte in "The Io Language"

stevedekorte — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:29:36 +0000

Yeah, good idea. I've updated it.

New comment by stevedekorte in "The Io Language"

stevedekorte — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:00:34 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion. I've added a first pass at samples page and a link on the main page. https://iolanguage.org/samples/

New comment by stevedekorte in "Previous: A NeXT Computer Emulator"

stevedekorte — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:10:54 +0000

Can someone get this running on the Web with WASM?

New comment by stevedekorte in "Banking in uncertain times"

stevedekorte — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 16:42:34 +0000

"Society depends on this mismatch existing. It must exist somewhere."

I see no reason why bank deposits can be fully backed, and ppl who choose to can buy into bonds funds separately. For example, only ~6% of gov bonds are held by banks: https://www.statista.com/statistics/201881/holders-of-the-us...

New comment by stevedekorte in "England's health service crisis in one shocking graph [video]"

stevedekorte — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 18:59:21 +0000

Who would have predicted ever increasing inefficiency and decreasing service from an effective monopoly with little to no selection pressure?