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New comment by tehologist in "Intel Arc Pro B70 Review"

tehologist — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:41:45 +0000

I have one, this isn't true. The wattage of a 5070 is about 300. The spark entire unit runs at 200 watts max. In reality it runs like a rtx 5060 with lots of vram. Very good for training, okay for inferencing if you are running batch jobs and don't mind waiting.

New comment by tehologist in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

tehologist — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 01:21:59 +0000

This was also when most of these machines were not online. Security wasn't as much of a concern.

New comment by tehologist in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

tehologist — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:27:11 +0000

Python pdftools to convert to images and tesseract to ocr them to text files. Fast free and can run on CPU.

New comment by tehologist in "Windows native app development is a mess"

tehologist — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:26:08 +0000

TCC is less than a meg to download supports win32 very well and as an added bonus created executables run fine under linux wine.

New comment by tehologist in "Windows native app development is a mess"

tehologist — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:24:54 +0000

TCC supports win32 and is less than a meg download and as an added bonus supports linux very well thanks to wine.

New comment by tehologist in "I fixed Windows native development"

tehologist — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:49:45 +0000

I don't understand, just use scite editor with tcc. About a couple of megs download, no install required and your apps will run on everything from win 98 to linux with wine. And if the answer is c++ support then you get all the pain you deserve using that cursed language

New comment by tehologist in "The Nova Programming Language"

tehologist — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:29:53 +0000

I was thinking that this looks a lot like prolog or even make with rewrite terms

New comment by tehologist in "What is “literate programming”? (2024)"

tehologist — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:20:18 +0000

Literate programming is alive and well in 2025.

https://leo-editor.github.io/leo-editor/

https://kaleguy.github.io/leovue/#/t/2

https://ganelson.github.io/inweb/inweb/index.html

Inform 7 is arguably one of the largest programs ever written in literate style.

New comment by tehologist in "The Generative AI Con"

tehologist — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:10:10 +0000

I personally think IDE makes for worse programmers vs just using a text editor.

New comment by tehologist in "Nvidia Security Team: “What if we just stopped using C?” (2022)"

tehologist — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:26:40 +0000

Why not just use a verifiable subset of C? https://compcert.org/compcert-C.html

New comment by tehologist in "Software development topics I've changed my mind on"

tehologist — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:39:52 +0000

Imperial vs Metric is a hard requirement not a convention or formatting. I have a co-worker who wants everything to be a one liner, doesn't like if/else statements, thinks exception handling is bad and will fail a code review over a variable that he feels isn't cased properly.

This makes code reviews super slow and painful, it also means you aren't focusing on the important stuff. What the code actually does and if it meets the requirements in functionality. You don't have time for that stuff, you are too busy trying to make this one person happy by turning an if else into a ternary and the end of sprint is a day away.

New comment by tehologist in "Self-Documenting Code"

tehologist — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:48:25 +0000

All source code is self documenting, source code is for developers to read. Computer languages are a human readable version of what the compiler executes and is for the developers, not the compilers benefit. As a developer, I read way more software than I write and if the source is hard to understand then I feel you failed as a developer. Writing is a skill, no less important in software than anywhere else. Properly named functions/variables and easy to follow flow control is a skill that takes years to learn. All developers should keep a thesaurus and a dictionary nearby. If you find yourself writing a lot of comments trying to explain what you are doing in your code, then you probably should refactor.

New comment by tehologist in "Opening Windows in Linux with sockets, bare hands and 200 lines of C"

tehologist — Thu, 09 May 2024 15:50:12 +0000

I used to do this with Virtual Box running locally. I found the performance of the windows x client was superior to trying to use x directly in the virtual machine. I wish the protocol supported audio.

New comment by tehologist in "XL: An Extensible Programming Language"

tehologist — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:05:53 +0000

I am pretty sure logo is mostly a lisp without parenthesis. I find it a lot more readable than most lisp dialects. I am not sure why it never caught on.

New comment by tehologist in "Atari Launches Atari 2600+"

tehologist — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 16:02:55 +0000

https://atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=949

http://8bitworkshop.com/v3.1.0/?=&platform=vcs&file=examples...

https://archive.org/details/StellaProgrammersGuide

There is also batari basic, not sure how much more accessible or easy they could make it. The first link cartridges should work in 2600+

New comment by tehologist in "Age of universe at 26.7B years, nearly twice as old as previously believed"

tehologist — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 22:52:02 +0000

The universe is aging at an alarming rate.

New comment by tehologist in "Retro: A modern, pragmatic Forth"

tehologist — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 12:54:09 +0000

I am so happy to see Charles is still releasing new versions. Has a lot of interesting designs on functional programming using the stack. You can see the inspirations from joy and the portable virtual machine is well designed and easy to understand. This is a great project to study and experiment with.

New comment by tehologist in "GitHub Copilot emits GPL code"

tehologist — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 19:47:27 +0000

Copyrighting code never made sense to me. We already have patents for intellectual property. If two people use the same RFC or Whitepaper for an algorithm in the same language, they will probably name the variables similarly and their code will look very similar. Just like if two people wrote out the same hamburger recipe or instructions for hooking up a stereo would also write something similar.

The copyright on the implementation will outlive the patent and allow the implementor to legally take action on claims of copyright infringement. Even though a program is literally just a list of instructions to implement the expired patent.

New comment by tehologist in "The Origin of the “MIT License” (2020)"

tehologist — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:11:03 +0000

I avoid GPL projects because I am a software developer and the idea of the project dictating how I can release my own source is a big FU to me. If I can find software that is licensed with a non restrictive license I will always support it over anything that is GPL. I have had a few projects I was very interested in and considered helping out on, but the GPL license is a non starter for me.

If you have to redefine the word "FREE" to mean freedom and your license is several pages of lawyer speak, then that is a problem.

I will take anarchy over crazy ideology any day of the week.

New comment by tehologist in "The Origin of the “MIT License” (2020)"

tehologist — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 14:15:27 +0000

From my understanding GPL originated because Stallman was upset about a version of Emacs he was working on at school (MIT Licensed). The person he was working on it with took the source code and started a commercial company, but had no interest in working with Stallman professionally. So Stallman started his free software crusade with his own version of Emacs and replicating every tool needed to build it with his own "FREE" license. This has always bothered me as GPL is far more strict of a license than either BSD or MIT.