Why do women wear flowers in their hair to work in the hell of a Tamil Nadu garment factory?
Why do unions know to check on a woman who stops wearing flowers?
You don't get to write this kind of piece (or even know it needs writing) without doing the long, hard work of grassroots union solidarity, so thank you Nandita and Nikita for such an insightful article.
https://tansyhoskins.org/factory-flowers-beauty-and-survival-in-indias-garment-factories/
The Masterscope program analysis tool of Medley Interlisp can show graphical output too, such as the call tree of the TEDIT function. Via the popup menu of a node I opened windows with the code of the TEXTSTREAM function and its bytecode disassembly.
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Thanks everyone and a special thanks @masinter ! It was a pleasure and honor to to talk with you for an hour.
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@interlisp for everything! Remember #interlisp is trying to reach escape velocity so it no longer needs the original #interlispd -ers to keep the project afloat.
til: PressOnward, a wordpress forked to use sqlite
you can have WordPress without needing babysit MySQL, run a big machine or really much of anything. Installation is a breeze, and if you turn off comments and put WP-Supercache in front of it, it’ll be perfectly happy humming along day to day on the tiniest VM you can find.
This is just… really upsetting. Both as a player of games and as a developer. NVidia secretly sneaks "AI" bullshit onto your computer, which slows everything down, AND changes the appearance [color contrast] of games away from what the developer attended, all for the benefit of investors rather than users. Then I guess you wind up having to upgrade your video card, because it's no longer fast enough with the AI parasite installed.
still having trouble wrapping my mind around the fact that since the pandemic hit nearly everyone in this country has used zoom, and yet it hasn't actually improved since then in any noticeable way
@northernlights Good rerun, though where is everyone! https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio
What a wonderfulll woorrllddd #music
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Ask about masterscope Xerox AI workstations and Larry's AI workshop which could be for 2025! https://larrymasinter.net/85-ai-tutorial.pdf
And winning the #gopher '93
the declarative/minimalistic devroom at fosdem is absolutely stacked this time around. schemers will be eating good.
I really like personal homepages and have quite a list of them bookmarked. I'll post one every week unless I fall behind this schedule. 😉 So here's Cool Personal Homepages #CPH Vol. 31: "KKJ // 2024.06" https://krzysztofjankowski.com/
PS: @w84death is on Mastodon!
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And, of course, only and forever for the browser ❤️ cc @TodePond
If someone says a system is "efficient," the question should be, "Efficient for what?"
Efficiency for speed is the opposite of efficient for fuel conservation. Efficiency for lightweight is the opposite of efficiency for carrying heavy loads. Efficiency for profit is the opposite of efficiency for human and earth wellness.
When they say "capitalism is the most efficient," that's true, but not for mine or your needs.
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📅 1986
🖥 3DS, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Arcade, Atari ST, BBC Microcomputer System, Commodore 64, DOS, FM Towns...
Sometimes you get a bug bounty program report, and from the way it's written, you're just certain that they're here on Mastodon.
@garbados i also always thought the term was bizarre
how many people are motivated by their own agency through punishment to love something?
the data also says justice by retribution does nothing to deter behaviour.
i remember someone once telling me i should be terrified of dying--me being an unbeliever. i honestly thought: what are you going on about?
“god-fearing” is a very funny way to describe a virtue of the faithful of a god of cruel death
this discrete transistor computer project has been going for me since 2013
a lot of it came from reading digital computer electronics by an author named malvino.
computers are just switches made of an electronic component called a transistor. when i mastered this i was incensed: i have to build a discrete transistor computer.
i eventually decided in 2017/2018 to change the design to something based on this: https://hackaday.io/project/4237-mental-1-a-brainfuck-cpu
this project is in ICs, and is just small enough to be possible to solder by hand--i thought to myself: i can reproduce this in discrete transistors.
the benefit of it is that is has no registers, so it simplifies the design radically.
the big problems are that i have no idea what is in this guy's instruction ROM, and it has no stack, meaning it must 'scan'--it must unwind every loop instruction, making it horrendously slow
i have seemingly lost my soldering iron, and entire kit of breadboards, so for the time being i will content myself with learning how to design and manufacture PCBs
PS--i will try and do a writeup on how the design works, and make project logs
@root42 @nanochess It looks like it can be made flicker free. The two players can be sprites, or even a single sprite. The static balls can be background. Moving balls can be missiles. If they don’t slow down vertically when hit you only need two technically. The hardware seems to support it but it’s hard to make, as any Atari 2600 game I imagine.
Looking at the original arcade game footage, I think this would be brilliant as a port to the Atari 2600. twelve sprites on screen at the same time might be quite the feat and very flickery, but maybe not impossible. Perhaps the players could be done differently (playfield?) and the balls would be single color only of course… @nanochess what do you think?