Thanks! Clojure is a great example of a modern Lisp. Common Lisp is the Swiss army knife of programming and used everywhere you care to look, that is if you look hard ;)
Today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells the story of the Lisp programming language, invented by a genius called John McCarthy in 1958 and today still going strong (to the extent that many people see it as the most powerful programming language in existence).
And this is a time for shameless self promotion, even if you don't plan on buying the book, please repost :-). Self-publishing is self-marketing, so there we go.
If you do buy and read it, please let me know how you liked it!
The book landing page, https://berksoft.ca/gol, has links to all outlets where you can buy the book,
I'm writing a technical history book of sorts on Lisp, it's been years in the making and this is the first time I'm looking at something actually book-like (instead of LaTeX source or on-screen PDF ;-)).
For some reason, I spot more errors with hardcopy, so decided that for the final pass before I rope in some volunteer reviewers, I'd print and quickly bind it. Once the reviewers are thumb-up, hopefully just some quick typesetting fixes and then off to publication!
Gorgeous thing. Is that mercury in the glass tubes in the pendulum?
While I won't say that writing a text editor or rewriting (base) Emacs is easy, I think it is all about the ecosystem. There's lots of Emacs reimplementations out there, some really good ones (like Lem), but they all have the same shortcoming: "no org mode", "no magit", and so on.
Emacs has a truly enormous ecosystem and only a reimplementation that runs everything unchanged has a chance of attracting enough attention. There was a time that that was seen as a worthwhile venture: Elisp was limited and slow. However, now with CL compatibilty and native compilation, I don't see it happening. Not in the sense of something standing up that can and will actually replace Emacs.
Worse is better :-)
My favorite watch is my smart watch. It's actually smart: it never needs a charge, it sets time from atomic time signals, has a clearly readable mixed analog/digital display, and comes with some handy extras like a compass and baro/altimeter. Oh, and I can wear it while logging, as it's virtually indestructable. Try that, Apple! (it's a Casio G-Shock Mudmaster GWG-1000).
My second favorite watch is what I'm now wearing - a CA$129 Seagull. It's a skeleton watch with no dial and transparent front and back case, so I can brag about my skills ("I disassembled and cleaned this watch, try to find any scratch marks on the screws!" - there are some tiny ones, I must admit), and, more importantly, show people how mechanical watches work :-). It's also a darn good timekeeper for the money.
It's on my (ever shrinking) list of clocks I'd like to own. And be able to maintain :-). Thanks for sharing.
The sort of protections that you're offered by your CPU and modern OSes aren't offered by GPUs and their libraries, yet. So you're back in the '80s, when your Mac or MS-DOS machine would crash hard on the smallest issue. That's life, I'm afraid.
Lower settings. Sorry, thats all there is to it. 8GB is not a lot these days (i have two older cards in my PC and they're both 12). Textures, screen resolution, there's a bunch you can do.
Crashes are unavoidable, given that everyone wants max performance everywhere, things get shipped with all the debugging and checking stripped.
US physicians: read https://canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/03/25/i-traded-my-u-s-medical-career-for-life-in-canada-heres-how-the-two-health-systems-stack-up. I think you're most welcome here :)
It's just much easier to stop using them. Remember: its founder and largest shareholder (I guess) was one of the billionaire groupies standing behind Trumd during his inauguration. Canadians should not be shopping on Amazon.
I think French and Heinz use Canadian tomatoes. So does the bottle of Compliments in my fridge. I guess we grow more tomatoes than we realize :)
In a nutshell, the study of measuring time. Most textbooks start with the stars and how we can use them for that purpose, including of course our own. Solar clocks, water clocks, you name it and it existed before the modern clock was invented.
Turns out that timekeeping was crucial for navigation so in a sense, making clocks better became a precondition of navigating the globe and a lot of advancements in (micro)mechanics started there.
Of course, these days we keep all but perfect time and position using atoms and satellites and software, but a lot of people are attracted to these marvelous mechanical devices that measure time. So learning about (mostly mechanical) watches and clocks, what makes them tick, how to maintain them and how to repair them is usually the topic of discussion for horology forums.
It's a very deep rabbit hole. But a fun one.
I started going down it because I like tinkering, doing fine motoric stuff but found spending money on Lego sets got boring and I ran out of space to display them. Watches are much more space efficient and when done with them, you can sell them :)
Yes you do! ;-)