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Strongly agree from an Emscripten C++ wasm pov: it's key to minimise emscripten::val roundtrips. Caches must be designed for rectilinear data geometry, and SharedArrayBuffers are the way for bulk data. But only JS allows us to express asynchrony, so we need an on_completion callback design at the lang boundary.

Indeed a whole class of issues become moot if you just don't use javascript anywhere. In the browser world this is obviously difficult/impossible; I look forward to the day when WASM can run natively in a browser and doesn't need javascript at all, DOM, network, etc, etc. On the server side? Just steer clear of the javascript ecosystem altogether.

Jupiter Ace: a ZX80 with a Forth ROM. Inspired me to port an 8080 FIG Forth listing to the Camputers Lynx back in 83.

Well somewhere between a ZX80 and a ZX81, it had a better video system than either, but at the cost of dedicated video ram (IIRC)

Are they finding the numbers least likely to be used on lottery tickets?


By "procession", do you allude to the filioque clause? Agreed on difficulty of translation as I follow Quine so think a language as a whole is the unit of meaning as opposed to any specific granular element.


> By "procession", do you allude to the filioque clause?

The filioque is about the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son, not the Son from the Father.


No mention of Imperial College's psychedelic programme and it's recent findings re neuroplasticity.


Could you share a link?


Flat plane or cross plane? Cross plane cranks necessitate an asymmetric firing order, which produces the wonderful burble from US V8s. Flat plane is more common in Europe - think Ferrari - and has a symmetric firing order that produces a toneless metallic howl.


I was talking about the Chrome kind of v8.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8_(JavaScript_engine)


Yep; nothing genuinely new since Xerox Alto in 73. Mouse, GUI, TCP/IP, Smalltalk 72.


Allusive and romantic. My view is to see data as geometry, not poetry. Rectilinear data is cache friendly.


Love the Freak Brothers references; two US counter cultures that do cross pollinate. Z80MC RAM & ROM seem v generous compared to the ZX81 I used to cut my asm teeth, wobbly RAM pack and all...


Looks like the caption to the image references a "Creative Computing" cover from 1979—so an indirect FFFBrothers reference.


In the 19th Century British Foreign Office the Napoleon Technique was called "masterly inactivity". For instance "the Russians are threating Afghanistan, so we must move troops up to the NW Frontier". No! Not every action merits a reaction.


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