New entry of AI-generated #comics and #jokes added to our #website:

#Pascal's #Palate

comics.lucentinian.com/6200
#ComedyGold #Comedy #AIJokes #AIGeneratedJokes #AILaughs

I'd much rather take Pascal's carriage than Pascal's wager any time!

TIL that Pascal started the worlds first bus company (as far as this youtuber found that history has recorded, which might have many biases)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsNEVRosKzM

My brand new #mfmemulator from https://decromancer.ca/mfm-emulator/ arrived from #Canada about a week ago. It doubles as an MFM harddisk reader as well as an emulator, and I just happened to have a 40 year old disk lying around.

#MFM was a weird standard, at least compared to SCSI and IDE. It's much closer to that of a floppy drive, than the hard disks we use today. That becomes apparent, when you realize that there are a lot of different standards for putting data on an MFM disks, and I'm just talking ones and zeroes here, not high level data like file systems. Basically, one model MFM controller probably won't read the data that another wrote on the same disk.

With that in mind, I was a little worried that the emulator wouldn't read my #CPM disk that was previously connected to an old Adaptec SCSI-to-MFM controller. To my surprise it worked like a charm, and I'm now looking at #pascal source code my dad wrote in the mid #80s. I'd call that a success!

I know they’re now owned by Amazon, sadly, but Abe Books is still really useful for finding old technical books using their “want” mechanism. Yours truly has a copy of “A Model Implementation of Standard Pascal” by Welsh and Hay on the way.

(IIRC the model implementation supports conformant arrays but I don’t know if type schemas are in there. Probably not. Maybe? It would be awesome if it did.)

We wouldn't have this problem with DOGE's interns if they had to learn COBOL, FORTRAN, and PASCAL - like I had to.

BTW: My major programming language? Perl

Second only to Objective-C... NOT SWIFT. Obj-C!

Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Delphi version 1.0’s Launch

｢ Today we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the launch of Delphi version 1.0 on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1995, at the Software Development West Conference in San Francisco California. More that 12 years of continuous IDE, language, tools and library development led up to the launch of Delphi version 1.0 ｣

https://blog.davidi.com/2025/02/14/celebrating-the-30th-anniversary-of-delphi-version-1-0s-launch/

Programming languages to learn in 2025 (in order):

#Forth
#Scheme
#Smalltalk
#Racket
#Haskell
#Pascal
#Ruby
#Python
#Rust
#JavaScript
#WebAssembly
#C

#Introduction

Greeting, I'm Sam. Basically I created this account and now access it via #Tor because I live in the US and fear for our safety, security, and privacy from our own government now. It's a disgrace.

I'm into old computers (#Retrocomputing) from the late 70s and early 80s, mostly #Commodore, #Atari, #Sinclair, #AppleII, (gotta specify the 'ii' else I'll get a bunch of modern apple junk), #Acorn, etc.

I know #BASICv2 and #6510ASM, along with modern #C, #Perl, #Pascal, etc. I've also wanted to relearn #Prolog (CP3... )

I'm a straight male but I hope that doesn't matter as it doesn't matter to me what you are. I believe people deserve to live their lives, their way to be happy. No one is above others. It's when beliefs are pushed on others we have problems.

Thank you for taking the time to read this far and I guess I'm supposed to end with a "Like and subscribe", but I think here that means "Follow if you'd like".

Hey #retrocomputing folks. I'm looking for an emulated version of UCSD #Pascal IV.0 that's *not* the TI-99/4a. Trying to compile something from the USUS archives, and the TI is running out of stack. And since I will eventually be putting it back on the TI, I'll need whatever tools are required to extract files from the emulator's disk image (preferably something ridiculously simple).

GitHub - CorBer/waveSharp: wavelet-sharpening for astro images based on RegiStax https://github.com/CorBer/waveSharp

«WaveSharp was built using only free tools. The source code for all versions was build using the Lazarus IDE and using the FreePascal Compiler. [...] We needed a bridge between Lazarus/FreePascal and Python to allow fast/easy flow of data. The Python4Delphi libraries/components have proven to allow all of this».

For 2024, I solved Advent of Code in 25 different languages. Was a fun project, sometimes a bit (very) painful (*glances at Erlang and Zig*).

Code (bottom of post) and summary for each language:
https://blog.aschoch.ch/posts/aoc-2024

Keep in mind that I used most of these language for a few hours tops, so my judgement is very much subjective.

What's your favourite of the bunch?

Thanks for the reminder, Pascal. I try! #AnimalCrossing #PocketCamp #Pascal #quote

I've been using this Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080Ti graphics card for six years now in my gaming PC. Last year I upgraded the PC's mobo/CPU/RAM (Ryzen 7 7700X) but kept the 1080Ti in place.

The GTX 1080Ti is a monster.

https://www.quora.com/My-friends-GTX-1080-Ti-11GB-performed-better-than-my-RTX-3060-12GB-How-is-that-possible

Only available for about six months, Nvidia (over)reacted to a claim from AMD re: their upcoming GPU's performance, and released the 11GB GDDR5X 1080Ti. (AMD's claim was way over the top, it turned out.)

For older, non ray-traced games (like No Man's Sky, which is the main purpose of my gaming PC), the 1080Ti notably outperforms the RTX-3060.

I'm run #NoMansSky at 2560x1440 all settings Ultra and get 80-100fps typically. I wonder how long I will be driving this thing?