2023-10-10 00:37:38 <lispmacs[work]> Hi, I need to write a terminal emulator for a legacy terminal type, and wanted to use an interesting language like Forth or Lisp. Kind of what I was thinking was either gforth or common lisp, as practical options, but wondered if anybody had any thoughts
2023-10-10 00:39:54 <lispmacs[work]> by "practical" I'm thinking about performance, and also ease of coding it
2023-10-10 00:41:43 <lispmacs[work]> I guess a big question would be what I would use for the gfx toolkit, unless I just translated to ANSI codes
2023-10-10 05:39:34 <KipIngram   > lispmacs[work] What platform will you be writing this on.
2023-10-10 05:46:04 <KipIngram   > Wow.  Gregor Mendel didn't really start out trying to be a monk (or abbot, or whatever he was).  He set out to be a teacher, and clearly had the technical proficiency.  But he had a horrible phobia about speaking in front of groups of people, and as a result he failed the oral review state of the "hiring process."
2023-10-10 05:46:36 <KipIngram   > I guess he cloistered himself in a monastary because he simply couldn't manage out in the world mixing with people.  That's kind of sad, but he still managed to accomplish great things anyway.
2023-10-10 05:47:02 <KipIngram   > I don't love speaking to groups, but I can muddle my way through it when I have to.
2023-10-10 06:05:56 <KipIngram   > Oh, human sare the only animals on Earth that have "chins."  Defining chins here as "protruding forward" like ours do.
2023-10-10 16:17:07 <KipIngram   > Bizarre.  Saw a YouTube video about some little single cell organism.  I can't make out the spelling of the name.  But anyway, these critters will function as a colony of single-cell organisms so long as they have plenty of food around.  But if food gets scarce, they'll all meet up and merge into a multi-cellular slug like thing.  It will crawl off until it finds some food, and then it pulls a move that's
2023-10-10 16:17:09 <KipIngram   > more like a plant - it grows a stalk up into the air and a spore pod bursts up at the top, sending spore off into the wind.  Each of those lands somewhere and carries on as a single cell organism again.
2023-10-10 16:17:11 <KipIngram   > That's just nuts.
2023-10-10 16:17:30 <KipIngram   > They can reproduce in a single-cell way and everything
2023-10-10 16:17:40 <KipIngram   > They just have two completely different life cycles.
2023-10-10 16:22:31 <thrig       > man 'o war is also a colony
2023-10-10 16:22:47 <KipIngram   > Ah - found it:
2023-10-10 16:22:48 <KipIngram   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictyostelium_discoideum
2023-10-10 16:34:01 <KipIngram   > Stuff like that makes me think of Jeff Goldblum's line in Jurassic Park, "Life finds a way."
2023-10-10 16:34:09 <KipIngram   > He was so perfect for that part.
2023-10-10 18:28:08 <lispmacs[work]> just got a package for this in Guix:
2023-10-10 18:28:12 <lispmacs[work]> https://dacvs.neocities.org/SF/