Humberto Ortiz-Zuazaga

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Show threadHumberto Ortiz-Zuazaga2d ago

@lindsey Damn the standards! I think it's a lovely idea, and students will see you think the time spent on the people are worth it.

A bioinformatics textbook I've used has half-page blurbs interspersed throughout the book with photos and biographies of some related researchers of the topics being covered.

Show threadHumberto Ortiz-ZuazagaMar 15
@dymaxion the tahoe filesystem (tahoe-lafs.org) presented read, write, and verify capabilities to end users.
Humberto Ortiz-ZuazagaMar 13
RacketMar 13
rackup installer and toolchain manager for Racket
https://racket.discourse.group/t/announcing-rackup/4140
https://samth.github.io/rackup/
Thank you @samth
Announcing `rackup`

Over the last couple weeks, I (and my hungry ghosts^H^H AI tools) have built rackup, a toolchain installer and manager for Racket. You can get it here: rackup The basic idea is that you install rackup with the classic curl | sh pattern $ curl -fsSL https://samth.github.io/rackup/install.sh | sh Then you can do something like: $ rackup install stable or $ rackup install 8.9 or $ rackup install 4.2 and then you can do this: $ racket -v Welcome to Racket v9.1 [cs]. $ rackup switch 8.9 $ r...

Racket Discourse
Show threadHumberto Ortiz-ZuazagaMar 7

@blogdiva at least 37 years, email, ftp, and telnet.

I wrote the manual for Internet at the UPR.

https://ccom.uprrp.edu/~humberto/history-of-research-networking-at-the-upr.html

History of Research Networking at the UPR

When I was a wee hacker I wrote a manual for using the Internet, which had recently become available to researchers at the University of Puerto Rico. The Office of Information Systems later updated and republished the manual, and there are several copies in the UPR library system. Yesterday I …

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Humberto Ortiz-ZuazagaMar 5
Everyday CyborgMar 3

Quote in September last year for a high-memory compute server. £28,000.

Quote today for the _exact same machine_. £90,500

This is for medical research. Saving lives. When I say LLMs are killing people by killing research computing, this is what I mean.

@davidgerard.co.uk @edzitron.com

Humberto Ortiz-ZuazagaMar 1
medio pocillo ☕Mar 1

Una mesa de orientación y asistencia tecnológica en el Festival de Claridad. Con info sobre FOSS, redes no corporativas, instalación de Linux y programas abiertos...

#mastodonPR #PuertoRico #tecnologíaLibre #tecnologíaSocial

Show threadHumberto Ortiz-ZuazagaFeb 25
@soapdog mastodon.el
Humberto Ortiz-ZuazagaFeb 25
GeePawHillFeb 25
And so but anyway, did I ever tell you about my most humiliating experience as a skilled and successful computer programmer?
Humberto Ortiz-ZuazagaFeb 19
Cees de GrootFeb 17

Well, 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,

Show threadHumberto Ortiz-ZuazagaFeb 17
@mauve There's a LoRa extension already: http://www.ulisp.com/show?582Q
uLisp - LoRa extension