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by Jach 2y ago
Not to mention working programmers are expected to keep up with changes to C++, Python, Java, JavaScript (and its frameworks), Go2.0, etc., many of which constitute "new language" levels of different, not to mention actual languag
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by Jach 2y ago
Also don't forget to clear your FASLs since they're not compatible. e.g. remove ~/.cache/common-lisp/sbcl-2.4.4-linux-x64/ and ~/.slime/fasl/
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by Jach 2y ago
I can't ELI5 (don't like such things anyway) but if you know calculus, the v^2 follows directly out of trying to integrate momentum (or quantity of motion, a fun phrasing) with respect to velocity. Momentum is mv, units are kilogr
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by Jach 2y ago
Most people are unaware of the separated twin studies and it shows.
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by Jach 2y ago
Have you seen https://stevelosh.com/blog/2018/08/a-road-to-common-lisp/ ? "Kludges" everywhere is applicable. On the other hand, having a function like "row-major-aref" that allows ac
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by Jach 2y ago
Fortunately in Lisp the compiler is available at runtime! I mean, it's just not that bad. I believe the commercial Lisp IDEs will just show you relevant info much like, say, Java IDEs, but even with a free Lisp you can still ask for it
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by Jach 2y ago
Really cool and the video was great too. Indie devs should probably consider doing this sort of thing more often, building these simple tools in service of a game rather than just using the industry standard tool. It can be a great way to a
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by Jach 2y ago
It's an extension of the chosen-plaintext attack, and so requires the attacker to be able to send custom text that they know is in the encrypted payload. If the unencrypted payload is "our-secret-data :::: some user specified text
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by Jach 3y ago
Relayed by Nick Metropolis: Fermi and von Neumann overlapped. They collaborated on problems of Taylor instabilities and they wrote a report. When Fermi went back to Chicago after that work he called in his very close collaborator, namely He
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by Jach 3y ago
I think that's a reasonable position. My desire for legalization is more around an edge-case scenario, because I think the "do it yourself" approach for most people isn't actually that difficult if someone is actually co
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by Jach 3y ago
Do you have any suggestions of a limiting principle, then, or do you just think suicide should never be an available service others can offer and must always be done by oneself?
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by Jach 3y ago
Consent seems like a sufficient limiting principle.
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by Jach 3y ago
Clinical sociopathy probably goes too far for most of them, but the outcomes aren't all that different anyway. I'd encourage people who still doubt or think highly of their ability to deal with HR, but who haven't had it test
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by Jach 3y ago
It might be amusing every once in a while but walking anything over a mile in below freezing weather gets old fast even if bundled up.
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by Jach 3y ago
How far back are you going? It was a problem in the 90s and early 2000s, even with multiple buses. It doesn't take very many parents to pick up or drop off at once to create a traffic jam. What amazed me was how many parents just accep
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by Jach 3y ago
Online DRM is prevalent. I'll add another example, Project Diva won't even launch if you're offline. It's a single player rhythm game. (In this case it's a property of Denuvo, a popular DRM software for lots of game
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by Jach 3y ago
While the IC card is great and a must-have, the reusable ticket for entry/exit of JR stations isn't exactly inconvenient. If you haven't been back in a while the JR pass is even more convenient than it once was, you can now b
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by Jach 3y ago
I had a 7-day pass in 2017 for $255, 14-day in 2022 for $365, and a 7-day in 2023 for $207. That page shows $343 and $548 for 7-day/14-day respectively now. It's all within the realm of "affordability" for a tourist, but
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by Jach 3y ago
I recall the 7 day JR Pass used to break even if you were going to do Tokyo -> Kyoto/Osaka and later back to Tokyo over a trip, maybe with an extra trip basically anywhere that could be a day trip. (e.g. Osaka to Hiroshima and back,
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by Jach 3y ago
I appreciate the thorough response, and concede my communication hasn't been very clear. I have been both types as well, I thought that could be inferred from my first comment you replied to. I think you have a Deming perspective, whic
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by Jach 3y ago
I believe the "right" way to do it is to have every repo only able to talk to another repo's code via versioned APIs. So e.g. a client repo can ship an update that will talk to some service repo's code at either version
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by Jach 3y ago
Edit: Seems you're based in South Africa? My thoughts are biased from the US perspective, so take them with a huge pile of salt. Surely you've worked on something with passion before? At least for me, there's additional energ
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by Jach 3y ago
On the small I wholly agree, like how much energy do some teams or even companies still waste on style document types of disagreements? But other aspects, I do often care how the code "looks" or more precisely "does" som
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by Jach 3y ago
It amazed me when a dev on one of my teams put up a code review, no tests (to be added "during the QE pass later" (a practice that itself has issues but in this case was at least plausible)), but from my quick inspection couldn&#x
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by Jach 3y ago
Who's not using it? Rhetorical, but Java is everywhere still, especially near anything that's making money. (As opposed to, perhaps, hobbyist solo projects, which if that's your only sample size perhaps it looks like Java isn
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by Jach 3y ago
It's theoretically helpful to at least put in a no-warranties clause. But sqlite as maybe the most popular public domain project worldwide doesn't (instead having just the declaration and a blessing). I mostly settled on the Unlic
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by Jach 3y ago
I also find square brackets useful for other kinds of expressions, like Python-style list comprehensions. Though such syntax predates Python, e.g. there's a paper from 1991 https://3e8.org/pub/scheme/doc/
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by Jach 3y ago
Like anything wheeled, the type of wheels alone can make terrain navigation much more easy or entirely hellish. I suspect most hospital wheelchairs are optimized for being cheap, including having cheap wheels that do fine on the smooth poli
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by Jach 3y ago
We still use slimv/vlime. At the end of that page it says Conjure doesn't support debugging, this is rather crucial for Common Lisp. Is vim-fireplace dead for Clojure?
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by Jach 3y ago
The Voyager is nowhere near max speed, nor is current biological age the final limit on human life span. If you survive another 500 million years or so, you might meet some aliens then. https://grabbyaliens.com/ If FTL were

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