LukeShu

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by LukeShu 4y ago
Some folks'd say that yeah, Common Lisp is the go-to Lisp. Some folks'd say no, the go-to is Scheme. Guile is GNU's common language runtime, sorta like Java's JVM or Microsoft's CLR. And Scheme is really the only
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by LukeShu 4y ago
Without saying I agree with him on this, here's his defense of it: https://stallman.org/articles/dr-stallman.html
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by LukeShu 4y ago
Also [ and ] adjust the playback speed by 10%, and backspace resets the playback speed to 1x.
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by LukeShu 4y ago
From your link: > [Jon Postel] was referred to as the "god of the Internet" I think that beats Cerf's "father of the Internet". But really, IME (but maybe I'm just a nerd) Postel is at least as famous as Cer
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by LukeShu 4y ago
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/36313
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by LukeShu 4y ago
The MOS 6502 didn't have a multiply.
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by LukeShu 4y ago
The limit on precision wasn't the size of the lookup table, it was the size of the integers. The CPU's integers were only 8-bits. So if you're using native integers (i.e.: [0,256) == [0°,360°) ), you can't get angles m
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by LukeShu 4y ago
The original Asteroids source code has been released, we can look at what it did! (Also, even before that the EPROM images had been disassembled, but looking at the original sources is more fun.) It indeed used (-128, 128) for (-180°,180°)
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by LukeShu 4y ago
> May be the author got tired (or whatever he took started to wear off) The author uses they/them pronouns. And more likely their ADHD episode started to wear down, rather than something they took started to wear off.
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by LukeShu 4y ago
Between body heat from being in your pocket and heat from the electronics, the unpleasant glass usually isn't cold .
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by LukeShu 4y ago
> That said, right-click > save as image is supposed to be disabled on that particular DOM element, but I'm guessing you probably have an extension or user-script that re-enables it. FYI, even without an extension, you can bypass
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by LukeShu 4y ago
> If your name is Dijkstra and it’s 1968 feel free to use the phrase “considered harmful” The phrase "GOTO considered harmful" was actually used by Niklaus Wirth, not Edsger Dijkstra. Dijkstra had submitted his letter with the
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by LukeShu 4y ago
Even simpler than that! GNU grep hasn't done arg0-inspection since 2002; since then `fgrep` and `egrep` have been short[1] shell scripts. [1]: 11 lines at the longest, 2 lines at the shortest; currently 4 lines https://git.s
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by LukeShu 4y ago
GNU has flip-flopped on it. - Based on the NEWS file, it sounds like pre-v2.0 (1993) versions had totally separate implementations for each program and didn't have -E, -F, or -G flags (but only history back to 1998 has been imported to
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by LukeShu 4y ago
> Those are not provided by GNU grep, they are an Arch thing No, they're a GNU grep thing. GNU grep 3.7: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/src/egrep.sh... GNU grep 3.8 (with the war
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by LukeShu 4y ago
> loud, prominent voices shouting that go didn't need and shouldn't have generics The party line has always[1] been that generics would be nice to have, but "We haven't yet found a design that gives value proportionat
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by LukeShu 4y ago
If the package is available as a wheel, you don't need to execute code to see what the requirements are; you just need to parse the "METADATA" file. However, the only way to get the METADATA for a wheel (using PyPA standard
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by LukeShu 4y ago
GPS was originally only for military use; opening it up to civilians didn't come until later. They didn't anticipate all of us pesky civilians coming up with creative new uses for it (like time keeping in our networks) or putting
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by LukeShu 4y ago
You can exclude it if you select the "DIY Edition".
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by LukeShu 4y ago
At garage sales sometimes you find older Lacks that have solid wood legs. With the newer hollow-leg ones, I find that if you punch out the bottom of the legs, you can snugly fit 1.75" square dowel inside. (Though I've heard that t
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by LukeShu 4y ago
In AT&T's case, it's because @att.com addresses were (are?) given to AT&T residential Internet customers, so they needed a separate domain so it's "clear" if an email is from AT&T itself or from a rando
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by LukeShu 4y ago
I had an interview on IRC once.
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by LukeShu 4y ago
> Companies never use addresses outside of their domain. att-mail.com (not att.com) vectrenmail.com (not vectren.com) discoursemail.com (not discourse.org) facebookmail.com (not facebook.com) emailbcbsma.com (not bl
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by LukeShu 4y ago
> there’s no desire from the author that people should stop reading it, just that it’s out of the author’s hands If it were just his own servers that lapsed, sure. But he actively deleted his GitHub repos.
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by LukeShu 4y ago
For many users it was a non-event; but if you missed that news post, and didn't pass `--ignore glibc` to your `-Syu`, then your system broke. And a sizable minority of users missed the news post. (Shamefully, I was in that minority.)
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by LukeShu 4y ago
I suspect you were thinking of an Arch Linux-specific glibc upgrade related to Arch's `/lib`+`/usr/lib/` merge in 2012ish, not a painful glibc-itself upgrade that other distros would have noticed?
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by LukeShu 4y ago
In Arch, the glibc package upgrade associated with the `/lib` + `/usr/lib` merge in 2012ish was painful. I assume that's what the parent post was referring to. I assume you're referring to the libc5→libc6 upgrade?
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by LukeShu 4y ago
That breakage is because of the dumpster-fire that is seccomp. Your seccomp policy (in this case, the one that comes with Electron) whitelists syscalls, but which syscalls glibc uses to implement things is considered an implementation deta
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by LukeShu 4y ago
The code in question: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commit/389a4...
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by LukeShu 4y ago
Apple's wireless charger design wasn't up to snuff in time for the iPhone 8/X release date, so they arranged for someone else (Belkin?) to sell the design under their brand, so that there would be a decent wireless charger av

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