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by agiacalone 4y ago
A few reasons, although you are only seeing part of the picture with the project. The lectures were all theory-based (more along what you would find in the book). 1. I had a whopping three weeks to prepare this course from scratch (welcom
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by agiacalone 4y ago
We have a similar course too which focuses specifically on language design without the compiler part (they do get a bit of compiler theory) which satisfies that "requirement" for graduation. It is much more popular than the compil
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by agiacalone 4y ago
Uni CS lecturer here. One of my mentors in grad school was the compiler professor, and I learned a lot from him. I also got a chance to actually teach compilers for the fist time last year and it was one of the most difficult courses I have
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by agiacalone 4y ago
This is a really neat project. It reminds me a lot of Inform, in the sense that a full “modern” language was designed around creating an older-style of game.
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by agiacalone 4y ago
I’m with you. I really liked the essay, and I also particularly like speculative fiction.
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by agiacalone 4y ago
I moved to San Francisco in 1999, my early 20s, and got a landline. Cell phones were not yet the norm, and I really didn’t have much interest in having one until a girlfriend of mine insisted I get one in 2000. If I remember correctly, Pac
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by agiacalone 4y ago
As others have said, .mobileconfig or official app work great. I geek out a bit and use Surge for iOS (pricey and not for non-techie users) and run a few proxies. It'll also allow for DNS override, which I use NextDNS's DNS over H
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by agiacalone 4y ago
NextDNS (or a similar DNS ad-blocker solution like PiHole) works wonders on iOS.
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by agiacalone 4y ago
I have no problem parking my 2016 Toyota Corolla. Even on busy city streets. Never understood the desire to drive around a massive truck or SUV, especially in an city environment.
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by agiacalone 4y ago
Maybe this will sound bizarre, but in high school, we were taught Lotus 123 and Wordperfect 5.0 by being given a thick beige binder and a set of floppy disks. There was barely an interface. We had to figure it out by flipping through dead t
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by agiacalone 4y ago
Ripped all my DVDs in 2010, donated them, and haven't looked back. Nowadays with Plex, I see no reason to ever use physical media again
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by agiacalone 4y ago
Reeder on iOS is pretty good. Been using it for years across multiple versions
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by agiacalone 4y ago
Some of us who never left RSS think those two things are features
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by agiacalone 4y ago
I had one of these when I was a teen! Granted, it wasn't originally mine, but I found it in my grandfather's shed in the early 1990's and I kept it on my nightstand for years. It worked too (I might have replaced the vacuum t
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by agiacalone 4y ago
Not to mention a common malware vector
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by agiacalone 4y ago
Love the ASCII version, but totally buying to support the devs.
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by agiacalone 4y ago
I've consider myself fairly proficient with chopsticks, but this got me thinking: would reverse pincers be an improvement? Ones that have a spring to hold closed, versus holding open. My one beef with chopsticks is that it requires s
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by agiacalone 4y ago
I didn't realize this was hosted by SDF. Sorry to see it go, but hopefully it'll return on Mastodon. Edit: I misread the first Tweet reply...but if it is eventually hosted at SDF, great!
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by agiacalone 4y ago
> Exactly. It's the world wide web, people. It's about discovery and distribution and linkage. Yes! I usually try to avoid posting "me too" replies, but this is what the WWW should be, IMO. Remember webrings? We sho
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by agiacalone 4y ago
> I found that 16GB on my laptop provided only enough memory for two app VMs That seems...not right. I typically have 8-10 app Qubes running and don't have a problem, although I only use web browsers in a couple at a time, truth b
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by agiacalone 4y ago
> This is nice but misses one vital step IMO: Do your basic web surfing in a disposable VM. This cannot be emphasized enough. :)
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by agiacalone 4y ago
Running Qubes 4.1 on a Lenovo Thinkpad T460s i7 6600U, 12GB DDR4 RAM. VMs (Qubes) work like a snap. I typically run 8-10 with various utilities/browsers and wouldn’t even be able to “tell” that it’s running in a VM if I didn’t know any
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Iran to criminalize sale of VPNs used to skirt Internet restrictions(timesofisrael.com)
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by agiacalone 4y ago
I used Spark for a while, as it supported Exchange/O365 out of the box which was one advantage over Thunderbird. It also has decent mobile support. But Thuderbird is a superior email client, IMHO
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by agiacalone 4y ago
Looks neat! Going to give it a try...
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by agiacalone 4y ago
iOS user here. I forgo the on-device ad-blocking and use DNS blocking. It's a decent catch-all for most things I'm worried about. NextDNS is one of the better hosted DNS blocklists, IMO
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by agiacalone 4y ago
Or ZZ if you want to save and exit. Saves a whole second! Also, for those of you who think vim is old, it’s got nothin’ on Ed. https://cs.wellesley.edu/~cs249/Resources/ed_is_the_standard...
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by agiacalone 4y ago
As many have said, it stands for Interactive Fiction. Since there seems to be some interest in it, the assignment I give my students is on Github here: https://github.com/agiacalone/cecs-342-lab-inform7 I have more inf
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by agiacalone 4y ago
I use Inform 7 as the very first case study language for a class I teach in programming language design theory for a uni CS program. * It's very well documented. The entire compiler design and language grammar is detailed to near text-
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by agiacalone 4y ago
This reminds me of RFC-2549 in all the best ways. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549

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