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by aidenn0 5mo ago
I didn't try macroexpanding it yet, but when I make the 9 a runtime-parameter, I eventually get a stack-overflow with SBCL not TCO-ing the "H" binding in labels. The comments make me think this is ported from scheme, which ha
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
Okay I exaggerated, but 15 would be bad enough. I use the sheet-feed multiple times a year: - Banking/Investment documents (I actually sent a fax to a bank last year because $REASONS) - Foster-care related stuff - Sending tax docume
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
"Ordinary people" can be moved to action by moving statements from people they look to for leadership.
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
It's an open letter from the pope. An encyclical will often clarify Church doctrine on a topic, or set of topics. See e.g. Humanae Vitae[1] for an example of one that has resulted in, essentially, a lay rebellion — at the time it was
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
About 50 years by Wikipedia's reckoning.
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
The use of cl:eval alone is enough to make me believe that the CL column was never reviewed by an experienced CL programmer. I am now more suspicious of the other columns, which are languages I'm far less familiar with.
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
> Nowadays smartphones do credible document scanning for most consumer use cases. iPhones had this built in before COVID at the latest. Now do 40 pages, front-and-back, with your smartphone.
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
CL list comprehension: (loop for file across "ABCDEFGH" nconc (loop for rank from 1 to 9 collect (format nil "~C~D" file rank)))
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
> - ah ok, for dates and times local-time has its limits (e.g. Gregorian only), but it does everything listed in this chart > flattening a list What? Isn't this[1] just fine (<s>) > hash-table literals… Since the chart i
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
I think it is fair to say that the CL community is divided on whether or not relying on TCO is idiomatic. I prefer to write my state-machines as transitioning with tail-calls, and I do get called for it. It's relatively easy to switch
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
I would love if my printer was more dumb. It's cheaper to buy an AIO than a separate document (with duplex) and flatbed scanner.
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
My recollection is that it was more of a VHS vs Betamax story than one being strictly superior. When a lot of people were making their decisions, Git was a lot faster in ways that mattered. IIRC, shortly after a lot of places picked Git,
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
> viewing a lot of parish websites to check for Mass times How was your luck with that? I often find the website is terribly out-of-date in general, and if the times have changed since the last update... Sometimes the website links to r
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
Are you saying that Catholic charities are more catholic in who they help?
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
I've long thought that we need a name for what Zulip is other than "team chat." IMO it's different qualitatively than slack/mattermost/discord/teams &c.
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
That may be how you want C to be specified, but that's not how C is specified. The compiler is always allowed to assume that the input program is free of undefined behaviors. C++ has an even more trivial example: To be a valid C++ pro
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
The compiler does comply to the spec. It's the program that fails to comply with the spec. It's definitely possible to write programs that have no undefined behavior.
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
This piece was written over 30 years ago.
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
> I believe most of this activity is a giant make-work project designed to keep us out of trouble and on the payroll while Asian robots churn out most of the physical things we really need... Asian, yes. Robots, no (or at least not in
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
Shortly before the .com bust, I was offered a job if I was willing to drop out of college.
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
Warcraft II and Doom are both examples of, while not being the first in their genres, defining their genres and inspiring every studio to stop what they are doing and make something in that genre.
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
I agree that it is more honest. I disagree that it has a significant impact on the readers' awareness of the bias.
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
ggp said 100s of years. I am certain that gp is not 100s of years old.
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
More surprising to me is that there's a solution with no pieces on black.
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
If all releases are LTS, then none are. Part of the point GP was making is that when some releases have a very short maintenance window, then changes that are terrible in them don't need to be reverted (since the maintenance window wi
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
Yes. For example, nitrogen alloyed steels like Vanax or LC200N (both of which are more corrosion resistant than the other alloys mentioned by GP) aren't particularly corrosion resistant in the total space of stainless steels, they are
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
I was thinking like 35 years of tenure? That would take you from 30-65 or 35 to 70. There used to be forced retirement at 70 for academics so it's not without precedent.
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
Stephen King tried this (as Richard Bachman), but he was found out after just 4 books. His last novel as Bachman sold 10x as many copies after the connection was made known.
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
Given that (at least to my understanding) forced retirement at a given age is illegal in the US, could we maybe put a duration on tenure to try and increase the number of "up and coming" people in research?
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by aidenn0 5mo ago
You seem to be conflating "try" with "being" (and possibly also "a little biased" with "a lot biased"). If I currently have a 12 minute mile and I try to get it down to 6 minutes, but only mange to

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