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by blue1 7y ago
Is XSL-FO usable? Last time I looked at Apache FOP it lacked things that have been in css for decades (e.g. floats)
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Protect solar system from mining 'gold rush', say scientists(theguardian.com)
11 points by blue1 7y ago|5 comments
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by blue1 7y ago
Why, then, there is a widespread hostility towards Cloanto in all Amiga boards, /r/amiga etc.?
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by blue1 7y ago
In Wendy Carlos' "Switched On Bach" albums the tunings are carefully constructed depending on context. For a more radical approach see also her "Beauty in the beast", which uses nonstandard systems.
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by blue1 8y ago
In regular mail there are multiple clues of the sender's identity besides the literal content of the message: paper, graphics, handwriting (or typeface), signature, etc.
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by blue1 8y ago
The mega 65, when it will be ready, should do
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by blue1 8y ago
Reddit was written in Common Lisp, not Arc.
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by blue1 8y ago
free or almost free. In Italy, for example, it's 50€ for a block of ten codes.
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by blue1 8y ago
Not just that, even different editions By the same publisher must have different ISBNs. It is even recommended that every electronic format of the same book should have a different ISBN (though I see many publishers not doing that).
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by blue1 8y ago
I (still?) use Sparkleshare. Is it worth switching?
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by blue1 8y ago
Also: https://www.generationamiga.com/2018/11/18/mister-the-ideal-...
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by blue1 8y ago
Apparently, several types exist. The high-end ones are the blue/black I was describing (Staedtler Mars Lumograph), while the black/yellow ones (Staedtler Noris) are the most common ones.
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by blue1 8y ago
What you are describing are Koh-i-noor pencils. Staedtler pencils are blue, with the black top.
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by blue1 8y ago
> As soon as I find some time, I'll try to think of means of organizing such a committee and, if required, securing the funding for it. That would be great!
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by blue1 8y ago
I know you're being sarcastic, but even in the ANSI CL spec the word "deprecated" appears in some places. It's just that since nothing followed to it, the deprecation had no practical effect: the fixedness of the CL spec
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by blue1 8y ago
I know it is easy . In this particular example, it is also trivial to write it from scratch. But, if UIOP:STRCAT is such a "standardized" solution as you claim, then I believe it should become part of a (hypothetical updated) Sta
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by blue1 8y ago
It seems to me that this is a case of making a virtue of necessity: since the language does not evolve, many have learned to love the fact that it does not. To me it looks a lot like a form of Stockholm Syndrome. I find interesting your rem
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by blue1 8y ago
Depends on what you mean by "Lisp". In the wider sense of the lisp family, there are obviously many differences (Clojure, Scheme, Common Lisp, etc.). If instead you mean Lisp == Common Lisp, the ANSI spec - which is a really well-
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by blue1 8y ago
It was not my intention, it just sounded strange. I am not even sure whether being "pure" is a good thing or not :)
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by blue1 8y ago
I don't think Common Lisp can be called "pure": it's a language full of compromises (not in the bad sense of the word). Scheme was considered the pure sibling in the lisp family, at least initially.
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by blue1 8y ago
I think it's evident now that a purely community-based effort to advance CL cannot realistically happen; even the CDR[1] is unmantained, and in the course of the last years many knowledgeable people have been progressively leaving the
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by blue1 8y ago
a large part of the CL community treats the spec a bit like a sacred text, in the sense that it is both very good and impossible to change. The most important reason apparently is that there are no more the resources to do it. Maybe also th
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by blue1 8y ago
And since Apple repair shops refuse to touch macs beyond a certain age, it means that it will now be completely impossible to repair an old mac.
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by blue1 8y ago
I've written, typeset and published a book about a game (a variant of contract bridge) [1] using this toolchain: emacs org mode > Pandoc > Adobe Indesign (via ICML). Worked beautifully. [1] https://www.santeonisto.com&
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by blue1 8y ago
I've found that pomodoro solves two problems. First, 25 minute is a small, non-frightening investment of time that you CAN do; so it facilitates starting an activity. Second, since 25 minutes is indeed a short span, the clock usually s
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by blue1 8y ago
what's wrong with sbcl?
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by blue1 8y ago
or this: http://mega65.org/
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by blue1 8y ago
Is there a patch for drupal 6, as there was for SA-CORE-2018-002?
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by blue1 9y ago
Since 1798, Knights of Malta have been based in Rome (where they have their tiny extraterritorial palaces). They have nothing to do with the island of Malta anymore.
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by blue1 9y ago
Isn't really unexpected change that cause investors to make wrong decisions? Expected change should be already incorporated into prices.

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