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by blue1 11y ago
Meanwhile, "M-x calc"is reliable
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by blue1 11y ago
Luttwak is a welcome guest of italian TV talk shows because: (a) he speaks Italian and (b) he has a usually different, and often interesting, point of view. Even if one does not like its macho-neocon slant, he is a rather smart guy.
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by blue1 11y ago
I think that's the secret wet dream of those that still have a little place in their heart for the old Amiga. Which means, I suspect, a lot of people.
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by blue1 11y ago
If you want a current SBCL but want to avoid Sourceforge, use your distro's SBCL binary (which is probably ancient) to recompile the source code taken from GitHub.
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DragonFly BSD 4.4 released(phoronix.com)
2 points by blue1 11y ago|0 comments
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by blue1 11y ago
I've also been watching Tinderbox for years, it's a very interesting software, but never used it because it's non-FLOSS and single-platform.
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by blue1 11y ago
I still love and use Seamonkey. It's a mozilla-based product that is the modern heir of the old Netscape Communication Suite. You get a browser that is based on the latest Firefox but not dumbed down as Firefox is, an email client very
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by blue1 11y ago
I don't know if this is still the case, but for SBCL on Debian installing with apt-get would get you an incredibly outdated version, and all that common-lisp-controller nonsense. The standard advice was NOT to install with apt-get, but
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by blue1 11y ago
Not just abroad. In the latest decades the cultural production of Italy has been, on average, rather embarrassing. As an Italian, I have developed an easy heuristic: if it is an Italian title (either book, song or movie, whatever) it is lik
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by blue1 11y ago
Commodity futures are contracts that end in physical delivery (with a few exceptions). However, almost all the times the contracts are closed before the delivery date and nothing "real" happens (except an exchange of money). Still
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by blue1 11y ago
Isn't a bit scary that some web content is able to crash the whole system? Feels a bit like the old "Guru Meditation" times to me
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by blue1 11y ago
Caution: only open with recent browser on recent OS. On my mac, this crashed OS X in the most violent way I've ever seen (not just the browser: a full kernel panic).
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by blue1 11y ago
For french speakers, there is a newer edition of that book which has never been translated to english. It is titled "Principes d'implantation de Scheme et Lisp" and is available here: http://paracamplus.com/sp
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by blue1 11y ago
As an (italian) architect, I can confirm: architects usually use centimetres. Millimetres would imply a level of precision which is not practical in construction.
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by blue1 11y ago
> he could be as valuable to Cosenza as Romeo and Juliet are to Verona or the Loch Ness monster is to Scotland, he argues That is, as valuable as two things that never existed? Not very promising
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Freeman Dyson on climate change, interstellar travel, fusion(theregister.co.uk)
56 points by blue1 11y ago|27 comments
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by blue1 11y ago
I think any cookbook that predates the electrical oven, or at least its popularity, will do. Also, many old cookbooks tend to be generally vague on such details (I am thinking of Escoffier, for example). From what I have seen, algorithmic-l
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by blue1 11y ago
By using empirical rules related to the state of the ingredients (look, physical properties, etc). French especially has developed a very rich technical vocabulary for this. For example, the continuum from sugar to caramel has very precise
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by blue1 11y ago
You could find interesting Vikram Chandra's "Geek Sublime". It's an essay about writing and programming.
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by blue1 11y ago
Apparently, time in Spain got shifted in WW2 and never came back: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Spain#Central_European...
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by blue1 11y ago
When I first learnt perl, twenty years ago, I loved it because it was full of clever devices and syntactic virtuosism. Now, I don't like it anymore exactly for the same reason. It's cool, but the wrong kind of cool.
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by blue1 11y ago
I remember the various floppies (5.25", 3.5") to be the most unreliable piece of technology I have ever worked with (almost on par with Datassette tapes). Read errors were commonplace.
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by blue1 11y ago
Cool, but misnamed: it's actually a map of the Web. Here are some others: http://www.wired.com/2015/06/mapping-the-internet/
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by blue1 11y ago
I am dreaming of a Lisp implemented in m4.
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by blue1 11y ago
I've also used CL and Emacs a lot; only very recently I've read both GNU Emacs Lisp manuals (introduction and reference). I think as a CL user in a couple of hours you can get an idea of what you can do, and more or less how.
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by blue1 11y ago
Before someone freaks out over peanut butter, note that according to Wikipedia an attempt to duplicate these results has failed.
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by blue1 11y ago
I believe this guy http://c65gs.blogspot.it/ is doing something like that, recreating the Commodore 65 that never was.
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by blue1 11y ago
Waste of public money in Sicily is outrageous even for italian standards.
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by blue1 11y ago
Can anyone suggest some reasonable-but-cheap hardware solution for an openbsd firewall "appliance"? I've been using old PCs for years but they are not really cheap when you consider the power consumption. Soekris hardware is
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Ceramic – Turn Lisp web applications into desktop apps(ceramic.github.io)
176 points by blue1 11y ago|73 comments

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