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by cfiggers 2y ago
Would you reach for XTDB instead of Datomic?
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by cfiggers 2y ago
Feel free to ask questions in the Janet Zulip (link at the bottom of the Janet website's front page) if there's anything you need help with!
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by cfiggers 2y ago
That's how I'm using Hy at my job—I write Hy then hy2py it into Python, lightly polish the compiled Python for human consumption, and then share that with my Python-fluent but Lisp-illiterate coworkers.
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by cfiggers 2y ago
I did not use an AI chatbot. This all-organic cliched human writing comes to you courtesy of my... all-organic cliched human brain, I guess.
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by cfiggers 2y ago
The comparison with junk food is an apt one. It seems like for every human desire or appetite or source of value, there exists a quick hit, instantly gratifying satisfaction that is bad for long-term health. And there also exists a slowly-a
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by cfiggers 2y ago
My aviation major roommates in college drilled for their upcoming flights with, I kid you not, a large poster depicting their instrument panel taped to the wall of our quad and a folding chair. Training does not require VR-like immersion to
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by cfiggers 2y ago
> proficiency is a fundamental issue Have y'all considered that a fully digitized, fly-by-wire aircraft, of the type that you're proposing to build, would also essentially be a ridiculously high-fidelity flight simulator whenev
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by cfiggers 2y ago
"No fatal airplane crashes in my back yard" is probably the easiest NIMBY to justify of all time.
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by cfiggers 2y ago
Wow that must be quite an extension, VS Code has a ton of features that's gotta be hundreds of thousands of lines of Lua (ThIs Is A jOkE)
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by cfiggers 2y ago
I often see people disparage VS Code while championing vim/Neovim as editors that reward the effort invested to "really learn." I wonder how many have taken the time to "really learn" VS Code. It also is a tool, whi
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by cfiggers 2y ago
This is interesting. I'm already finding the writing style approachable and easy to follow. Does anyone know of a good way to report typos or grammar mistakes?
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by cfiggers 2y ago
First commit on the linked GitHub is three days ago, so this article is probably not old. I love WSL2.
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by cfiggers 2y ago
I actually really like the logo. It's a simple, mathematically-defined curve that also resembles an abstract ladybird opening its wings. You don't find that clever?
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by cfiggers 2y ago
I like Zulip. I'm only in one server, which is the community server for my favorite indie programming language. When we migrated to Zulip it didn't have syntax highlighting for our language. So we made PRs to Pygments and now a co
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by cfiggers 2y ago
You could have a shim script with the shebang that only exists to call the "real" script using Python. /usr/bin/hello: #!/usr/bin/bash python3 /usr/bin/hello.py /usr/
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by cfiggers 2y ago
> "A programming layer in a CRM is only for those businesses that can afford a programmer", which, TBH, are only big businesses. That just is not the case. My first job was working as a solo Salesforce admin/dev for a co
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by cfiggers 2y ago
> Most businesses are not big enterprises that need a programming layer. Your assumption is that having a programming layer in a CRM is only for big businesses. But that's not true at all.
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by cfiggers 2y ago
A "Service" is when someone or something does something for you, usually in return for some fee. A "Platform," in the context of IT and software (and especially the internet), is some IT infrastructure, generally a serve
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by cfiggers 2y ago
The initial commit was eight years ago?? I wish I had known about this project ~18 months ago. I was specifically looking for a way to have a Heroku-like dev experience deploying to my Raspberry Pi, and this looks like it's trying to
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by cfiggers 2y ago
Definitely lean into the phrase "calm computer interface" Access to the same stuff as your phone, but chill about it Love the idea of informative ambient objects as well—people love the Standby Mode on iPhones, this sounds like th
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by cfiggers 3y ago
I dunno man, $12 BILLION is a pretty serious speeding ticket
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by cfiggers 3y ago
For my fellow Windows-using plebians, the official Microsoft PowerToys add-in [0] has a feature that does this (it's also been added to the stock screenshot tool, but I personally find the one keyboard shortcut in PowerToys more pleasa
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by cfiggers 3y ago
That's what I use. I love it!
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by cfiggers 3y ago
> I do TUI AND command line flags because some people want to do it quick and fast, or make aliases, etc for what they're doing. THen there's the TUI which opens if you don't run a flag, the TUI is so, so helpful to peop
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by cfiggers 3y ago
Yes—in an encouraging way.
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by cfiggers 3y ago
I do this same thing, but with a notes app instead of GitHub. Sometimes I catch myself thinking about progress on a project as the process of moving my notes from one state to another, with the actual work I need to get done being a &quot
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by cfiggers 3y ago
Yes, this was an issue of me knowing general terminology (where this idea, or similar ones, show up in Haskell and Clojure, for example) but not the more specific parlance of Scheme. I'm happy to learn!
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by cfiggers 3y ago
Got it. Thanks for giving more of the language-specific context on that.
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by cfiggers 3y ago
I might be confused, but do you mean "it doesn't do tail call optimization "? "Doing tail calls" is a bit of a strange phrase, if I understand the concept of what a tail call is—I'm under the impression that a
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by cfiggers 3y ago
They seem to be an extremely small team.

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