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by chris_st 5y ago
I worked for about four years on Symbolics machines in the AI summer of the mid 80's. We were, perhaps, lucky in that I don't remember them breaking down at all, and our service guy was competent and entertaining. I remember when
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by chris_st 5y ago
Wow, no directories. That kind of blows my mind. I just really appreciate some kind of high-level "directory" (for lack of a better word) rather than trying to remember some random tag to help me find something. Reminds me (sorry,
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by chris_st 5y ago
Perhaps "useless" is the wrong term -- perhaps just "wildly inconsistent" would be better (which winds up being pretty much useless, if you can't find anything). nomel wrote: > I think structureless is not possi
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by chris_st 5y ago
> I ended up spending a lot of time thinking about the structure instead of actually thinking about the content. This is why wikis, which I originally thought were just the best things ever, seem to become useless over time. The Mac ap
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by chris_st 5y ago
A friend recommended I wear earplugs on plane flights, for a similar reason. He said that the constant noise stresses our bodies/minds, and lowering it makes the time more pleasant. It may entirely be placebo effect, but I find it very
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by chris_st 5y ago
There's an autonomous shuttle in testing near where I live (goes between a high-density living/shopping area an a metro station) which only goes about 10 mph. So not entirely vaporware...
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by chris_st 5y ago
Very cool! Just tried my bass into my iPhone 11 Pro max, recorded okay, but Tape It identified it as keyboards.
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by chris_st 5y ago
Anecdata, but a number of people in the online guitar group I'm in report that their iDevice can't really hear their bass guitar. My iPad Pro can, indeed, hear my bass fairly well, but I don't use it for recording the bass (l
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by chris_st 5y ago
This is truly impressive. The most impressive linguistic feat I've ever seen was on a Mastodon, which was named for the French writing group "Oulipo", whose members did work with constrained language. The work from this group
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by chris_st 5y ago
> (And yes, despite what the Common Lisp community has to say, Janet is a lisp, even if it’s not a Lisp) I love this and understand both the sentiment expressed and (as a recovering member of the Cult Of Lisp) the reason why it was sai
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by chris_st 5y ago
> what is pl41nt3xt? Leet-speak for "plaintext".
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by chris_st 5y ago
I have noticed it's late/early sometimes, but it appears to me to be mostly on time. Note: I'm not an expert by any means.
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by chris_st 5y ago
The book "Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams -- Explorations in massively parallel microworlds" [0] describes StarLogo, which was a massively parallel version of Logo. In it you could create, say, 1000 turtles in the center of th
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by chris_st 5y ago
Interesting! I just signed up for Chordify [0], which does extraction of chords from YouTube videos, and then plays them while you play along to either a grid of chords, or an animation showing the current chord and the next ones coming up.
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by chris_st 5y ago
Nim newby here -- does Nim have something analogous to Go's channels for inter-thread communication?
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by chris_st 5y ago
There used to be a fantastic spades app on the Palm Pilot (!) which played pretty well, including fairly sensible partner play. There was a URL where you could get the source, but it was a dead URL, alas. Anyone know a good spades app for
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by chris_st 5y ago
I've been building a small personal app with PlanetScale and I like it a lot. Their way of doing schema branching works well, and is easy to use (though slightly tedious), and makes a lot of sense. Not affiliated with them in any way,
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by chris_st 5y ago
I remember going in late to work, in order to receive my daughter's lizard via delivery. I was very concerned, but several years later he's doing just fine.
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by chris_st 5y ago
This. Friend of mine worked at a company that did COBOL to Java compilation, with the intent of producing "maintainable" code, and he reported (after several years of work) that this just wasn't possible (for them).
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by chris_st 5y ago
I moved a few years ago to Vue, and particularly with Vue3, I'm more than happy I switched. > I think I do prefer working with JSX versus using html templates. I thought I'd prefer JSX too, but I've come to much prefer V
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by chris_st 5y ago
Also worth a look, the KFConsole: https://landing.coolermaster.com/kfconsole/
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by chris_st 5y ago
Really like DaisyUI, it's a nice quick way to get a light, consistent page built. I recently found a problem with DaisyUI, put up an issue, and it was promptly and politely fixed.
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by chris_st 5y ago
> So it's a searchable database for bookmarks then. It appears to be that, but it appears also to pull out the content of the web page and index that too, so you can (presumably) find stuff that isn't in the "pure&quot
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by chris_st 5y ago
My feeling is -- it's plain text with simple, comprehensible markup. It'd be pretty simple to convert to some other similar format. I'm not going to wait for the "one true format" while something good enough is here
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by chris_st 5y ago
I totally relate to this as an American, but I wonder about cultures where (as I understand it) price negotiation is the norm. Do they feel "cheated" if there is no way to negotiate?
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by chris_st 5y ago
> I wish we could take steps towards something more positive. What I see around me is a lot of social stratification by age. Get to know some people older and younger than you, and by "get to know" I mean spend a lot of time
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by chris_st 5y ago
Except prionassembly's post here shows it's WAY more useful than the original "model physical things" of the original article. Also glad this is here, if only to surface such interesting things!
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by chris_st 5y ago
That looks really cool -- I presume it has some way to enter more than a single word/phrase in a node? Not sure linking individual words is useful for me :-) I should just try it, of course...
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by chris_st 5y ago
Oh yeah, I can definitely see doing a lot of small, not-necessarily-easy challenges as a way to improve. Even doing the same one, but in a different way ("now use an array instead of a linked list") would be good.
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by chris_st 5y ago
> Leetcode solutions seem to be regularly "golfed" into being unreadable and intractable. Don't practice that! AMEN!

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