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by cmacleod4 1y ago
In Tcl you can redefine "if", or even delete it entirely if you're crazy enough :-)
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by cmacleod4 1y ago
The one thing that really annoys me about HN is that when you return to a discussion that you read the day before, there is no way to easily find the comments which are new since your previous visit. This is basic functionality which Usene
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by cmacleod4 1y ago
What "acquisition"? Nobody owns Usenet, it's a cooperative effort between many different server operators which continues to this day.
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by cmacleod4 1y ago
"pause the program and run commands in the paused program" - that's often possible in Tcl too. There are various ways to interact with a running program, query or modify variables, run commands, load updated code, etc.
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by cmacleod4 1y ago
Reader mode in Firefox worked for me :-)
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by cmacleod4 1y ago
Here's my geoblock message for https://newsgrouper.org - Blocked due to UK Online Safety Act You appear to be connecting from an IP address in the United Kingdom. Unfortunately this site is no longer available to UK users
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by cmacleod4 1y ago
Web UIs exist with a variety of interface styles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-based_Usenet#Web-based_sit... . The now-defunct novaBBS was probably the closest to phpBB in style, but the new go-pugleaf is aiming
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by cmacleod4 1y ago
There's a lot less spam since Google Groups disconnected last year. Good text-based providers like https://www.eternal-september.org/ also filter out spam and don't carry the binary groups where porn and piracy i
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by cmacleod4 1y ago
Actually there are a few web interfaces to Usenet that make it easy to jump in, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-based_Usenet#Web-based_sit... I operate one of these myself at https://newsgrouper.org
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by cmacleod4 1y ago
I'm retired now so I don't care what the market thinks. For applications I expect to be run locally by myself and/or a few other geeks, I use good old Tcl/Tk. For things where I'm aiming for a wider distribution I
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by cmacleod4 1y ago
This took place on 10-11 July in Bologna, Italy. The schedule page has now been updated with links to the presentation slides and videos.
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EuroTcl/OpenACS conference 2025 presentation videos now online(openacs.km.at)
4 points by cmacleod4 1y ago|1 comments
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by cmacleod4 1y ago
UK universities should be rolling out the red carpet for all the great students who the USA no longer want. Unfortunately our government seems more interested in pandering to the bigots who think "more foreigners == bad". :-(
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by cmacleod4 1y ago
Link gives a 404 :-(
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by cmacleod4 1y ago
Strange, I've been attending the EuroTcl conferences for a few years now, I don't remember any of the presentations I've seen being related to EDA - https://www.eurotcl.eu/pastevents.html :-/
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by cmacleod4 1y ago
A strange assertion considering I'm not using this "Llama" thing :-/
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by cmacleod4 2y ago
With great power comes great responsibility :-)
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EuroTcl2025/OpenACS conference: 10-11 July, Bologna, Italy(openacs.km.at)
12 points by cmacleod4 2y ago|1 comments
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by cmacleod4 2y ago
The OpenACS and Tcl/Tk Conference 2025 will be held on 10-11 July in Bologna, Italy - https://openacs.km.at/ . For those who appreciate the finer things in programming and web-serving.
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by cmacleod4 2y ago
Name collision - there is an unrelated "Frink" at https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Programs/Frink/ which is a formatter and checker for the Tcl language.
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by cmacleod4 2y ago
I'ma big Tcl fan, but Ousterhout has created many other important things - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ousterhout .
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by cmacleod4 2y ago
Many of the requirements apply to services of any size. This is why I will be blocking UK access to my little service (hosted in my home in the UK) when the act comes into force.
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by cmacleod4 2y ago
Worth a read!
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Newsgrouper Web Interface to Usenet(newsgrouper.org.uk)
2 points by cmacleod4 2y ago|1 comments
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by cmacleod4 2y ago
This is a web gateway to the Usenet discussion groups. I've been working on it for a while and think it's now in a reasonably functional state. It aims to be useable on desktop or mobile devices. Javascript is not required but
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by cmacleod4 2y ago
Time for a reminder that pretty good ad-blocking can be done with no software at all, just a customised hosts file - https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts :-)
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by cmacleod4 2y ago
I would argue that Tcl is almost "bicameral" in the OP's sense. The application of the "dodekalogue" rules - https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Dodekalogue - largely corresponds to the "Reade
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by cmacleod4 2y ago
The US Tcl conference has not happened for a few years now, but EuroTcl continues, I gave a talk there myself this year - https://openacs.org/conf2024/info/ .
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by cmacleod4 2y ago
I'm not sure it's just due to cost-cutting. Certainly here in the UK there has been a very noticeable shift from bright colours of cars to multiple shades of grey and other colours which to my old eyes look drab and sludgy. My i
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by cmacleod4 2y ago
You could run hundreds of nodes for the Autonomi peer-to-peer distributed storage network, see https://autonomi.com/ .

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