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by cnasc 6y ago
> Is it called a method or a function? Allow me to throw a wrench in the works and point out that a lot of the time when people say “function” they mean “procedure”
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by cnasc 6y ago
> This could be enforced for real-life events by handing out a wristband with a GUID QR code to the first person to demonstrate they possess the private key that owns a particular ticket token, then never handing anything out for that to
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by cnasc 6y ago
> The second killer app is NFTs, basically the exchange of art on the chain. NFTs aren’t exclusively art. For example, I previously worked at https://unlock-protocol.com/ which uses NFTs to signify membership
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by cnasc 6y ago
CUDA is Nvidia exclusive, no? I don’t think support for third party graphics hardware will be forthcoming
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by cnasc 6y ago
Generally speaking, for smaller size you should use #lang racket/base and then only import the extras you need.
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by cnasc 6y ago
In college I just didn’t buy textbooks because they were rarely necessary. A few classes (economics in particular) sometimes assigned homework problems in textbooks which would be randomized between editions so I couldn’t get a cheap used v
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by cnasc 6y ago
Ford has no plans to make anything except SUVs in the future, so there will be no sport coupe.
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by cnasc 6y ago
I find Emacs with racket-mode much better for editing, but DrRacket has some really nifty IDE features that racket-mode doesn’t have. I probably split 80/20 between them
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by cnasc 6y ago
Anecdotally I’ve seen a few people move to Florida (not necessarily Miami) now that remote work is apparently here to stay.
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by cnasc 6y ago
https://github.com/Battelle/movfuscator
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by cnasc 6y ago
Circuit breaking: also called “kill switch”. It’s having a way to shut down some feature if it becomes problematic. “Bulkheading” is making sure that failures in one area don’t cascade into causing failures elsewhere analogous to how bulkhe
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by cnasc 6y ago
Not quite that, but I used this theme for a good 6 months once: https://github.com/11111000000/tao-theme-emacs
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by cnasc 6y ago
Related, as a full-time keyboard jockey I have to make sure to take good care of my moneymakers. I’ve found this video of novel wrist and hand movements absolutely invaluable: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-hlWgH3_0NU
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by cnasc 6y ago
I think the video in the post would let you compare for yourself
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by cnasc 6y ago
I’ve never had any direct experience with Pascal (though I remember my dad telling me a story of an assignment he had in college to write a queue of queues in Pascal). From the perspective of the Alan Perlis quote “A language that doesn’t a
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by cnasc 6y ago
A while back someone posted to HN a tool for creating things just like this. In some places it was derided as “single player Facebook” but I could see it being very helpful for a person who sticks with it
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by cnasc 6y ago
Thanks! I’ve got your book next to my desk on the top of the pile of things to read next
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by cnasc 6y ago
Apple hobbles PWAs on iOS, so unless app creators want to ignore the most profitable segment of the mobile marketplace PWAs aren’t a solution
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by cnasc 6y ago
This looks very cool! Is there a way to subscribe to updates?
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by cnasc 6y ago
I’ve heard that for Anki to be very effective you need to make your own cards. There are software companies doing the spaced repetition thing (like Duolingo).
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by cnasc 6y ago
There’s no such thing as a tactical nuclear exchange which does not escalate into a strategic nuclear exchange
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by cnasc 6y ago
> What stops the waiter or waitress using all the info on Amazon? Most people don’t want to go to jail after their fraudulent purchase is quickly flagged
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by cnasc 6y ago
> What I find odd is that the table shows Typescript as 7x slower than Javascript. Including type checking and transpilation in the timing, I assume.
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by cnasc 6y ago
> Singleton isn't bad if it is used only for reading the data. Mutable global state is the problem. If it’s read-only, you can just declare it as a constant. No need to add a state management library.
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by cnasc 6y ago
Roku’s ads (and intensive logging) can be blocked this way. I’d expect it to work that same for Samsung TVs
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by cnasc 6y ago
Is the problem “unpaid” or is the problem “contest?” Because the goalposts seem to have moved a bit from your first post.
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by cnasc 6y ago
> (dense weave, regularly reapply wax) Barbour?
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by cnasc 6y ago
There’s a grid of 21 distros on that page
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by cnasc 6y ago
I use Doom without the vim. Comment out one line of the default config and you retain all the niceness of doom (good defaults, fast loading) but with standard Emacs bindings.
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by cnasc 6y ago
My Poång has only recently been replaced by a Lovesac, which is slightly less ergonomically correct but much better for napping in. The Poång is an absolute steal at 1/10 the price

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