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by corinroyal 2y ago
One time I was trying to create an offline backup of a botanical medicine site for my studies. Somehow I turned off depth of link checking and made it follow offsite links. I forgot about it. A few days later the machine crashed due to a fu
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by corinroyal 2y ago
> Solution is to stop using languages low level like C except where it matters, and improve the UI capabilities of higher level like Lisp. This is my conclusion too. None of the reasons C/UNIX won are valid anymore and it's ess
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by corinroyal 2y ago
Moderation.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
They are also taking discoverer's names off plants. How many wrightii or thurberii's do we need. So you can't even get a single fact wrightii.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
So long as we're compiling an exhaustive list of web UI sins, tiny, low-contrast type. People are designing as though we still had to pay per column inch. Why? Reading is cognitively taxing enough in the best of circumstances. But old
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by corinroyal 2y ago
OMG, this! I got fired once due to a new PWA on Oracle Cloud. The interface loaded, I clicked "delete" on my desired VPS, and by the time the click registered, a different card containing a different VPS had shifted into the place
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by corinroyal 2y ago
I love it! My grandma was a "computer" who held patents on coax connectors and kept some early CAD mainframes alive. Can't wait to try OSICL.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
We have a fantastic Common Lisp package ecosystem with Quicklisp and we use other people's libraries all the time. Most of us are savvy enough to share our 80% solutions so that others can add their 20%. I wish more people would realiz
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by corinroyal 2y ago
This is a perfect example of how AI hype breaks people's brains. It's a Bond villain scheme, not a way to improve public education. People learn best from other people and always have. Computers in the classroom have always been a
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by corinroyal 2y ago
So instead of just pointing me to non-existent Quicklisp packages, I can have a bot read the junk in my patient chart and hallucinate answers to pressing health care questions? I can't tell if this is a proposal or a threat.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
> writing essays that get skimmed, graded and thrown into trash is a pointless task anyway. Since when is writing essays and getting expert feedback pointless if you want to learn how to write? > There's always a lack of teachers
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by corinroyal 2y ago
It's a myth that homeless people move to better cities. If we could do that, we wouldn't be homeless. People tend to be homeless near the last place they were housed.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
They were absolutely torture palaces for society's undesirables, but that's not why Reagan got rid of them. He just didn't care. The psych ward is perhaps more oppressive than prison. At least in prison, you have an idea when
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by corinroyal 2y ago
> Your california bias is showing. They weren't even right about California. Most people in CA are homeless near where they were last housed.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
It's amazing how people who don't know homelessness talk about it. I never see my own experiences reflected in these hot takes. Something about the topic breaks people's brains. I suspect people are simply terrified of homele
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by corinroyal 2y ago
> I suspect Never do this. No one cares what you "suspect" but never bothered to investigate. And you're completely incorrect. People study these things. You could just read what they wrote. https://www.ucsf.edu
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by corinroyal 2y ago
Yes, let's replicate the model that was a famous disaster for China. Why do people feel the need to pontificate on issues they never bothered to learn about?
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by corinroyal 2y ago
Sentences start with a capital letter.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
Congratulations on successfully parroting some of the racist propaganda you've been exposed to. Somebody paid good money for that.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
Wow. That IS a dumb take. Have you even seen the board?
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by corinroyal 2y ago
And there are many more of them.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
The trick is not to try to quit substance use, but to build a life for oneself that's more satisfying without the substance. I started by building a woodworking workshop for myself and playing with shellac, wax, oil, and pigments for s
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by corinroyal 2y ago
And so would be easy for you to refute, should you wish to contribute to the conversation.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
I see a lot of people recreating iron gall inks lately. There are many sellers on Etsy. It seems unwise to resurrect a corrosive ink that has eaten away so many manuscripts. Walnut husk ink is a gorgeous and easy alternative. I get mine at
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by corinroyal 2y ago
I love that your suicide note gave you a reason to live. I make inks, paints, and dyes as part of insuring that sobriety is more satisfying than drinking beer.
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by corinroyal 2y ago
Is it bullying to suggest that a person take responsibility for their own lack of courtesy?
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by corinroyal 2y ago
> "He's abrupt," or "He's arrogant," ... "angry bastard." It sounds like those are totally fixable personality defects, yet here you are acting persecuted and making excuses. What if you didn'
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by corinroyal 2y ago
So lack of respect for nazis with abhorrent personalities is what's dragging down the arts?
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by corinroyal 2y ago
This is great to hear! What does your team use Lisp for?
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by corinroyal 2y ago
I chose Common Lisp for my web publishing system. I could not be happier. Some benefits of Lisp that are less commonly reported: Lisp let's you imagine a way of doing something, and then just implement that with nothing getting in your

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