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by corinroyal 3y ago
Case in point. Also, a bold warning has zero relation to a dog whistle.
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by corinroyal 3y ago
The Stanford marshmallow experiment has been debunked. https://anderson-review.ucla.edu/new-study-disavows-marshmal...
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by corinroyal 3y ago
I recently set up one of these for my parents. As a system administrator I was prepared to hate it, especially after seeing that you have to go online to set up the printer. But then the online wizard walked me through filling the tanks and
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by corinroyal 3y ago
Thank you! Do come in, the water is fine. If you keep Python for it's applicability today and pick up Common Lisp for it's practicality tomorrow, I don't see how you could go wrong. Emacs is the weakest link in the Common Lis
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by corinroyal 3y ago
How kind of you to say. I held off on learning programming for so long due to my visceral disgust with C/UNIX and ALGOL syntax. I just knew it was the wrong set of abstractions that have trapped us all in a grey hellscape of mediocrity
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by corinroyal 3y ago
OMG! This is what I'm talking about with Common Lisp. One minute you're a washed-up slacker, the next Mark L. Watson speaks to you. I'm winding my way through "Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer's Secret We
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by corinroyal 3y ago
> I'm somewhat disheartening because it implies that learning Lisp might be redundant given that contemporary languages have already incorporated its best aspects. Indeed, Lisp is no longer as revelatory as it once was, since many i
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by corinroyal 3y ago
I'm learning programming at age fifty-four and have chosen Common Lisp as my one language for life. If you want something easy to learn with a ton of support pick Python, Elixir, and/or JS. CL sucks for mini-projects since the lea
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by corinroyal 3y ago
Way to miss the point. The bot is not the problem here. Men are essentially executing a DDOS attack on women that is exhausting, terrifying, and can put them in danger. That's the software defect that needs refactoring.
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by corinroyal 3y ago
Why is he smashing them up? Such a cruel waste. Those snails are rare. You can just poke them with a stick and they spit dye. Then you put them back. I guess he doesn't know that there is still Murex purple being harvested in North Ame
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by corinroyal 3y ago
"Could a pure function not be referentially transparent?" Yes there are pure functions which are not referentially transparent. A pure function with side effects, such as printing a result to standard output, is not referentially
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by corinroyal 3y ago
> I mean, in theory all the works on Z Library are in there, somewhere... Interesting to consider works excluded from the Library of Babel. Books aren't just a vector of EBDIC characters and whitespace. There are figures, captions,
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by corinroyal 3y ago
How is this trolling? The development of factory farms where living creatures are so inhumanely mistreated at scale is a very recent development.
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by corinroyal 3y ago
This. Sysadmins have air compressors for agood reason. A surprising proportion of the job is janitorial. Remember the famous bug that caused an error? Dust and cat hair are a much bigger problem than insects. Airflow obstructions are the nu
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by corinroyal 3y ago
Those have massively greater surface area than this one. Have you seen how dusty it gets inside a laptop? This looks like it could choke in a month.
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by corinroyal 3y ago
A local college's Xerox Sigma 9
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by corinroyal 3y ago
So fun on fan-fold paper from an Anderson-Jacobson 860 terminal connected to the local Xerox/Honeywell Sigma 9 mainframe. The sound of the pins in the print head spitting out rows of asterisks punctuated by an occasional star, planet,
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by corinroyal 3y ago
This. So many languages I run across would have been better off as a domain-specific language hosted on top of Common Lisp. Instead of learning a new language, we could grow our vocabulary.
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by corinroyal 3y ago
Right? The guy never caught a break from persecution. However wacky he became, Reich was one of the few in psychiatry to focus on prevention over treatment of mental illness. When he investigated the root causes of mental illness in his pat
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by corinroyal 3y ago
> You can take a paper document, and add all manner of markup to it, without needing to alter the original source. Why can't we do the same with hypertext? This is a crucial point that I had never considered. Maybe we could mark thi
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by corinroyal 3y ago
I've never been bitten by a rattle snake. Does that mean me wearing boots and stepping carefully on hikes has been pointless? How do you know that the fear served no one? Is it possible the anti-nuke movement changed the way we conside
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by corinroyal 3y ago
I agree. To have Biden out there signals that his NLRB might actually have teeth this time. So many of have tried to organize a union election only to stall when the anti-worker NLRB gets involved. It's great to have an administration
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by corinroyal 3y ago
This really focuses my thinking on the matter. I've been planning an app with a web frontend, but what I really want to do is to design my own post-W3C protocol and browser. I don't know how to do this, but the web is totally brok
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by corinroyal 3y ago
Innovation is not something we do in isolation. We build on the work of others. That means we need to study what others have tried. Your contribution will be layered on top of the work they have done. It can be tricky to both put yourself i
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by corinroyal 3y ago
That was a lot of words for an article that says, "Our funders hate this guy."
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by corinroyal 3y ago
Imagine thinking a visit to the ER was "frivolous". As if significant numbers of people would subject themselves to an ER for fun. Imagine looking at a situation in which significant numbers of people have no other access to care
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by corinroyal 3y ago
I'm so sorry this happened to you. I can relate: I tried for fifteen years to get disabling ear pain treated. Turned out it was an infected tooth that no one could diagnose in all that time. Made me homeless. Now I have PTSD from the m
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by corinroyal 3y ago
It's funny that so many people have a harder time visualizing the end of extractive capitalism than they do the end of the world as we know it. But once oligarchs start talking about fleeing to Mars, it's probably time to do some
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by corinroyal 3y ago
It stayed where it belonged--out of conversations on the social consequences of rape allegations.
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by corinroyal 3y ago
So if I run a social media site, I would be required by law to carry hate speech, incitement to overthrow the government, rape threats, heretical religious statements, fascist propaganda, and covid conspiracy videos? That's gonna be a

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