craigsmansion

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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> There's no basis in evidence It's hard to rise to the top in a morally lax organisation without making some compromises on the way there. Furthermore, it's easy to take a stand when you're financially secure because
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> Back in the 80s, most programming was done from first principles That's one of the secret revelations in SICP. If you go in with some knowledge of assembly or C, you can quickly feel it's really high-level and not all that fu
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by craigsmansion 6y ago
> 99%+ of viruses are either harmless or symbiotic There is no such thing as a symbiotic virus.
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
Yes. I'd say: No UBI without good affordable health care for all. No UBI without good affordable education for all. No UBI without humane unemployment benefits for all. No UBI for all, because you already managed it.
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
I'm about as "red as they get" and there's something really grating about US citizens talking about "UBI", and pointing to a variety of social policies in various European countries. These policies are hard-fou
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
What is really an "external package" in emacs? There should be nothing stopping someone just copying and pasting an entire elisp source text from a website into scratch , evaluate the buffer on the spot, and have the exact same f
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
In a thread about a free software IDE for Tcl, which might mean a lot of exposure for what seems like a small project, you write what amounts to how you don't like the look of it and promote a proprietary alternative. I don't feel
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
The IDE you linked to seems to be proprietary software.
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
> There are always people who see a tragic pandemic and just see a chance to use the concern and attention to highlight their own cause You say that like it's not a PR exercise for large corporations. > the ones who fight agains
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
> By your logic That does not follow, in any shape or fashion, from what was stated.
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
Unfortunately SICP isn't really all that suitable for learning Scheme (or Lisp).
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
> Save whatever functional nonsense you want to teach for “Obscure Languages 401” class. Do you also talk to your students like that when, say, one of them mentions an interest in different languages or mentions anything that doesn'
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
> It’s like teaching someone grammar by forcing them to use Esperanto Or Latin, which for the longest time wasn't called "Latin", but simply something that was taught in "grammar school", because it addresses th
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
At the very least GCC is keeping llvm permissively licensed. llvm is partly a product of Apple's dislike of copyleft licenses. Without gcc there is no reason for llvm's large proprietary contributors to stick to the "more per
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
If you're competent in Haskell, and you've ever done any lisp, you should feel right at home with ocaml. The other posters mentioned good books already. Another resource is Emacs + merlin, it really is magic when working with ocam
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
> I found these two guys who ran this little company called Unipress, it was literally two guys in a garage, and I said, "Look, this needs to be free for universities and not ridiculous for everybody else." Gosling sold them
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
> braking and steering should be dependent on software. That's an opinion and that's fine, but I was wondering if it was the case, i.e., they are dependent on software. > This is the case in most modern cars By `this&#x2
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
Tesla also has a final assembly plant in the Netherlands[1], nominally making the brand "native" (like Volvo before them). That usually results in better brand recognition and higher sales as well. I recently saw a post on social
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
I always thought that was the best feature of scheme. Nobody agrees on anything, except mainly R5RS, keeping it from going down the path of "one implementation for everything, always" that most languages suffer from once they beco
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
> he at least had the courage to sign his name to what he had to say. Which is neither here nor there, but thanks for playing.
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
No, I think it's cowardly regardless to spout his grievances at this particular moment. If he did not ask him to leave, that would make it despicable in my eyes.
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
> Being 17 or acting as part of a group don’t make you less culpable. Yes it does. Boys do strange things, boys in groups do stranger things, like not testifying against each other, especially if they feel society has abandoned them and
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
Sorry about not finding myself in agreement over what would be a "real revelation", but I might have misunderstood. My apologies.
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
Absent is any mention of the Affero GPL. And that's the problem. Who is trustworthy? > "The priority of the board right now should be to restructure itself to ensure that it can legitimately claim to represent the community&quo
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
> 1. The point is that an integer person Most people are irrational. > Watch any interview with the guy Interviews he's been invited to, where calling the operating system GNU has been stipulated beforehand. rms is involved in GN
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
> being told to get with the times or adapt your core ideas to a changing world Because getting with the times and adapting to a changing world require proprietary software and the dilution of privacy? > genius misanthropes Yes, rms t
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
I'm sorry, but: "I hosted rms many years ago in the 90’s, what was supposed to be hosting your hero for a ~3 day thing became a ~2 month nightmare." Did Miguel ask him to leave? Or did he just sit around passive-aggressively
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
> (there is no fucking way you are oblivious to people being coerced into sex this visiting Epsteins Island, just none). That seems a particular American hangup. If people would visit the mansion of a skin-magazine tycoon on invitation,
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
> Have you seen the "pleasure cards"? Yes, having been asked "business or pleasure" countless times during his travel, his "pleasure card" is a nice pun on "business card". Of course, some might no
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by craigsmansion 7y ago
> I think if the job description itself, prior to you taking it The job the description would pertain to didn't exist before he created it by filling it. I don't think any of the more palatable audience-friendly "FOSS&quot

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