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by cylinder714 2y ago
Archived at https://archive.ph/fBfZj
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by cylinder714 2y ago
The variation I've read is to lower the seat as far as it can go so that one's feet touch the ground and to have the learner coast down a gentle slope.
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by cylinder714 2y ago
And Chris Wellons' "A Magnetized Needle and a Steady Hand," detailing how to build an ELF implementation of 'true' using nothing more than 'echo' or 'printf': https://nullprogram.com&#
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by cylinder714 2y ago
I'm not super familiar with the details but I've heard that Shen has a really good type system. Aditya Siram addresses types at 12:00 in this video: https://youtu.be/lMcRBdSdO_U Shen homepage: https://s
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by cylinder714 2y ago
I've long wished for a geographical database of bars with Chimay signs hung outside them, like the now-shuttered La Trappe in S.F. on Columbus. But this is good, too. Chimay is brewed under the supervision of Trappist monks in Belgium.
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by cylinder714 2y ago
This reminds me of Breck Yunits and his Parsers idea for a programming language: https://scroll.pub/blog/teddyTalk.html Scroll, a publishing system, seems to be the main focus of his efforts: https://scroll
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by cylinder714 2y ago
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html
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by cylinder714 2y ago
ed advocacy and useful tips: https://x.com/ed1conf
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by cylinder714 2y ago
The Windows ports of Vim, Pine (now Alpine) and par made working on Windows tolerable. http://alpineapp.email/ http://www.nicemice.net/par/
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by cylinder714 2y ago
"I would like there to be another General Election. "I believe the current Labour Government have gone back on the promises they laid out in the lead up to the last election." Over 1,789,000 signatures as I type this.
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by cylinder714 2y ago
Bryan Lunduke had a piece on this three days ago: https://youtu.be/EVmZy95vMUc
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by cylinder714 2y ago
Brilliant article, and I neglected to bookmark it earlier, thank you.
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by cylinder714 2y ago
Wow—this is indistinguishable from an NPR piece.
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by cylinder714 2y ago
There's an item in the FAQ at jwz.org/xscreensaver that explains how to use a video as a source.
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by cylinder714 2y ago
"I told you to speak your mind, Jack, but Jesus!"
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by cylinder714 2y ago
Winemaking requires far more resources, labor, skill and time than simple grape juice production.
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by cylinder714 2y ago
Reflections on Rusting Trust: http://manishearth.github.io/blog/2016/12/02/reflections-on-... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13091941
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by cylinder714 2y ago
There's a similar building in San Francisco, I think it's near the new Transbay Terminal? I've moved away so I can't drive down and search for it myself, sadly. I was shocked when I first encountered it: "What eldri
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by cylinder714 2y ago
See also Reverse Engineering for Beginners (a.k.a. Understanding Assembly Language ) by Dennis Yurichev: https://beginners.re/ Previous mentions: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=beginners.re
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by cylinder714 2y ago
This encapsulates my problem with CSVs: - If I send someone a spreadsheet, they'll open it with a spreadsheet application; Excel, LibreOffice, whatever. - If I send someone a CSV file, they'll want to open it with a text editor. A
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by cylinder714 2y ago
As an aside, Ron Rivest and Donald Eastlake last updated "SPKI S-Expressions" just a couple of months ago: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-rivest-sexp/
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by cylinder714 2y ago
"PilBox (`PicoLisp Box') is a generic Android App which allows to write Apps in pure PicoLisp, without touching Java, and without the need of an Android SDK. "You do not need to root your device. And - if you prefer - you do
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by cylinder714 2y ago
"Toybox's main goal is to make Android self-hosting by improving Android's command line utilities so it can build an installable Android Open Source Project image entirely from source under a stock Android system. After a tal
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by cylinder714 2y ago
Yes, this!
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by cylinder714 2y ago
And as imperfect as it is, I've decided it's my favorite World War II movie.
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by cylinder714 2y ago
Yes: https://openports.pl/search?file=&descr=&path=&pkgname=jdk&c...
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by cylinder714 2y ago
I read an essay long ago that suggested the Egyptians could have built gliders in the fashion of Otto Lilienthal out of papyrus. And that could have stimulated the idea of propulsion in them or in other subsequent societies. EDIT: I wonder
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by cylinder714 2y ago
I wonder if qiv, my favorite lightweight image viewer, us related somehow.
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by cylinder714 2y ago
I used to make the pilgrimage from Santa Cruz to the store on N. First Street, and occasionally the store on the old Apple campus. And Stacy's Books in Cupertino and Market Street in San Francisco, and the last holdout, Digital Guru of
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by cylinder714 2y ago
Yes! I got my copy of SICP there.

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