donio

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by donio 4y ago
And a lot of what ended up in CL has much older roots. I see logior and friends in the MIT Lisp Machine manual but not in the Maclisp one. Maclisp does have a version of boole though.
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by donio 4y ago
Nobody would call it an "SDK" but I find the Emacs/Elisp documentation to be excellent both on the docstring level and the manuals. It has been refined over several decades, it is thorough, well written and very easy to use f
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by donio 4y ago
> Guy retired rich Damn, didn't realize that those Pterodactyl Gnus mugs sold so well.
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by donio 4y ago
It's forever etched into my "case $OSTYPE in ... solaris*)" $PATH along with /usr/openwin/bin and /usr/ccs/bin.
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by donio 4y ago
To me being able to keep the entire language in my head is invaluable. When working with Go for example I know that I can dive into the bowels of some library dependency and I will be able to read it and figure out how it works. This is bec
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by donio 4y ago
It didn't matter how good or bad it was, Windows was a toxic brand on mobile. A very large segment of potential customers was rejecting it off hand based on their desktop Windows experience. They may have been stuck with it on the desk
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by donio 4y ago
For me having to fix weirdly incorrect code is much more annoying than writing new code. Similar to the issue that I have with driver-assist tools: supervising a system that does ok much of the time but then does something batshit insane ev
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by donio 4y ago
Overloading Space, Tab and Enter to be used as a modifier when held means that you can't get auto-repeat on these keys and they are activated on-release instead of on-press, correct?
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by donio 4y ago
They have done just that with their Android based non-eink Kindle Fire line. They run their own app store and it's not great. Imagine having all the junk of the Play market but with most of the good stuff missing. The only reason I use
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by donio 4y ago
Netscape Navigator -> Mosaic: -692 days Slack -> IRC: -9102 days Yeah, I know that there are obvious feature differences but the list also has entries like BitKeeper -> Git and ManyCam -> OBS which are just as skewed.
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by donio 4y ago
Yep, Benthos is an example of a cool project that uses gojq for its jq syntax support.
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by donio 4y ago
That doesn't seem to cover parasites that subsist on the food consumed by the host rather than the host itself. Tapeworms for example.
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by donio 4y ago
For Emacs Lisp users M-x macrostep-expand from the macrostep package is a cool tool that allows for inline expansion/collapse of macros, step by step if there are multiple levels of macros. There is also M-x pp-macroexpand-last-sexp th
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by donio 4y ago
But that's always the story with Python isn't it. There is always this new way to do things that is so much better than all the previous ones. If only everybody was doing it the right way. At least until the next one comes along.
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by donio 4y ago
...except for perhaps the most important and basic thing you want from a roadmap: being searchable.
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by donio 4y ago
Using tools, formats or workflows that you will lose access to in the future is the problem here. I have work going back decades and not much that I can think of that I couldn't resurrect in some form with relatively little effort. Hav
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by donio 4y ago
Not as snappy as I would have expected considering the 5KB pages. Not sure where it comes from but there is a very noticeable delay before the individual blog pages are rendered.
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by donio 4y ago
Same for me, although personally I'd prefer a mouse over thumb-wheel. I've been using various versions of the Kensington Expert line for the past 20 years. I am on #3 and #4 now (one for home, one for the office). Unfortunately th
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by donio 4y ago
Since such URLs very often come from copy & paste another way to deal with this is smart auto-quoting when a paste is detected via the "bracketed paste" feature of modern terminal emulators. zsh does this if you enable url-quo
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by donio 4y ago
Nice, missed that, and it has a single character shorthand too: -g Edit: or maybe not, I think I'd still have to use --regex for real whitespace sequences that can be a mix of spaces and tabs.
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by donio 4y ago
Doesn't seem to fix the #1 thing missing from cut: an easy syntax for splitting on whitespace sequences (rather than a single space), like awk does by default. (I see that it support splitting on regex but I was hoping for it to be t
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by donio 4y ago
Why not keep the K-9 name though? Arguably it's a stronger brand for the target audience than Thunderbird.
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by donio 4y ago
There are ton of junk posts like that every day. The more interesting question is what makes some of these occasionally gain traction and upvotes seemingly at random.
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by donio 4y ago
For Emacs users there is a nice csv-mode on ELPA. It has aligned display, field based navigation and some basic sorting and manipulation options. And you have access to all the usual Emacs goodies of course. Another option is to import into
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by donio 4y ago
That particular example is an overly silly but I often write cat file | grep ... or cat file | awk '{blah}' for ad-hoc stuff even though I am fully aware that I could easily avoid the cat simply because having the re
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by donio 4y ago
dosemu can do this with the -t option, I have used this to run the Turbo Pascal UI on a terminal, works great. Have to make sure that the terminal width is exactly 80 columns.
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by donio 4y ago
find with its built-in -delete action would have avoided executing the external rm command millions of times.
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by donio 4y ago
My guess is that it's offered for those who want to do their own Windows install but would be confused or scared away by seeing "Linux" in the name. "FreeDOS" is the codeword for no-OS, you install your own.
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by donio 4y ago
> (I would go into more detail, but I'll be flagged to oblivion, as this is also the prevailing opinion on this site too.) It's the opposite, not supporting your claim with evidence when it should be straightforward to do so is
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by donio 4y ago
Emacs has supported lexical binding for almost a decade now and all the elisp files in Emacs itself use it. Most modern packages do too.

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