dualogy

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by dualogy 2y ago
Your GI is A?
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by dualogy 2y ago
> I am so excited for a Lispy systems language. Can recommend Gerbil Scheme. Although fair warning, still GC'd and (for now) only type-annotated, not (100%) statically typed. But stdlib-wise and compilation-wise still way more &quot
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by dualogy 2y ago
Stumbled upon this a while ago while looking for "a systems Scheme", but abandonware in my book given the most recent commit date (and GH Issue). Settled on Gerbil Scheme instead, lively community & been actively developed to
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by dualogy 2y ago
Oh yeah by "Electron" I meant "and its alternatives" such as Tauri, Wails, github.com/webview etc.
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by dualogy 2y ago
Not sure... for some types of apps they might "compete" but for many not, I think: I view (after some toying with Flutter) the GPU UI renderers ala Flutter, QT/QML, gioUI, slint.dev etc as modern Flash-like options in a &quot
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by dualogy 2y ago
I guess the question is about the "general public" and everyday uses, rather than developer assistants and accelerants of the Copilot ilk. But nevermind, since you asked about "useful" — I've as an initial skeptic a
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by dualogy 2y ago
Tip for further searches, an alternative phrase sometimes used is "smolweb".
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by dualogy 2y ago
Not sure about OP, but here's how I did it back when I dabbled in it: had prior programming experience, read the docs. =)
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by dualogy 2y ago
> had some success ($500 MRR) with shareware, 20 years ago Don't trigger my nostalgia! Fun times, been there done that 2005-2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080118184913/http://www.sudoku... —
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by dualogy 2y ago
Apart from another HTML rendition, there's also an e-reader-ready epub rendition (from the HTMLs obv.) at https://github.com/sarabander/sicp?tab=readme-ov-file#sicp
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by dualogy 2y ago
> Margaret Hamilton worked out how to write bug-free software during the Apollo 11 project. Since search engines suck so bad lately: anyone know a good complete summary of that method of hers?
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by dualogy 2y ago
> 90% of our Slack history is just "good morning" and "good night", repeated for 4 years. Better write a bot for that! Save your company some serious overhead right there =)
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by dualogy 2y ago
> The Taylorism didn't exist until "Agile" came along around the year 2000. Its widespread adoption (and usually counter to the spirit of the original Manifest itself) took years however — years where most places, the craf
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by dualogy 2y ago
> But apart from that, his enthusiasm can even make the seemingly most boring topic interesting. Totally, his ever-fresh, ever-genuine excitement with all this stuff is so contagious (for the duration, and then some =)
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by dualogy 2y ago
Pretty sure (from the chapter titles) this is the same project as https://lispcookbook.github.io/cl-cookbook/ — which has last commit 9hrs ago, rather than 2007 =)
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by dualogy 2y ago
Under the still-valid assumption that "AI" means not-just-LLM, why not just Deepl? Still gonna have to get it vetted/corrected by native speakers afterwards, no matter what service you chose.
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AI Is a Hall of Mirrors(thenewatlantis.com)
7 points by dualogy 2y ago|0 comments
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by dualogy 2y ago
Thanks to all for your varied opinion sharings and experience reports, I value and enjoyed them greatly! Might be pre-biased but I'll admit the more-"pro"-Lisp posts especially really moved the needle here for me, as they spe
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by dualogy 2y ago
For laptop / other display usage is the one (alleged) use-case I don't get. If it "augments the world around you as you roam it", I can get that. But the screen in front of you that you're staring at for hours? What
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by dualogy 2y ago
I remember it differently. There was a sudden onslaught of bewilderingly techie-appealing novelties out of Cupertino in the 2006-2008 time window: unibody notebooks, iOS/iPhone, the MacBook Air, Intel CPUs in their computers (of great
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Ask HN: 30y After 'On Lisp', PAIP etc., Is Lisp Still "Beating the Averages"?
113 points by dualogy 2y ago|170 comments
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by dualogy 2y ago
Can't confirm for the last ~12 years, various laptops from Dell and Lenovo, lower and higher end, various distros ranging from Ubuntu to Fedora to VoidLinux to now Garuda (an Arch deriv), various DEs / WMs (Gnome, KDE, i3). But th
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by dualogy 2y ago
> when 7 came to end of life in 2000 typo I guess, it was in 2020. (Last Windows I really liked was Windows 2000 btw. =)
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by dualogy 2y ago
A sufficiently smart minifier should rewrite that back into `"hello ".times(8)` =)
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by dualogy 2y ago
But the quoted poster said "dairy", not milk. Lots of dairy has little to no lactose, from butter to cream-cheeses to indeed cream itself (clotted, double, or even the liquid 30% fat "whipping cream") to yogurts / k
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by dualogy 2y ago
Well at least the techie crowd can still use /etc/hosts (or the equivs on Mac/Win) which, if frequently-enough (weekly, biweekly, even monthly is enough) updated with the https://github.com/StevenBlack/ho
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by dualogy 2y ago
I'm not doing Vue so for my own purposes I think I'll be going with (the non-React, Web Components version of) MS' Fluent UI, but in my research I came across also IBM's "Carbon Design System" which has a Vue3
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by dualogy 2y ago
> Then we need a DSL. Or perhaps just the data structs already expressible in Protobuf, come to think of it. Versionable and textual thus git/etc-able.
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by dualogy 2y ago
> In German, we say “the journey is the goal”. Which btw, for the non-German speakers, we do because we have one single word ("Ziel") that means both "destination" and "goal". =)
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by dualogy 2y ago
Sounds like a super-worthwhile, valuable & lives-enhancing (or even saving in some cases perhaps!) idea to me. Your lesson here then: Dont ask people to judge your ideas, unless they're themselves full of good ideas often (in your

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