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Linux kernel getting “maple” trees to replace RBtrees in MM [LWN](lwn.net)
3 points by ephaeton 6y ago|0 comments
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by ephaeton 6y ago
Compare that to this beauty: http://ftp.scsh.net/pub/scsh/0.6/scsh-manual.ps.gz pp. 10 onward. It's such a pity scsh is dead ...
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by ephaeton 6y ago
So let me get this straight: A programming environment to program programming environments in. What would be the startup cost of using this be? Hmm. Comprehending and navigating it, eh? So now, when I'm, say, doing embedded C/++ p
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by ephaeton 6y ago
same here. In the hardware we build (containing, amongst others, an ARM and a FPGA), I added tcl scripting of the kernel driver interface for the FPGA for testing, debugging, fun & profit ;) ..although that has no visual side.
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by ephaeton 6y ago
still using finch (libpurple text ui client coming from the same corner) on a daily basis. Easy to keep it running on a tmux session on my server, ready for a ssh/mosh + tmux attach. Prevents all the syncing of chat histories everywher
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by ephaeton 6y ago
boring & solid & works is a perfect description of tcl&tk. And I mean that in the best way imaginable.
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by ephaeton 6y ago
There's a time and place for everything. Regarding the time, it is and has been the time for this since lisp emanated. But C is not the place, IMO. I don't want to be left to wonder about sizeof(anything) in C. "Lisp Programm
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by ephaeton 6y ago
given a neighboring village is named "Franking" that sounds like a bad idea :)
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by ephaeton 6y ago
Locals don't speak a phonetically hard 'k' in the middle when refering to that village. If you heard them say the name, you'd not be sure whether to write it with gg or ck in the middle. (NB: I live in a village essentia
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by ephaeton 6y ago
I live about 5km away from Fucking. Their signs are _regularly_ stolen, even despite their countermeasures. They even stopped replacing way signs ( | Fucking > ) that were stolen.
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by ephaeton 6y ago
Speaking as a musician here, I align with the decentralized approach personally, and we've just uploaded our best album so far as CC-BY, using the gracious offer of the funkwhale guys to join their libre audio effort under https:&#x2F
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by ephaeton 6y ago
I didn't dare.. you can find us (me? aka Benden) at multimud.net:4242 ;)
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by ephaeton 6y ago
Same here. MUDs got my unix / network / C programming up to par (and to this day, decades later, I still work in the field). Incidentally, "my" MUD still runs (some 25 years after its start), although it's not thriv
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by ephaeton 6y ago
don't forget that the wings create lift, i.e., the body hangs between the wings, it's not the body that holds up the wings, it's the other way around.
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by ephaeton 7y ago
"At runtime, we could use cond for that, but since that is a macro as well, we can’t use it at compile time." D'oh. Who writes a lisp with macros where you can't use macros at macro-expansion-time??
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by ephaeton 7y ago
I don't think I am confused. The point is that, logically, either you do not tag something with names, and then, naturally, the order decides. Or, you tag something with names, and then, given you named things, there ought to be no ord
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by ephaeton 7y ago
Designated Initializers done awkwardly a.k.a. "the C++ way" // Point2D point2d {.y = 2, .x = 1}; // (1) error Oh my. The C++ committee keeps their flight altitude rivaling moles and worms. This i
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by ephaeton 7y ago
Why would you think your user is not capable of resizing their rendering window? This seems to be a wide-spread notion in the ranks of the "responsive" design lads (where "responsive" means: choose one of those four fixe
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by ephaeton 7y ago
Yes and no. Maybe use http://www.sicpdistilled.com/ as a guide.
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by ephaeton 7y ago
Yes. I've written a test framework for another software I'm developing that (optionally) sets up an environment for the executable under test, (optionally) launches and monitors the executable (process state, stderr/stdout),
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by ephaeton 7y ago
Racket 7.4 now comes running on chez if you so wish. Check out [1]. In there there's also the links to the whys, hows and whats of the whole effort. I've been using racket quite a lot lately, really like it. The thing I do not lik
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by ephaeton 7y ago
There is also the difference in licenses, and as in users voting with their feet, I chose the BSD licensed alternative to terminal muxing.
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by ephaeton 7y ago
not what I was getting at. I'm aware it's wtfutil on the cmdline. I was rather sort of amused that, say, I write a 'least squares' utility, call it 'ls' and have it be invoked by calling 'lsutil'. ...
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by ephaeton 7y ago
Obviously written by someone who is not living on BSD, and doesn't know about wtf(1) :(
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by ephaeton 7y ago
I think it's more an issue of awareness. I do remember walking across a lawn in my childhood, and I do remember having to watch out not to step on any bees etc., as they were legion. Nowadays, I am happy to see a few bees around. I thi
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by ephaeton 7y ago
Speaking from a german perspective (who has lived and taxed in the US as well), let me point out to you that US tax forms are a piece of cake to fill compared to the djungle we have here.
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by ephaeton 7y ago
Oooph, from my perspective, this is the very same thing with clojure, and the single thing that drove me away from the language. Substitute spec/schema for vgo/dep, and you're telling the same story. I value individuals and c