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by geocar 1y ago
> FYI you were downvoted with no explanation because you missed the point in all of these I think people downvote things they disagree with, and I'm not surprised people who think handling dates and times is beyond them are mad at s
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by geocar 1y ago
> a date with a calendar associated but no time or timezone (might be due to being implied but also might be irrelevant, like in birthdates). It might also be relevant: Ever ask an older Korean person their age? > Instant: a fixed poi
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by geocar 1y ago
I disagree hard. Firstly because I have a great imagination, but secondly because I am old and have a lot of real life scenarios to think about. State-of-the-art here has changed a few times in my professional career: Once upon a time mos
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by geocar 1y ago
Yes. Do it. The only way you understand X is by making your own X and trying to support it for a few decades, and our industry needs more people who understand X; fewer who just ask chatgpt/stackoverflow/google for "the answe
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by geocar 1y ago
I don't think you know what you mean. Experienced Forth programmers do not tend to make functions with lots of stack-based temporary references, but leverage the hyperstatic nature of globals which are effectively keyword arguments f
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by geocar 1y ago
> I write code in both ... > If I look at Forth code I wrote a month ago I have no idea what it's doing. Sometimes when we are learning a language, we plateau in our learning for so long we think we are done, however I assure you
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by geocar 1y ago
At the same time?
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by geocar 1y ago
Erm no. The point is I want to have the ability to make any variable dynamic, not just work with a global variable that is really a getter.
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by geocar 1y ago
Dynamic scope/binding is super useful , but I do not agree tcl does it or does it well, because it's not just shadowing the closure environment (ha), or changing globals in a dynamic-wind. Perl's the only non-lisp I'm
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by geocar 1y ago
Sierra's phone number was (209) 683-6858
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by geocar 1y ago
I think the quiz was LSL1. You just pushed alt-x (or maybe ctrl-alt-x) to skip it. LSL2 had the "little black book" with phone numbers. You could type 555-0724 IIRC and get in. The real answers to these things were in the box, you
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by geocar 1y ago
> If you're gonna be angry at someone be angry at the people among us were in favor of the creation of this data set I think it's okay to be angry at public servants for "following orders" too. We didn't let the
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by geocar 1y ago
> I sold 100 BTC back in 2015, which cleared all my debts and landed my first apartment. I think you should be less proud of that. > I can't see the real value ... Sure, there are some very legit usage of crypto, like: Circumven
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by geocar 1y ago
> Well, first light does 500 miles in 3ms, but the connect signal needs to come back, right? So it should be 250 miles, at most? I don't think this is terribly important (NB my examples have nothing to do with networking), but in th
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by geocar 1y ago
> I can't help but feel that's somewhat excessive for a desktop. I got it on ebay for €2k. You can't not expect me to use it as a desktop. > Have you considered closing a few browser tabs? No? I mean actually no: I ma
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by geocar 1y ago
> There’s a lot to the story that’s obviously made up... Obviously? I think I've had this phone call myself a few times, although in my experience it was never from a statistician and they didn't give me as much data, but I&#x2
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by geocar 1y ago
Don't be afraid. Look at qmail, which has the best track record of any piece of software I am aware of in wide distribution, and it was written in C. Also: Memory leaks go away when you exit(), so they are actually more common in dyn
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by geocar 1y ago
I think you might have found that CGI scripts deployed as statically-linked C binaries, with some attention given to size, you might've not been so disappointed. The "performance hit of starting a new process" is bigger if th
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by geocar 1y ago
> securely I do not think that word means what I think you think that word means.
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by geocar 1y ago
> Similar to a password there isn't a way to recover it if you forget it. But dissimilar to a password in that you aren't ever expected to remember it, can't write it down, and in other ways. > You can have it show a QR
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by geocar 1y ago
> I wanted a tool that would show me a diff if a script changed, run it through `shellcheck` Why? What exactly do you think "shellcheck" does? When do you think you're diffing and what do you think you are diffing with? &g
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by geocar 1y ago
> but languished where it shined, as a markup language with an amazing transformation capability in XSLT I choose to look at this a little differently. An XML application using XSLT is so much better (faster load times, faster to write,
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by geocar 1y ago
> in a way I haven’t seen any other software do. It was novel once upon a time, but almost every internetworked operating system supports network-transparent files. Even my iPhone can do it. Linux is a bit weird though: VIM has netrw wh
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by geocar 1y ago
I think so. A single hive with 50,000 bees can make 100lbs of honey, but you need maybe 1,000 lbs of grapes to make that much wine in roughly the same amount of time (a single vine might give you 10lbs of grapes) Honey is also easier to tra
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by geocar 1y ago
Nonsense. There is no definition of "relatively recently" that has anything to do with humans where that is true. Bees were probably one of the first things we humans ever made farms for: https://www.bbc.com/news&#
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by geocar 1y ago
> However honey isn't a trivial component to produce And you think grapes are? We were probably farming honey long before we were farming grapes. > I suspect they added in honey as a source of sugar for fermentation. Honey is a p
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by geocar 1y ago
can you normalise harder? 2d is bigger than 1d, but sometimes it is smaller too: ⌈/dest-source
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by geocar 1y ago
Ok. I have some idea I think of where you are at, so I will give it a shot. I think this sort of thing is an emergent property in the design of APL applications, and so there's nothing to "see" in terms of an example unless y
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by geocar 1y ago
What would you consider "high-level application logic"?
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by geocar 1y ago
ngn's k is publicly available, around 1000 lines and readable, in that I can read it.

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