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by isr 2y ago
I think you're conflating "chaining function calls together" (aka "threading function calls") with unix pipelines, which are all about running separate programs in parallel & connecting their io streams together
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by isr 2y ago
When eshell runs a pipeline of external programs, does it fork+exec them all in parallel and connect them with the requisite file descriptors? Or does it run each program sequentially, grabbing its output in its entirety before passing it o
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by isr 2y ago
I know +1's are frowned upon here, but, err, +1? But, to cater to one of your criticisms - namely that the surface syntax of lua might be a bit better. It's not bad, per se, but it doesn't quite match the elegance of the lua&
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by isr 2y ago
A few brave souls (eg Senator Swati) have openly admitted to this attempted blackmail (his was an explosive, tearful press conference 3 years ago). She even does it to the military top brass, and they do it to her & her goons. In short,
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by isr 2y ago
Just FYI, to those not in Pakistan who might not be aware. The minister mentioned in the article (yes, deepfakes are a form of sexual criminality!), is a direct underling of another female chief minister (who won despite her party receiving
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by isr 2y ago
Quite famously, during his own lifetime, Alexander claimed some kind of "divine descent". He made an out-of-the-way journey to a famous religious site in the Libyan desert, to underline this. Some would have believed him. Others,
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by isr 2y ago
I've been a vim (then neovim) user since 1999 (plus or minus 1 year - basically so long that I don't precisely remember). I've written so much custom vimscript for things like an irc client, tiling window manager within vim,
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by isr 2y ago
jimtcl, an alternative, simpler, much smaller implementation of tcl DOES have proper closures, along with other nicities like unifying arrays & dicts.
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by isr 2y ago
Don't blame you. If you treat tcl as a c-like scripting language, it's a mess. If you treat it as a "shell & lisp" combo, then you get to see it's power & flexibility.
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by isr 2y ago
Have a look at tcl's ability to run multiple iterations of itself (nested interpreters) within the same process, and how those interpreters can be sandboxed & limited to run just what you allow, & nothing more. If you were goin
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by isr 2y ago
The new redesigned morphic gui system (which was one of the key drivers behind Juan's forking from squeak to make cuis) is FULLY driven by vector graphics. You can take any element, including any arbitrary window, and scale (or rotate)
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by isr 2y ago
A victim
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by isr 2y ago
In 99% of cases, yes - this is a pain in the backside. Long ago I adopted something from the plan9 way of doing things (when I was heavily using acme). Just symlink /h to /home. So ~user becomes /h/user, in places where
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by isr 2y ago
dang, seriously. What is wrong with those posts you linked to. Please take a look at them yourself, and tell me. Genuinely asking. Whenever I've engaged on this topic (not just this thread), there seems to be an unwritten rule somewher
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by isr 2y ago
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by isr 2y ago
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by isr 2y ago
Ah, ok. If we're going to be throwing in personal takes on geopolitics, then here's mine. Less of the "democracies vs dictatorships". It's more like "western imperialism (essentially US & vassals) vs the re
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by isr 2y ago
I think you must be confusing Hayreddin Pasha (Admiral Barbarossa) with some other historical figure? He and his brothers were all born Muslim. BTW, there's a new Turkish TV series based on him (the same lead actor that played Ertugrul
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by isr 2y ago
How about this. For criminal behaviour which crosses a certain $ threshold (as in, what size of fine is levied by the courts/fed authorities), the entire remuneration given to anyone who served on the board of directors is considered f
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by isr 2y ago
Hey, me too, back in the day. Konqueror's ui was much nicer than the alternatives. Especially the ability to open multiple panes in the same window - made browsing slashdot easier. Shame it hasn't kept up.
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by isr 2y ago
Great, so that means someone will hack an astro slide into a time machine. Ok, I'm game
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by isr 2y ago
Hmm, when you put it like that, my complaint does seem trite. It was just one of those things which bugged me ...
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by isr 2y ago
I feel your pain. I'm in the same boat as you (backed the astro slide - didn't get one). I used the original Planet Computers device with psion-like keyboard, the Gemini, as my daily driver for a few years. The keyboard was no gim
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by isr 2y ago
I think you meant "fexprs instead of macros". Picolisp does have a function named 'macro', but it's not the same thing (it's more like 'string map' from tcl). There's a lot if interesting stuff i
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by isr 2y ago
I agree that the "oh my god, she plagiarized someone" shock & horror was mainly (not entirely) an exercise in firing her, without admitting the main reason - that she initially gave lukewarm pushback to the hysterical "an
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by isr 2y ago
Not really. Pantheon, elementary's desktop environment, is forked from gnome. So in that sense, it's very much a traditional linux desktop distro (not to belittle it, as they have put in a lot of worthwhile work into pantheon &amp
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by isr 2y ago
Tiddlywiki - the poster child for a complex app delivered as a single LOCAL web page.
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by isr 2y ago
I reckon the vast majority of planet Earth would take Al Jazeera's word over the BBC, CNN, etc, most days of the week. And twice on Sundays.
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by isr 2y ago
You want cuis smalltalk. It's a heavily-simplified smalltalk (like pharo, it was also forked from squeak), with a redesigned morphic system - which is ENTIRELY vector graphics based (plus a few other niceties). Yes, even the fonts them
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by isr 3y ago
On the off chance that you haven't yet looked at smalltalk, can I recommend cuis smalltalk as worthy of investigation. It's a simplified smalltalk (like pharo, forked from squeak), where the emphasis is on having a base system tha

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