jackdaniel

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by jackdaniel 2y ago
Underpaid FOSS devs offering financial bounties so they can attempt to sue offenders sounds to me quite surreal.
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by jackdaniel 2y ago
Free education does not mean "no degrees", it means "funded from taxes/ by goverment".
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by jackdaniel 2y ago
You don't have "an industry" that hikes prices, and there is a central authority without ulterior motive that has an influence over what is funded. Not to mention that you don't put young people into debt from get go.
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by jackdaniel 2y ago
I wonder why there's no mention of a free education as an alternative solution to the broken system
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by jackdaniel 2y ago
Most of this bleeding age technology is: - spyware - built on copyright theft - striving to be vendor lock-in - vc thing with enshittification waiting to happen silly eu regulating bleeding age technology. so much borrowed money not spend.
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by jackdaniel 2y ago
oh sweet irony - the instant I've opened this article, two popups slided from top and bottom to inform me about spying on users and about a SIGNUP FOR FREE.
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by jackdaniel 2y ago
Thank you sensei, I think that I do understand now.
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by jackdaniel 2y ago
Shouldn't we call it a "network prison" in that case? :)
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
Not everything is a bitmap. Ordinary drawing operations operate on coordinates, so fractional scaling should not lead to any blur (although may miss some pixel-perfect designs). In other words vectors may be scaled with little precision los
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
Copyright was not an immoral restriction on the general public until Meh Valley noticed more bucks in LLMs. I agree that copyright is very much broken for various reasons, and the Public Domain day is a day of celebration for me. Having tha
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
Copyright was a moral right until 3 or 4 years ago, now AI training is the moral right. /s Sarcasm aside, this take is very disappointing. People leverage copyright for many purposes - copyleft, recognition, exclusiveness and many more
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
Technically firing CEO was also at the board's discretion, so I'm dubious whether that means anything at this point.
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
CLIM - Common Lisp Interface Manager - it is a specification of numerous protocols (partially) derived from Genera's Dynamic Windows. In 2000s Mike McDonald decided to write a free CLIM implementation and named it McDonald's Commo
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McCLIM 0.9.8 Yule – new release(mcclim.common-lisp.dev)
3 points by jackdaniel 3y ago|3 comments
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
I disagree with equating whistleblowering and snitching. We all have dirty secrets, but let's loosely say that the scale matters. It is a different story when coworker tells "boss" who is lazying around, and a different story
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
People often lie not only to others, but also to themselves. Also I don't see a problem with somewhat controversial takes from anonymous accounts; given today's internet opposite would be brave/stupid.
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
While I disagree with your opinion, I appreciate a lot that you've stated it. That's a very honest thing to say.
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
ECL runs on wasm via Emscripten.
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
Thanks for asking! You may edit the legacy function implementation. These shenanigans are done to enable providing a new protocol that spans two different set of functions in a way that is a) backward compatible, b) forward compatible. Say
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Proxy Generic Function(turtleware.eu)
22 points by jackdaniel 3y ago|2 comments
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
That's why the support is "preliminary". I plan to write some compelling examples for the emscripten target. Here is a "raw" build that shows repl (on some browsers results of evaluation show in the javascript conso
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
Thanks! I think that the number of changes between ECL and MKCL is quite big. ECL had a short break in development between 2013 and 2015, other than that it is an actively developed project.
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Embeddable Common Lisp 23.9.9(ecl.common-lisp.dev)
94 points by jackdaniel 3y ago|19 comments
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
it is planned to allow static linking against libc, not necessarily glibc (I've been thinking about musl). Dynamic linking is still a default, but different strokes for different folks I guess.
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
currently there is not build flag to statically link libc manually (it is planned though). Regarding startup time, it all comes to ASDF: $ time ecl --eval "(quit)" 0.052 secs $ time ecl --eval "(require 'asdf)" --ev
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
That's super-interesting, thank you for sharing :)
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
even assuming unbiased and objective attesters, the issue lies with the "baseline criteria" of attestation and who defines them. There are two risks here (examples follow): 1. hostile requirements - "the agent won't feat
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
I don't know what do you try to convey. The link is shared by a third-party.
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
While I'm not using Petalisp I can attest that Marco is known for delivering high quality software with a strong focus on performance. I suspect that the phrase "Coming soon!" means exactly that - when he'll make them th
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by jackdaniel 3y ago
Maxima is implemented in Common Lisp. The language features full numeric tower with bignums and rationals - generally it is a very good language for number crunching.

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