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by kmstout 3y ago
Project Gutenberg also does EPUBs. https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/1404.epub3.images
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by kmstout 3y ago
The game that I'm working on in my spare time has a lot of state machines in it compiled to CLOS, letting me use method calls as a means of directly sending sending events. Rather than write all those methods myself, with `case` form
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Constructing the Other Half of the Policeman's Beard (2021)(berfrois.com)
11 points by kmstout 3y ago|4 comments
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by kmstout 3y ago
> their product will work better, and they will win the market Like Betamax?
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by kmstout 3y ago
Fibonacci tab stops! - https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/3m6yhd/fibonacci_ind... - https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/171031/indent-y...
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by kmstout 3y ago
"Hungarian Notation is the tactical nuclear weapon of source code obfuscation techniques; use it! Due to the sheer volume of source code contaminated by this idiom nothing can kill a maintenance engineer faster than a well planned Hung
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by kmstout 3y ago
Ignoring all the work implementing a parser generator, here's a crappy language in fewer than 100 lines: https://reindeereffect.github.io/2019/01/16/index.html
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by kmstout 3y ago
> nothing to do with the memory allocator It's an application-specific memory allocator.
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by kmstout 3y ago
"I myself find it faster to work out algorithms in APL; then I translate these to PL/I for matching to the system environment." --Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month , Ch. 12.
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Programming soft alife with SPLAT and ulam (2020)(youtube.com)
1 points by kmstout 3y ago|0 comments
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by kmstout 3y ago
All you need is harm (ba da-da da-da) All you need is harm (ba da-da da-da) All you need is harm Harm, harm is all you need
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by kmstout 3y ago
Which browser? So far, everything seems fine in Firefox, Chromium, and Nyxt, which uses WebKit.
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by kmstout 3y ago
Why work so hard? ▲ U+25B2 BLACK UP-POINTING TRIANGLE ▼ U+25BC BLACK DOWN-POINTING TRIANGLE [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_Shapes_(Unicode_bloc...
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by kmstout 3y ago
Isn't everything since the Renaissance considered modern?
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After disabling Javascript [0], everything is fine. -- [0] The aptly named "Javascript Toggle On and Off" plugin for Firefox sets up a keybinding for toggling. It's very convenient and great for scaling many a paywall.
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I am now the proud shepherd of @thedude and @walter_sobchak. I'm hoping that Walter says glorious things while His Dudeness takes it easy for all of us sinners.
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And what's the first thing we learn about when hitting the site? Wiki gnomes [0]. Smashing <:-) -- [0] https://wikiindex.org/Wiki_gnome
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by kmstout 4y ago
My solution for years is to hit the thrift store and opportunistically grab pants that are in good shape but too big, and then take them for alteration. For a few bucks plus tailoring, I can have something that will fit me better than anyth
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by kmstout 4y ago
Since you're looking for feature ideas, you might want to check out what others have done with their boards; see [0] for a good list organized by software. Even within one base software group (e.g., Mystic), you'll find a lot of v
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by kmstout 4y ago
"Stop worrying. Your worries are like the safety instructions that flight attendants give before take off. One day when you are about to die you will not remember them and they will not matter. So don't worry." --Masood Boomg
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We usually try to capture the ones we encounter and send them outside. If we find ourselves doing that again soon after for the same part of the house, we'll give that room an extra thorough cleaning, on the theory that the spiders hav
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by kmstout 4y ago
Disabling JavaScript works well, too.
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Collaborative Information Retrieval: Gopher from Moo (1998) [pdf](researchgate.net)
3 points by kmstout 4y ago|0 comments
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The proceedings of SIGBOVIK 2022 has an article [0] detailing brainfuck++, which includes a number of helpful enhancements. [0] http://sigbovik.org/2022/proceedings.pdf , page 23.
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by kmstout 4y ago
> you could de-serialize false into, say, :false ... That's the approach that st-json [0] builds on: - true and false become :true and :false, respectively - [] becomes nil - {} becomes #s(st-json:jso :alist nil) --- [0] in QuickLis
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Way hay we're out of memory Way hay our disk is thrashing Way hay I need more coffee Early in the morning! What can you do with a process ID What can you do with a process ID What can you do with a process ID Early
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by kmstout 4y ago
If you get an account on Bottomless Abyss BBS [0], the message base has a USENET archive, but it only goes back to 2019 for comp.lang.lisp. So, useless for historical research, but fun for reading recent stuff. [0] https://bbs.bo
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In many cases, following the links in the item entries will get you full text. Just to get something going quickly, you can do a `links -dump <url>` to get just text and then cut it down with some bash-fu. That said, if you pull a lot
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by kmstout 4y ago
I used to do this. A long time ago, I had a setup that would sync feeds from BBC, CNN, Janes [0], and a few other places; extract and sanitize [1] the text of the articles for the previous day; and ultimately prepare a nicely typeset, five
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Aye, computation is a medium of expression.

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