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   The Linotype and the Typesetting Race(youtube.com)

   1 points by kmstout 5y ago|0 comments
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   by kmstout 5y ago

   I've butterflied turkeys for years and the results have always been great. Evenly cooked, juicy meat. Crispy skin. Less time. (You can also cook the bird atop a layer of stuffing.)
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   by kmstout 5y ago

   "Making robberies into larcenies. Making rapes disappear. You juke the stats, and majors become colonels." --Prez
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   by kmstout 5y ago

   And then there's the experience of using Jupyter's terminals, where you reflexively C-w to delete the last word, but the tab closes. You then reopen the terminal, which has helpfully retained its state--including the word you just
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   by kmstout 5y ago

   Also, hit up a bulletin board or two: https://www.ipingthereforeiam.com/bbs/?step=name&all=0
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   by kmstout 5y ago

   > "monads are like a burrito" Wait, so a burrito is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors?
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   The /bin/true Command and Copyright (2009)(trillian.mit.edu)

   142 points by kmstout 5y ago|83 comments
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   by kmstout 5y ago

   > If I had to continuously re-write projects in new languages, I would never get anything done. Among Common Lisp's features is that, while the ecosystem has evolved, the standard has been stable since the '90s.
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   by kmstout 5y ago

   Likewise radio stations' playing songs back to back without a gap. "Stairway to Heaven" deserves a second or two of silence after finishing.
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    Farming Family Makes High-Tech Crop Circles (2012)(smithsonianmag.com)

    1 points by kmstout 5y ago|0 comments
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    by kmstout 5y ago

    I have one of these at home, made sometime during WW2--there's a metal label on it indicating that it is (or was) the property of the Defense Plant Corporation. Good chair.
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    by kmstout 5y ago

    http://www.5z8.info/-----TAKE.TWITTER.LOGIN-----_m5e1kp_clic...
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    by kmstout 5y ago

    As an oldies station DJ from back home would say, this is good stuff! The use of screen color as an in-band indicator for what segments to keep or toss is especially elegant. One question: If you find yourself silent for some period that yo
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    by kmstout 5y ago

    It probably would be. Just having a copy of the archive on my hard drive that I can grep whenever I want is pretty handy.
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    by kmstout 5y ago

    Here's what I tell those who question projects like these: By designing and implementing a game engine or a compiler or a microkernel, you become the sort of person who can do those things, and you become the sort of person who can do
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    by kmstout 5y ago

    So, take me back to Constantinople No, you can't go back to Constantinople
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    Cicada season: What to expect from the coming brood [video](youtube.com)

    1 points by kmstout 5y ago|0 comments
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    by kmstout 5y ago

    Among my favorites is this little zinger (awk): !seen[$0]++ which gives the union of the lines of all the input files, with none of that 'sort | uniq' business. It's not a one-liner, but here's intersection:
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    by kmstout 5y ago

    Several weeks ago I poked around Github's CI workflow references. It seems that there's a clear path for crafting a workflow that simply grabs the text of a each issue (as it's submitted) and appends it to the documentation b
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    by kmstout 5y ago

    Here's an example: "The following comparison will illustrate my meaning. During the campaigns of the Revolution the French introduced a new system of tactics into the art of war, which perplexed the oldest generals, and very nearl
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    Christopher Alexander: Notes on the Synthesis of Form [pdf](monoskop.org)

    3 points by kmstout 6y ago|1 comments
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    by kmstout 6y ago

    I know this is a joke, but it really might be worth an experimental implementation, just to see where this leads. (Decent editor support would be critical.)
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    by kmstout 6y ago

    I was taught many moons ago that configuration, like ogres and onions, is best considered in layers: 1. default values: What will most users in most places find most useful/least infuriating? 2. configuration files (system-wide, then u
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    by kmstout 6y ago

    Here's a way to search and watch Youtube without ads, using fzf, youtube-dl, mpv, and jq: mpv ytdl://$(youtube-dl -j 'ytsearch30:spider pig' | jq '{id,title,uploader}' --compact-output | fzf | jq -r
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    Brian Kernighan on successful language design(youtube.com)

    1 points by kmstout 6y ago|0 comments
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    by kmstout 6y ago

    "Writing GNU Emacs Extensions" by Bob Glickstein is a solid introduction. After that, the Emacs Lisp reference manual (available as "info elisp" in the shell) gives much more detail. Inside Emacs, you can: - "M-x ap
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    John Cleese on Creativity in Management(youtube.com)

    2 points by kmstout 6y ago|0 comments
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    by kmstout 6y ago

    There's a variation called "elucidative programming" [1] wherein the source is marked with "anchors" that the documentation can reference. Since source code lives in traditional source files, all the regular develo
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    by kmstout 6y ago

    Required reading for anyone who wants to extend Noweb to do new things is "The noweb Hacker's Guide": http://www.literateprogramming.com/noweb_hacker.pdf This came in handy when I wanted syntax highlighting i
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    by kmstout 6y ago

    I've been using Org for a little over a year, and it's actually quite nice. To support a blog post last year ( https://reindeereffect.github.io/2020/05/05/index.html ) I did my own quick and dirty ren