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by koito17 2y ago
> as soon as you add guardrails like hygiene (like Scheme does), the inherent conceptual simplicity of Common Lisp style macros is greatly reduced Clojure offers a nice middle-ground to this. In Clojure, symbols are namespaced, and synta
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by koito17 2y ago
Clearly he can handle it given that he mentioned try-catch and the cons of using that approach (cant use const, the control flow is exception-driven, increased verbosity, etc.) The key takeaway of the article is that the author kickstarted
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by koito17 2y ago
foobar2000 has been my go-to player on both Windows and Mac for about a decade now. Particularly, I like the dense (yet uncluttered) interface and functionality I take for granted, like selecting a dozen files and editing metadata all at on
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by koito17 2y ago
This is the first time I try reading a Jepsen report in-depth, but I really like the clear description of Datomic's intra-transaction behavior. I didn't realize how little I understood the difference between Datomic's transac
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by koito17 2y ago
I interpret each directive in a Dockerfile as creating a new layer of an image. So this ARG-before-FROM gotcha doesn't feel like a gotcha to me, but rather, the consequence of literally interpreting "ARG" and not knowing the
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by koito17 2y ago
Does anyone know how this model compares to GPT-4 for Japanese output? Taking a look at GPT-4o today, the Japanese example in the landing page feels unnatural and represents a huge regression from the quality I would expect of GPT-4. With t
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by koito17 2y ago
Ciel is exactly what I wanted out of a "scripting language" that runs atop Common Lisp. Really glad that you mentioned it. The built-in SLY/SLIME support makes me instantly want to ditch Babashka for this
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by koito17 2y ago
Firefox supports the WebCodecs API behind a feature flag. Set dom.media.webcodecs.enabled to true. I am able to use your app this way -- the media import, timeline, and player functionality seems to work fine.
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by koito17 2y ago
Something like this is what I had desired when briefly experimenting with Fedora CoreOS and having to build layered images for ZFS support. I was new to CoreOS and was stuck right after I finished building an OCI image. Eventually I learned
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by koito17 2y ago
The first thing I was about to comment was "how does one handle backpressure with this library?" Thankfully the examples given in the repository demonstrate exactly that :) I still think it'd be useful to mention in the READM
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by koito17 2y ago
Having worked as a frontend web developer, I can assure you that the back-button hijacking is sheer incompetence of the developers. They have to be mutating your browser history in a careless way to achieve this. That or they somehow picked
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by koito17 2y ago
Pretty cool idea. It seems to address most of the UX issues I experience with BBS softwares. The only possible issue I see is density of information. People using mobile devices are not very motivated to read or write long sentences. This m
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by koito17 2y ago
If you're aware of Toyota's ７つのムダ sure. I expect the average person to think 無駄 as used in daily conversation. I don't think the analogy with "legacy software" is accurate; "legacy" has multiple definition
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by koito17 2y ago
Pretty cool use case for virtual threads. Recently I implemented something with core.async in order to batch messages and dispatch them to some UI code at a fixed rate. It was definitely a lot more complicated than using a single sempahore
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by koito17 2y ago
As a foreigner buying Yen, it must feel amazing. For a native Japanese, it does not feel good at all. Many iPhone users in Japan are afraid that Apple will increase the price of this year's iPhone by a large margin due to the weak yen.
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by koito17 2y ago
Windows-932 is the text encoding I dread the most. I wish literally everything could use Unicode, but we're not quite there yet. There's a reason encoding-japanese[1] on NPM has nearly 1 million weekly downloads. Unfortunately, I
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by koito17 2y ago
I mention Japanese because I deal with Japanese text daily. I could mention some Chinese documents and sites using GBK to save space (since such encodings use exactly 2 bytes per character whereas the average size in UTF-8 is strictly large
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by koito17 2y ago
Many Japanese websites have migrated from Shift-JIS to UTF-8, but this still ignores the fact that e.g. television captioning uses special characters[1] that are not found in UTF-8 or Shift-JIS. Windows itself has a habit of using its own W
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by koito17 2y ago
The comments in this thread are a bit amusing. I wish I could live in the world where I could bluntly say "I will assume UTF-8 and ignore the rest of the world". Many Japanese documents and sites still use Shift JIS. Windows has t
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by koito17 2y ago
In the Java world, sure. Other programming language ecosystems tend to have tons of churn. For an anecdote, every TypeScript project I find from 2021 or earlier is simply impossible to build nowadays, meanwhile the ClojureScript code I deal
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by koito17 2y ago
I personally like the Emacs keybinds because they are also supported in Cocoa Text framework, which means native Mac applications respect them. It's not just the terminal that follows these keybinds, but every graphical program in my s
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by koito17 2y ago
This probably fixed one of my biggest frustrations with Java 21. I was too used to Thread/new and Thread/sleep not needing me to explicitly write type hints. There doesn't seem to be anything else changed in this release, so
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by koito17 2y ago
This is rude, but I think the reason its unpopular is otaku often have no friends. Even then, I have found plenty of open chats with otaku. There is exactly one person I know who refuses to use LINE for being owned by Naver. I think the mos
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by koito17 2y ago
I think it depends on which slice of the Japanese internet. The こどおじ who discuss politics all day match your description. Other people, not so much. The statement about not caring about US/EU is true, however. I think most of HN is una
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by koito17 2y ago
As someone who knows somebody that recently had a flight cancelled (then booked another flight at the same airport, only for that flight to get cancelled as well), it was very frustrating to hear that all the airlines in question would do
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by koito17 3y ago
n = 1, but I purchase physical books, comics, references, etc. under two circumstances: - cannot find an easy way to de-DRM media available on online stores. I want the ability to copy epub files across my devices and read offline. - the di
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by koito17 3y ago
@dang is a no-op. You should send an e-mail to hn@ycombinator.com. I'm writing one as I write this comment.
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by koito17 3y ago
I wish other Common Lisp implementations, particularly Clozure CL, documented their internals as well as SBCL does. Apple Silicon support has been a long-standing feature request, but nobody can really work on it besides rme himeself due to
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by koito17 3y ago
As far as I can understand, the complaint is about the behavior of the owner of the Nix project, together with alleged ties to military companies. Most of the sources are assorted screenshots of Matrix and X posts with snide remarks, so it&
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by koito17 3y ago
Tonsky's website is infamous for making a mockery out of modern UX. That's also why toggling dark mode turns your pointer into a flashlight. I agree the mouses are distracting and I always use reader mode when browsing his site.

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