lokedhs

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by lokedhs 6y ago
I think there are more practical reasons why it's not used more. What you say is absolutely true of course, but the bigger issue is that McCLIM still has some technical issues. What is really needed is a multiplatform backend that impl
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by lokedhs 6y ago
Axiom is also not a normal Lisp program. Maxima can be loaded using ASDF and you can hack on it like any other Lisp project. Axiom in the other hand generates Lisp code from some other format and is rather incomprehensible to someone just c
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by lokedhs 6y ago
Do you accept the output from Climaxima? Granted, the project isn't near finished (currently held back due to some dependency issues). I included some example videos in this reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2
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by lokedhs 6y ago
Of interest may be my project that implements a CLIM-based user interface on top of Maxima. It turns out that CLIM is perfect for this, as its idea of presentation forms matches the way mathematical expressions are represented in Maxima. I
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by lokedhs 6y ago
In addition to what you are saying, I'd also ask developers to not use escape sequences directly but instead use terminfo. It allows you to send the correct terminal sequences regardless of the type of terminal you use. In particular,
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by lokedhs 6y ago
They even do it on the web version of Outlook. The setting to change it is 4 levels deep and two of the options are at the bottom of lists and labelled "more options".
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by lokedhs 6y ago
I recently installed DOS 6.22 (and Windows 3.11) in a VM and it causes one core to sit at 100% all the time. I don't know if the VM changes anything, but it definitely seems as though it does not halt while waiting for activity.
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by lokedhs 6y ago
You are right. Some other complaints have have no aged well either (especially things like case insignificance, which we all know is extremely difficult to get right once you leave the confines of English). Unix has a lot of issues on a low
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by lokedhs 6y ago
What would that even mean? The model is a description of reality. When you talk about the model, you are referencing a mathematical description of reality. In a similar way, the ratio π is the mathematical description (or model, if you like
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by lokedhs 6y ago
Sure. It will contain the hash of the rickroll video. That doesn't help with the question as to who proves that the content is what it claims to be?
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by lokedhs 6y ago
I've looked at Rust a few times, and every time I installed the stable release, but as soon as I wanted to actually do something, I realise that the library or feature I wanted to use was not actually available in stable. At least at t
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by lokedhs 6y ago
More like the absolute minimum one would expect any contributor to be able to produce. I'm not a fan of coding interviews, but being able to produce a functioning fizzbuzz should not be considered very difficult.
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by lokedhs 6y ago
So if someone uploads a 2 hour version of a rickroll and tags it with the name of the latest blockbuster movie and then takes it offline, there is now going to be a permanent record that at some time there was a copy of this movie uploaded?
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by lokedhs 6y ago
32 gb is a bit weird. But when people write mb, it should be read as "millibit", which is terribly small.
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by lokedhs 6y ago
I'd say there are a few major benefits: 1. Distinction between symbols and strings. 2. A well-specified number format (integers are integers). In JSON the precision of a number is unspecified, not something you want from an interchange
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by lokedhs 6y ago
I do that too, but a real macro facility would be a lot nicer. There are a lot of things that cannot nicely be implemented using the existing syntax.
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by lokedhs 6y ago
I like Kotlin, but I also feel it's a huge missed opportunity. I have used Kotlin quite a bit. In particular, I've been working on a multiplatform project recently which definitely have helped me learn about some of the less devel
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by lokedhs 6y ago
I have been working on a "modern" language based on APL. It implements features such as macro-like custom syntax, first-class functions and closures. It's developed in Kotlin and can be compiled to the JVM as well as natively
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by lokedhs 6y ago
My previous response was probably a bit snarky. My point was that if this is something that you worked on and you realise that your revenue doubled, then it's probably very easy to justify that to oneself that this is indeed what the u
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by lokedhs 6y ago
I'm wondering if this assertion comes from some kind of "search bubble" among developers of these tools.
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by lokedhs 6y ago
Not the original poster, but I've disabled all personalisation that it's possible to disable since forever, and my biggest problem with it is that it still doesn't seem to disable it entirely. So yes, I definitely prefer it.
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by lokedhs 6y ago
I needed a pair of Maxxis High Roller and had to call around a lot until I found a shop that had a pair. As annoying as that was, as a biker I'm really happy that more people people take the pandemic as an opportunity to discover bikin
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by lokedhs 6y ago
I saw the same here in Singapore. Waiting time to get a service was on the order of weeks, if not months. I used to be able to drop it off and pick it up a few days later. Now they won't even accept my bike because their shop is too fu
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by lokedhs 6y ago
Steel frames gives you a much smoother ride, and unless you do a lot of short climbing, the difference in weight doesn't matter that much. In fact, a heavier frame carries more momentum, which can be a benefit in some cases.
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by lokedhs 6y ago
That is precisely why I lament the loss of a precise pointing device. Pinching to zoom is infuriating, and I'm glad that at least Android provides an alternative (double-tap and swipe up and down). I also don't see how anyone can
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by lokedhs 6y ago
The problem is that if they forget to include the correct header file that declares malloc, then the cast will hide any warnings. If the cast is not there, it will tell you that there is a type mismatch.
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by lokedhs 6y ago
Yes, that's definitely part of it. But wouldn't you say that such MBA's are bad MBA's? Isn't a good MBA supposed to not just understand business, but also everything that enables business to exist (i.e. product deve
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by lokedhs 6y ago
The issue isn't with MBA's per se. They can certainly be valuable to a company. The problem is when the MBA's control the direction of the company as opposed to advising it.
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by lokedhs 6y ago
Neither Dolphin nor Nautilus (the file browsers in KDE and GNOME respectively) shows dotfiles by default.
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by lokedhs 6y ago
Like what the Windows file manager does. This is something that absolutely infuriates me every time I use Windows. It's actually difficult to figure out what directory you're actually looking at sometimes because ever the address

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