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by lokedhs 5y ago
I can't help but think that whenever copilot is able to help with a solution, it's because the language itself doesn't allow you to express solutions concisely. I looked at the solutions in the article, and very little of the
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Pne-more-re-nightmare – A fast regex compiler in Common Lisp(applied-langua.ge)
89 points by lokedhs 5y ago|1 comments
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by lokedhs 5y ago
There is a great parody made about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U I recommend it, it's rather spot on.
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by lokedhs 5y ago
Fonts? You must not be old enough to remember serial port then. Serial ports, and in particular modems connected to said ports, was the second worst thing I know in computing. At least I rarely have to deal with either of them anymore.
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by lokedhs 5y ago
I don't touch type in the sense that I don't hold my fingers on the home row the way I was taught back in school. My home position for my right hand is shifted by one column, and I never use the little finger for typing. My hands
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by lokedhs 5y ago
I installed NT 3.51 in Qemu not long ago. I can look up the Qemu settings I used if it's of interest.
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by lokedhs 5y ago
They wanted to tell me that I hadn't made my loan payment. They were right about it. I did miss it. I had made a larger payment a few months earlier, and I hadn't resumed regular payments.
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by lokedhs 5y ago
That is what I assumed as well, but when I did call back they had no idea what the topic was. Hopefully, this particular experience is rare, but the fact that it can happen at all is somewhat concerning
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by lokedhs 5y ago
> It looks like you didn't even try it. In order to do what the GP described, when your bank calls you, you say nothing and answer nothing. You hang up and call back on a number you know. I did do exactly that. I asked them for a re
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by lokedhs 5y ago
That would be nice if it worked. I had a call from my bank, and they before the they could even tell me what it was about, they asked me to answer some security questions. When I pointed out out how ridiculous that was, and I asked them to
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by lokedhs 5y ago
It was definitely poorly written. It's correct, since they never called you, it was you who called them. But it does raise the question as to how to teach people that who initiates the contact is very important and completely changes t
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by lokedhs 5y ago
Anyone who was part of the demoscene in the 90's knows that it is indeed as far from the truth as could be imagined. I wanted to add some clarification to the above statement, but I'm not able to accurately convey the level of eli
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by lokedhs 5y ago
Except in COBOL, data types are decimal, which means that whatever datatypes you choose to use in a modern language will not work the same as they do in COBOL. Also consider that the COBOL datatypes are directly represented in the underlyin
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by lokedhs 5y ago
These kinds of questions aren't bad per se, but they should be used as a basis for an open-ended discussion with the candidate. Kind of like conversation starters: "Let's discuss how you would approach designing a simple solu
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by lokedhs 5y ago
It's definitely a good way to get familiar with solving real problems with a new programming language. I can recommend this approach.
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by lokedhs 5y ago
True, although this particular simple optimisation is done by most Common Lisp compilers.
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by lokedhs 5y ago
Modern compilers, and in particular SBCL is able to use type inference so that in many cases it is able to deduce these optimisations even without explicit type specifications. Or at least you can add the type specification in one place and
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Common Lisp code optimisation(write.as)
128 points by lokedhs 5y ago|21 comments
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by lokedhs 5y ago
That's why you ensure you have enough swap to cover the worst case scenario. You as swap not because you need to actually use it, but on order to be able to guarantee there is enough memory available if the worst case scenario happens.
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by lokedhs 5y ago
Given the source of the list, I'm surprised they were able to find a single Apple product to add to it. And even then, it was only half heartedly since they had to mention that it was connected to (in their opinion) a great computer.
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by lokedhs 5y ago
Yes, Mastodon has recently been discussing this. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/2777
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by lokedhs 5y ago
> It may allow pings (ICMP) in, but that's usually it. I sure hope it does. Blocking ICMP can cause TCP connections to hang due to inability to do MTU size detection. With IPv4 this is usually not as visible, but with IPv6 if you bl
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by lokedhs 5y ago
Try this one, it may be what you need: https://internet.nl/
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by lokedhs 5y ago
My old ISP have me a /64, using 6rd. Because of this, I changed ISP's (one of the main reasons I did so was because of the poor IPv6 support) and the new one gave me a /48. This was several years ago though, and hopefully eve
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by lokedhs 5y ago
Sweden did the same. A lot of people suffered during the dot com bust because they were taxed on enormous unrealised profits that had completely disappeared by the time they had to pay them (because the stock had tanked)
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Two Chinese teams claim to have reached primacy with quantum computers(phys.org)
8 points by lokedhs 5y ago|1 comments
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by lokedhs 5y ago
It's more than that. In many languages, they aren't accents but different letters. In Swedish, the letter ä is not just an a with two dots over it. It's a completely different letter, pronounced differently and is sorted in a
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by lokedhs 5y ago
I mean, given the number of new implementations of APL that are being actively worked on, there is clearly some interest. The most prominent such dialect is BQN, which I definitely recommend anyone interested in APL-like languages to take a
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by lokedhs 5y ago
Yours right that it's been a mostly blocked, but the license issues is not the reason. Gab got blocked very quickly as well, and they complied with the license.
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by lokedhs 5y ago
Thank you very much. This explains precisely what is going on. I will try this as soon as I finish my upgrade to 4.1.

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