mandus

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by mandus 2mo ago
One of the things I do with : is infinite while-loops, like: while :; do <do stuff> sleep n done Maybe to mainstream to make the cut!?
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by mandus 11mo ago
Good thing git was designed as a decentralized revision control system, so you don’t really need GitHub. It’s just a nice convenience
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by mandus 6y ago
There is also Pdm now I recently learned, which is supposed to be a more modern alternative. As an alternative to poetry that is; pipenv is yesterday’s solution. https://pdm.fming.dev/
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by mandus 6y ago
That is actually a nice analogy! No one, not even the pro formula-1 drivers will want to drive a f1 car in regular traffic. Much the same with these languages (apls, lisps, forth, etc); they have their place and role, but is better not used
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by mandus 7y ago
I was holding my old iPhone3 in my hands a few days ago (one of my kids have collected a few phones in the house over the years). It felt so good, light and small. I really long for a phone in that form-factor again, the big phones of today
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by mandus 12y ago
My guess it's a proportionally low number. I looked into matlisp when I did my PhD in scientific computing - none of the other people I worked with had any interest in it. I couldn't pursue it since I would have to reimplement or
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by mandus 12y ago
There are still days when I miss fvwm. Not because it was that great, but because I used it for so long that my fingers still remember the keyboard shortcuts I configured. But I moved to OSX and just had to adapt. I guess moving on isn&#x27
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The RITE project: British, Belgian boffins battle buffering bandwidth bogeyman(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by mandus 14y ago|0 comments