martinflack

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by martinflack 4y ago
Oh, I imagined it would be automated so as a customer service rep you don't even think about it.
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by martinflack 4y ago
I've got a suggestion for that - offer to send a text message simultaneously when the chat window is active. The thing is, we all switch tabs, move away from the computer, etc. We may even forget about it, if the wait is very long. But
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by martinflack 4y ago
Or, that art exhibited in museums open free of charge to the general public enjoy the same tax benefits as freeports - putting freeports out of business.
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by martinflack 4y ago
There's a brand called Zest tea which specializes in this. Some flavors are tasty. They have a sampler pack.
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by martinflack 4y ago
And if they kept it, at least they could punch the "yes" with a preceding m-dash. Punctuation fluency is dropping too!
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by martinflack 4y ago
A cool project... but instead I suggest to everyone who uses Lisp, just set your editor's syntax highlighter to make the parentheses fade into the background color almost completely. They're still there, for correctness, structure
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by martinflack 4y ago
This is huge. Often the coder automating some manual process is the first person to sensibly create an unambiguous, correct taxonomy just to discuss it precisely.
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by martinflack 4y ago
I've found "print to PDF" to be great for web pages I want to keep, as well. You can then search, copy, print, etc.
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by martinflack 4y ago
I often wish I had a pet dog husky so I could walk him through some tricky python and have him figure out my bug with me.
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by martinflack 4y ago
> No, public transit systems can only be good on paper. Then they get implemented, the fares are held artificially low for equity reasons, bums move in, polite society abandons the system and it turns into a rolling cesspool. Every time.
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by martinflack 4y ago
Specifically, for reactive "spreadsheet-like" code in Lisp, Kenny Tilton's Cells project comes to mind: https://github.com/kennytilton/cells
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by martinflack 4y ago
> The spec tests say: "Implementations are required to have every call consume some abstract resource It's a nice detail for you to highlight, but surely that exists in the test spec specifically because the opcode spec doesn&#
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by martinflack 4y ago
> States themselves are federations of legislative districts The variety of ways that US States internally allow municipalities to have their own rules is actually quite interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hom
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by martinflack 4y ago
The 'Coming From' page compares Virgil to a couple other languages: https://github.com/titzer/virgil/blob/master/doc/tutorial/Co...
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by martinflack 4y ago
I found minica very useful to do something like this (no affiliation): https://github.com/jsha/minica
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by martinflack 4y ago
You import your "CA cert" into the browser or the underlying operating system, and then the browser accepts the certs signed by it.
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by martinflack 4y ago
In all seriousness, I think digital archaeology will be a huge field.
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by martinflack 4y ago
For a long-form answer, Marques Brownlee has a video[0] that discusses the technical, commercial, and social aspects. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuaKzm7Kq9Q
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by martinflack 4y ago
I like the lispiness and features of ITERATE but it breaks source location for debugging errors in SBCL with SLIME. Instead the ITER form is indicated, which dampens my enthusiasm for it somewhat. (defpackage :test (:use :cl :iterat
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by martinflack 4y ago
> Guardian ... I just looked up their media bias. A below 'mostly factual' score card ... Where'd you see that? Ad Fontes Media has Guardian fairly high. Did you look at something else?
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by martinflack 4y ago
It's a good idea to use something like gmvault [0] to ensure you have regular downloads of your mail corpus locally. [0] http://gmvault.org/
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by martinflack 4y ago
You might need a -f on that final mv. While you're at it, may as well create a backup of the $1 file.
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by martinflack 5y ago
There are UN conventions[1][2] on statelessness that do require the bound parties to provide citizenship under very narrow conditions, essentially to avoid a stateless person. IANAL so I don't know if they apply in this type of example
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by martinflack 5y ago
I believe it relates to being able to approach a gate agent and having them rebook you on a later/tomorrow flight as a courtesy, after you checked-in but missed a flight because you dozed off, didn't watch the time, had a medical
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by martinflack 5y ago
I'm not the person you answered but I find your comment well put. Do you have further reading on this distinction?
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by martinflack 5y ago
Well both can be true. https://www.vice.com/en/article/8x9j3k/depressed-people-see-...
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by martinflack 5y ago
I think the difference is what the function can "see." e.g. if you have x and y in the environment as variables, and call your fexpr with (max x y) as the single argument called m: (myfexpr (max x y)) In haskell, m is not calculat
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by martinflack 5y ago
TIL! Thanks
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by martinflack 5y ago
> if looking at a file that might be renamed and stop updating (i.e. log files that are rotated). Without a filename the file descriptor is followed so when for instance access.log becomes access.log.1 your display keeps following access
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by martinflack 5y ago
Well, let's clarify something - is it the syntax or the self-algorithm? To compare, this is what a psuedo-popular-lang might look like: let year = parse-integer(string, start=0, end=4) let month = parse-integer(string, start

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