metroholografix

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by metroholografix 2mo ago
There are some great remixes to Kenny Chow's legendary intro to the amazing "One Must Fall 2097" that manage to retain and enhance the tracker feel: - Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ixf_NfKjXkA - C
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by metroholografix 2mo ago
There's no need to pay for questionable courses. Here's an excellent free alternative that covers all the basics: https://haqr.eu/tinyrenderer/
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by metroholografix 3mo ago
Current SOTA models work great with Emacs Lisp and Common Lisp. Giving access to the REPL enables them to do an amazing job but they still work well with Unix input/output static code processing paradigm.
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by metroholografix 5mo ago
Official chess competitions are taking place under stringent monitoring conditions and even then, with professional reputations on the line, there have been multiple high profile cheating incidents. Amateur online chess on the other hand is
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by metroholografix 8mo ago
6$ / TB / month is a fool's bargain even for something as low as 10 TB. One can buy a used LTO-6 drive for a few hundred bucks and build tape libraries that span hundreds of TBs. There's no Cloud-based backup service tha
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by metroholografix 8mo ago
The vast majority of MUDs don't even implement the full TELNET protocol, just a small subset. In typical MUD fashion, fundamental TELNET parts like option negotiation were either hacked together -badly- or altogether ignored. For the l
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by metroholografix 9mo ago
This doesn't apply here, a wealth tax is levied against assets not income.
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by metroholografix 9mo ago
If you want Scheme, go use Scheme because these are not arguments for Common Lisp. There is tons of value in the CL specification being this big and I'm happy I can still run code I wrote more than 25 years ago (or third party code wri
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by metroholografix 1y ago
Great story! I also read Neuromancer for the first time in Greek translation (Αίολος), around 1995, knowing nothing about the book otherwise. It was a blind buy in a bookstore solely because I liked the cover and the short synopsis on the b
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by metroholografix 1y ago
A lot of the power of Forth comes from its metaprogramming capabilities and having the compiler available at runtime, all wrapped in a tiny footprint. Similarly to Lisp, it empowers one to explore a problem domain without getting in the way
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by metroholografix 1y ago
I see the following in code written by newcomers to CL frequently: (optimize (speed 3) (safety 0)) but it is a very bad habit to get used to, in general, and may create the impression that it's needed for optimized code. Inst
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by metroholografix 2y ago
Stallman has done more to safeguard our freedoms than all the critics and corporations that are happy to exploit his work put together. He’s also been extremely prescient and decades ahead of his time. He stood his ground against relentless
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by metroholografix 2y ago
> I commented that Patagonia made great stuff and actually cared about their materials Last I checked a lot of their clothes were full of forever chemicals and processed plastics but maybe they've made progress. https://
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by metroholografix 2y ago
It should become clear to everyone that reads his work that "management theorist" Stafford Beer can best be characterized without any doubt whatsoever as a charlatan. Cybernetics came out of the Macy conferences [0] and this is wh
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by metroholografix 2y ago
I always saw VLC as subpar. A typical case of software that's just trying to copy what the pioneers do. As we all know, mediocrity it not antithetical to popularity, and VLC has become very popular indeed. However, it never pushed the
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by metroholografix 2y ago
Folks who find this useful might also be interested in otel-profiling-agent [1] which Elastic recently opensourced and donated to OpenTelemetry. It's a low-overhead eBPF-based continuous profiler which, besides native code, can unwind
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by metroholografix 2y ago
Wizards for me falls flat (kinda like "soul of a new machine" that's often recommended but which I found a complete waste of time) while the Dream Machine, Dealers of Lightning [1] and Norbert Wiener's biography [2] are
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by metroholografix 2y ago
There's no JS interpreter in EWW [1]. If you're forced to use a different browser, having JS off by default is not hard to get used to. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/ew
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by metroholografix 2y ago
These bugs can be described as the major or minor mode evaluating code that is provided as part of the buffer that the mode is being enabled for. The two semi-recent examples that come to mind include Org (which offers this code evaluation
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by metroholografix 2y ago
What's of greater importance here is not this specific security issue, but the default configuration of MIME handling in Emacs which can turn any unexpected evaluation bug -which we are likely to see more of- into remote code execution
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by metroholografix 2y ago
Unexpected evaluation is never a feature, Emacs should at least warn and prompt before executing code in a file that somebody opens.
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by metroholografix 2y ago
It's nice to see Interlisp restored and widely available but it's not Emacs. More a curiosity than something practical and it's looking like it still belongs in the 70s. There's also Genera (in many ways the best but unf
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by metroholografix 2y ago
Emacs (besides the lowlevel internals such as the garbage collector, graphics toolkit and virtual machine) is written in Emacs Lisp which means that it's also fully programmable by the user, at runtime, without restarts/loss of st
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by metroholografix 2y ago
Loop works well, is widely used, also available in Emacs Lisp and comes with zero dependencies. For these reasons, I don't see this gaining much traction. Anecdote: In almost 20 years of CL usage, I've never needed an extensible i
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by metroholografix 3y ago
"Terence’s pivotal, existential crisis came abruptly, some time in ’88 or ’89. Everything that happened after that event was fallout. I don’t know exactly when it happened, and I don’t know exactly what happened; I am piecing it togeth
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by metroholografix 3y ago
WinUAE being Windows-only (strictly speaking that's not true, there's Wine which is actually better than running the native "ports") is also one of its greatest strengths. It has allowed Toni to maintain his razor-sharp
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by metroholografix 3y ago
The Lisp Machine model is represented by Emacs these days (which still has a thriving community). It makes interacting with the Unix model bearable since it can subsume it. If that wasn't possible and I had to make do with just Unix, I
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by metroholografix 3y ago
SICP is a multi-layered, intensely philosophical book and philosophical truths are not transmitted like pieces of eight but are made real through praxis.
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by metroholografix 3y ago
I've always seen this as an anti-pattern. You can make the documentation in an .el file as rich as you want without losing all the niceties that Emacs offers for interactively working with source code (e.g. find-{function,variable} wil
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by metroholografix 3y ago
Coil (especially John Balance) were perfectionists. In interviews, they stressed the importance of continuous experimentation but also noted that they needed to impose extremely high standards and ruthlessly discard much of their output whe

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