metroholografix

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by metroholografix 3y ago
Rust is a welcome addition to the global language toolbox but I feel is mostly a mirage in terms of future breakthroughs in the language / programming space: It still falls under the "formal methods / program correctness&quot
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by metroholografix 3y ago
Breadth on Usenet is a lot worse though. One can find a private tracker to cover pretty much every -non mainstream- niche one can think of, and that also comes with a community attached.
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by metroholografix 3y ago
There is a reason for that: Windows offers super-stable APIs that allow WinUAE to be supremely good at fidelity and accuracy. When it comes to graphics and audio, the Linux experience is pretty much a disaster across the board if one moves
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by metroholografix 3y ago
When it comes to accuracy and graphical fidelity, they're all bad in many different ways. The effort and attention to detail that has gone into WinUAE is testament to Toni Wilen's skill and insane dedication to his craft.
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by metroholografix 4y ago
Most EU supermarkets should have some Greek EVOO (Tesco in UK and Jumbo in Netherlands have Iliada, Sainsbury's has a selection of Greek olive oils). Alternatively, find a Greek deli/market/imports place, they are in every co
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by metroholografix 4y ago
Greek olive oil is considered the best in the world and doesn't suffer from Mafia infiltration which is a huge problem in Italy [1] [2] [3]. Here is some good quality Greek olive oil available in US, reasonably priced, that you can buy
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by metroholografix 4y ago
Lars is a hero and a huge inspiration. Emacs is too important to drift into obscurity and it’s due to people like Lars that Emacs is not only kept alive but getting better and better.
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by metroholografix 4y ago
He sold the rights early in his career, in the 80s, before the shitshow adaptations started coming out. Once he realized the travesty they had made of his life's work, he vowed never to work with Hollywood ever again and even stopped a
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by metroholografix 4y ago
Not to mention the lead doesn't have the chops to carry this thing through. In casting him, they went for surface (looks) rather than substance. To paraphrase the great Malcolm Tucker: He comes across like he should still be at school
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by metroholografix 4y ago
The comic was transformative and iconoclastic. It made you think but also forged new ground in graphic storytelling (and let's not forget that the artists that worked on it were at least as important if not more so than Gaiman). There
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by metroholografix 4y ago
> Sources say Goyer was also adamant that “The Sandman” not be “dumbed-down” and that it be “kept weird,” and any attempts to make it “formulaic” were rejected by Goyer and Gaiman. That's funny since I found it formulaic to the extr
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by metroholografix 4y ago
You can try - I certainly did - but it's inferior, in nearly every way: performance most of all, usability, interfacing with the host OS, availability of libraries, APIs, interactive documentation, discoverability, customization.. The
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by metroholografix 4y ago
I wrote [1] to create disposable profiles for browsing, cleanly instantiated from pre-configured (with optional extensions) "root" profiles. It's also convenient when researching a particular topic, as I can keep a dedicated
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by metroholografix 4y ago
I found the LOTR movies completely missed the essence and magic of the books and I see them as little more than cliche-ridden hollywood garbage. I can't possibly imagine Tolkien being happy about such depraved debasement of his life&#x
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by metroholografix 4y ago
This. Gnus is a behemoth, has been around for decades and is also the result of many contributions from many different people. It will take time for it to evolve (it's slowly happening). Lars is amazing by the way, his relentless Emacs
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by metroholografix 4y ago
> This is the kind of dismissive, unhelpful, and frankly extremely discouraging attitude that is slowly killing emacs. Emacs seems to be doing just fine if not thriving. > Instead of taking responsibility for the fact that emacs is in
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by metroholografix 4y ago
That multi-threading will solve this issue, is a common misconception. Emacs already supports asynchronous I/O and has sentinels for exactly that. However, not everything that runs on Emacs is taking advantage of that functionality. It
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by metroholografix 4y ago
What matters on the blackboard (or a book) is "understanding" and that is not affected by a missing paren or two (which is a testament to Lisp's regularity of syntax). When they wanted their programs executed by a computer, t
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by metroholografix 4y ago
If Hal Abelson and Jerry Sussman can use Lisp syntax to teach an iconoclastic, supremely philosophical class about programming that must rank amongst the best ever conceived and taught, 40 years ago, with blackboards and pieces of chalk, yo
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by metroholografix 4y ago
I find it's better to think in terms of "familiar" vs "not familiar" rather than "easy" / "hard". Lisp syntax to me is the easiest -maybe with Forth and Smalltalk- syntax around, certainly o
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by metroholografix 4y ago
https://www.ecma-international.org/publications-and-standard...
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by metroholografix 5y ago
On the contrary, I think they've been very effective in avoiding being corrupted and destroyed from within (as is the norm). It takes a super strong moral foundation to stand firm against the onslaught of corporate commoditization, and
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by metroholografix 5y ago
Common Lisp on Emacs via SLIME is not competitive with Smalltalk, re: "interactive experience" since Emacs is not the native substrate of CL, but essentially an out-of-process experience. If you want to experience CL at its best,
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by metroholografix 5y ago
The greatness of Lisp -at least when it comes to end-user empowerment- and (I think) the only differentiating factor that most other languages have still not caught up to, is the cybernetic philosophy with its roots in Licklider (man-comput
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by metroholografix 5y ago
Pharo is more of a research experiment than anything practical than can be used to engineer complex systems, I know I tried. It comes with many flaws, first and foremost being a lack of vision (often seen in academia) that significantly hol
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by metroholografix 5y ago
Eglot is written by a regular Emacs contributor and maintainer, and as a result is much higher quality code. lsp-mode is written by volunteers on Github without a lot of Emacs Lisp experience (it shows), the code is pretty bad at places, de
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by metroholografix 5y ago
I haven't read the book but this description doesn't do it justice in that it makes it sound boring! Since it is stressed that the book is philosophical, I have to say that the most paradigm-shifting ideas about modeling reality I
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by metroholografix 5y ago
With few exceptions, ARM-based SBCs of this kind run vendor-specific patched Linux kernels (usually older ones). As one would expect, the quality of these patches varies from bad to absolutely terrible. Additionally, these patches typically
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by metroholografix 5y ago
Ah Miami. A very special place, for "very special" people (if you've lived there you know what I mean).
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by metroholografix 5y ago
The very first impression I have of Stalker [seen on a projector] is being stunningly beautiful. Very few films [including all of Tarkovsky's, with maybe the best being Mirror] manage to create this sense of stunning beauty so that&#x2

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