nicklaf

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by nicklaf 4y ago
Look into Chicken Scheme. The language offers a repository of "eggs", which cover all kinds of functionality, from SRFIs (akin to Python PIPs), to object systems, to library wrappers.
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by nicklaf 4y ago
And the second link on that page is to an even more recent version (2020): http://ttic.edu/blum/book.pdf
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Martin Davis Has Died(digitalfieldguide.com)
3 points by nicklaf 4y ago|1 comments
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by nicklaf 4y ago
I wonder if Wikipedia could take an approach similar to what package managers do in Linux distros when they decide not to include non-free packages by default: savvy users must add external repositories containing the banned entities (with
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by nicklaf 4y ago
I'm replying to your thread. Will our interaction remain visible to visitors of Hacker News in an hour? A day? A week? The element of human interaction that you're missing was lost when social media gave up on archiving threads th
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by nicklaf 4y ago
Very cool! I really like the date range selector. I can see this being very useful for getting a clear picture about what the world thought about certain topics before they blew up in certain directions in more recent times.
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by nicklaf 4y ago
Check out the Wikipedia "Current Events" page. It's been my main source of news for the past few years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events The nice thing is that you don't get the u
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by nicklaf 4y ago
Also: zeroing a register by XORing it with itself.
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by nicklaf 4y ago
Not programming per se, but: mathematical induction. It feels like cheating to get an infinite number of true statements by cleverly setting up a deductive argument.
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by nicklaf 4y ago
The book is still in progress [0]. For example, the introduction has yet to be written, which presumably would answer some of these questions about the intended audience. The author also has books [1] on tangentially related subjects, sever
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by nicklaf 4y ago
Minor correction: should be ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/doc/programming/c-news.ps
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by nicklaf 4y ago
HN works fine without JS! That being said, the third-party search service it uses does not.
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by nicklaf 4y ago
Personally, I'd be happy if they let you turn of the "Sohcahtoa82 is typing..." status messages. Those are really engrossing, but I also don't necessarily want my attention drawn away from the chat log if I am just casua
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by nicklaf 4y ago
This used to be available in the United States for purchase. I have one, and bought it in 2020 from Best Buy for $170. [0] Good to know it's still available in Japan, but it's a shame it doesn't seem to be in stock in the US
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by nicklaf 4y ago
Heh, I wonder if anyone has tried transpiling the C generated by Chicken Scheme to Go. Would be interesting to see how (horrifically?) the garbage collector would fare in performance once it's transpiled to a garbage collected language
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by nicklaf 4y ago
The tiling window manager I finally settled on is simply dwm. I'm not totally sure if it's the best window manager of its sort. I find it more ergonomic than StumpWM, and I haven't felt the need to reach for the other tiling
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by nicklaf 4y ago
You'll see these stands [0] at Stanford and UC Davis, and they seem pretty good. (Although I made the mistake of locking up a nice LeMond bicycle at Stanford with a cable lock and it was stolen in broad daylight. [1]) [0] https:/
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by nicklaf 4y ago
I did not see this mentioned so far, so I'll suggest that perhaps older mathematicians are more inclined to offer statements of solvable problems to their students and colleagues rather than jumping in and trying to knock it out all by
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by nicklaf 4y ago
I'd be more interested in turning a Chromebook into a vanilla linux box if they moved away from soldered RAM (which is all I saw in Chromebooks a few years ago).
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by nicklaf 4y ago
Don't forget as well the Oral History of Unix! https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/unixhistory
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by nicklaf 4y ago
Not sure about Firefox cutting out AMP directly. I personally use this extension to do it: https://www.daniel.priv.no/web-extensions/amp2html.html
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by nicklaf 5y ago
And in general: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ My rule for reddit: reddit: www -> old Redirect: https://www.reddit.com/* to: https://old.re
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by nicklaf 5y ago
Haha, I was only aware of the basic idea. I had no idea there's so much work coming up with more optimal algorithms, but I guess it makes sense considering. It would be amusing if the extra details didn't break down the analogy...
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by nicklaf 5y ago
Long-term happiness could mean deferring gratification. Caveat emptor: trying to then execute long term plans to achieve that deferred gratification but which go awry in the intervening time can start to turn a gambit into pure misery. From
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by nicklaf 5y ago
So basically, maximal happiness then is no different than TCP throughput.
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by nicklaf 5y ago
I'd be fascinated if you'd like to elaborate on the Scheme part of that!
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by nicklaf 5y ago
> There's plenty of tissues in a human body that can take more than 1 year to fully regenerate. Nerves, for instance[0]. [0] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/peripheral-ne...
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by nicklaf 5y ago
Yep. It's also a fantastically clear exposition of C programming, in addition to the very choice material on data structures and computer science.
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by nicklaf 5y ago
Hah, I was expecting the "second price" to be some sort of rent or bribe that had to be paid to use something that was independently procured or invented. Like planning something innovative but not having the right social capital
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by nicklaf 5y ago
This story reminds me of a junior developer named Mac [0]: Once upon a time, long ago, there was a company of Lisp programmers. It was so long ago, in fact, that Lisp had no macros. Anything that couldn't be defined with a function or

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