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by nsm 3y ago
Is there some public rationale about prioritizing Guile over Racket?
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by nsm 3y ago
I have a hacky combination of Playwright browser automation plus Tesseract OCR that splits a Verizon group plan among members by posting individual totals to Splitwise. Simple at first glance, but there are always small changes due to peopl
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Structure and Interpretation of Flutter(wingolog.org)
7 points by nsm 3y ago|2 comments
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by nsm 3y ago
Do you mean conscientiousness? Low contentiousness is nearly the opposite of what you are going for
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by nsm 3y ago
That is fair, I agree they don't bid for the same projects. In terms of listed points. 1. Simplicity... perhaps? I guess Racket has a larger surface area, but just like all Lisps/Schemes it is built on a simple core. 2. Distributi
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by nsm 3y ago
Could someone compare Janet with Racket? The latter is a much more mature project with a powerful and well designed standard library, so I'm not sure why one would pick Janet. I see the appeal to embed in another app as a scripting lan
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by nsm 4y ago
Sorry, I meant to respond to this but went to the parent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35392704
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by nsm 4y ago
Doesn't raco make followed by raco exe produce fully standalone (except libc) executables? I believe some platforms need an additional raco distribute step.
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Remote Dbus Notifications over SSH(nikhilism.com)
2 points by nsm 4y ago|0 comments
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by nsm 4y ago
Thanks! I keep forgetting to reach for this.
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by nsm 4y ago
What are some good primers to understand the prominent new Java features? Not just in 20, but since, say, 8. Asking as someone who would like to be cursorily familiar with Java, but does not use it day to day. I'm very familiar with th
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A world to win: WebAssembly for the rest of us(wingolog.org)
297 points by nsm 4y ago|182 comments
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by nsm 4y ago
It hasn't directly influenced my career, but hiring managers and interviewers certainly mention reading it and I'm sure it indirectly influences hiring decisions. In addition the specific post about my ankle fracture is somehow on
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by nsm 4y ago
Modern waterproof textiles are used by lots and lots of people that keep your basic infrastructure running, that allows you to stay in your warm, insulated, dry house. So they can stay reasonably comfortable while doing jobs like keeping th
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by nsm 4y ago
You actually don't want a real programming language because their unbounded loops and standard libraries are sources of non-determinism that can introduce incorrectness in your build. Bazel's correctness is highly contingent on th
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by nsm 4y ago
There is also a Rust implementation of Starlark as a starting point https://github.com/facebookexperimental/starlark-rust To add to everyone else, please don't use YAML. Starlark is great _precisely_ because it is
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by nsm 4y ago
I am really looking forward to AI that can help us solve hard biology and engineering issues (say nuclear reactor design, materials science) practically. Or an AI that will help solve coordination problems by telling us exactly where to com
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This is Fine (On Software Dependencies)(defn.io)
4 points by nsm 4y ago|0 comments
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by nsm 4y ago
People seem to conflate a monorepo with having everything else the same as well, just because that's how Google and other BigCos do it. You don't have to. At some level a monorepo is just a way to stick all your code in one giant
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How the US Military Is Responding to China(austinvernon.site)
1 points by nsm 4y ago|0 comments
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by nsm 4y ago
I agree they are not entirely fair. However lottery/random systems have a lot of burden of work that ends up wasted, leading employers to shy away from doing it. If you have do X amount of paperwork per candidate and there is only a 20
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by nsm 4y ago
While there may be a lot of countries where it may be harder in terms of qualifications, the US is probably singular among western democracies around the capriciousness and randomness of its processes. Particularly for skilled immigrants, a
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by nsm 4y ago
At least the Pixel camera app does native QR code scanning.
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by nsm 4y ago
Are your concerns about the lack of open APIs or the lack of command line apps per-se? Personally I'm all in favor of having more open APIs and third party clients, but would never want to intentionally constrain myself to a TTY that i
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Colombia 2022 Travel Report(ferdychristant.com)
1 points by nsm 4y ago|0 comments
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by nsm 4y ago
Is there a way in JB Gateway to re-use an existing project? I am in the office 50% of the time, working on my desktop with CLion. The other 50% I'm remote. The one time I tried Gateway, it asked me to create a new project, which meant
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by nsm 4y ago
This is potentially a very attractive replacement for my Pixelbook. What is the battery life when running Chrome OS? If I wanted to, could I later put a full Linux or Windows in some sort of dual boot?
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by nsm 4y ago
A lot of these are FAANG scale problems primarily when it comes to server/backend infrastructure. For a lot of "embedded" use cases like robotics, where you are trying to squeeze out maximum performance from a single machine
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by nsm 4y ago
I loved Phabricator and still miss it at the current job. Is there a code “watching” system as good as Herald integrated into GitHub?
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by nsm 4y ago
Highly recommend reading The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop for a really great peak into Licklider and the revolution he brought about

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