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by nyx_land 2y ago
worded badly whatever
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by nyx_land 2y ago
this isn't even the first time something like this has happened. it's literally a running joke in programmer circles that AWS East going down will take down half the internet, and yet there's absolutely zero initiative being
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by nyx_land 3y ago
The worst thing about the Proton UI that I never hear anyone talk about is that it is objectively a massive downgrade if you're not using a modern 1080p (or higher res) monitor. My laptop is an old X220 Thinkpad, so that change actuall
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by nyx_land 3y ago
I'm aware, but I use *BSD on my computers and can't afford to pay for a FreeBSD LW license to compile something from source myself, so I'm shit outta luck. I am aware that the reason why it uses LispWorks is for the GUI toolk
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by nyx_land 3y ago
I've always wondered why Common Lisp has so many algorithmic composition applications. In addition to Opusmodus, Common Music, and Common Lisp Music, which were mentioned elsewhere ITT, there's also Open Music ( http://r
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by nyx_land 3y ago
in my defense this is such a culturally american thing to be opposed to walkable cities that I can scarcely comprehend how a country with a far less car-dependent infrastructure could fall for this nonsense, also I have slept 2.5 hours
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by nyx_land 3y ago
Weird, I interviewed with him summer 2021 hoping to be able to land an ontologist job at Cycorp. It went spectacularly badly because it turned out I really needed to brush up more on my formal logic skills, but I was surprised to even get a
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by nyx_land 3y ago
Business model: Uber for yuppies LARPing as poor people
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by nyx_land 3y ago
My attempts at making a media manager/server (like Jellyfin and Subsonic) have shown that it's easier said than done to reliably sort video files since there's not really a standardized way of embeddeding metadata into video
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by nyx_land 4y ago
The problem with trying to replace a smartphone with a dumbphone is that most people (young people at least) don't use calling and texting anymore unless forced to. I'd rather have something in between a laptop and a smartphone th
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by nyx_land 4y ago
Seems that their plan to do everything possible to sabotage their browser and waste resources on stupid bullshit that doesn't improve Firefox is working.
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by nyx_land 4y ago
The fact that this is receiving downboats and 'but muh convenience, artists deserve to get fucked over because Spotify found a better way to exploit human psychology!' is truly an orange site moment. I pirate the majority of the m
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by nyx_land 4y ago
> All of these things have one thing in common: distrust. Some movements come from the distrust of governments or taxation, others come from the distrust of central services. This isn't framing the problem the fediverse is solving a
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by nyx_land 4y ago
Agreed. People give a lot of hate to FORMAT and LOOP, but I think with both of them for the domains they're working in, it's kind of a natural progression of the evolution of a DSL (which as you said is very lispy since reader mac
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by nyx_land 4y ago
Finally, something good and also inexplicably off-topic gets posted to HN. It broke new ground!!
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by nyx_land 4y ago
Sailfish could have been great, but Jolla apparently tried to overextend themselves making hardware and software for their products and almost died trying. It's a shame because the Jolla phone had a swappable back part and could have t
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by nyx_land 4y ago
so Google is starting to get scared because they've noticed people noticing their main product has become trash.
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by nyx_land 4y ago
It's neat to see one of my personal holy grails of urban exploring being posted here and then see people talking about gentrifying an entire preserved town from the 80s to build some kind of weird techbro commune. Never change HN.
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by nyx_land 4y ago
What, it's not insane that we've opted to instead throw massive amounts of computing resources at mountains of data to train statistical models to drive cars instead of not bending to the whims of NIMBYs holding onto the houses th
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by nyx_land 4y ago
I was considering trying to implement this in an imageboard engine project, with the idea being that instead of relying on IP addresses as a way to curb abuse without requiring users to make accounts, every user would instead cryptographica
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by nyx_land 4y ago
The history and downfall of Symbolics is generally kind of tragic, but the fate of their domain being bought and turned into an SEO-optimized piece of spam by a domain squatter trying to make a quick buck on it is incredibly depressing to l
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by nyx_land 4y ago
Star Citizen for me is a recurring reminder that there are probably hundreds of talented game developers either working independently and living in poverty to work on things that they're truly passionate about and that have real though
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by nyx_land 4y ago
Funnily enough I was just wondering earlier if shinmera had open-sourced the engine he wrote Kandria with
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by nyx_land 4y ago
What I've always wondered about this is what kind of experience companies hiring COBOL programmers are looking for. Anyone can learn COBOL the language, but it seems like the real issue with hiring COBOL devs is that you need to have e
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by nyx_land 4y ago
> BURYING THE GOD Thousands of years later and yet who among us hasn't missed work to bury God?
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by nyx_land 4y ago
If only there were a way to get a file of the same movie from a different site and then make a copy of it to save to your personal archive of movie files, ensuring you never need to worry about paying for multiple streaming services that wi
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by nyx_land 5y ago
ActivityPub is so poorly/vaguely specified that basically every real world implementation follows what Mastodon does, so good luck with trying to get what you're after without being at least indirectly dependent on the decisions o
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by nyx_land 5y ago
It's cool and all that there seem to be more alternative OSes gaining momentum recently with things like this and SerenityOS and it's definitely impressive how much work people have put into them, but I can't for the life of
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by nyx_land 5y ago
This is a project that has been in development for years now and also makes use of the Cleavir compiler framework ( https://github.com/s-expressionists/Cleavir ), which is being developed as part of another new Common Li
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by nyx_land 5y ago
Chaos Engineering is what I tell my boss I'm doing when I accidentally break something in production

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