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by peatmoss 6y ago
I did a lot of lisp bouncing, and am still what I’d call a mediocre novice. However the two lisps I found the most traction with were Clojure and Racket. With Clojure, I liked the data structures, availability of libraries, and syntactic su
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by peatmoss 6y ago
My initial reaction to seeing one of those was, “hmm, that looks freaky and weird.” I also suspect that it’ll be doomed to commercial failure. That said, these things seem brilliant the more I reason through it. I’d guess that nearly all th
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by peatmoss 6y ago
This doesn’t really address my question. I’m not spoiling for an argument over what you think is the right course of action. I’m curious about why the court would second guess the decision making of the county. Let’s for the sake of argumen
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by peatmoss 6y ago
I keep hearing people assert this, but never seem to provide a legal explanation of how it would work. My understanding is that the US has upheld the longstanding use of the police power to preserve health, safety, and the general welfare.
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by peatmoss 6y ago
I keep looking at Gerbil Scheme as another “modern feeling” scheme with some opinions and creature comforts. And it’s built on Gambit.
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by peatmoss 6y ago
Better said than I could do. One thing I’ve also thought is that if Linux had managed a first-class GNUStep environment with a compelling alternative to macOS in terms of dev tooling, it could have been great leverage in terms of keeping Ap
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by peatmoss 6y ago
How can we bring this to Linux/BSD? Specifically the GUI layer? I’ve lamented that Linux desktop world has been fragmented and alien as compared to other major environments. I used to think that things would have been better if we had
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by peatmoss 6y ago
Linux user here to confirm that I bitterly miss OmniGraffle. That is one of the most amazing pieces of software of all time. I used to dream GNUStep would advance enough to allow Omni to target Linux. The Cocoa APIs in the hands of decent d
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by peatmoss 6y ago
Rexx scripting was great! And it definitely felt like they were catering the OS to a powerful group of power users. To clarify my statement above about its code being a hot mess: my understanding was always that OS/2 achieved reliabili
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by peatmoss 6y ago
Seems like a challenging project. I remember OS/2 fondly, and I remember (and have heard tales of) its stability. Still, I have read stories that claim the source code was a hot mess of hacks and liberally sprinkled assembly code. Apar
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by peatmoss 6y ago
I keep hoping that Apple will come around to making their catalog available losslessly. I don’t need or want “HD” audio. I just want CD quality audio. I can’t pick out artifacts in AAC 256 that some people claim to. But on the other hand, I
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Rabies is one of many viruses, but one of relatively few that cause disease in humans. From the NY Times the other day: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/science/viruses-coranavir...
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Obviously the “g” at the end is for GNU ;-)
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I’ve wondered this with systems like my work-provided HP Elitebook as well. Best I can think of is that some customers may require the ability to charge a laptop via a port that doesn’t also double as a data port? Given some of the crazy ha
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Wow, I wish I’d known this. I bought the handheld-only Switch for BotW, and lamented not having an HD edition that ran with good frame rates.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Great point. Bum washings would mostly be pretty warm due to unique features of our bathroom and condo heating... mostly. And I guess for the cold times, variety is the spice of life!
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Seattle checking in. Just used a questionably accurate meat thermometer to check the water coming out of our tap. It looks to be about 6C / 42F. Brisk!
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I’d love to see a tutorial on how to do this with Clojure—especially integrated with the Clojure build tooling.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I agree. Greg Hendershott apparently also agreed as he ported some Clojurisms to racket in the form of a language / loadable library: https://docs.racket-lang.org/rackjure/index.html
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I haven’t figured out a way with the JVM / Clojure to compile and distribute a small self-contained bundle nearly as easily as I can with Racket. And Graal (the option I’m aware of for compiling JVM-based code into a redistributable bi
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Yes :-)
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Some of it is libraries and frameworks. Some of it is the attention Clojure has paid to ergonomics. A lot of Clojure’s libraries seem to have been built by smart people for mediocre programmers (like me!). Elsewhere in lisp land it can feel
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I can confirm that this dataset is indeed part of the AWS Public Dataset Program. We were finalizing some details, but this dataset is now listed in the Registry of Open Data: https://registry.opendata.aws/smithsonian-open-a
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Classic hard-drives with platters that physically spin rather than a solid state SSD hard-drive. Nothing necessarily wrong with the older HDD technology, though most people have come to expect the better performance characteristics that com
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by peatmoss 7y ago
In the case of animations that provide visual clues, I wonder if animations could be adaptive to slowly get out of people’s way as they get more familiar.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
> Later, the weak men couldn't properly finish a war. Vietnam was winnable, but that didn't happen by choice. The weak men were unwilling to sacrifice even mere comfort for their own nation, so they did things like outsourcing
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Wow, I’d missed that thread previously. I learned R before the Tidyverse and even before ggplot. I cannot imagine going back to base R. If I have one regret about the Tidyverse, it’s that Hadley and company don’t have a clone using Racket
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I don’t know how reliable Proton Mail is, but Fastmail has been rock solid for me. That said, Russia banning Proton Mail is one hell of an endorsement for Proton Mail, in my estimation. I want to believe in the dream of ubiquitous end-to-en
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Came here to say the same thing. I remember at my peak fitness (a time when my afternoon / evening hobby was to briskly walk a few miles uphill into the mountains surrounding Missoula) encountering some smoke jumpers on a conditioning
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I want to like the Microsoft that appears to be turning over a new leaf from their “evil” days. And their new hardware is legitimately exciting. However, between the telemetry collection in Windows 10, and straight up maddening stuff like a

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