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by peatmoss 7y ago
Racket also has contracts that can enforce conditions in an alternative way to types: https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/contracts.html EDIT: I mean in addition to Typed Racket
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Yeah, that was my point: of course the more popular platform is going to have broader support. So the question is whether or not it’s possible to improve the less popular thing. My guess is that, with investment in time, there is nothing th
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I suspect there are plenty of people in this thread who’d love to see top tier games and development AND run on an open platform. In that sense, OpenBSD and Linux are both closer to supporting high-end games development than Windows and Mac
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I don’t know enough about these domains to know whether there is anything intrinsic to the design of OpenBSD that makes it better or worse in this regard, but I suspect that if you are correct, it’s more a function of mindshare and number o
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by peatmoss 7y ago
OpenBSD is a modern, innovative Operating System that has retained classic Unix sensibilities. I also think that, even as a lover of Linux, a Linux monoculture is bad for the world. The simplicity of OpenBSD makes it much easier to learn de
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by peatmoss 7y ago
La Pavoni Europiccola is a great machine. I have a modern one (I didn’t feel like restoring a classic one), but it’s still great. I have replaced the factory steam nut with a single hole end that I made myself, but otherwise my machine is s
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Ah Chicken. I’ve commented on Chicken before. While I might prefer some of the language choices of Racket, Chicken has just such a fantastic deployment story. You can whip up a quick little script in Chicken and run it through “csc” and voi
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I think Valve were already forced to go 64 bit on MacOS. At a certain point I have to imagine that releasing a 64-bit client will be the path of least resistance.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
It’s reasonably lispy too, but without my preferred s-expressions. It manages to feel like a better Python and a better R. Library support is getting decent, with some uniquely interesting libraries. I still find myself reaching for R more
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by peatmoss 7y ago
OpenBSD. If you want to cut your teeth on “comprehensible unix” it’s a high water mark. Reading the man pages is probably worth a few years of sysadmin experience. I too was a Slackware user of the 90s, but I was also a BSD user. OpenBSD is
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by peatmoss 7y ago
It reminds me of this thing that I saw make the rounds a few years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lit_Motors
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Maybe use OpenBSD’s signify for validation of content. S is unofficially used for sound files sadly...
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by peatmoss 7y ago
This is a great read. I especially appreciated “Most times are ordinary. Make an ordinary effort.“
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I think three day weekends would be undeniably good for the health of our society and everyone living in it. I have long (semi-jokingly) professed belief in the Church of the SubGenius. They extol the virtues of slack. I think the intended
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I wonder if there’s an ML approach that could be used to fingerprint binaries compiled from GPL code. Then I wonder if that could be used to justify discovery / win a suit. I have no idea how this would work, but it strikes me as plau
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by peatmoss 7y ago
It will take me some time to not think of “extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis” when I hear XDR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensively_drug-resistant_tub...
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Any more, what I feel I want is XFCE with Xmonad / DWM style tiling that I don’t have to hack together. I’m considering taking another look at KDE with the tiling KWin extension, since KDE seems to be the center of mass for innovation
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Man, I remember some of the WWDC banners around this time being photographed and making it to the web. There were some close-up star-themed images that me and my fellow Apple kremlinologists thought for certain presaged some major collabora
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Oh man, what a great story! I’m usually scared to meet my heroes, because I don’t want to be disappointed. Glad to know Underhill was able to live up to you and your dad’s expectations.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Oh my goodness, if there was ever a reason to donate monthly to PBS, it’s for the old episodes of the Woodwright’s shop on their “PBS Passport” service. That show, apart from being educational, is gentle and warm in the same was that the la
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by peatmoss 7y ago
My understanding is that LEDs have a very specific, peaky distribution. Heating a wire results in a wide distribution of color temps, but solid state lighting is a really narrow band of color. I have a photo panel that needs two separate co
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by peatmoss 7y ago
PBS Newshour. Clarification: PBS Newshour is as much (national / international) news as you need in a day, and doesn’t sensationalize.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
This thread surprises me. I grew up in Montana, non-jewish, without a particularly large nearby jewish population, and yet I’m sure I learned the word lox as a youngster.
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by peatmoss 7y ago
This is really cool! I keep meaning to try something like this just for the thrill of receiving the data myself. Though if receiving the data with your own antenna and SDR isn’t exciting, and you just want to use the data, AWS hosts these (
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Yeah, a few versions back they added (or I discovered) some of the package reloading facilities in ESS and I find them pretty comfortable. I’d say RStudio has an edge WRT to debugging R code... unless I just haven’t figured out ESS properly
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by peatmoss 7y ago
You can display graphical outputs inline in Org, and you can also customize how Emacs render Org files while editing. It’s not a direct preview of how it’ll render after exporting to html / latex / pdf / doc / etc., but
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I’m personally an Emacs Speaks Statistics fan myself, but RStudio has been huge boon to the R community. I expect that this will go a long ways towards making Python more accessible to R users. More importantly, I hope it makes the RNoteboo
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by peatmoss 7y ago
I remember a 1990s oil company propaganda film called “The Greening of Planet Earth” that argued we didn’t need to worry about increases in CO2 because plants would just be that much happier and gobble up the carbon. That plants do better w
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by peatmoss 7y ago
Simplicity. I have a long love for FreeBSD, but the project has different aims than OpenBSD. Linux and FreeBSD are novels. OpenBSD strives to be a short poem. Linux and FreeBSD push really hard to add cutting-edge features, but OpenBSD push
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by peatmoss 7y ago
This decision was apparently made some time ago, back when the software landscape looked pretty different. I have to wonder how many decisions we make now with software will live long enough to seem as questionable. If prior longevity is us

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