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by peatmoss 9y ago
> Seems you understand it wrong. Common Lisp is a mainline Lisp, based on a direct line of specific Lisp heritage. Technically Common Lisp is mainly a modernized/standardized/portable version of Lisp Machine Lisp (aka Zetalisp)
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Wow, I’m surprised at how hard they had to work to set the case ablaze. I wonder what kind of alloy it was made out of that made ignition so hard.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Probably (maybe?) not intentional, but suspiciously timed. Presumably off-boarding from Facebook looks a bit like a funnel, where every additional hurdle means more people will bail on their original intended action. I nuked my facebook acc
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by peatmoss 9y ago
NeXT. Though the big aluminum desktops they made years ago were probably a high point for balance of beautiful and functional.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I think for people who want to be able to have a bit of lisp into their daily lives, Clojure is where the majority of the current industry-focused mindshare is going. At least as far as new development of language features is concerned. For
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Musing here, but would E-stonian residents have any protection / recourse under GDPR?
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Ooh! Interesting. I've a ~2 year old Macbook Pro with the 43602 chipset. Would be lovely to be able to run OpenBSD on it without wifi dongles.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I notice the new Broadcom Wifi bwfm(4) drivers. Anyone with better knowledge of the project know what hardware is supported by that? The manpage doesn't mention specific chips: https://man.openbsd.org/bwfm.4
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Ugh, this was a useful feature. Basically, I want the “All Music, When I Want It” service. Since no corporation will ever have licenses for everything I want to listen to, let me upload it and stream it back. Losslessly please—we can argue
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I wish them luck. In my undergraduate journalism days I learned page layout in Quark Express. Then MacOS X happened. Quark basically refused to build a version that wasn’t tied hopelessly to the old Mac system. And I remember what a breath
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I’m not sure if it’s related to the anxiety epidemic, but my stress levels spike through the roof when there’s modern kids programming on near me.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Sesame Street is like a fossil record or tree cross section for attention span in television. Some of the older Sesame Street clips like the one about milk, are trippy long format art pieces. Very very different than the quick cuts / s
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Racket: it has the feeling of having been constructed by people much smarter than me, who are eager to help me get smarter myself. The docs and guide are a joy.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Sadly, most journals that I might submit to require Word. I published a paper in transportation a while back, and happily submitted my manuscript for review as an immaculately formatted PDF. It was reviewed and accepted, which meant that th
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by peatmoss 9y ago
While the quality of the model can be debated (I noted lots of false positives too), I do note that it’s kind of cool that we’re all sitting around and poking at an app written in an R web framework. If you haven’t: 1. Downloaded RStudio ID
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by peatmoss 9y ago
What, you don't want to try and figure out how to embed the Erlang VM into your Python project? ;-) EDIT: Jokes aside, Rust sounds like the most plausible alternative, though it still lags C due to being LLVM-only, whereas C has gcc an
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by peatmoss 9y ago
> Maybe you could prove Rust is a good choice by writing your own SQLite implementation feature for feature? A person undertaking that task would already have a head start in that they could likely use the extensive test suite for SQLite
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by peatmoss 9y ago
See this is the problem with lists; someone always asks what else is on the list. A sampling (probably leaving out #1): - The whole damned OpenBSD project including OpenSSH. I mean, wow, if ever there were an unsung hero... - VLC came up th
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Aside: My first encounter with Margulis’s Serial Endosymbiosis Theory blew my mind. I’d go so far as to say that SET changed my worldview. I’d always looked at evolution solely through the cold, brütal lens of selective pressure and competi
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Yeah, I have an incomplete, not-written-down all star list of Free/Open Source software that exhibit the following attributes: - Level of quality that is so high that a rational commercial entity would have long ago decided that margin
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Thought exercise: Would Amazon be / have been better off maintaining their own not-quite-compatible version of Android? Or would they have been better off cloning and commoditizing Apple’s development ecosystem? Higher up-front cost th
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I’ve taught an intro to git class a number of times to scientists wanting to build some basic software development skills (through Software Carpentry: https://software-carpentry.org/ ). It can be easy to forget that the cogn
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by peatmoss 9y ago
This is my dream as well: I’d love to have a system where I could do something like a simple aided Sketchup plywood model, pop down to the home mega center, and watch as my chosen grade of plywood was CNC / Laser cut into the shapes I’
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by peatmoss 9y ago
This is so incredibly badass. I mean, just imagine that the only practicable place to get this new, incredibly strong material, was from space. On the topic of found vs made materials: I’ve read that shipwrecks are getting mined as a source
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Perhaps a side digression to this conversation, but... in spite of all the cool languages we talk about that have many on-paper advantages of either safety, convenience, or support of paradigms, is there really any option besides C for this
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by peatmoss 9y ago
True, but the bulk of users seem to be using free versions, and thus product design follows whatever crazy motivations Google has. Aside: Just moved my vanity domain to Fastmail, and it feels refreshingly like a paid product that hasn’t bee
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by peatmoss 9y ago
This is the thing that really boils me. I mean, we can debate whether XMPP is a great protocol, but for a brief window it seemed like we’d have an open chat standard with at least one big stalwart to bring in the normals. But then Google fl
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Yeah, my last experience with paid MKL libs / Intel compilers was some years ago now—before I ever remember seeing anything about OpenBLAS. I know OpenBLAS has been a big performance boon. And to be clear, I’d love to see Free and Open
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Hmm... maybe it was the Intel linear algebra stuff (MKL?) that was the source of that speedup
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Maybe people would flip the RUN_SLOW_ON_AMD flag to false. :-)

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