pieterbreed

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by pieterbreed 11mo ago
Great! Now we can disrespect our customers at scale!
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by pieterbreed 1y ago
Is this for the runtime of the compiled code or for the compiling machine? Do they generate slow code if the compiler is running on non-intel?
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by pieterbreed 2y ago
I'm sorry if I touched you on an ouchie. > Its still homoiconic > they can still, and in the case of the linked project, probably are turned into the exact same data structure. What you are saying means it is not homoiconic any l
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by pieterbreed 2y ago
What the author did is cool in a social sense; lispers go on and on about homoiconicity, which here means that the original lisp code is data. The author uses this property by reading this code/data and transforming it into text, that
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by pieterbreed 3y ago
As a dvorak typist HJKL as a concept is dead to me.
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by pieterbreed 3y ago
OP will be sleeping in, eating at the pub nextdoor, looking at Table Mountain on the way back home and playing Dave the Diver in the afternoon.
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by pieterbreed 3y ago
One of my users apologised for having an AZERTY keyboard. The people out there suffer us.
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by pieterbreed 3y ago
Emacs or vi?
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by pieterbreed 3y ago
If i knew my post would do well on hn I would have posted it here myself. Well played.
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by pieterbreed 7y ago
lol yeah - before posting I was trying to convince myself not to post, and what yous dais was exactly my counter "narrative". But still; Between 10^3 and 10^77, that 77 OWNS
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by pieterbreed 7y ago
> That is more than 10^77, pretty close to the estimated number of atoms in the observable universe, 10^80 Ugh. My pedant-bone is itching... That's not "pretty close" at all. There's a universe of distance between 10^
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by pieterbreed 11y ago
Welcome to life. Don't worry though. Everything will be OK. (The things I'm about to say is/are true for me. So is most of what everyone else here is saying. While it's good that you are asking your peers for help, the a
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by pieterbreed 18y ago
This sounds very much like something the SA Air Force did with their mirages in the Bush war of the 70's and 80's. BTW - There is a book written about the history of the Mirage in the SAAF called 'vlamgat' (lit. fire/fiery - behind/ass). Tr
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by pieterbreed 18y ago
no! please elaborate! :)
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by pieterbreed 18y ago
Well, I don't have any material on it but you can see that it makes sense from a mechanical physics point of view. Load up a craft to maximum possible weight (with ballast even) Then fly as high and is fast as you can (during which you buil
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by pieterbreed 18y ago
There is a rumor going around in the South African Air Force that the South Africans with the help of the Israeli Air Force (who had big ties in the bad old days) figured out a way to shoot the SR71s down. It had to do with a technique call