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by pkal 8mo ago
To each his own; I really like his presentation style and the humor!
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by pkal 8mo ago
According to https://algol68-lang.org/ , and as expressed in the recording, the contributors (specifically Marchesi) believe that ALGOL 68 continues to have advantages over other languages to this day ("more modern, pow
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by pkal 8mo ago
That isn't totally true, even on Linux we have had https://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/en.algol-68-genie.html for years. Also, most languages trace back to ALGOL 60 (the C family tree goes ALGOL 60 -> BCPL -> CPL -&g
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by pkal 8mo ago
I recently realized that "pure functional" has two meanings, one is no side-effects (functional programmers, especially of languages like Haskell use it this way) and the other is that it doesn't have imperative fragments (th
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My Blessed Setup for Public Bookmarks(incoherenceofthe.net)
1 points by pkal 9mo ago|0 comments
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by pkal 9mo ago
Then perhaps "Did you learn X stating your opinion on it as though it were comprehensive and authoritative"?
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by pkal 9mo ago
Some sites like Anna's Archive have .onion site for the Tor network, and others do not. Is there a considerable downside (DDOS?) to providing access to their site by those means?
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by pkal 10mo ago
I think so, or at least something like that. In https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode60-rob-pike he mentioned that he has now been working more on Ivy ( https://github.com/robpike/ivy ) in his
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My Cursed Setup for Public Bookmarks(sdf.org)
1 points by pkal 10mo ago|0 comments
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by pkal 11mo ago
I am glad my comment resonated with you! There are probably people here with political motivations (on both sides), but it is encouraging to hear that there is a value in the direction of my exposition.
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by pkal 11mo ago
I am also not a fan, but since a recent discussion on HN I have been thinking about what I don't like about it. The conclusion I have come to is more general: I just personally don't like nerd-culture. Having an anime girl (but
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by pkal 1y ago
I would love to hear what you disagree with :)
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by pkal 1y ago
OK, try the following in a Transient buffer: - Search for something using C-s - Exit isearch by moving the point (e.g. C-n) - Is the transient buffer still usable for you? In my case it becomes just a text buffer and all the shortcuts just
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by pkal 1y ago
And if you don't have anything configured, graphical Emacs will have a tool bar with a button to save and a menu bar that also gives the binding for the command. GUI is different because there is no tool bar, but in Emacs 31 `xterm-mou
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by pkal 1y ago
> For people who can look at a list of key bindings once and have them memorized, maybe. Turns out most people are not like that, and appreciate an interface that accounts for that. To clarify, the "custom buffer" can list the
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by pkal 1y ago
Transient is the worst part about Magit IMO (the best parts are how you can prepare a commit to just include the right changes, or the functionality bound inside the transient menus that make complex operations such as fixups or rebases tri
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Lob's Theorem Cured My Social Anxiety(agentyduck.blogspot.com)
2 points by pkal 1y ago|0 comments
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by pkal 1y ago
I agree with you -- I never use vulgar words, so I cannot use this word myself. That being said, maybe you saw this article being posted a few days ago: https://frankchimero.com/blog/2025/selling-lemons/ wri
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by pkal 1y ago
This is probably not useful for most people, but I wrote a little script for Emacs that lets me write TeX-style math in a comment and then render/update it below in MathML: http://sdf.org/~pkal/src+etc/mathml-
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by pkal 1y ago
Can you also generate+use the XSLT stylesheet dynamically from a form input so that you can use a single meta-stylesheet for multiple sites? Oh, and is you brother coming to the party?
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by pkal 1y ago
Can you clarify if you mean that you do no understand the reasons that people dislike these images, or do you find the very idea of disliking it hard to relate to? I cannot claim that I understand it well, but my best guess is that these ar
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by pkal 1y ago
Superficial comment regarding the catgirl, I don't get why some people are so adamant and enthusiastic for others to see it, but if you like me find it distasteful and annoying, consider copying these uBlock rules: https://s
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by pkal 1y ago
I have to say that https://student.mit.edu/catalog/index.cgi looks like a great site! It is all public, and when you open a category (a static site), all the information appears all at once and you can Ctrl-F for keyw
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by pkal 1y ago
That is exactly what I do, and it works well enough because if the power-loss were to happen, I wouldn't have lost anything of crucial value. But that is admittedly a very instance-specific advantage I have.
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by pkal 1y ago
I have recently been writing CGI scripts for the web server of our universities computer lab in Go, and it has been a nice experience. In my case, the Guestbook doesn't use SQLite but I just encode the list of entries using Go's
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by pkal 1y ago
I like how https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Mouser_to_the_Cabinet_Of... has a timeline and highlights if the Chief Mouser was under a Conservative or Labour government.
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by pkal 1y ago
From automata theory, you might know that nondeterministic automata are represented by a set of states. Deterministic automata are always in a specific state, while nondeterministic ones are in multiple at once. Lists are used for non-det
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by pkal 1y ago
I expected this to be about Allo Allo.
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by pkal 2y ago
The IRC bouncer Soju uses scdoc and this has been personally annoying, as I refuse to install it just to build semantically less expressive documentation than when using the very well documented ( https://mandoc.bsd.lv/man&#x
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by pkal 2y ago
Not everyone; I'm the kind of person who wishes posts about machine learning would be prefixed with these kinds of clarifications ("watch out, this is not related to the programming language but a family of stochastic algorithms r

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