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by prometheus76 7y ago
I am definitely a Lisp noob, but portacle has been a pretty great "intro to lisp programming" environment. (I'm in a Windows environment, as the context to this comment.) Portacle is basically emacs with SLIME and a Common Li
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by prometheus76 7y ago
I'm going to go meta with my comment and say that this article is a fantastic object lesson as to why linux faces extremely low odds of ever being adapted as a widespread replacement for windows or OS X. How many people (outside of you
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by prometheus76 7y ago
I'm working on a 2D maze game where you have to fly a ship that has asteroids-style motion and controls through a maze without hitting a wall. Hit a wall, you start maze over. As levels progress, inertia increases, walls narrow. Later
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by prometheus76 7y ago
No bias at all. Should work out great.
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Yeah, it's a good thing those brigading actions never go the other way, though, right? That would be wrong and immature and just plain hypocritical...Sure glad it never happens!
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by prometheus76 7y ago
The problem with that plan is "correctly" flagged content is subjective. You've only added a layer of moderation to the original problem.
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by prometheus76 7y ago
Rule 1: Always have a plan for the day. Theorem 1: If you accomplish half of your plan for the day, you had a very unusual day. Rule 2: Be ready, at a moment's notice, to drop your plan for the day to pursue an unusual opportunity. The
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by prometheus76 7y ago
Number of required DBAs seems to correlate with the number of installed Oracle databases.
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by prometheus76 7y ago
Another experiment to try: what happens if you don't drink anything for a night? How many nights can you go without drinking anything? Can you tell yourself, "I'm only having two beers tonight", then actually stop after
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Lisp is sitting on another mountain, smiling at you.
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by prometheus76 7y ago
This idea is a major component in stoic philosophy, and it's something I learned from growing up with my dad. He frequently would sleep on the floor with only a blanket, or even sleep outside in the yard sometimes. He would not wear a
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by prometheus76 7y ago
I have a couple of family members who fall in the category you're talking about here, and here's what I've seen from them: 1) when you have a lot of assets, you still need to keep your eyes on them and have a system for monit
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by prometheus76 7y ago
My experience has been that building a strong boundary between work and not-work life has made me more effective at work and made my not-work life much more enjoyable and refreshing. I don't get work emails on my phone, and my boss has
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by prometheus76 7y ago
Still-truthful possible answers that say the same thing without raising flags: "Cost of living where I am as increased quite rapidly, so I'm looking to relocate to a more affordable area." "I'd like to live closer t
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by prometheus76 7y ago
Holy crap what a clickbait-y title for an advertisement blog post. "Hey, hey, fellow gamer who likes vintage games! I, too, enjoyed Commander Keen when I was a kid. Please buy my app that is not a game and has nothing to do with Comman
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I tried something similar and was astonished at the amount of variance caused by stoplights and weather. Because of that, it's hard to get a good dataset for comparison. In the end, because of the variance caused by external factors, t
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by prometheus76 7y ago
What happens if I set it to False, and what happens if I don't set it? Does it default to sending a summary, or does it send a null? I don't see how having named parameters eliminates the problem OP is talking about.
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by prometheus76 7y ago
Well, if I'm reading that, I'm wondering what gets returned if I set that parameter to false. Does it return a summary of the message, or does it return the first word or does it return null? Using named parameters doesn't an
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In addition to the letters not flaking off or wearing out, the DSA key profile is different than almost all keyboards made today. Most keyboards today have a concave profile for the tops of the keys that are basically uniform from the top o
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I read this: https://www.minitab.com/en-us/Published-Articles/Weather-For... And I extrapolated the results into forecasting the climate for 100 or 1,000 years from now and drew the conclusion that we are trying t