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by ruricolist 3mo ago
"If you have an active subscription, Translate still works."
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by ruricolist 4mo ago
If you're actually planning on reading any of the essay, "The Poisoned Chalice" is the section most likely to be of interest to this audience, especially this bit: > Big AI essentially uses its tech customers as an R&
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by ruricolist 10mo ago
The sketch here would be that Lisps used to be exceptionally resource-intensive, allowing closer-to-metal languages to proliferate and become the default. But nowadays even Common Lisp is a simple and lightweight language next to say Python
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by ruricolist 1y ago
I'll mention the recent Second Act as an excellent survey of the phenomenon of the late bloomer: https://www.henry-oliver.co.uk/home .
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by ruricolist 1y ago
Tim Cain on YouTube has been posting some technical details of the original Fallout implementation.
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by ruricolist 1y ago
If you just do C-x C-f, M-n to get the "next completion" gives you the file at point.
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by ruricolist 2y ago
"Over time, this shaped a deep biological aversion to unnecessary exertion." This is both ahistorical - dancing and athletic competition are effectively human universals - and abiological - wild animals play.
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by ruricolist 2y ago
For forcing colorized output: I personally prefer pipetty (from the colorized-logs package on Debian) to unbuffer, since unbuffer merges stdout and stdin.
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by ruricolist 2y ago
I'd replace the underlying data structure used to represent buffers ( https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Bu... ) with something more sophisticated, like ropes or piece tabl
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by ruricolist 3y ago
The Dark Reader browser extension works for HN.
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by ruricolist 3y ago
The history here is that Common Lisp gets reduce from APL ( https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Reduce ). It's not an attempt an ML-style fold, but a different formalism from a different lineage.
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by ruricolist 4y ago
It's true there's often a tenuous relationship between blurbs and books, but setting up reviews as the more reliable alternative to blurbs is untenable. Most reviews I read, especially in literary publications, have little to do w
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by ruricolist 4y ago
Personally I feel about Scheme's distinction between false and the empty list the way Schemers feel about CL's distinction between variables and functions.
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by ruricolist 4y ago
DDisasm ("a fast disassembler which is accurate enough for the resulting assembly code to be reassembled") uses Souffle: https://grammatech.github.io/prj/ddisasm/
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by ruricolist 4y ago
Resolve is another tree-sitter based tool that does this: https://github.com/grammatech/resolve
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by ruricolist 4y ago
I have a project to do that, https://github.com/ruricolist/vernacular , although I'm not working on it right now.
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by ruricolist 4y ago
The CL convention would be to have a function called bar that converts whatever its argument into an instance of bar. Make it generic and new libraries can easily add their own conversions for their own data types.
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by ruricolist 4y ago
Related, for C++: https://cpp-rust-assisted-migration.gitlab.io
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by ruricolist 4y ago
There is a fair amount of academic work on bidirectional tree transformation with lenses, e.g. < https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~jnfoster/papers/lenses.pdf >. It breaks down to proving three operations (Get, Put,
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by ruricolist 5y ago
I hated the spring-loaded spouts until I learned the trick: you have to actuate them once to release gas before you actually starting pouring. Haven't spilled a drop since.
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by ruricolist 5y ago
That novella sounds fun.
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by ruricolist 5y ago
I mean distinguishing between `null`, `false`, and `[]` on the JSON side. Most JSON libraries for CL by default parse them all as `nil`. (ST-JSON excepted.)
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by ruricolist 5y ago
I like the way CL does things but it makes dealing with JSON occasionally annoying.
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by ruricolist 6y ago
Mongols.
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by ruricolist 6y ago
Contrary data point: I watch a lot of classical music on YouTube and it gives me consistently excellent recommendations. (Although I only take recommendations from the front page, and ignore the playlists entirely.)
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by ruricolist 6y ago
It's not obvious from the name, but magit-log-buffer-file also lets you browse the history of just the current region.
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by ruricolist 6y ago
Ripgrep?
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by ruricolist 6y ago
Regional indicator symbols: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Indicator_Symbol
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by ruricolist 6y ago
I suspect they're talking specifically about the longleaf ecosystem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longleaf_pine_ecosystem
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by ruricolist 6y ago
What is question driven drafting?

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