ruricolist

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   by ruricolist 7y ago

   "It's also why Catholic nuns were over-represented in early computing." Would you mind expanding on that?
2. 32.▲
   by ruricolist 7y ago

   I did actually do most of the initial development on Clozure.
3. 33.▲
   by ruricolist 7y ago

   I have actually reached the point of being able to load Instaparse.
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   Cloture: Clojure in Common Lisp(github.com)

   129 points by ruricolist 7y ago|52 comments
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   Exhaustiveness checking in Common Lisp, part 3: etypecase-of(etc.ruricolist.com)

   3 points by ruricolist 7y ago|0 comments
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   Cloture: Clojure in Common Lisp(github.com)

   5 points by ruricolist 7y ago|0 comments
7. 37.▲
   by ruricolist 7y ago

   There's more to the story even than that. I read the draft of "They Stopped The Moving Sands" in The Road to Dune and wondered: whatever happened to the dune control project? It turns out that the grasses they planted then
8. 38.▲
   by ruricolist 7y ago

   There is a fork that supports Python 3: https://github.com/snmsts/burgled-batteries3
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   The Ruricolist: Preface(the.ruricolist.com)

   1 points by ruricolist 7y ago|0 comments
10. 40.▲
    by ruricolist 7y ago

    Thanks, you just saved me a headache.
11. 41.▲
    by ruricolist 8y ago

    Just because all the other reactions are so hostile: even granted that some people are less susceptible to advertising, our susceptibility will vary. There will be times when we are tired, preoccupied, upset, distracted. Advertisers can aff
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    by ruricolist 8y ago

    Of course the habits we form now -- reaching for our phones, bringing up Google or Uber -- will persist into our old age. But chances are that by then there will be no Google, no Uber, and nothing recognizable as a phone. Imagine an old man
13. 43.▲
    by ruricolist 8y ago

    I think you can use Anarki in exactly that way: https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki#racket-interop
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    by ruricolist 8y ago

    Personally, I think Wikipedia broke the web; it absorbed a world of individually maintained, individually slanted resources into a mass, then slowly drained away that personality in favor of a neutral POV, one edit at a time.
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    by ruricolist 8y ago

    What Lisp is this? I can understand what it's doing but it's clearly pre-CL.
16. 46.▲
    by ruricolist 8y ago

    I remember once reading a quote to the effect "Don't think of them as parentheses, think of them as handles."
17. 47.▲
    by ruricolist 9y ago

    This is not so much a Lisp problem as an SBCL problem. SBCL just doesn't have a very good garbage collector. I nearly gave up on Lisp fighting with it, but ultimately switched to Clozure instead, and never regretted it: Clozure has a f
18. 48.▲
    by ruricolist 9y ago

    How does the trick with the screwdriver work, exactly?
19. 49.▲
    by ruricolist 9y ago

    There's Freeciv ( http://www.freeciv.org/ ) if you want to try one without spending anything.
20. 50.▲
    by ruricolist 9y ago

    This is from "La lingua por ni": https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_lingvo_por_ni
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    by ruricolist 9y ago

    One could argue that Esperanto's reliance on derivation through affixes makes it in a practical sense a Semitic language in European clothing.
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    by ruricolist 9y ago

    "Patrulo" would also work. "Ino" and "ulo" are practically redundant, which makes it (I think) the easiest way to sneak in a masculating affix.
23. 53.▲
    by ruricolist 9y ago

    You certainly can be your own editor, but you have to wait a few years between the writing and the editing.
24. 54.▲
    by ruricolist 9y ago

    Kerf also uses keywords, I believe.
25. 55.▲
    by ruricolist 9y ago

    They might all be dead by now.
26. 56.▲
    by ruricolist 9y ago

    Doesn't everyone on Android use Timely?
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    by ruricolist 9y ago

    Clozes could help, if the question can be expressed as a series of steps or as individual facets.
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    by ruricolist 9y ago

    I'm not an optometrist, and I haven't worn contacts in years. All I can tell you is that they weren't nearly as much of a hassle as people make them out to be. I just have strong, but not vision related, reasons to prefer gla
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    by ruricolist 9y ago

    I have anisometropia even more extreme than yours. I wonder, have you ever tried contacts? For anisometropia, the closer the prescription is to the eyes, the better. I choose to wear glasses now, but I still have to go out of my way to find
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    by ruricolist 9y ago

    Thanks, that's useful.