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by samatman 2y ago
It seems we're basically in agreement then. I do want to point out that the weight of the Lua 5.4 standalone binary on my machine is 70KiB. Yes, you read that correctly. Lua is truly amazing in terms of the amount of power you get for
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by samatman 2y ago
Comparing my control over my own computer with shoplifting is grotesque. I hit a Google endpoint and it sends me data. Google has no control over what my browser does with that data, nor should it. They do have the right to refuse to send m
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by samatman 2y ago
Assembly? Hah! It only counts if you use a magnetic needle and a very steady hand.
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by samatman 2y ago
You have to draw a line somewhere, and it's necessarily somewhat arbitrary. Mine is the size of the runtime, usually. So the Forth is the size of Lua + the 40 line script, minKanren is the size of the .scm file + the Scheme implementat
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by samatman 2y ago
This reply is factually irrelevant, a minor bounce back from pandemic closures is unrelated to the fact that the spread of e-commerce lead to massive closures of bookstores a couple decades ago. They have by no means recovered to anything r
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by samatman 2y ago
This is the somewhat depressing but accurate answer. HTTPS doesn't mean you are communicating sensitive or private data, it means you want the client to see what you send them, and not something else.
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by samatman 2y ago
I thought the best response from the article was the 426 Upgrade Required. That way you can throw in an Upgrade: https field in the response. It makes it immediately clear that something weird is going on. 403s are common, my first thought
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by samatman 2y ago
The person you're snarking at is not replying to you, and is under no obligation to read your Substack before posting.
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by samatman 2y ago
Correction to the correction: it is factorial. Relationships are not limited to two people: observe how easily issues between two people can become a third person's problem.
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by samatman 2y ago
Agreed, autosave is wrong, because save is, among other things, a destructive operation: it obliterates the old version of what you save. That should require a decision by the user. What macOS native apps all do, and have for years, is the
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by samatman 2y ago
Custom allocators are pretty useful, yes. And slices, although it would be nice to have an easy syntax for using them. Still have null pointers though. So an optional type would be useful too. Billion dollar mistake and all. Oh, and you hav
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by samatman 2y ago
Chemistry was my major, and I considered adding this very point, but wasn't sure I could do a good job of explaining what the problem is. You did a great job there ^_^. Yes: there are positive 'holes' that you push a negativ
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by samatman 2y ago
Is this intended as an accusation that the SQLite contributors don't live up to their own code of conduct? It could easily be read that way. If so, do you have any evidence to back up the accusation of hypocrisy? If not, and you'r
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by samatman 2y ago
The standard in modal-land is box in normal mode and bar in insert mode. R for overwrite is an underline.
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by samatman 2y ago
I disagree. I expect industrial civilization will continue indefinitely, meaning, we will continue manufacturing cute special-effect gizmos, and having fancy concerts with millions of dollars in special-purpose manufactured goods, and peopl
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by samatman 2y ago
Clojure is a Lisp.
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by samatman 2y ago
What is it that you think open source means? Vibes?
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by samatman 2y ago
In addition to the sibling comments, I have a somewhat esoteric reason to wish that the signs of electric charge were reversed. In the coordinate system of an atom, the nucleus is at the origin, 0, while the electrons are a positive distanc
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by samatman 2y ago
> We're barely a century removed from phrenology being an accepted criminal forensic tool. This, specifically, is a bad argument. Medicine is barely a century removed from using mercury salts to treat syphilis, but as it stands, c
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by samatman 2y ago
> for example, why would a donut shop give receipts? Because of members of a social club, whose turn it is to buy the donuts, wants to have it to give to the treasurer so that it can count against their monthly dues. The more general a
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by samatman 2y ago
> Clojure (/ˈkloʊʒər/, like closure)] is a dynamic and functional dialect of the Lisp programming language on the Java platform. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clojure I believe I've said this to you
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by samatman 2y ago
My conclusion, rather, was that the Lisp family is the only family where people argue against languages belonging to that family. Your statement was that it's the only family where people argue for languages belonging to it. Much o
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by samatman 2y ago
"daddy" is a kinship term, or familial title. It's a noun, and a mode of address, but it isn't a name, technically or otherwise. There are a few posts in this very thread about children realizing that "daddy" i
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by samatman 2y ago
I have seen absolutely nothing of the sort. My experience is that other than a larger screen and an extra button, the Ultra is just like the normal Apple watch which preceded it: reliable to an almost boring degree. To the point where I wan
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by samatman 2y ago
Other than the pessimistic finish, my prediction is that this is exactly what will happen. The change will be a generational one. C will never entirely disappear, but over time, C code will be old code. People will occasionally write new C
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by samatman 2y ago
> Lisp seems to be the only language where people really want to argue that they are a Lisp, nobody tries to argue that Javascript, Java, PHP etc are "a C" (similar syntax? semantics?). Does it even matter what is "a Lisp
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by samatman 2y ago
Programming languages have a syntax, a semantics, and a more or less formal grammar. They have an alphabet, and morphemes in the form of tokens. They're a notation, yes, but one with a precisely linguistic form. Language is an appropr
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by samatman 2y ago
And if you're already using zig cc to compile your C project, you might as well write the next module in Zig. I know of no other language which makes it quite so easy to produce C-compatible object code. Some of that is the design of
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by samatman 2y ago
Customer facing reasons for receipts in no particular order: - Expensing purchases to their employer or self-owned business - Record of sale to be used in returns - Reconciliation of spending with cheques or credit card statements - Budgeti
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by samatman 2y ago
Programming languages live in a separate namespace involved by passing the 'lang' attribute to your search engine of choice.

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