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by schemescape 3y ago
Anecdote: I ran a migration on a production database from inside Visual Studio. In retrospect, it was recoverable, but I nearly had a heart attack when all the tables started disappearing from the tree view in VS… …only to reappear a second
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by schemescape 3y ago
Don’t forget “This DX7 Cartridge Does Not Exist”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23373730
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by schemescape 3y ago
Opening cmd.exe or PowerShell (or something else)?
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by schemescape 3y ago
What should I be using instead? I don’t mind cmd.exe and it launches instantly (same reason I frequently use notepad.exe for quick edits). That latter quality is very hard to find :) Edit: but if you meant for scripting, yeah, batch files a
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by schemescape 3y ago
Interesting to read that frame pointer omission may not be worth it: > You'd think that saving a whole register would mean a performance improvement, right? Especially on 32-bit x86 code where registers are at a premium. But it turn
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by schemescape 3y ago
Don't forget Microsoft buying aQuantive for $6 billion in 2007 and then taking a $6.2 billion dollar writedown 5 years later.
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by schemescape 3y ago
Note that it’s a very short game.
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by schemescape 3y ago
Which calculator app is multiple gigabytes in size? How is that even possible!?
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by schemescape 3y ago
> The best part is that Peppermint OS is free to download and try. An odd comment. Isn’t that the case for all these distributions? Edit to add: I would say a more interesting factor is being able to test drive from a USB drive without h
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by schemescape 3y ago
Not affiliated with the blog, but apparently Hugo generates an index.xml feed by default, so try this: https://danangell.com/blog/index.xml (I had the same question with a different site two days ago.)
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by schemescape 3y ago
After fairly lonely exploration initially, seeing all the bases at the center of the galaxy (nearly 100 hours later) was a unique experience. Kind of like thinking you’re the last person on Earth and then stumbling upon other people. It’s a
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by schemescape 3y ago
The dumped images are not portable, right? I thought I read they can only reliably be run by the exact same build of SBCL.
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by schemescape 3y ago
What’s the minimum kernel version required? (No need for an exact answer, I just want to know if it’s “in the last 3 years” vs “in the last 10 years” etc.) And is it possible to resolve network names or do anything network related? (Or is i
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by schemescape 3y ago
Despite the pressure to constantly hustle, it’s still ok to take a job just because it sounds fun*. *Obviously, abusing CSS isn’t everyone’s idea of fun.
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by schemescape 3y ago
Sounds interesting, but I didn’t see any actual code. Is this for Clojure? Related: I was able to get pure s-expression pages using Parenscript, Spinneret, and cl-css in Common Lisp.
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by schemescape 3y ago
I also did this, except the XML file itself was generated from a file system tree. XSL did eventually add multiple outputs, but yeah: do not attempt :)
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by schemescape 3y ago
The most commonly missing SSG feature for me is being able to transform relative links between Markdown files (which VS Code happily auto-completes for me) into relative links between the resulting HTML files. Similarly hard to find is tagg
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by schemescape 3y ago
I created md2blog[1] specifically for this reason: it prevents you from making design decisions, so you’re forced to focus on writing posts instead. I’m well aware of the irony of building yet another SSG to help people avoid doing the same
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by schemescape 3y ago
There are a few that take that approach, but people usually want one in their preferred programming language/runtime. Examples: Metalsmith (Node/JS): https://metalsmith.io/ Haunt (Guile Scheme): https:/&#x2F
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by schemescape 3y ago
From member banks : https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone... > No losses associated with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank will be borne by the taxpayer. > Any losses to the Depos
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by schemescape 3y ago
Member banks made depositors whole, not tax payers…
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by schemescape 3y ago
Agreed that it appears WebView2-based (at least on Windows). I apparently have the new Outlook already on my computer (how? Not sure!) and I see WebView2Loader.dll but not LICENSES.chromium.html.
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by schemescape 3y ago
Electron or WebView2?
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by schemescape 3y ago
Fun concept, but the input scheme is confusing. I actually guessed the word correctly, but I lost a point because it added my letter to the end of the word instead of the beginning. Then it prompted me for another letter at the end (which
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by schemescape 3y ago
Random unsolicited thoughts on SSGs (from someone unaffiliated with Stuart or Hugo): Not sure if I’ll ever get to it since things are generally fast enough without it, but I’d like to build an SSG that supports accurate incremental rebuilds
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by schemescape 3y ago
That one seems better! Edit: wow, it even predates my attempt: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4860370
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by schemescape 3y ago
I can’t decide if I liked XSLT or just the out-of-the-box thinking its convoluted solutions demanded. XPath was a joy to use, and I thought XHTML made more sense than HTML. But I was naive to think the “more logical” technology would take o
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by schemescape 3y ago
Yes, and I even confirmed it with MIT Press prior to publishing the project (many years ago): https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b... > Structure and Interpretation of Computer Prog
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by schemescape 3y ago
I switched over to Common Lisp, so I don't really have any personal recommendations for Scheme, but this site was useful for learning CL and it also has a section on Scheme: https://www.linuxlinks.com/excellent-free-boo
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by schemescape 3y ago
Pleasantly surprised to see this on HN! This is an old (and incomplete) project of mine to reformat Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs into a browser-friendly format, with a built-in code editor and interpreter [1]. I think t

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