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by sedachv 9y ago
Source: https://www.techspot.com/news/57316-nsa-classifies-linux-jou...
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Cops have no say in whether to take or not take a report. One time I tried to report a theft. I gave up after the third time the cop who was answering the phones at the local police station hung up on me.
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by sedachv 9y ago
A good introduction to the moral problems of animal slaughter is Charles Patterson's Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust .
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by sedachv 9y ago
> What are other use cases of first-class identifiers, other than making some function arguments or macros look prettier? You are completely missing the point. Not having identifiers be first-class objects with unique identity is how Pyt
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by sedachv 9y ago
Python is in no way a Lisp. Python is not homoiconic, does not have first-class identifiers (symbols), and does not have full support for dynamically loading code ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14666300 ). All that ma
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Hold on there, cowboy. You're still assuming the worst about me, with no evidence, and that gets annoying by the second or third time. The evidence is that you insist on posting a bunch of "I was under the impression" bu
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Which, of those statements, do you consider to be wrong, and why? Every one of them. You do not understand the difference between what the program code does and what the programming language implementation does, and your underlying ass
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> Yes I have coded with lisp, and I know they use other syntax than just parens... I would argue (again at my peril) that if it was optional in a lisp-style language as well, that would be great. The reason you are getting downvoted is n
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by sedachv 9y ago
> And in the PDP-11 decade, I believe there was much wider awareness of Lisp. (I was a kid then, so that's just my impression. I don't actually know.) I was not around but from the literature it seems Lisp trolls existed even b
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> Why wasn't it ported, or a fresh one built?... In fact, there were Lisp compilers for the PDP-10, which (I presume) could run on the PDP-11 The PDP-11 was in no way compatible with the PDP-10, and there was no way a PDP-10 Lisp im
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Only the insane write code without tab or space indentation, and if you are doing that anyway then an OCaml-esque language like F# where that serves as your grouping syntax is the saner option. Instead of making disparaging remarks abo
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by sedachv 9y ago
R workspaces are an idea borrowed from APL: http://aplwiki.com/LearnApl/AplWorkspace Common Lisp and Scheme do not have any specifications for persistent state, and the implementations that do have images are all over
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Do they think I'm going to launder money by buying lattes? That is exactly what happens. Prepaid debit cards and gift cards were and maybe still are both major tools for cross-border money laundering of drug proceeds because they
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by sedachv 9y ago
> I'd really love to see what languages designed specifically with ergonomics/tooling in mind look like Warren Teitelman (and later many people at Xerox PARC) did this with BBN Lisp/Interlisp, starting with real paper tele
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by sedachv 9y ago
That is a Cold War propaganda tale that is not entirely accurate. The main motivation for the use of the atomic bombs by the US was as a show of force warning to the Soviet Union. The bombings were planned to coincide with the start of the
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by sedachv 9y ago
> This is preposterous. There is overwhelming evidence that this is exactly what the current United States Secretary of Education DeVos' motivations are: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/bet
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by sedachv 9y ago
> What do you think we should hugely cut spending on in order to fund this huge increase? Proposals to spend lots of money on this or that are somewhat unconvincing unless you can explain where the money should come from. That is actuall
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by sedachv 9y ago
> I'm ashamed to admit that I like private schools, but wow, have they been good for my kids. Nothing to be ashamed about. You want the best for your children and private schools get more money. The problem is not that private schoo
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Why not having suicide booths, it's faster to lead humans to extinction. Actually, many people (myself included) advocate for the right, and plan for themselves, euthanasia as the best, most humane alternative to the current night
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by sedachv 9y ago
> What's are the alternatives here? The alternative is to stop eating carcinogenic, heart disease-causing foods made out of animals and animal secretions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rNY7xKyGCQ
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by sedachv 9y ago
> With fusion research there are already dozens of active research efforts, but we have absolutely no idea if any of them will work, or if we need a new approach nobody has thought of. That is the definition of research. Once something i
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by sedachv 9y ago
How so?
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> Sadly I think lots of my countrymen think of green fields being the default state of rural UK and don't realise it's the legacy of deforestation by stone age man.. Much if not most of the deforestation in the United Kingdom t
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by sedachv 9y ago
Is there something special about the LS430 air suspension? I own a Town Car with rear air suspension and it is my favorite feature of that car. Parts don't seem to be expensive and there is a large aftermarket. I have been recommending
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by sedachv 9y ago
There was software such as PCKeyboardHack/Karabiner and something else before that that let you do remappings not available through Keyboard Preferences. Every Mac OS X release breaks keyboard internals and things like PCKeyboardHack s
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by sedachv 9y ago
Mouse chording is extremely efficient and I highly recommend it if you use a mouse. I was a big fan of combining mouse chording with structure-aware editing: https://github.com/vsedach/mouse-copy Unfortunately this doe
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by sedachv 9y ago
> Can't you rebind them through the regular keyboard preferences? Not for Caps Lock. I think it only lets you set it to Control. > There's IT infrastructure built around using OSX at some jobs. That is a really terrible idea
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by sedachv 9y ago
You missed this part of the interview: People have moral panics about bedbugs in their library or perverts in the library or — you’ll catch a cold from the library, like, whatever the thing is. And there’s a shred of truth to that, but rea
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by sedachv 9y ago
The best modification that you can do to your keyboard layout is to adapt the MIT Lisp Machine keyboard layout. The changes are small but very significant, work with either QWERTY or Dvorak, and you can do them on any PC or laptop keyboard[
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by sedachv 9y ago
> a new way to organize databases Is this referring to graph databases, or something else?

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