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by sedachv 7y ago
Trying to "explain" things to the police is a very bad idea: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-duane-dont-talk-...
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by sedachv 7y ago
> Nowadays it might be reasonable, but it still takes almost 4 seconds on this laptop, which I find to be a painfully long wait for opening a file. That is one of the use cases for emacsclient/Emacs server.
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by sedachv 7y ago
> Of course now lots of people just use emacs with shell buffers as a windowing system, inside of something like screen or tmux. There is an X window manager written entirely in elisp for GNU Emacs, EXWM, that was started in 2015: https
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by sedachv 7y ago
You are probably thinking about DSSSL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSSSL "Sometime in or before 1994, Opera Software began drafting a "DSSSL Lite" specification for the consideration of the World Wide
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by sedachv 7y ago
Compare Symbolics Genera to a Free Software Common Lisp development environment today (SBCL and SLIME on GNU Emacs). The latter does a lot less and is more bloated. Commercial Common Lisp compilers like Allegro and LispWorks have features a
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by sedachv 7y ago
> I appreciate that free software "won" to some extent, but if it hadn't have won as fast, we might have had some knowledge transfer happen that was actually useful. I was recently listening to the 2007 "Copyleft Capi
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by sedachv 7y ago
> instead of having to invoke the REPL from your editor, your REPL invokes your editor--honestly it seems like the right relationship and now I'm fairly confused why other REPL focused languages don't commonly support this. Tha
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by sedachv 7y ago
I remember reading about Marc de Groot (author of this software) in Douglas Rushkoff's Cyberia . Unfortunately he passed away in 2004. https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/DE-GROOT-Marc-2732584.ph...
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by sedachv 7y ago
Sounds like you just got triggered. Sorry about that. I saw some of the symbols featured on this page: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/... And some symbols on this page: https:/&#
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by sedachv 7y ago
> Every single design decision about C was made with the computer in mind. A computer. The PDP-11. C was a terrible fit for a lot of the popular contemporary architectures when it was designed (PDP-10, Burroughs large systems, UNIVAC 110
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by sedachv 7y ago
> I have never seen any political or controversial content on there, including ads. One of the reasons I deleted my Instagram account in 2017 was that their recommendation algorithm started showing me neo-Nazi posts. I suspect this was b
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by sedachv 7y ago
> If I removed comments and/or translated the code in a literal manner That is copyright infringement. See SAS Institute, Inc. v. S&H Comp. Sys., 605 F. Supp. 816 (M.D. Tenn. 1985)
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by sedachv 7y ago
TRS-80 Model 100 was released in 1983 and was supposed to be quite popular: http://www.oldcomputers.net/trs100.html It got 16 hours of runtime on four AA batteries. Way before my time, but I got to play around with one in 2
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by sedachv 7y ago
ICANN selling corporate TLDs is something akin to the Library of Congress trying to sell Subject Headings. Not content with spamming everything else on the Internet, some people now want to spam root name servers.
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by sedachv 7y ago
According to RFC 920: "The domain system is a tree-structured global name space that has a few top level domains… While the initial domain name "ARPA" arises from the history of the development of this system and environment,
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by sedachv 7y ago
In the case of Vancouver specifically, it was a combination of Ponzi schemes, lending fraud, and money laundering: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/out-of-... http://www.theglobeandm
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by sedachv 7y ago
> The low unemployment rate is proof that this techno optimism isn’t true. An observation that was already obvious in the 19th century: "The extraordinary productiveness of modern industry… allows of the unproductive employment of a
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by sedachv 7y ago
> But now a lot of that has moved to emulators running on standard x86 hardware. Not exactly: https://logical-co.com/ Modern PCs cannot even drive a parallel port with the correct timing. PDP/VAX CPU, RAM, and stora
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by sedachv 7y ago
> Goodreads reaction to complaints by (verified) authors about this sort of abuse is to deny all responsibility. So there's zero curation going on there. Goodreads was bought by Amazon in 2013, so the issues you are describing are n
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by sedachv 7y ago
Most likely autonomous drone navigation (particularly very low altitude terrain following) and targeting. That is how cruise missiles work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM There was a big drone attack on a Saudi A
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by sedachv 7y ago
> There was a time when a software engineer didn't get basic stuff. A time when languages like C were developed where there wasn't an associative data structure baked in for example. It wasn't because associative data stru
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by sedachv 7y ago
> The biggest problem I see with developers are developers who struggle to keep up because they don't know how to quickly navigate a code-base to understand the big picture, and end up bogged down reading way more than they need. Th
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by sedachv 7y ago
What you are describing is the code-reading equivalent of skimming or speed reading. Yes, you can gain some information from it. At best you are going to miss things, at worst you will learn the wrong information. No one is saying "rea
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by sedachv 7y ago
> I can 'pattern match' code far faster than I can read the text No you can't. You are getting the impression that you understand what the code does from its shape. This works only when the code does what you already assum
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by sedachv 7y ago
Ken Iverson started work on APL to teach courses on data processing at Harvard in 1955: https://www.jsoftware.com/papers/autobio.htm "I was appalled to find that the mathematical notation on which I had been raise
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by sedachv 7y ago
> So it takes only a glance at 5⍴⍳20 to visualize a 5x4 matrix of the numbers from 1 to 20. That would be 5 4⍴⍳20
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by sedachv 7y ago
In my experience working with other programmers, it is very common for people to only learn to visually pattern match on code formatting and stop there. This is the code reading equivalent of functional illiteracy. Using = instead of ==, mi
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by sedachv 7y ago
If you are in the US: https://wildlandsnetwork.org/ https://rewilding.org/ You can also contribute to local and regional land trusts: https://www.landtrustalliance.org/ If you own land, you
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by sedachv 7y ago
https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed the forum software behind https://forum.dlang.org/ offers NNTP feeds. More web forum software should do that.
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by sedachv 7y ago
https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ does language modes with a parser-generator; the coloring is done on tokens. There is no good reason why Lisp code needs to be parsed with regular expressions.

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