shawn_w

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by shawn_w 6d ago
Don't forget the decades of time it takes to build the tracks.
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by shawn_w 7d ago
Two guys. At one point bags of onions were being sold for less than the value of the bags they were in... They also got onion farmers to buy back onions they'd already sold.
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by shawn_w 9d ago
When the accumulator isn't the second argument in a fold, left or right, it feels wrong and I waste some time cursing whomever made a silly mistake like getting the order wrong. You want the accumulator second to match up with `cons` a
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by shawn_w 9d ago
`remove-if-not` was deprecated before the Common Lisp standard was approved and yet it remained (and will never be removed because the standard will never be updated). That's not deprecated for any practical purpose. And it's more
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by shawn_w 12d ago
That's... most jobs.
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by shawn_w 14d ago
7G? Man I hope not. I watched a fine documentary a few years ago about what happens when they try rolling 7G out... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_to_the_End_of_the_World
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by shawn_w 17d ago
People seem to bounce off Phlebas as a first go at (M) Banks. Player of Games is the usual recommendation for a first Culture book.
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by shawn_w 18d ago
I thought New Mexico was being renamed to New America.
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by shawn_w 18d ago
> It was the day my grandmother exploded. Probably Banks's most memorable opening line. Love Crow Road... Have you seen the tv adaptation? I keep meaning to watch it.
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by shawn_w 18d ago
China ruled Vietnam for a thousand years (111 BC–939 AD) so I'm sure there was some linguistic cross pollination. Though tomatoes come around long after that period...
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by shawn_w 18d ago
As used by NASA and SpaceX.
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by shawn_w 26d ago
Coffee going away was a sad time. I had a tradition of getting some from Center Camp in the wee hours of the morning on overnight volunteer shifts.
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by shawn_w 26d ago
Smoking weed is iffy; lots of federal cops out here looking for it, since pot is still illegal on federal lands. Just chilling and doing your own thing is certainly doable.
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by shawn_w 26d ago
Gotta go over to Orgy Dome for that.
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by shawn_w 27d ago
And for people who want to use something other than Linux?
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by shawn_w 27d ago
It was better next year.
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by shawn_w 27d ago
I always get here early, before the event officially opens, in part to get an up close view of all the art and camps going up. (I'm still not used to easy internet access at BRC, he says as he browses HN from his camp)
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
Racket defines an evaluation order for function arguments (left to right).
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
It's ugly and probably fragile and prone to break, but I found a way. Added it as an answer on that Stack Overflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/79997503/9952196
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
It might take a custom #lang. I'll play around with it when I have some free time... That read-syntax doesn't just accept everything accepted by plain read is one of my biggest annoyances with Racket.
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
Yeah, there's a toggle for it in read-syntax mode. https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/Reading.html#%28def._...
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
You forgot hash table and regular expression literals.
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
Are there any decent alternatives to reddit? When they finish killing off old reddit I'm gone, and will need a new time waster.
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by shawn_w 1mo ago
Guile keywords use the same #:foo syntax as Racket. The reader can also accept :foo or foo: notation. https://doc.guix.gnu.org/guile/latest/en/html_node/Keyword-R...
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by shawn_w 2mo ago
You now have to be logged in to reddit to use it.
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by shawn_w 2mo ago
Which one?
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by shawn_w 2mo ago
Yeah, that's a recent change. Probably the first nail in the coffin for it.
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by shawn_w 2mo ago
The Seattle Times is still owned by the Blethen family (who have owned it since 1896).
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by shawn_w 2mo ago
Depends on the politician.
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by shawn_w 2mo ago
I suppose you think Chuck Norris Facts are fake too.

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