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by shawn_w 1y ago
Probably whichever PR flack in the Trump administration that released it. Making it look like something out of a movie is right up their alley.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Not that big an issue in this age of AI generated deepfake videos.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
It's the form USA employers report employee earnings on for calculating income tax. I think OP is using it to mean "regular full time employee".
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by shawn_w 1y ago
As a recovering Candy Crush addict, that's the last thing I need.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Planned obsolescence
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Nothing wrong with lex and yacc.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
The perl I write today is very unlikely to run on a perl version from 2000, aside maybe from trivial one-liners.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Those slides would be a lot more useful with a transcript of the talk that went along with them. Or a video of it. Wonder if anything like that still exists.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Isn't a "centralized task scheduler" pretty much what cron is?
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by shawn_w 1y ago
It uses FSst seqs for immutable vectors, which in turn use weight balanced binary trees like other FSet data structures.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
That's what I figured. Yeah, no wonder your experience is different.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Your experience with stoves has been vastly different than mine. >flat surface with a cast iron disk protruding for each hot surface. Never seen a design like that. Given those URLs maybe it's a country thing? Are you in the USA?
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Racket's for loops declare in their name what they're intended to return (if anything). Personally that's way more readable and preferable to, say, Common Lisp loop or iterate where you have to hunt through the body for clues
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Electric stoves generally use raised exposed heating coils (that are rarely able to stay level, making oil and other liquids run to one side of the pan, making frying etc. stuff a headache). I've lived in one place over 40+ years that
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Racket has almost all of that.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Personally, I don't like how Haskell considers things like I/O as side effects that have be wrapped in monads. Ocaml feels much more practical. Plus, though both languages allow defining new infix operators, ocaml coders are much
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Eh, being able to skip parsing allows a fairly short book to spend more time on its real focus than it otherwise would.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
I think you got your wires crossed. R5 and R7 only have `syntax-rules` macros. R6 has both (`syntax-rule` can be trivially defined as a `syntax-case` macro). R6 having `syntax-case` macros is one of the more controversial things about it; a
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by shawn_w 1y ago
I used to use jed all the time, many years ago. But a package for it isn't available for the os (opensuse) I'm using these days and I couldn't get past the configure script when I tried building it myself. Maybe I should try
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Cutting into a tire to improve traction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siping_(rubber)
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by shawn_w 1y ago
If you read the fine print, the next significant release will be written in Common Lisp but the current releases are written in Crystal.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
A week, maybe 2 for this last round? They were announced on the 13th I believe, for "mid July" layoffs.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
I don't think Philip Hazel, who wrote PCRE, has anything to do with perl or raku development.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
It fell victim to decades of the Republican war on education and learning.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
I believe German toilets have the same shelf.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
That Electron is a acceptable way to write desktop applications is a big reason I miss those old days.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
>... if I compiled while emacs was running, the system would page like crazy The good old days when "eight megs and constantly swapping" was a real issue. I kind of miss them. (But not the modem speeds. Don't miss those at
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by shawn_w 1y ago
It's a quote from Snow Crash.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
The Velociraptor With All The Gifts.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
As long as you don't mind the extra space in the middle.

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