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by shawn_w 1y ago
Every spring, chicken hatcheries mail out newborn chicks en masse. I've gone to my post office and heard chirping coming from the back many a time. Babies wouldn't be much different. Just need bigger air holes in the box.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Getting flashbacks to Vernor Vinge's book Rainbows End, where there's a project to rapidly digitize the collection of the UCSD's Geisel Library by shredding all the books and photographing the fragments of pages and reassembl
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by shawn_w 1y ago
>In any case, there's a lot of tree flavors. Lisp is certainly sufficient and simple when it's exploring these different details. I've become a fan of scapegoat trees¹ lately for (immutable) balanced trees. There are certa
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Does Uber no longer fire drivers who don't consistently get 5 star trip reviews?
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Bah, that's just an empty bottle. Gotta read the fine print.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Wait, blinker fluid is actually in stock in Norway? Gotta tell some BMW drivers I know; see if they can get it shipped over.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
I don't know how people can use anything else, especially now that Chrome doesn't support ad blockers.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
>Who here remembers frames? I visit a site with frames several times a week. Nobody's ever told the Open Group/POSIX people they're not supposed to use them these days.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Not a whole lot of them left on the island. I don't remember them ever being free but last time I used one was probably in the 90's.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Starlink is one of those 2 companies (or grandfather commenter miscounted and meant 3)
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by shawn_w 1y ago
The text screenshot is in one of the original Reddit posts: https://old.reddit.com/r/TeslaLounge/comments/1l0cz89/update... How he bought it is in a comment: >Bought it through a smaller sized dealer
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Robert Sheckley's 1953 story Watchbird[0] is about a networked AI drone system intended to prevent murders that gets out of hand when it slowly starts expanding the scope of its original mission - by the end they're preventing sur
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by shawn_w 1y ago
There's a lot of natural born assholes out there. Probably thought it was funny.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Original source, but locked behind a $200 (on sale!) paywall.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
>Perl is like nineties music, it’s simply the best of all times. You called that a joke, but I think it's just the truth.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Not just a prominent perl hacker, but one who's been working on a major new OO system for the language.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Just whipped up an interpreter in Racket for this, returning values lazily in a stream. Figuring out how to get actual prime numbers out of the primegame program was the hard part.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Pearl River Bridge makes pretty good Chinese style soy sauces and seems readily available, at least in the PNW. I use the light and dark sauces a lot in cooking.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
The tour dates are completely made up in a lot of cases (no, YouTube, I don't think Tom Petty is playing next month in my town). I have a feeling it's just llm hallucinations that they're dumping on the page.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Houge's the brand. RSK-Mk1 is the model (Ritter Survival Knife). Sold exclusively at https://knifeworks.com/dr/ Benchmade used to make a variant of their Griptilian that he designed (the "Ritter Grip", a
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Exotic outliers like Maxamet or 10V skew things so much they should be left off of ranking scales.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Not in this particular case. Out of the 5 knife retailers I just checked, 4 use Paramilitary in their listings. Only one included a space.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Benchmade has raised their prices over the years to the point where it's hard to justify most of their knives unless you're a big fan with disposable income.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Calling magnacut weak on edge retention is an... interesting take. It's not record setting, but it's far, far above the other 3 you listed. The data this site is using really seems questionable.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Clojure style threading macros are readily available for common lisp and scheme. Probably emacs lisp too.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
The Fine Article
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Looks more lispy because the parens. Plus it's extendable unlike LOOP, so you can make it work with your own data types. And a few other nice features like being able to collect into a vector or other sequence, not just lists.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
I had a some-sequence variable defined. (Using a literal list or vector gives a different error)
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by shawn_w 1y ago
I just grabbed the latest ITERATE source off of its gitlab repository, and, yeah, that bit is still giving an error: Iterate, in (COUNT I SOME-SEQUENCE): Missing value for SOME-SEQUENCE keyword as well as WARNING: CO
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Breaks how? I'm on my phone, not a computer right now and can't test, but that should call the CL function - ITERATE uses `counting` for that particular operation to avoid conflicts; see https://iterate.common-lisp.dev&

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