shawn_w

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by shawn_w 4mo ago
Troops?
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by shawn_w 4mo ago
Apparently not about the makers of Allegro Common Lisp¹ and assorted graph database tools. 1: https://franz.com/
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by shawn_w 4mo ago
Pretend? Oh, there's no pretending involved.
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
You're replying to someone other than the original commenter...
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
These are Count Orlock style vampires, not Lestat and Louis.
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
No. No there's not. If you get lots of downvotes on answers you might get banned from answering further questions until you improve your reputation score, but there's nothing like what you describe.
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
When I tried to play SotC, I got too distracted exploring the world to actually go after the bosses. Should blow the dust off it and try again one of these days.
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
Huh? That's not how it works at all.
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
The current owners have sure been trying to turn it into one with half-assed "features" like open ended questions and the thankfully killed off (for now) beta redesign.
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
I only had to disable it once on mine, after going crazy for a while trying to figure out what had messed up my lock screen. Haven't had it try to come back once. Also stopped it from updating automatically in the play store... Still e
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
"It made stonks go up so it was worth it and we'd do it again given the chance."
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
Shoot, the article even outright says >Liquidmetal has also notably been used for making the SIM ejector tool of some iPhone 3Gs made by Apple Inc., shipped in the US.
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
See also: Schelog¹. 1: https://ds26gte.github.io/schelog/index.html
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
Roslyn and Cle Elum are next to each other.
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
I'm sure you can define enough new infix operators that the Haskell ends up resembling APL if you miss that style enough.
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
If you use the string methods that work with code points instead of chars, you rarely if ever have to deal with surrogate pairs in Java.
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
That reminds me of James Morrow's This Is The Way The World Ends. After a nuclear apocalypse wipes out most of humanity, the ghosts of now-will-never-be-born future people hold the survivors to trial because they're ticked off at
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
It was one of Stross's first books, a fixup of older short stories. He gets better.
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
I don't even see most of my friends posts until a few weeks later. It completely kills any way to meaningfully keep up with them via Facebook. Lots and lots of thinly disguised ads, though.
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
South Lake Union Trolley. You can get t-shirts.
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by shawn_w 5mo ago
A let that defines variables that have a lifetime beyond the scope of the expression? Yeah, that's really unusual. And it's not even the oddest looking thing from the first example block of code.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
I don't know about exact rates, but diesel pumps in banks intended for semis have a larger diameter nozzle that flows faster than the normal sized ones, yeah. They won't fit diesel cars/vans/light trucks.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
That might be an overly optimistic assumption for the typical user, to be fair.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
Common Lisp does not require implementations preform tail call optimization in general, or even in just the limited case of tail recursion.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
It was a very quick wind down.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
My parents used cloth diapers for me, and then later reused them for years around the house as rags.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
Checking to see if you're able to fit two fingers underneath a dressing to make sure it's not too tight and won't cut off circulation is standard practice in health care; not just diapers.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
Yes, I was thinking of lexical scope; as in redefining the function shadows the existing one and doesn't change the function already defined uses of call.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
You know, after some testing with a bunch of different scheme implementations, I take back what I said, at least for working in a REPL. (define (displayln msg) (display msg) (newline)) (define (inner x) (+ x 1)) (define (outer
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
That sort of hotfix workflow isn't really a thing in Racket or Scheme in general. Changing the definition of a function doesn't update everything else that calls that function like it does in CL. Maybe emacs lisp works that way?

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