shawn_w

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by shawn_w 10mo ago
The new owners (well, not really new any more) are focused on adding AI to SO because it's the current hotness, and making other changes to try to extract more money that they're completely ignoring the community's issues and
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by shawn_w 10mo ago
I see plenty of old answers that are still very relevant. Suppose it depends on what language/tech tags you follow.
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by shawn_w 10mo ago
Ublock and not being Google are Firefox's killer features for me.
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by shawn_w 10mo ago
Probably worried their taxes would go up.
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by shawn_w 10mo ago
More books than I can easily recall or put down here. Currently in the middle of a re-read of one of my favorites, Ken Kesey's Sometimes A Great Notion. Also the first Otherside Picnic light novel, after watching and loving the anime a
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by shawn_w 10mo ago
English classes (at least at my high school) were largely about literature, less the language itself. Though I did take one elective class on grammar.
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by shawn_w 10mo ago
Tcl needs a special command for tail calls though, instead of it Just Working (tm). It's kind of awkward.
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by shawn_w 10mo ago
>Lua is the only lightweight language that I am aware of with TCO. Scheme is pretty lightweight.
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by shawn_w 10mo ago
/Programmers/ can.
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by shawn_w 10mo ago
I've been toying with trying to add extensible sequences to ccl as a way to get more familiar with it, but ccl development seems dead so I'm not sure it's worth the effort.
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by shawn_w 10mo ago
Haven't heard of the Slate before. Not sure about only having two doors but the price is a lot more attractive.
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by shawn_w 10mo ago
>I really miss all the short trucks I hope the Telo pans out (and comes down in price to where I can afford one). Looks funny but it's such an obvious idea. https://www.telotrucks.com/
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by shawn_w 10mo ago
See them all the time around the greater Seattle area. The "certain market" is probably lots of extremely well paying jobs.
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by shawn_w 10mo ago
>... there should be an array language parser embedded in most languages, that you opt in locally for just this little nudge. April is this for Common Lisp: https://github.com/phantomics/april
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by shawn_w 10mo ago
You mean Love, Death and Robots?
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by shawn_w 10mo ago
The trick is to save the treats till the end. They can learn to do a lot if they know they'll be rewarded later. Check out Shadow The Rat on YouTube; she has a whole series on training them.
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
Dances With Smurfs was a common comparison at the time.
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
Elliot Bay is a shadow of what it used to be when it was in Pioneer Square.
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
Sounds complex.
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
Wolfram Language?
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
That's a standard gimmick for troupes that do both plays.
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
SE management is so fixated on jumping on the current bandwagon by adding AI "features" that the site's community absolutely doesn't want... the disconnect and utter ignoring of feedback is staggering. All while continui
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
"The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Unix. Go back to the Segfault! You cannot crash."
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
Bad idea to delve too deep into the binary.
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
SE sells just such a thing. I think it's where a lot of their income comes from.
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
I meant exactly what I said. C uses a function for exponentiation. Nothing that uses ^ for powers follows C's lead. https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/numeric/math/pow.html
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
C uses ^ for bitwise xor and a function for exponentiation, though.
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
He thinks he's Tony Stark but he's actually Justin Hammer.
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
You weren't the only one.
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
I still use a C2D laptop running Linux for some things.

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