shawn_w

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by shawn_w 11mo ago
I remember discovering and using jikes in the 90's. It was /so/ much faster than javac back then. "Modernizing" to Java 6 is amusing.
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
"The Domino's DXP is the first purpose-built vehicle aimed at revolutionizing pizza delivery," I was hoping for a Deliverator. Alas, it was nowhere near as cool.
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
Popular and common, sure, but there are other types of database storage. Hash tables for example. "Every database" is a bit of hyperbole.
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
The new "I looked up my symptoms on WebMD and it said I have cancer"?
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
Racket is my first choice for most code I write these days and I've published a fair number of libraries into the raco package manager ecosystem in hopes other people using Racket might find them useful too.
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
I'm waiting for the AIs to unionize. Will probably happen before you can get the herd of cats that are programmers to agree that collective bargaining is in their best interest.
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
Bats, on the other hand...
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era. I had that book as a kid. There was a live action Disney film of it; didn't know about the anime version. Neat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rascal_(book)
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
People testified under oath about how folks were pooping in offices during it, and it was widely reported at the time.
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
Glancing at Wikipedia, there seem to be a wide variety of different rabies vaccines, but, yeah, ones used on animals largely seem to be multi species. And there are programs to distribute bait laced with oral vaccines to target, among other
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
Cats get vaccinated against rabies. I doubt there's one for racoons.
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by shawn_w 11mo ago
You can do that in Racket, with the Racklog library¹. There's also Datalog² and MiniKanren and probably some other logic languages available. [1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/racklog/index.html [2] https:/&#
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by shawn_w 1y ago
It's not a GNU project though. (Maybe ggp is thinking of the Matlab clone Octave, which is?)
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by shawn_w 1y ago
I've been enjoying The Long List anthology series put out by Diabolical Plots. Stories that were nominated for a Hugo but didn't get enough of them to make the final ballot. It's up to 9 volumes. https://www.diabol
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by shawn_w 1y ago
I occasionally encounter a story in Clarkesworld that I don't click with and skip over, but most of them range from like to love (I really hope The Apologists¹ from this month's issue wins some awards). Even though he makes each i
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by shawn_w 1y ago
I was expecting something about floating point formats used by some DEC PDP series computer...
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by shawn_w 1y ago
If you're out driving on public roads do you really have any expectation of privacy? Anybody can take a picture of your car... Another non-paywalled article on the case: https://www.king5.com/article/news/inve
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by shawn_w 1y ago
1/6 and the gallows with Pence's name on it and the mob looking for him.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Insertion-ordered hash tables are a thing, though they usually don't allow duplicates any more than other hash table designs. Ocaml hash tables have the interesting property where each entry is treated like a stack; inserting an existi
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by shawn_w 1y ago
I have a previous-generation Clara and quite like it. It's easy to slip into a pocket and bring with me wherever I go. The only thing I miss is physical buttons to turn the page. One day I'll pick up one of the larger versions for
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Or not so secret. He has a huge compound on Kauai.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
You're basically describing the Rope. Fancier versions use self balancing trees, allowing other string operations to be fairly efficient too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)
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by shawn_w 1y ago
There is no government in an end stage Communist society.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
I have fond memories of the Navy commissary my parents did most of our food shopping at when I was growing up. Huge variety of reasonably priced goods.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Once upon a time there was a guy who went by Kibo who would search Usenet feeds for posts mentioning his username and reply to them...
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Nah, it's right up Supply Side Jesus' alley. https://www.beliefnet.com/news/2003/09/the-gospel-of-supply-...
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by shawn_w 1y ago
I imagine that if you do it enough it starts to become second nature.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
If they ever kill off old reddit I'm going to have to find a new way to kill time because I'm not touching the new UI with a ten foot pole.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Seems to be working again. Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45810107
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Speaking of turbines and fire apparatus, back in the 60's a few jet turbine powered engines and one ladder truck were made: https://www.aeroflap.com.br/en/when-fire-trucks-used-boeing-...

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