shawn_w

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by shawn_w 1y ago
Much as a Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language, Whitney can write APL programs in any language.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
>At night you don’t see the tents, the tarps, the dirt; the whole of Burning Man resolves into a jewelled ribbon of lights and colour around you on all sides, studded with lasers and fireballs. Everyone else walking around is strung with
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by shawn_w 1y ago
There used to be an ECL+Maxima app for Android, but it fell in one of the purges of older programs from the Play store a while back. I was always surprised it didn't use ABCL.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Common Lisp is like the vast majority of programming languages, yes.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
My rats were very picky eaters. The inside of a cucumber slice would be eaten leaving the skin behind for example.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Common Lisp supports both styles. Shoot, it probably favors procedural over functional a bit.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
And at least one fire destroying a studios film archives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_MGM_vault_fire (That article says that many other film studios destroyed old film prints, so it's not just fires (explos
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by shawn_w 1y ago
I've started to feel that the movie is hopelessly optimistic about the future.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
In theory, yes. But with this administration, who knows?
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by shawn_w 1y ago
This article? https://www.more-magic.net/posts/internals-gc.html
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by shawn_w 1y ago
It has options to split up input into fields and loop over every line for one-liners, yeah. For a trivial example, awk '{ print $2 }' foo.txt becomes perl -lane 'print $F[1]' foo.txt I'm one of tho
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by shawn_w 1y ago
I think of TC&TC as sociological science fiction.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Someone ported the sicm/scmutils code to Racket: https://github.com/bdeket/rktsicm
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Which function?
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Kawa + GraalVM? I think there's been some work lately to improve Chicken's Windows support.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Yeah, real over the air fm radio. This particular station is a Jack one owned by iHeart; they don't have DJs. Probably no techs or staff in the office overnight.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Amazon broke the Internet. There's a bunch of posts about it already.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
One of the radio stations I listen to is just dead air tonight. I assume this is the cause.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Wasn't HTML4 the last one defined as a SGML DTD? 5 and on is its own beast. (rip XHTML)
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by shawn_w 1y ago
California, like a lot of other "blue" states, turns deeply red once you get away from the cities and into more rural areas. It's just the cities have so many more people that they dominate statewide elections.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Making 150k for even a few years would be completely life altering (in the good way). Probably still wouldn't be able to afford a house where I'm at, but in every other way... OP comes off as hugely entitled to be honest.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Health care, with a focus on chemical dependency/addiction that I fell into by accident.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Back when the dot com bubble burst I ended up in the same position and had to switch careers in order to keep the rent paid, and programming became just a hobby instead. I kind of prefer that as everything I've heard about modern comme
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by shawn_w 1y ago
>Looking around the various carvings from related sites, it's also evident that they were greatly interested in penises. Some things never change.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Back then a couple could buy a house and raise a few kids on the paycheck that factory job of the husband's earned. These days even someone with a 6 figure tech job has trouble with that goal, but I think a lot of people think they can
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Do wine grapes make good eating grapes?
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by shawn_w 1y ago
eneloop rechargeables have always done well for me.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
Is it even possible to buy a non-smart tv these days? All I really need or want is something I can plug a few gaming consoles into... so HDMI, composite and preferably s-video. No bells or whistles or Internet connection necessary.
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by shawn_w 1y ago
From the post: >The language I’m using in this post is Lamber, my Lambda Calculus compiling language. It features a minimalist syntax with only functions, values, if-s, and operators like Wisp’s colon nesting operator and terminating per
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by shawn_w 1y ago
There have been a few but I think they're all dead these days. Alphatk for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphatk

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