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by spauldo 1y ago
You're basically asking if literals are code. I imagine you'll get varied opinions about that. (And yes, that can be used unquoted in a few different contexts in Lisp, such as a special form or macro, or if you've managed to
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by spauldo 1y ago
IIRC M-expressions broke homoiconicity, so you couldn't just spit sexps at eval and expect anything sensible. I believe that's a lot of the reason they never got implemented.
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by spauldo 1y ago
A fat guy next to a skinny person doesn't experience skin-on-skin contact. Which is why I do everything I can to get an aisle seat and hope the middle seat is empty or has a skinny person in it.
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by spauldo 1y ago
No business class on the Pituffik rotator. The only other option is flying through Copenhagen (good luck getting the company to pay for that) or sitting in a jump seat on a C130 with your shins against the cargo.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Knowing stuff is what we're paid for, otherwise we'd all be making minimum wage. Besides, there are plenty of non-bash shell scripting resources out there, which is good to learn if you want to work with the BSDs or proprietary UN
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by spauldo 1y ago
Speaking as a fat person, air travel is horrible and I'll happily drive a couple thousand miles to avoid flying. On a flight to Greenland I spent six hours smashed up between the window and a stranger (constant, sweaty, skin-on-skin co
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by spauldo 1y ago
If you write to POSIX it's a lot more portable. If you're doing something outside POSIX, it's probably best to use something else, like Perl.
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by spauldo 1y ago
Except Windows, of course. You can install it there but it's plainly obvious it's in a foreign environment. A lot of people focus on Perl's bad reputation as one of the first web languages instead of its actual purpose, a bet
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by spauldo 1y ago
Documentation-wise it's miles ahead of Linux, mostly because it's developed as a single project rather than a bunch of pieces. Whenever I need to look up anything POSIX in a man page, I always read through FreeBSD's man page
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by spauldo 1y ago
Yep, and there are (were? It's been a while since I checked) even "distros" of FreeBSD that are specialized for desktop use. The main downside of FreeBSD is that it doesn't dumb itself down to appeal to the masses, so wh
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by spauldo 1y ago
I suspect the new management has them occupied.
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by spauldo 1y ago
When most people use the term "serial port" they're referring to a DB-25 or DE-9 port you find on older computers or USB dongles. It's also seen in 8P8C (aka "RJ45") form sometimes, especially in industrial equ
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by spauldo 1y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the number and size of packages people install (unless you're comparing them to, say, org-mode), but that's not really what I'm talking about. Emacs runs all elisp code as if it's part of E
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by spauldo 1y ago
The joke was of all the jobs a person might get after attaining a mathematics degree, "pope" usually isn't on the list.
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by spauldo 1y ago
96% of the world does not consider "America" to be a continent. A large chunk of the world considers North America and South America to be separate continents. Similarly, some countries teach that Europe and Asia are distinct con
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by spauldo 1y ago
That's not exactly a "gotcha." The church's official stance on women has changed drastically over the last couple millenia. It's reasonable to suggest that its stance on same-sex couples might eventually change as w
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by spauldo 1y ago
Emacs' configurability is hard to describe to anyone who hasn't immersed themselves in that sort of environment. There's a small portion of the program written C, but the bulk of it is written in elisp. When you evaluate elis
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by spauldo 1y ago
We don't have treaties with half the world mandating body cams. (I want weed legalized too, but it's a thorny issue.)
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by spauldo 1y ago
You missed the "for now" at the end of that sentence.
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by spauldo 1y ago
You might look into vigor, a mean-spirited version of clippy for the vi editor.
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by spauldo 1y ago
My definition of a computer being on the Internet is the computer has an IP stack that can route directly to other networks. In this scenario, the Linux box at the other end of the serial cable was on the Internet. The machine running QMode
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by spauldo 1y ago
Well, I suppose we should start killing our own civilians then, since that seems to be what people approve of these days. "Only 4%" should be about right, yes?
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by spauldo 1y ago
Yep. It's an order of magnitude difference. Civilian casualties happen with any non-trivial war, but the US set policies and added training for military members to try to minimize it. You can thank the hippies for that. Israel is a dif
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by spauldo 1y ago
Why do you suppose that chicken quality would be tied to price? Do you know where your chicken comes from? If you buy expensive, high quality chicken, do you know it's actually high quality and not just a fancier package with a higher
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by spauldo 1y ago
Afghanistan is more complicated than that, due to the collective shock of a successful attack on US soil. Bush had to do something or the American people would have lynched him. Iraq, though? There was tons of opposition to the Iraq War.
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by spauldo 1y ago
The Vietnam War caused a lot of changes politically and militarily in the US because the US is a democracy. We make a lot more effort not to go around slaughtering civilians these days. Nobody wants to be a babykiller. War has never been
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by spauldo 1y ago
Little deaths or big deaths?
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by spauldo 1y ago
A democratic leader remains democratic throughout their term. W did his time and bowed out at the end of it. Another party stepped in peacefully afterward. The only way Hitler could have gone out was in a pine box. That's the differenc
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by spauldo 1y ago
You and me both. I did some web dev back in the early days, and noped out when IE was dragging everyone down with its refusal to change. I have never had a reason to regret that decision.
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by spauldo 1y ago
One document == one HTML page was never the idea. Documents are often way too long to comfortably read and navigate that way. Breaking them into sections and linking between them was part of the core idea of HTML. Includes are a standard pa

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