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by sramsay 3y ago
I take a more skeptical view of the relationship between politics and technology (not specifically on cryptography, though I think my point stands in this context) in a recent (scholarly) article: https://digitalhumanities.org&#x
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by sramsay 3y ago
Been teaching Shakespeare at the college level for a long time. At the end of the semester I like to ask them which play they'd cut from the syllabus next semester and which they'd insist on keeping for the next group. Measure fo
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by sramsay 3y ago
Very excited about this, because one of my favorite ways to "doodle" during a Zoom call is to fiddle with compressors and EQs and see if I can make everyone sound better. Switched to Linux as my daily driver from Mac a few months
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by sramsay 3y ago
RME makes terrific audio interfaces with onboard DSP. Like the Apollo systems below, they are not cheap. (I've used both).
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by sramsay 3y ago
Author, here. I was just thinking yesterday that it's time to write part II of that piece. But briefly, for the HN crowd: I ended up switching my toolchain to a markdown-based system relying on a combination of pandoc, Makefiles, and v
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by sramsay 3y ago
> article documenting how it is possible here Best line on that page: "It’s an exciting time in the Lotus 1-2-3 enthusiast community – that was a joke, there is no enthusiast community, it’s just me!"
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by sramsay 4y ago
This person was teaching compiler courses and didn’t know what a parser combinator is?
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by sramsay 4y ago
I completely agree with what you're saying here and wonder every day why Nim hasn't taken over the world. People seem not to realize that Nim not only has a "pluggable" gc system (so you can pick the gc that makes sense
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by sramsay 4y ago
Yeah, it's the "and banks lend that money out" part that is wrong, and it's why banking is way, way more complex than people realize. There's a lot of "it's all very simple" going around (here and
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by sramsay 4y ago
This. We have had a lot people -- including journalists and academics with big microphones -- learn for the first time what a Markov chain is, and then conclude that ChatGPT is a "just Markov chains" (or whatever similarly reducti
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by sramsay 4y ago
What bothers me about this -- and it bothered me enough to leave the platform -- is not fees, or "hobby computing," or "it's just for my own use," or trying to figure out why this or that would be in Apple's in
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by sramsay 4y ago
Funny to be reading this, because on Friday, I decided I should join the modern world and install Arch (I’ve been using Gentoo pretty much exclusively since it was new). It’s Monday, and I’m back on Gentoo. And the reasons for that surpris
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by sramsay 4y ago
They’re the Sharper Image of audio.
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by sramsay 4y ago
Hadn't thought of that. Take my money!
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by sramsay 4y ago
This (I also generate my blog using pandoc). In another case, I wanted to go from Markdown to groff -mom and it was a totally straightforward matter with a custom Writer in Lua.
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by sramsay 4y ago
Yes. Are they not!?
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by sramsay 4y ago
Well, look at that. Thanks!
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by sramsay 4y ago
Greybeard here. Just blogged about this very topic a couple of weeks ago: “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Awk” https://stephenramsay.net/posts/unreasonable-awk.html
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by sramsay 4y ago
> It's like Lisp. Just knowing about them is extremely enlightening . . . I agree. My introduction to Lisp was Seibold's Practical Common Lisp -- a very hot book back in the mid-to-late aughties, that I suspect introduced a
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by sramsay 4y ago
> As a useful counterexample, glib has GArray, GPtrArray, and GList, along with functions that you use to manipulate the lists. Those functions are presumably implemented correctly, and will prevent you from making out-of-bounds accesses
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by sramsay 4y ago
Just don't want you to be too discouraged by the HN pile on. A lot of this is stuff to think about (and I'm sure you're doing just that!). But really, creating a new system like this is a massive achievement, and you should
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by sramsay 4y ago
I would just like to say that this work is amazing . I get what people are saying, but for people trying to dip their toes into electronics (and who maybe can’t afford the equipment just yet), this might be just the thing! I don’t mean to
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by sramsay 4y ago
The usual reasons, I suppose (speed, portability, ubiquity . . .) Do you mean as opposed to Go?
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by sramsay 4y ago
I suppose this is as good a time as any to plug noaa, a CLI tool that can give you the current conditions and forecast, but also allows you to retrieve any product the US National Weather Service produces. It’s way geekier than the above,
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by sramsay 4y ago
The real news here is that there is such a thing as a "gut-on-a-chip."
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by sramsay 4y ago
You may disagree with the way the TIOBE index is compiled, but it's hardly "arbitrary."
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by sramsay 4y ago
You would recommend a language below Scratch and a language below COBOL (Kotlin) on the TIOBE index?
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by sramsay 4y ago
When I’m teaching (a very high-level language), I make a point of saying that a variable is a named memory location. Where is that location? We don’t know. Now, I am absolutely aware that the address isn’t the “real” location, but I ha
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by sramsay 4y ago
This is exactly how I feel. On the one hand, this technology seems completely miraculous (I remember watching Star Trek TNG back in the day and thinking the "computer" was about the coolest thing imaginable). Now it's here,
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by sramsay 4y ago
I don't get it. Why doesn't everyone just use the battle-hardened, fully-compliant Rust implementation of OpenSSL?

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