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by technomancy 10y ago
Not as much "moving away from Clojure" as "haven't needed to write any server-side code in a long time". I would still use Clojure for that, unless it was a socket-level cluster thing where BEAM would work better. L
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by technomancy 10y ago
I'm working on a spaceflight game that features trading and can be operated from a text interface, though it features graphics by default. My vision is to be a bit more story-based than the procedurally-generated or MMO-type games woul
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by technomancy 10y ago
Can you give an example from the code of how this shows the power of lisp? From reading the article it sounds like it's a port from the C version.
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by technomancy 10y ago
The other way to solve this is to set your birthday to an incorrect date; that way you don't have to feel bad about not saying thanks.
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by technomancy 10y ago
No. The point is being able to do development live without needing to upload a new image every time you want to try something new.
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by technomancy 10y ago
The point is you want to be able to program on the board rather than having it be useless without attaching it to a PC. For that you need both IO and an onboard compiler or interpreter. MicroPython is right out; it would almost fit Lua, b
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by technomancy 10y ago
Using an OEM OS is the computing equivalent of "don't put that in your mouth; you don't know where it's been".
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by technomancy 10y ago
I live in Thailand; I'm extremely skeptical that it's going to happen. The most likely explanation is that a few powerful generals feel like this must happen and proudly announce their plans, and technical teams responsible for ac
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by technomancy 10y ago
There's a form of faux-garbage-collection: you can wrap any form in `free!` and the heap pointer will be reset when that form finishes: http://microscheme.org/documentation#memman This would be awful for general-purpos
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by technomancy 10y ago
I'm not so sure about that; I believe "it is right" implies the existence of a moral right. That may not have been the direct intent of the parent comment, but it definitely follows from that claim.
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by technomancy 10y ago
I've been working on a game recently, ( https://technomancy.itch.io/bussard ) and I've been struck with how refreshingly simple and self-contained it can be compared to a web service. I can still count all my depend
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by technomancy 10y ago
I think the difficulty of debugging just depends on the problem. If your problem is largely composing third-party libraries and services, then yes, it's extremely difficult to do when disconnected. But in my experience if it's mos
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by technomancy 10y ago
> just needs a better UX Luckily guix is a better UX for nix. =)
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by technomancy 10y ago
Why would you switch to a system that relies on NDA-protected chips when there are free ones available like the BeagleBone?
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by technomancy 10y ago
Normally the easy answer is to turn off Javascript, but in this case it makes the whole thing completely fail to render. For a site that's just showing you some text. Some days you just can't win.
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by technomancy 10y ago
Well, speaking of Italians, Dante is another great example. Reading a translation of the comedy that attempts to preserve the meter and/or rhyme is completely different from reading a prose translation.
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by technomancy 10y ago
Passwords are usually under the complexity threshold of copyrightability, but keypairs aren't. But secrets can have many other kinds too, like accidentally publishing code which is under a restrictive license.
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by technomancy 10y ago
Weird; I've never needed to do anything more than "export TERM=xterm-256colors" provided I was using a high-color terminal emulator to begin with.
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by technomancy 10y ago
I used to be bothered by this, and then I realized for every thing I wanted to do in the terminal, 5 minutes of searching would usually find a superior UI to do the same task in an Emacs-native way that I could effortlessly customize, rebin
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by technomancy 10y ago
> If you publish secrets, it's not crates.io's responsibility to help you hide that mistake If you publish secrets, you're causing crates.io to perform copyright violations. It's not just about helping you hide the mi
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by technomancy 10y ago
I wonder how much of this is because they are simply new to the field. Front-end stuff is more immediate, and immediacy is appealing. Back-end stuff has you spending less time worrying about compatibility headaches and all the non-problem-s
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by technomancy 10y ago
Apparently since the last time I checked, git actually includes a helper script that allows you to use `gpg-agent` to decrypt your creds in an analogous way to how `ssh-agent` works. It requires a bit of setup since for some reason it'
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by technomancy 10y ago
It's not as simple as you make it out to be. HTTPS git still has no consistent way to cache credentials, so you're stuck either keeping it in plaintext on disk or re-authenticating every time you push. Even though client TLS certs
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by technomancy 10y ago
> leave you with no upsides. Not even close. While TLS technically supports client-side certs, all extant implementations of it are unbearably clunky to use, completely ignored by all vendors. Meanwhile the tooling around SSH keys (like
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by technomancy 11y ago
> I find it especially offensive that ex-open source and ex-Linux users The thing is, from an "open source" perspective, what they're doing is great and totally legit. From a free software perspective, it has a lot of pote
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by technomancy 11y ago
Minor nit-pick; the terms here are backwards. Nearly all lisps support explicit partial evaluation, but not many support currying, which is implicit.
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by technomancy 11y ago
> With a Lisp you can evaluate your code in real time in your editor. Technically there's nothing about Lisp that makes it uniquely suited for this; it's just that people developing tooling for most other languages have a tragi
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by technomancy 11y ago
Singapore's income taxes are low, but they tax newly purchased vehicles at significantly over 100%.
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by technomancy 11y ago
Oh interesting. I heard that CloudFlare was going to take over, but that may just have been about "we will handle paying the salary of the right person once they are found".
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by technomancy 11y ago
I don't know if this is still true, but I read a number of years ago that the Kindle hardware was sold at under cost and subsidized by the "sales" of DRMed content. I've got an early-gen Kindle with no content actually p

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