throwaway81523

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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
> If you squint enough, JS is a lisp.. Yes, that is true. I'm not big on the idea that Lisp is defined by parentheses. The implementation strategies are another way to look at it. That doesn't capture it either, but it'
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
You can wrap parentheses around anything and call it Lisp, but I specified Common Lisp and pg's article clearly wasn't contemplating anything like Shen. Surface syntax is near irrelevant though.
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
Sadly, this looks like AI slop. Maybe it means the AI's are getting the idea though. Next thing though, is that they will find ways to weaponize it.
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
I've wanted for quite a long time to write an Android app like that. Use Kiosk mode (basically a locked down home screen) to turn the Android phone into a dumb phone.
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
> Your wording sounds like it implies that Lisp "got stuck" somewhere in the past, no? Pretty much. See pg's famous "Blub Paradox" where he sees Lisp as the top of a tower of lesser languages. He doesn't r
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
I mentioned this already but you might like: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/wadler87....
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
Wadler's old article comparing Miranda (a Haskell forebear) to Scheme might be a better place to start. https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/wadler87....
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
See Cardelli's breakdown in his famous article "Typeful programming": http://www.lucacardelli.name/Papers/TypefulProg.pdf Page 52 perhaps.
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
Lisp generally has precise GC, which I'd say makes it light side. It's even relatively type-safe if you count runtime type-checking. Highly reliable systems are written in Erlang, which if you squint is another Lisp dialect. The
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Quantum Pairs Stitch Space-Time (2015)(quantamagazine.org)
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
This looks scary. Website is way too slick and it says something about being a Chrome side-something? Ah someone said vibe code, and I guess that explains the slickness and images too. I'd prefer a plain text description of what the
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
Sort of like a pastebin for directory structures then, hmm.
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
You could just upload to a personal or other website? I sometimes do that. Is there any security or privacy (e.g. password protection) for this Cloudflare Drop site?
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
Wait, my first impression was that it points a local browser to your local browser. Now it looks like it uploads your folder to Cloudflare and temporarily serves it over the web. But is that different from what we used to do with FTP? Ar
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
"May 21, 2026", meh. And it's more microscopic tweaks of UI elements. How about blocking unwanted audio intrusions (not just "autoplay" but all audio) from obnoxious sites? Making reader mode way more aggressive?
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
Do you charge extra for the "rm -r" option instead of regular rm?
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
I haven't heard that 30 minute figure before, you have a reference? I've seen articles about medical workers using masks for much longer. Installing air filtration and UVC in classrooms and meeting rooms certainly helps. Since th
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
Don't forget too, if the CO2 is 1000 ppm, then half of the air in each breath you inhale was recently exhaled by someone else. Yes, airborne viruses are still spreading. I still wear an N95 mask whenever I'm in an indoor space w
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
Does the specification recommend using a hybrid? At the level of at least SHOULD if not MUST, in the sense of RFC 2119? I have the opposite impression but haven't checked.
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
What? It's not being described a theorem (the technical term for a mathematical proposition for which there is a proof). It's an experienced cryptographer saying that a certain operation should be more conservatively designed th
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
> garner support for one side of the debate simply because DJB says so DJB saying so sounds good enough for me, considering the alternative. Dual_EC_DRBG anyone?
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
I won't claim to NEED the feature (I'm not a 3 letter agency or anything) but I'd like to have it on general principle, and I'd pay extra for it, though probably not $400 extra. This never gets old: https://bi
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
It's bot spam all the way down.
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
I've only started reading it but it looks very good. I'll finish it tomorrow or so.
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by throwaway81523 3mo ago
You should also look at Liquid Haskell.
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
Look also at https://www.sumizdat.org/ which is Alexandre Givental's small press.
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
Is spherical trig still a thing? Calculation is so cheap now. If you want to find the spherical distance between cities from first principles, it's easiest to convert to 3D rectangular coordinates and find the angle ABC from the vect
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
This is a great series. I was awed by it in high school. Some parts were too advanced for me (and probably still are), but I got a lot out of other parts.
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
You can factually tell someone your opinion about something, without trying to persuade them of it.
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by throwaway81523 4mo ago
Earrings with microphones, another thing for privacy nerds to lose sleep over. Cool board though!

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