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by tmtvl 2y ago
Org-mode is an Emacs package which combines a literate programming environment with an office suite and a productivity suite.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
There's an article about insecurities in Firefox (< https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/firefox-chromium.ht... >), which is a few years old now, but it made me curious as to whether it actually is better to ru
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Eh, you can just distribute a .lisp file as though it were a ruby or perl script. CL is faster than the usual scripting languages, but admittedly not as fast as C or Rust.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
I like the Rust ADTs and the borrow checker, but I can't stand the syntax. I just wish it had Lisp syntax, but making it myself is far beyond my abilities.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Belgian here. Now, it's been decades, but we did get a mention of our colonial past, with a cartoon of Leopold II as a snake constricting some African person. I don't think we got told what kind of atrocities we committed (and Bel
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Starsiege Tribes modding was pretty accessible. Everything was just a bunch of .cs files, Tribes RPG was a fun thing to check out and play with. An example would be the Shifter mod: < https://github.com/BHare1985/Trib
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by tmtvl 2y ago
What I specifically mean by 'large media elements' is that I currently have the uBlock option active to 'Block media elements larger than [50] KB'. (Where the 50 is a spinner so I can increase or decrease the size if I w
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by tmtvl 2y ago
But does it support blocking JavaScript, large media elements, social widgets, and fonts?
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by tmtvl 2y ago
For me the most important thing is the rights of the end user. So I consider the AGPL the best of all licenses I am aware of. And hey, if Google bans AGPL software then it must be doing something right.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Rewriting GPL software under the MIT license is a terrible thing to do. The GPL is meant to protect and preserve what should be basic human rights. So-called "permissive" licenses are meant to provide big tech with free labour.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Related: Shamus Young's article on adding rivers to a procgen world < https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=12076 >.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
> thanks to the power of open source, everyone could've disagreed and forked KDE 3.5 to stick to the old design. And thus was born the Trinity Desktop Environment.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
That depends on what you mean by a 'modern SICP book', if you mean a newer book for learning Computer Science (CS), then of course there are many. 'How to Design Programs (HtDP)' would be an example. If you mean 'SI
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Yeah, but unfortunately 'systems programming language' is a bit vaguely defined. I'd call any language which can deliver a binary executable and which offers some degree of lower-level control (like getting the disassembly of
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Seconding CL. For my personality, purposes, and preferences it's the closest thing to a perfect language.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
To be fair, I'd wager the contents of said brain were roughly 'aaargh! I don't want to die! Jupiter save me!', but in Latin.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
I use OCICL, it's pretty great. That is, as long as you ignore it's basically one guy and his GitHub profile. It's unfortunate clpm died, that could've also been interesting.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Big tech engaging in censorship is unconstitutional? I don't understand America.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Yes, but the various Lisps that Common Lisp is the more-or-less common subset of are (were?) all 0-indexed. Between easy heap implementation (left is (ash index 1), right is (1+ (ash index 1)), parent is (ash index -1)) and easy last elemen
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Good things are worth waiting for. I never considered making a reader macro for a regular opening bracket, that's equal parts genius and insanity.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
I was thinking it would be better to have solar in the city and wind around it, as turbines make some noise and as the roofs are gonna go unused otherwise. But I can see how putting solar on the roof can make it harder to maintain than havi
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Same, but for GNU. I can't speak for Go, as I hate Google with a dying passion, but the Rust toolchain not supporting GNU style is a tiny part of why I don't like the language (well, I do like it conceptually, but I wouldn't
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Having a car manufacturer design a city is like having a shark design a ship: there's a strong incentive for things to be done poorly. Good planning would heavily involve mixed-use development, reducing the distance to desired amenitie
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Writing a reader macro that allows for something like... [some-numbers 0] ...to get the first (many programming languages make this mistake, using 0 to refer to the first element of a collection, so we can forgive CL for this) elemen
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by tmtvl 2y ago
I read that the source won't be made available because it contains some anti-spam (anti-abuse?) measures that would be easily circumvented if the source were open. Security through obscurity is famously no security at all, but I can se
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Becoming a Space Ace because the series was rather silly before QotA turned it into something truly outstanding.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Spoony's Ultima retrospective was great, it's a shame how the internet just completely broke him.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
> premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yeah, we should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Now hang on: Emacs isn't just "a text editor", it's a Lisp environment which just so happens to have the best text editor as front-end.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
It's an area over which a player has influence, but which is not solid territory yet.

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