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by tmtvl 2y ago
My favourite Go proverb is probably 'don't go fishing while your house is on fire'. Deciding you want to reduce your opponent's moyo while you have a group that's struggling to live is a good way to lose the game; a
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by tmtvl 2y ago
He did sign a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico to replace NAFTA, which he at the time described as 'they say it's one of the best trade deals ever made'. To be fair, though, the deal also has its critics. For example, Do
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by tmtvl 2y ago
thaumasiotes is asking about the number of 's'-es in the surname.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Isn't that backwards? If a penny contains more than a penny's worth of copper you can make "infinite" money by exchanging some money for pennies, smelting them down into copper, selling the copper for more money than you
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Imagine if we had a Lisp with proper types, we could do something like... (typecase name (String (print name)) (otherwise (print "error: name must be a string!"))) And if that Lisp had some kind of Object System, we
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Ubuntu got me hooked on GNU/Linux back in 2012. Since then I've tried various different distros, and eventually I wound up bouncing betweet Arch and Tumbleweed. It's a real shame Unity never went anywhere, the universal menu
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by tmtvl 2y ago
The waiting time could be due to government agencies being overloaded due to shortages of personnel, but hiring more people costs money and people wouldn't like taxes to go up. Also consider this: petrochem companies would have an easi
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by tmtvl 2y ago
On my Ubuntu phone I use Waydroid to use the WhatsApp client as the kung fu club I'm in uses WA to communicate. It works well enough, though it is quite a battery drainer.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
I have a Slimbook Elemental 15 (or some such) and it's crap. The keyboard has a backlight you can change the colour of... with an application which is only available on specific distros (it isn't even on the AUR) and even then hal
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by tmtvl 2y ago
I think Emacs and Lisp fans will prefer EXWM or Stumpwm. Although I am an Emacs and Lisp fan, but I don't like tiling window managers so I use Awesome with all tags set to floating.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
YMMV, I spend a couple of days last summer trying to get a Gentoo install with KDE running and after I changed something which caused a libc recompile, which took over an hour, I was so fed up I went back to Arch. ...granted, my potato only
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by tmtvl 2y ago
If the author intends for: > apparently abandoned To mean: > hasn't changed in a while Then I will agree that that doesn't need to mean it has to be laden with problems. I was going more on the basis of it meaning that t
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Somewhat related-ish: Cakelisp < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36154069 >
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by tmtvl 2y ago
I'm not a Rust person (give me Lisp any day), but this stuck out to me: > A motivated programmer can try adding necessary support to actively maintained packages [...] but what if one is stuck at an older version of the crate or de
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by tmtvl 2y ago
What consenting adults do is their business, but still such an age gap feels a bit icky to me.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
If X is 40 and Wayland is 16,that means a difference of 24 years. Hence Wayland compositors have 8 years to work out the kinks. I am currently using Wayland via Plasma 6 and it works well enough but I don't have special needs, so I don
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by tmtvl 2y ago
I know it's bad form to complain about technical issues with the site rather than engaging with its content, but I can't do the latter as I get redirected to a page telling me to activate javascript... even after activating js. Co
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Because he isn't a Debian packager. That isn't his job.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Written for laptop users. I'd raise an eyebrow at going with i3 rather than... I don't know... Gnome or KDE or MATE or Cinnamon or Xfce or, well, anything a little more user-friendly.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
I have seen it done with foreground colours: https://github.com/alphapapa/prism.el I think I once saw a project turning Scheme into a visual block-based representation, but I can't find it again.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Eh, I'd say systemd still has far better dmcrypt support. The bad (I used to think it was terrible, but I tried installing Debian today, which lowered the bar even further) support for full-disk encryption is what keeps me off Guix, as
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by tmtvl 2y ago
If we're going to recommend comics I'm gonna pitch The Red Knight. I have some of the old monochrome prints and they're an absolute blast.
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by tmtvl 2y ago
This reminds me of Guy Steele's talk on Growing A Language (< https://archive.org/details/GrowingALanguageByGuySteeleAhvzD... >). The conclusion being that what's important isn't whether a language i
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by tmtvl 2y ago
One of the myriad reasons why Common Lisp is far superior to Clojure is the ability to (declare (type Integer m))
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by tmtvl 2y ago
Yeah, it'd be nice if we could all use 'open source' to mean 'open weights' + 'open training set', instead of just 'open weights'. I fear that ship has sailed though. Maybe call it a 'libre&
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by tmtvl 2y ago
> Some Lisps may be able to do all this, although I don’t know if they quite do what I’m talking about here; I’m talking about there being a very distinct point where the programmer says “OK, I’m done being dynamic” for any given piece
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by tmtvl 2y ago
There are two Japanese idioms I really like: 1. Kawara wa migaite mo tama ni naranu, no matter how much you polish a roof tile it won't become a gemstone. 2. Kawara mo migakeba nara tama to naru, if you polish it enough even a roof til
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by tmtvl 2y ago
I'm not a native English speaker, but IIUC is clearly 'If I Understand Correctly'. If you look at the context it's often fairly easy to figure out what an initialism means. I mean even I can usually deduce the meaning an
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by tmtvl 2y ago
For those who are interested: the Chinese character for 8 is a pair of downward lines, close together at the top, far apart at the bottom. Looks a bit like / \. The idea behind it, as far as I know, is that it represents things growing
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by tmtvl 2y ago
I'd say its more like blaming soldiers, airmen, sailors, marines,... for stuff in Iraq. If the plumbers in the Pentagon stopped working the war could simply roll merrily on, but if the cogs in the machine go on strike that's anoth

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