tmtvl

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by tmtvl 3mo ago
And that's why all the experts program in APL.
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
I also shut my PC down every evening and boot it up in the morning. Suspend to RAM draws too much power for my tastes and suspend to disk does too much writing to the NVME and I don't want to have to buy a new one before the AI death s
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
Even with musicians it can be tricky. Imagine an album with various classical pieces performed by different orchestras. Not only are there the conductors and the musicians of the orchestras, but the album also wouldn't have existed wit
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
I don't remember that happening. What I do remember is that Alphabet decided to axe Google Play Music, but they announced that months in advance and made it fairly easy to download my entire collection. Which is why I now have a couple
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
GNU Shepherd maybe?
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
I agree that governments could be better at monopoly busting and that a wide variety of choice is better (here in Belgium there are enough different parties (the Greens, the Socialists, the Labour Party, the Christian Democrats, the Liberal
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
> And because you are grateful for the cookie policies you don’t mind rewarding them with unlimited access all your private communication? No. Where do you even come up with this stuff? > So again.. how do these basic/superfic
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
Remember that scandal about that subcontractor for Apple which installed suicide nets after thirteen workers died and another five attempted suicide by jumping off buildings? But no, corporations good, government bad. At least when it comes
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
It's a counterpoint because nobody has seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion or c-beams in the dark near the Tanhaeuser (okay, writing that is weird because a-umlaut by itself is fine to write as ae, but a-umlaut-u is pro
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
> free speech Democracy only works well when the populace is properly informed and it's much easier for someone to tell a lie than for someone else to disprove that lie. Think of the Alex Jones Sandy Hook hoax conspiracy hypothesi
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
> And why aren't you, the EU citizen, more annoyed by it? Because the USA tends to privilege corporations over people whereas in the EU it's more balanced (still pretty biased towards corps, though), and I am a people, not a
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
A backend is a part of a program which receives commands from the frontend (the user-facing part of the program) and performs some actions based on the input received before sending the result back to the frontend. A GPU (graphics processin
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
Curious that your comment was dead for whatever reason. I vouched for you because I'm also curious at what a user would need concurrency for in a text editor (I mean, granted, Emacs is a Lisp implementation with an amazing text editor
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
Wero is good? The company which is only reachable by snail mail, whose services are only accessible through devices running operating systems from the American megacorporations Alphabet and Apple (both known for being fined repeatedly by th
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
Oh yeah, let's put our financial sovereignty in the hands of American companies who have been fined repeatedly by the EU for breaking various laws. Seriously, if you have a problem with MasterCard and Visa, I can't imagine how you
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
That reminds me of First Encounter Assault Recon, where the AI had fairly simple rules, which worked well with the level design to make the enemies seem intelligent, especially as Monolith added chatter to make them seem even smarter. And t
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
concurrencyThere's 3 hard problems in computer science: naming things, cache invalidation, , and off-by-one errors.
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
Really? 'Oh, someone I don't know! stab '? What if the person is plain-clothes law enforcement? Or a special needs person who somehow managed to wander into the wrong house? Or your sibling's new partner they want to in
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
But does it run Doom?
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
KDE, various window managers (i3, awesome, xmonad,...), the Linux kernel (there's so much stuff you can configure through sysctl alone, and that's just 1 single customization facility), SystemD, your shell (whether it be bash, zsh
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
There's Bedrock, Centaur Emacs, Witchmacs, and more; even if you don't like Doom and Spacemacs there's plenty of fish in the sea. Though there is the issue where preconfigs tend to have edgelord 'Dark As My Soul' th
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
Doom doesn't, it defaults to vi bindings and you can't turn that off easily. Spacemacs does offer a choice, though.
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
Nice to know sr-speedbar can finally be retired. It works fine, but fewer external packages means simpler config.
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
It is fairly trivial to make something 'like it', but what people advocating for this stuff want is for it to be shipped with regular plain old normal GNU Emacs so they can set it up quickly and easily in an Emacs installation on
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
Yes, 2008 is roughly 15~20 years ago; and yes: typing that makes me feel old.
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
Good thing there's actual data so we can find out how many countries observe DST: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time_by_countr... >.
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
'Have you considered rewriting it without AI' seems like something I could see myself saying.
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
Have you checked out dieggsy's Whisper (< https://sr.ht/~dieggsy/whisper/ >) yet? It's based on Arne Bab's Wisp (SRFI 119).
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
It could just be written like: (~> orders (filter (lambda (order) (timestamp> (order-date order) (timestamp- (now) 7 :days)))) (group-by #'order-customer-id) (mapcar (lambda
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by tmtvl 4mo ago
I think what GP means is 'attack those companies for not paying decent wages', not 'attack those companies for hiring immigrants'.

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