tmtvl

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by tmtvl 7mo ago
The sun won't go supernova, but it will become a red giant in about 5,000,000,000 years, which will have roughly the same consequences for life on earth.
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by tmtvl 7mo ago
Well, besides pgloader, which achieved a 20~30x speedup via a rewrite from Python to Common Lisp (< https://tapoueh.org/blog/2014/05/why-is-pgloader-so-much-fas... >), there is also this little organisati
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by tmtvl 7mo ago
Why not? Could just type 'print', TAB, and have it put brackets and spaces in the right positions and leave the cursor in place for the first argument.
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by tmtvl 7mo ago
> That’s true, but the travel distance of the braces or the double quotes from the home row is much less than the travel distance from the parentheses. That... depends on your keyboard maybe? On Dvorak the curly brackets are harder to
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by tmtvl 7mo ago
Well, in 2019 an estimated 840 people died in the U.S.A. by red light running (< https://ncsrsafety.org/stop-on-red/red-light-running-fatalit... >). That's about 2.3 people a day, so last person killed by some
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by tmtvl 7mo ago
In some parts of the U.S.A. it's legal to turn right through a red light. GP was wondering if the software can tell that the driver was making a legal right turn through the red instead of doing the thing that's obviously illegal
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by tmtvl 7mo ago
I mean, double quotes and curly brackets also require using the Shift key, as do the at sign, number sign, dollar sign, and ampersand. The brackets are a small enough part of the code that it doesn't matter. And besides: print(&quo
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by tmtvl 7mo ago
Red Star. I'd sooner use Berry, Kylin, or SUSE if I wanted to avoid the Noid- I mean, avoid U.S.-based distros.
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by tmtvl 7mo ago
Truly 2025 was the year of the Linux... console? Let's go with that.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
I see many comments here about Claude and I get the same feeling I get when I see comments about MacOS: it's nice that you're content with it, but I don't trust Apple/Anthropic for a fraction of an angstrom. Wake me when
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
The term you're looking for is 'instant gratification'.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Someone I know who works at a telco (no idea if Vodafone is a thing in Belgium, but whatever: not Vodafone) was talking about a number someone has: 0411 11 11 11, and they got over a hundred operator messages every day.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
I mean, anyone capable of accessing YouTube can listen to S.O.D.'s Kill Yourself, so at some point it's a question of who is responsible when a vulnerable user gets into contact with potentially harmful content.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
It's a culture fit question. When the culture is 'make everything ourselves' you're not a great culture fit. When the culture is 'just solve the problem', you fit in perfectly well.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
I've been happy enough with my Ubuntu phone. Music works, I can send SMS messages and use the phone, timers and alarms work, and it takes pictures well enough. There's even a LibreWolf clone so I can see when my bus/train arr
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Better link to Itch (< https://maddymakesgamesinc.itch.io/celeste >) than Steam, Itch by default only takes a 10% cut instead of 30%.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
> (C is of course orders of magnitude more influential, the only language more influential is probably COBOL?) Lisp. Which coincidentally solved memory management over a decade before C was created. I also think ALGOL was more influent
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Apart from NixOS and GuixSD there's also Arkane Linux (< https://www.arkanelinux.org/ >), which seems kind of interesting, but I don't like various decisions it makes.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
> absolute lightweight > eMacs I love Emacs, but I don't see how a Lisp platform with a web browser, a Tetris implementation, and 4 terminal emulators (shell, term, ansi-term, eshell) can be considered 'lightweight'
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Well, GNU Kawa is named after the Polish word for coffee (going with a play on Java rather than a play on Scheme like Guile and Larceny EDIT: and Gambit went with).
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
I love SBCL because it's awesome, and I hate it because it's ruined programming for me. Going back to dead languages like Java is so painful now.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
It's awesome and the lucky 10,000 deserve to be introduced to it?
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Isn't that what Apple purports to sell? There's also Haiku, but I don't know to what extend it matches that description.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
'It is the great north wind that made the Vikings' as Will Antonio Zeppeli told Jonathan Joestar.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
I've only used GNU/Linux since 2012, but I do think we have to face the fact that there is a fair amount of ~~choice~~ fragmentation in the ecosystem. Deb/RPM/Flatpak/Snap/PKGBUILD/Nix, GNOME/KDE&#x2F
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Eroding user's rights is good if it means users have fewer choices because choice is bad? I suppose it would mean that resources could concentrate in a smaller, more focused set of software, but I really can't see how that would j
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
And there's of course the spiritual sequel, Bruetal Legend. The main campaign can be played more as an action game, but if you get into multiplayer the RTS elements really come through.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
8 threads at 3.4 GHz, 8MB cache. Seems fine, depending on your use case.
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
> Beautiful to read. Oh my, there's a new language called Rust? Didn't they know there already is one? The old one is so popular that I can't imagine the nicely readable one to gain any traction whatsoever (even if the o
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by tmtvl 8mo ago
Make things that require you to use the parts of the language you don't have a strong grasp on yet, so as to get to know those better. Sorting algos, data structures, a kanren, and a library website would be a good variety pack. And as

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