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by tpoindex 4y ago
Heh, I have a funny story about that too, having written the open source Oratcl extension that was used as a basis for OEM.
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by tpoindex 4y ago
Right, the reference Tcl implementation is still in C. This project takes the C code and produces Go, along with a supporting libc emulation in Go. It's still the original C code, not a clone as Jim or Picol.
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by tpoindex 4y ago
JO might be interested to see that Tcl is now implemented in Go. Not a clone, but the actual Tcl code: https://gitlab.com/cznic/tcl Tk too! https://gitlab.com/cznic/tk Made possible by a clever
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by tpoindex 4y ago
I too have enticed/befriended a group of Steller's Jays at my weekend cabin. I've always put out seeds for casual bird watching and about two years ago started giving them peanuts as well. I make sure to give a distinctive w
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by tpoindex 4y ago
Seems that the underlying study that included the Bolt was from Feb. 2019 (the AAA study cited), so their battery recall/fix and newer software may have helped. Another couple of red flag in the AXIOS article was: "AAA found the l
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by tpoindex 4y ago
NestedVM was another early attempt (2004) to run C, C++, Fortran, etc. on the JVM, but at substantial performance degradation. This was a clever hack that ran a Java coded MIPS emulator and loaded a compiled binary into a large array. Per
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by tpoindex 4y ago
This is exactly my hack too! Especially when there are outside dependencies that can easily stall your progress.
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by tpoindex 4y ago
I collected many of the T-shirts and other items. I published a list w/ photos, including a few photos others sent me. All done in glorious bare-bones 1990's HTML, photos taken on 35mm and scanned with a cheap scanner. https:&#
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by tpoindex 4y ago
Upvar has it's place, especially when writing your own control structures. Outside of that, tread lightly.
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by tpoindex 5y ago
For those who like podcasts, Radiolab also had this story recently, along with a few other cases of bad programming (“Are you suggesting I change my name to “quote N-U-L-L quote”, to match the databases you’re working with?”) https:/&
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by tpoindex 5y ago
John McWhorter's podcast "Lexicon Valley" has a 45 minute episode on the word if you would like to dig a little deeper. https://slate.com/culture/2019/01/john-mcwhorter-f-word-hist... If you&#x
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by tpoindex 5y ago
AccuBattery gives an audible alert when a configurable charge level is reached (default is 80%). Not as nice as having the phone stop charging by itself, but at least I'm not frying my battery.
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by tpoindex 5y ago
There certainly are plenty of Postman alternatives out there, one that I've used before is Milkman: https://github.com/warmuuh/milkman It's built on a plugin architecture, does gRPC, GraphQL, JDBC, Ws, et.al.
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by tpoindex 5y ago
Lima absolutely rocks. For me, there are a few small nits, but overall probably the best to replace Docker. Out of the box ("brew install lima; limactl start") lima gives you an Ubuntu VM with containerd and nerdctl. Nerdctl is
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Why perovskites could be the key to cheap, efficient solar energy(coloradosun.com)
72 points by tpoindex 5y ago|22 comments
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by tpoindex 5y ago
If you want multiple in the same page: https://devurls.com/ https://sciurls.com/ https://techurls.com/ I mainly stick to HN, Lobste.rs, and a few tech related Reddits.
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by tpoindex 5y ago
You want MXLinux - Debian with just enough systemd to work in a modern environment but with SysV init. https://mxlinux.org > not to mention 5-minute shutdown times 5 minutes? Try total hang on shutdown, and often not starti
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by tpoindex 5y ago
Also highly recommended, John McWhorter's podcast, Lexicon Valley. Not only English, but also dives into other languages and why they are so. Edit: add older episode archives at Slate, https://www.booksmartstudios.org&#x2F
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by tpoindex 5y ago
This explains a lot. I have a 2021 Lexus, and there are a few questionable design choices. Forefront is the infotainment system interface - way too complicated, prone to error, way too distracting. (You navigate the system with a touchpa
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by tpoindex 5y ago
Tcl hasn't been string based for 20 years, misinformation is hard to eliminate. Since the release of version 8.0 in 2001, Tcl internally has value types for integer, bigints, double, boolean, lists, etc.. As long as you're caref
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by tpoindex 5y ago
There is a policy that would probably catch these types of errors - Chromeos developers should eat their own dog food, i.e., developers should be required to use a Chromebook on the "dev" or "beta" channels as their dail
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by tpoindex 5y ago
eie.io would be an awesome domain name for this project. Too bad it's already parked by a squatter as a "premium name". (For non-native or non-Western English speakers, it's a line from the children's song "O
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by tpoindex 5y ago
I did write a Tcl web system back in the 2000's that was close to the Tk programming model, although not quite a one-to-one. Here is an example of side by side programs for Tk and Aejaks: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/pag
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Granting a 14-year-old’s wish for a dragon(denverpost.com)
59 points by tpoindex 5y ago|9 comments
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by tpoindex 6y ago
Nice models of Denver on the video, especially Union Station, City & County Building, airliner flyover. But the car is driving the wrong way on Broadway, even though the parked cars on the right side are pointed in the correct directio
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by tpoindex 6y ago
I'm also interested in your tables solution. Also, is there an organized MVP.css community somewhere?
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by tpoindex 6y ago
Thanks for pointing out Manifold, looks delicious. As a historical note, PL/I had a preprocessor that itself was a subset of PL/I. I don't recall any type safety features, but was quite useful for creating DSLs within a prog
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by tpoindex 6y ago
This, exactly. My first experience with SystemD (Ubuntu 16.04 IIRC) turned into a frustrating experience, mostly around trying to mount a NFS volume in /etc/fstab, defined with 'soft' and 'bg' mount options. S
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by tpoindex 7y ago
I'll also recommend another Android app, BirdNET [1]. This app does audio identification. and is jointly developed by a small team of EU researchers and Cornell. Covers 1,000+ species in North America and Europe. I've found tha
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by tpoindex 7y ago
Termux is cool tech (including running full Linux in a chroot). I would also mention UserLAnd [0] to run full Linux distributions sand specific application with a simple install. The thing I am missing the most is HDMI video out, as my ret

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