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by veqq 2y ago
> adding an application (not just a program binary) is as easy as extracting a package into a folder and integrates with the rest of the system I have fond memories of installed Warlords Battle Cry 3, Warcraft 3, AOE2 etc. directories on
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by veqq 2y ago
But the earth's rotation makes the solar heating _differential_
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by veqq 2y ago
What are coupon websites / you can get free coupons from them(?)
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by veqq 2y ago
> how well git plays with pre-epoch timestamps? Tangentially, most RSS readers don't play nicely. A lot of webtooling doesn't like featuring e.g. old poetry etc. with the actual dates e.g.: https://alexalejandre.com&
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by veqq 2y ago
> We've only been speaking in terms of single languages, though. Have you combined different programs together before and thought, "Hmm, this is kind of like a pattern for..."? It's metacircular all the way down. In F
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by veqq 2y ago
> Functional programming can express patterns just as well as OOP. No! Patterns are just crutches for missing language features or "design patterns are bug reports against your programming language." GoF patterns are concepts u
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Deliberate Practice for Developers - Koan and Kata Ideas(alexalejandre.com)
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Complexity Rising: From Humans to Civilizations, Complexity Profile(necsi.edu)
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R7RS Large Stygian Blue/Reddish Green Ballot(surveys.nonceword.org)
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by veqq 2y ago
https://lockywolf.net/2020-10-29_scheme-story.html Here he shows 2 reviews he gave up on, that he resorted to data because he didn't know how to put it in words.
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I Hereby Pardon All Junior Engineers(taylor.town)
3 points by veqq 2y ago|1 comments
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by veqq 2y ago
> What are the effective marketing channels for specialized/niche B2B companies these days, now that - presumably - the long tail search result strategy is no longer effective? Lately, they've been sending emails offering $2-50
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Programming in Wartime(vlnn.dev)
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by veqq 2y ago
Truly, I've never heard of it and it didn't come up searching in any of my favorite spots.
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by veqq 2y ago
The issue's that Schemes (and Clojure) are way more functional than Common Lisp and e.g. `funcall` feels like a kludge compared to lisp-1. If you read the old CL codebases or modern code, destructive and imperative use are common, so i
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Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration [pdf](arxiv.org)
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by veqq 2y ago
> “What Andy [Grove] giveth, Bill [Gates] taketh away.” Also known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law
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by veqq 2y ago
In the same way that notation is a tool of thought [1] actually knowing facts paves routes[2] of possibility and impossibility (instead of pausing everything to research or drowning in too many paths). It's akin to seeing 37*55 and kno
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by veqq 2y ago
[u/forgot-CLHS]( https://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/1ikrz1g/shout_out_to_... ) notes that Common Lisp's defact standard cryptography library Ironclad's [implementation]( https:/&#x2
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by veqq 2y ago
Stackoverflow's popularity's decreased a lot, many communities have entirely left.
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by veqq 2y ago
The mechanism was reported last year: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/66653 but not acted on.
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Lazarus Taxon(en.wikipedia.org)
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by veqq 2y ago
> what makes emacs so uniquely capable Emacs is easily programmable (and in lisp), more unixy than modern Linux, like a whole operating system. Lispers make tools for it because it's very easy for them. Lisp tools have been far adva
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by veqq 2y ago
Unrelated to this thread, what do you think about BQN and especially Uiua? For a decade, you lamented that APL was dead and nothing further developed notation qua tool of thought. I am curious if you see hope for the APL way today.
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by veqq 2y ago
Similar in spirit: https://rakhim.org/its-all-just-fashion-shows/
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by veqq 2y ago
In the 60s, you'd have offices with thousands of such machines: https://aurorasginjoint.com/2017/08/19/a-look-at-billy-wilde... (in the movie, he mentions 30k employees on all the floors). On this floor,
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by veqq 2y ago
Nice to see a microblog platform being used
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by veqq 2y ago
...that's the point.
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by veqq 2y ago
Yesterday, my mom asked if people elsewhere are really better off than in the US. She downloaded red note to keep up her digital crack habit. Apparently she just sees healthy, happy Chinese people at fancy restaurants with low bills in clea
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How much RAM and Disk do you have in Prod?
3 points by veqq 2y ago|6 comments

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