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by veqq 2mo ago
> The reason they are ahead in the first place is labor cost & the QOL workers will tolerate That hasn't been accurate in a decade. Chinese labor costs have been higher than Mexico since before Covid. They have more efficient fi
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by veqq 2mo ago
I've been doing leetcode in Janet in a (sometimes) tacit (variabless), branchless way: (def find-shared-gcd (comp (fn [e] (max ;(map (fn [d] (* d ;(map |(- 1 (min 1 (mod $ d))) e))) (range 1
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by veqq 2mo ago
> I think we are noticing it. Are you not? The software around us seems worse than ever, constantly breaking and significantly worse than 1-3 decades ago.
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by veqq 2mo ago
Linux hit 10% desktop usage recently
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by veqq 2mo ago
Risky?
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by veqq 2mo ago
EYG's structure editor is amazing, not letting you create syntactically invalid code etc.
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by veqq 3mo ago
> virtually all configured for sour crude They have retooled them in the past 40 years for the actually accessible inputs and desired distillates.
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by veqq 3mo ago
It supports ncurses too. And if someone else wanted to maintain the SDL2 version or such, they'd be happy. The issue's just a lack of engineering effort and more people complaining than assisting. :/
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by veqq 3mo ago
> so what is the problem? That browsers/web tech is moving in the opposite way and blocking various emacs-esque usecases.
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Stages of Denial(nsl.com)
4 points by veqq 3mo ago|0 comments
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by veqq 3mo ago
https://nsl.com/papers/denial.html
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by veqq 3mo ago
Many of us can read atw C and would love to investigate!
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by veqq 3mo ago
There are many more! https://alexalejandre.com/interviews/
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by veqq 3mo ago
A nuclear build out would make enough cheap electricity to scrub the atmosphere clean.
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by veqq 3mo ago
Really happy you liked it!
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by veqq 3mo ago
I'm a bit confused by this, since indoor CO2's higher (double?) so wouldn't we already be experiencing it?
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CO2 overload in blood suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years(doi.org)
44 points by veqq 3mo ago|36 comments
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by veqq 3mo ago
They're very distinct. Both are good in their own ways like elephants and dolphins. Though HN suffers more under AI spam, it permits wider topics and has a wider userbase.
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by veqq 3mo ago
Elitism and hierarchy are good. Drowning everything in slop and darkness is bad. Giving everyone something to strive for is good.
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by veqq 3mo ago
I did too! I'm sorry it didn't get any pick up here, though :(
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by veqq 3mo ago
edit: misread requests as writes
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Interview with Matheus Moreira about Lone Lisp and Linux Kernel(alexalejandre.com)
42 points by veqq 3mo ago|11 comments
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by veqq 3mo ago
|(...) is the same as (fn ...) making an anonymous function. $ is an argument (in a 1 arity anonymous function.) $ is getting the whole row which is a hashmap and e.g. ({:key "value"} :key) is a way of retrieving from a hashmap. S
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by veqq 3mo ago
> when pressed, the best thing that could be said about Zig is What do you mean? We didn't really discuss technical aspects etc. and he said he does like how they manage the project.
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by veqq 3mo ago
Clojure barely let you import packages without restarting the JVM recently in its life.
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Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig(alexalejandre.com)
405 points by veqq 3mo ago|256 comments
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by veqq 3mo ago
> Why not just use Scheme directly, what's the benefit of porting to Hoot? In other terms: Why not just use C directly, why use gcc?
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by veqq 3mo ago
Could you share more about what makes CML so awesome?
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by veqq 3mo ago
https://codeberg.org/veqq/declarative-dsls is built around a query language working on tables/dataframes, hashmaps, arrays, strings etc. in the same way. I ended up allowing things like :where :group-by etc. in `s
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by veqq 3mo ago
What inspires your project etc.? I'm open to collaborating.

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