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by whartung 2y ago
They MAILED THEM TO YOU. Like AOL CDs. They just showed up one day.
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by whartung 2y ago
Just marveling as an old school computer programming geek that I happen to be in a forum that also includes someone in the tugboat business.
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by whartung 2y ago
> Another thing is, that despite Genera having been gone from the real world for over 30 years, it is still nonfree Eh. That's a non-starter. The code may be closed, the concepts aren't. We've been reinventing the wheel fo
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by whartung 2y ago
But here's the thing, and I don't know, I never worked with Genera. But. Genera has been gone for over 30 years. At the time, it was certainly revolutionary. But in the computing world, where things move VERY fast, whatever made G
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by whartung 2y ago
I had a teacher that routinely did this. I hated it. The issue is that, at least for me, I'm madly trying to capture in my notes whatever it is the teacher was presenting. Then, on "step 15" we get the "Oh, did anyone no
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by whartung 2y ago
> They are full of the sketchiest people of every city. Partly because the bus station opened up in the 50s and remains in the sketchiest part of the city. There was rarely any real motivation to move them. I used to take the bus several
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by whartung 2y ago
Part of the problem is that raw Scheme is spectacularly underspecified. It also doesn't help that Schemes like Guile are also interactive. The domain of an interactive language and a "compiled" language are quite different. G
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by whartung 2y ago
I can't say I'm completely on top of the Java world, but I think the String Templates are one of the very few preview features that have been actually withdrawn and removed, right? Are there others? I know some drift a bit on thei
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by whartung 2y ago
If you look around in stores, MAD is doing kind of “best of” issues. I purchased one recently with their old sci-fi stuff (original “Star Drek”, there Star Wars parody, etc. ). I found it in a grocery store. Classic stuff to be sure.
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by whartung 2y ago
Very interesting. Thank you.
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by whartung 2y ago
> I bought an AppleTV for their house just to have a Tailscale endpoint. How the heck does that work?
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by whartung 2y ago
I will say that stored procs are specifically messy, and we did not have many of those. They had a tendency to really explode the change file. With DDL, you can fix a table column in isolation. Fixing a typo in a 100 line stored proc is ano
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by whartung 2y ago
We do this. It has worked very well for us. There's a couple of fundamental rules to follow. First, don't put something that will have insane impact into the application deploy changes. 99% of the DB changes are very cheap, and ve
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by whartung 2y ago
If part of your build is building your own build tool in order to ensure you have the proper build tool then why not build a different “better” build tool? Part of the premise of Make is its ubiquity, but if you can’t rely on that save as a
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by whartung 2y ago
I have two visions of this. One, it reminds me of that "worlds longest song" or somesuch thing, where they play a note every 10 years. The other is just a picture of someone, asleep at their desk, a pile of calendars with days che
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by whartung 2y ago
> It isn't legally possible to "just" take a pension away. Is that true? I simply point out the common TV trope of police officers, essentially, "trapped" waiting to, I guess, vest and get their pensions. They se
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by whartung 2y ago
I think that depends. My Mother-in-Law continued to receive pension benefits from her late husband after he passed. I'm sure it depends on the pension and such.
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by whartung 2y ago
Knowing basic math, and applying it are two different things. The financial markets are vastly complicated. If you have exposure simply to arithmetic and not how it is applied to financial instruments, you are ill equipped. Better to teach
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by whartung 2y ago
I had a family member in a truly messed up financial condition that resulted in me sending them $1000 in prepaid Visa cards. Those were sent USPS priority, and I can surely tell you there was mild panic when they didn’t show up on time. I w
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by whartung 2y ago
Does Racket suffer from this? Doesn't Racket support a bunch of different syntax and such? (Mind, I'm a curmudgeon when it comes to this, I don't even like the mixing and matching of [] and ().)
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by whartung 2y ago
They're clinging to it because of the "java" part, not the "script" part. And they'll hold on to that tightly. The most manifest example of this is simply what they made the Eclipse org jump through when they d
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by whartung 2y ago
I appreciate the drive for a peaceful place to work, not to mention the price and weight of a MacBook. But I want to point out a key feature of both raw macOS TextEdit and Pages. Simply, it’s the Macs document model of “never” having to sav
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by whartung 2y ago
I've always figured that these are the lowest common denominator form of ads. "Since we have no idea of who you are, this is the drek that targeted to you -- i.e. 'everybody'". This is also the reason I don't l
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by whartung 2y ago
But real estate is not free. I’d love to swap out my panels for 20% more in the same space if it’s practical.
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by whartung 2y ago
To a point, but at a cost. In C++, there's 17 levels of precedence across 60 operators, with varying associativity. In many languages, due to precedence, 1 + 2 * 3 = 7, but in others, like Smalltalk, it equals 9. In those languages, it
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by whartung 2y ago
You’d think Guile would work. That sounds like a Guile checklist to be honest. But that said, my random forays into Guile have been met with frustration. I can’t say anything specific, but for whatever reason, whenever I tried to use it, I’
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by whartung 2y ago
> Of the U.S. services, the U.S. Merchant Marine had the highest casualty rate in WWII of 4% There was a Tom Hanks movie on Apple TV a couple years ago called "Greyhound", about a destroyer captain leading a convoy across the A
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by whartung 2y ago
I don’t go as far as the car, but I do strive to not have branding on most everything else, but specifically clothes. A logo on a shirt is pretty much a non-starter.
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by whartung 2y ago
Which brings up the other topic. Is the insurance cheaper than the impact and costs of preventing it in the first place?
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by whartung 2y ago
My current project is a monster. It’s been running hot and cold for at least several years. Progress is being made, but now and again I face something particularly difficult, I can get waylaid. Right now I’m in such an impasse. I was moving

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